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New Team System Stuff - 2005-05-16

George J. Capnias — Tue, 17 May 2005 13:05:14 GMT

O Rob Caron συνεχίζει να κάνει ενδιαφέροντα posts για το Visual Studio Team System:

New Team System Stuff - 2005-05-16

Visual Studio Team System

The big news around Team System at the moment is the announcement on Rick LaPlante’s blog [listening to customers] and elsewhere about changes to the pricing and licensing of Team Foundation Server, and Team Suite upgrade pricing. You can also read about it on the News.com Microsoft blog [Microsoft lowers planned team tool price] and on Microsoft Watch [Microsoft Bends (a Bit) on Visual Studio Team Issues]. The news was well-received by many, but there’s still some people that are concerned about the whole-package pricing.
eWeek ['Hawaii': A Visual Studio Paradise for Developers?] and Microsoft Watch [Visual Studio 'Orcas' and 'Hawaii' in the Wings] are reporting on future versions of Visual Studio, “Orcas” and “Hawaii”. Despite what the eWeek article states, I’m highly skeptical that a division-wide ship party for “Hawaii” will involve an airline ticket to attend.
Prashant Sridharan presented the keynote at VSLive! in Las Vegas. Richard Hundhausen has coverage of his speech [VSLive! Keynote by Prashant Sridharan "Building a Customer-Focused Visual Studio"].
Grace Francisco, a Technical Evangelist for Team System, has launched her blog: Graceworld.
Dave Bost posted his “Introduction to Team System” slides from the Chicago Day of .NET [My Day of .NET Slides] a couple of weeks ago, which I meant to link to sooner.
Aaron Stebner has a post to help those that are trying to install Beta 2 on machines that once had CTP or older bits [How to resolve Visual Studio 2005 IDE errors after uninstalling previous betas].
The Accentient blog with Steven Borg & Richard Hundhausen should be on your reading list. They’ve had a lot of worthwhile posts on Team System lately [Team System category]. This gave me a chuckle.
Back in January [New Team System Stuff - 2005-01-17] I pointed to some articles on DNJ Online, which have since been updated and expanded to cover Team System, Team Foundation Server and each of the role-based editions [Visual Studio Team System].

My Team System Posts

Architecture

Ali Pasha – Why do ASP.NET WebService and ASP.NET WebApplication look alike on the Application Designer?
Eileen Brown – DSI Demo
AmberPoint – AmberPoint Developer’s Edition Software Ships with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

Development

In this post [New Team System Stuff - 2005-04-11] I blogged about a new series of articles that John Cunningham announced. The next in the series, Off Road Profiling of ASP.NET Applications by David Gray, is now online.
Scott Dockendorf – VSTS Unit Testing & Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta
Scott Densmore – Visual Studio Team Developer - Undocumented feature in Unit Testing
Class Designer Team – Orphan Shape in the Class Designer
Chris Rathjen – To catch a cracker…

Project Management

Randy Miller – Agile Software Development for Projects Large and Small
For those that are looking for the first release of MSF for CMMI(r) Process Improvement (Another MSF agile release, but still no sign of it's big brother), all I can say is that it is coming very soon. Be sure to watch David Anderson’s blog.

Team Software Development

The Accentient blog has coverage of DeleteTeamProject.exe [here & here].
Aldo Donetti – Team Foundation Internationalization
Langleyben Leon – Scheduling build in Team System beta 2
Akash – VSS Converter on VPC
Adam Singer – /map marks the spot
Don’t like my Installation Guide? Try this New Fancy Guide for Installing Visual Studio Team Foundation 2005 Beta2. Also, see his Simplify Authorization for Team Project Creation [via Mickey Gousset].
Buck Hodges – Team Foundation Hardware Requirements
S. Somasegar – Source Control in VS2005
Dave Bost – Things I Learned in Today's Team Foundation Chat
Omar Villarreal – Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Must-do's

Testing

Eric Jarvi – VSTS Tip: load test results could not be restored...
Eric Jarvi – VSTS Tip: publishing ongoing manual test results
Jomo Fisher – Hack the Build: Code Quality and Test Driven Development at Microsoft
Accentient – Is your test project missing its "test run configuration"?

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New Team System Stuff - 2005-05-09

George J. Capnias — Tue, 10 May 2005 01:41:30 GMT

Από το είδος των post που είναι πολύ ενδιαφέροντα. Από το Blog του Rob Caron.

New Team System Stuff - 2005-05-09

Visual Studio Team System

If you’re installing Beta 2 using Virtual PC, you should learn to appreciate the almighty differencing disk.
Chris Menegay shares Q&A from recent his recent Team System classes here and here.
Mickey Gousset had no trouble with his Team Foundation Server install, but Sam Gentile ran into what’s become a common source of pain. Be sure to get the latest version of the Installation Guide – you will not succeed without it. See this post in Ask Burton, too.
My team, the Visual Studio Team System User Education team, has launched a new team blog.
Steven Borg is posting tips & tricks, as well as potential bugs (I, II and III) that I hope he’ll add to the Product Feedback Center.
According to a recent post by Josh Ledgard, the Team System forums have the highest answer rate (82%) compared to the other MSDN forums! Got a Team System question? Ask it in the Team System forums.
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Visual Studio 2005 Team System has been translated into several languages.

Architecture

Barry Gervin posted his concerns about the current Distributed System Designers and the need for a “Physical Datacenter Designer”. Be sure to read the comments from Joel Semeniuk and Alex Torone.

Development

Eric Jarvi has started an area on the Channel 9 wiki for the Profiler. Eric also shares a tip for printing the call tree view from a Profiler performance report.
See Ian Huff’s post for an introduction to Code Coverage in Team System.
The Class Designer team blog has a post about integration with source code control and a post on using exporting Class Designer diagrams.
Matt Pietrek has a follow-on post about Event Tracing for Windows.
Ian Huff shares a new feature in .NET 2.0 for making internal functions available to another assembly.
Patrick Steele has a post on the benefit of unit tests when refactoring code.

Project Management

David Anderson blogs about the reason to avoid quality initiatives.
Jeffrey Palermo reports that the Agile Methodologies with .NET BOF was accepted for Tech·Ed 2005 US.
Dave Froslie blogs about one of the challenges when entering a S*** sprint – having a well-defined backlog.
Nick Malik has the second part of his post on comparing FDD with traditional project management.
Darrell Norton takes a look at the primary and corollary practices in Kent Beck’s Extreme Programming Explained: 2nd ed.

Team Software Development

There are two Team Foundation chats scheduled this week.
In this post, Adam Singer helps explain the concept of workspaces in Team Foundation source control.
I think I missed these posts last month, but Jeff Lucovsky has a two-part post (I & II) about using RSS to keep tracking of checkins. Jeff also has a post about the importance of Watson reports.
If you’re having trouble getting Team Build to work, like Adam did, review this post on the Team Foundation team blog.
The vstseclipse.org site is up and running.
Omar Villareal has some has a tip if you get the “Unable to connect to BIS service” message.
Andrew Duthie blogs about custom check-in policies.
Adam Singer share a tip on remapping working folders in Team Foundation source control.
Rick LaPlante shared our recent Team Foundation dogfood statistics, which John Lawrence helped illustrate with some charts.
Eric Jarvi has a tip for copying & pasting work item lists from Excel to e-mail.
Abhinaba Basu shows how to create a build type in Team Build.
John Lawrence blogs about the permanence of work items in Team Foundation.
Eric Jarvi shares his impression of Team Foundation reporting.
As you may know, Team System is not a Redmond-only affair. We have teams in many locations, including North Carolina. Buck Hodges blogs about a recent news item in the local paper there.

Testing

Tim Weaver is blogging his concerns about load testing in Team System, some of which are known bugs that the team is addressing.
Here are some useful testing posts I’ve collected:

Visual Studio Team System Workshop

Members of the DSL Tools team presented at the SPA conference. See posts from Alan Cameron Wills and Gareth Jones. Also, see Gareth’s post on bug bashing and Alan’s post on composing DSLs.
Steve Cook questions the need for mandatory modeling, which was proposed at symposium he attended.
As Andrew Duthie notes, there’s a new workbench in the workshop – the System Definition Model (SDM) SDK workbench.

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On-Demand Team System Webcasts from the Experts

The following webcasts from the experts on their subjects are now available for on-demand viewing:

Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Enterprise-Class Version Control

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) provides a completely new, highly scalable and robust version control system. This webcast details the many new features of VSTS version control including shelving, check-in policy and support for distributed development work.

Presenter: Doug Neumann, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

How and Why Process Guidance Matters in Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) allows teams to select a process template to shape how the team works together. This session will help you understand key considerations in selecting the template best suited to your team and the project you are working on. Learn how process templates affect the way VSTS works and why it is important for your team to select the appropriate process for your projects.

Presenter: Bindia Hallauer, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Enterprise Project Management and Reporting in Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) provides all the suite tools to pour data into a central data warehouse. This webcast shows how to use Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services to generate real-time and historical reports on the many facets of your project. We also show many of the ready to run reports built into VSTS.

Presenter: Allen Clark, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Test-Driven Development Using Visual Studio Team System

Why test-driven development? Although developers have been unit testing their code for years, tests are typically performed after the code is designed and written. As a great number of developers can attest, writing tests after the fact is difficult to do and often omitted when time runs out. Test-driven development attempts to resolve this problem and produce higher quality, well-tested code by putting the cart before the horse and writing the tests before we write the code. This webcast demonstrates how you can use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System to implement test-driven development in your organization.

Presenter: Jim Newkirk, Development Lead, Microsoft Corporation

Implementing and Customizing MSF 4.0 Process Guidance within Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Visual Studio Team System provides a rich environment and integrated support for software development processes. While this new development platform ships with two predefined software development processes, some organizations will choose to incorporate their own "secret sauce" to add competitive advantage. This presentation and demonstration will show you how to make modifications to the existing processes, Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development and MSF for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Process Improvement, as well to incorporate your software development process into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System.

Presenter: Randy Miller, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Managing Work with Visual Studio 2005 Team System

How does the Microsoft Visual Studio team track and manage their work? This session and explores how various teams at Microsoft use Visual Studio Team System to customize work item types, create queries and set up notifications to facilitate teamwork and visibility. Learn how to use state model transitions to automate workflow throughout the team, and use rich history logging to collaboratively solve problems and communicate progress. See how Team System allows you to analyze and trend historical information to view project progress and track status.

Presenter: Kevin Kelly, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Find more Team System webcasts here.

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