Release Pex for 2008 now

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:37:30 Z

Ship it as is. Euan told me to put this here if I love it.

I love it. So will my customers.

Release Pex for 2008 now

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:02:22 Z

Amen....

Release Pex for 2008 now

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:47:37 Z

I am new here. Please bear with my question: how about code contract Release and its license?

Release Pex for 2008 now

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:05:35 Z

Hi kdan2000,

You should probably repost your question as a new thread on the forum.

Thanks, Peli

Jonathan de Halleux

Release Pex for 2008 now

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:07:16 Z

I would like to add how awesome Pex is, and how much I want a commercial release! Do we really need to wait until VS 2010? (if that)

Damien

Release Pex for 2008 now

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:22:35 Z

Personally, I love Pex. Having unit tests at the micro level together with 100% code coverage is a great thing. At the moment, I do it manually using a combination of MbUnit/Gallio and NCover. Automating it is a great help and a real value.

But as it appears, Pex for VS 2008 is licensed only under the Microsoft Research License Agreement for Non-Commercial Use Only. So I couldn't use it in real world software development. This will only change for VS 2010, which, in my experience, will not play a vital role in production until the next 2-3 years. So, do I have to wait for this time and tell my customers Well, a tool exists that could save you lots of money, but sadly we're not allowed to use it. ?

(Background: I'm a software freelancer specialized in establishing and teaching quality and sustainability tools and strategies in .NET software projects (like e.g. unit test frameworks, automated build processes and the like...).)

Please reconsider this license issue - I cannot see any reason for it anyway. Otherwise there's no point for me (and I'm sure this also applies to many other people) to invest time in something that I cannot use in my profession. I'd greatly regret that!

Regards
Thomas

Release Pex for 2008 now

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:07:23 Z

Our business won't allow us to use software under the MSR-LA, and I'd very much like to get in Pex as part of our Best Practices for Test Suite Design. So +1 Release Early and Often (with a business friendly license, *cough*BSD*cough*).

Release Pex for 2008 now

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:39:56 Z

Hi there,

I just learned about Pex, read a lot about it and spent the last hours playing with it (it's great!), just to find out that the current license does not allow using it in real-world development (e.g. using VS2008). Please, could you do a commercial release or release Pex under a more business-friendly license? There's really no point for most people to invest time in this if they cannot use it in their daily work!

Release Pex for 2008 now

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:02:35 Z

Hi,

I played around with PEX and find it a great tool. I also showed it at some presentations and I hat a great feebdack on it. But when it came to the question "Can I use this in my project?" people are disappointed when I tell them about the Academic License. And for myself I'd like to get more then just "play around experience" and try how it works with real world projects. But this is currently not allowed by the license.

I would be very happy if you could provide a different license which allows using PEX in commercial projects or allow to purchase it to use it commercially.

Thomas

Release Pex for 2008 now

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:59:56 Z

Yes, please release Pex under a more commercial friendly license. I started to look into Pex and started to spread the word on my company only to find out today this limitation :-(.
Patricio.

Release Pex for 2008 now

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:07:49 Z

+1 for releasing it for VS2008.

Teams will not be moving for a while to VS2010 and a lot of teams can't utilise Pex under the current license.

This is a real shame as people could benefit from it today (and based on the feedback you receive you can make the VS2010 version even better!!).

So I am sure myself and others would be overjoyed with a change in the license.

Thanks,

John

Release Pex for 2008 now

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:51:52 Z

Hi all,

We just released a new version (0.9.40105.0) that extends the pre-release license to Visual Studio 2008 Team Dev or Team Test. This means that you can use Pex for commercial purposes in VS2008 TeamDev/TeamTest. Note that this is NOT a commitment to RTM the product with support for 2008. As usual, you can dowload this version from our download page at

http://research.microsoft.com/pex/downloads.aspx

The full release notes are at http://research.microsoft.com/pex/releasenotes.aspx .

Thanks,
The Pex Team.

Jonathan de Halleux

Release Pex for 2008 now

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:37:06 Z

Jonathan,

Can you briefly address the non-commercial usage concerns that users are having? I understand that Microsoft would prefer to wait until VS2010, but if we have to wait 1-2 years, the community may as well implement their own version of this system, thereby fragmenting your user community once again (i.e. unit testing frameworks, etc.)

Sincerely,

Giorgio Galante

Release Pex for 2008 now

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:30:39 Z

Hi Giorgio,

We just released a new version of Pex that allows provides a pre-release license for Visual Studio 2008. In other words, you can use Pex for commercial purposes, as part of the evaluation of the product.

I think that's what you wanted to hear?

Cheers,
Peli

Jonathan de Halleux

Release Pex for 2008 now

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:33:01 Z

Hi Jonathan,

good to hear that a commercial license is available now. Thanks a lot!

Release Pex for 2008 now

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:00:12 Z

Wahoo!!

Thanks!

Mark

Release Pex for 2008 now

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:13:19 Z

I do want to be very clear about what this means. We have enabled this support to make it easier to evaluate the product, this is NOT a commitment to RTM the product with support for 2008. The platform support will depend on many factors including the feedback from this fourm.

-Euan

http://blogs.msdn.com/euanga