New Team System Stuff - 2005-01-25
Reminder!
Chat with members of the Team Foundation team of Visual Studio Team System. They'll be answering questions and discussing their suite of source control, work item tracking, Excel and Project integration, reporting, Windows SharePoint Services integration, and build automation tools.
Visual Studio Team System
- Richard Hundhausen has blogged about his forthcoming book from Microsoft Press, Introducing Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team System Beta Edition , which I think is the first Team System book from Microsoft Press.
- Paul D. Murphy is more than willing to help you with installing the December 2004 CTP release of Visual Studio 2005 Team System , but he asks that you please take the time to read the Installation Guide and follow the steps & requirements therein.
Architecture
- More chats are scheduled for February, when you’ll have a chance to chat with the people that are building the Class Designer and Distributed System Designers:
- Visual Studio - Class Designer
Chat with members of the Class Designer team. Class Designer offers visualization features to help you understand, design, and refactor code. You'll learn more about what's coming in the tool for Beta 2, and have an opportunity to give feedback on what code modeling features you would like to see in the future. - Visual Studio Team Architect - Designing Service Oriented Systems and Logical Datacenters
Chat with Team Architect members of Visual Studio Team System. We'll be answering questions and discussing our suite of designers for designing service oriented systems as well as logical datacenters, deployment, and extensibility.
- Visual Studio - Class Designer
DSL Tools & Software Factories
- Jochen Seemann has posted a link to the known issues for the December 2004 CTP release of the DSL Tools (Known Issues and Work Arounds for the DSL Tools Dec04 CTP). The DSL Tools team is excited about the amount of feedback they’ve received through the Product Feedback Center, so keep it coming!
Project Management
- Raj Wall has a great post (Blue Water Software Development) that helps describe iterative development with an excellent analogy.
Team Software Development
- Are you interested in extending Team Foundation? See this post (Team Foundation Extensibility Kit) from Brian White, which links to a download for an extensibility kit for the December 2004 CTP release of Team Foundation.
Testing
- There’s a really good debate on the subject of test-driven development happening. Be sure to read the comments for these posts, too:
Other
- With so many people using virtual machines to evaluate Team System, this post (Remote Pair-Programming with Microsoft Virtual Server) from Peter Provost that talks about the Virtual Machine Remote Control (VMRC) Client in Virtual Server 2005 might be of interest. As well as this one from John Howard (VMRC Client (Virtual Machine Remote Control Client) under Virtual Server 2005 - Great scenario).