New Team System Stuff -2005-03-15

Time to flush the queue for Team System stuff…

Visual Studio Team System

• Postcards from Europe. Rick LaPlante [European Road Show... and VSTS Vienna]
• VSTS Tour in Paris. Jerome Laban [Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Tour, Paris.]
• Some VSTS Q & A. Chris Menegay [Answers to some VSTS Questions]
• Will IT projects ever be the same? Edward Bakker [Visual Studio Team System will change everything!]
• Halo 3 built with Team System? XBOX [XNA Studio to Integrate Teams and Speed Game Production]
• The end-to-end development cycle is what matters. Brad Abrams [Back from the FrontLine]
• Virtual PC advice. Barry Gervin [Installing Visual Studio Team System Dec CTP]
• Memory makes a difference. Sam Gentile [Team Foundation Server/VSTS on Steroids]
• Chris Menegay on Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Rob Caron [Team System Article Coming Soon in MSDN Magazine]
• Willy-Peter Schaub continues his evaluation of the December CTP. Willy-Peter Schaub [VS.NET 2005 - Looking at the December CTP Release (Part 2)]
• Jason McConnell joins the Team System team. Jason McConnell [Redmond calling]
• The secret ingredient? Integration. MWAdams [Why VSTS?]

Architecture

• A closer look at the Deployment Designer. Joe Sango [Deployment Designer]
• Yu Xiao contributes to the new Class Designer team blog. Class Designer [Visualizing inheritance hierarchies]
• A successful Class Designer is a productivity tool. Barry Gervin [Modeling as a Productivity Enhancer in Visual Studio Team System]
• Do you feel validated? Your applications can. Jeff Welton [Our overview of Whitehorse now moves to the heart of our designers and SDM: Validation]
• Application Designer demo’d on Channel 9. Rob Caron [Robin & Liangxiao Demonstrate the Application Designer (Part 1)]

Development

• VSTS performance tools demo’d on Channel 9. Ian Huff [Channel 9 Demo is live! and Second part of Channel 9 interview is live]
• What does the performance report tell you? Ian Huff [Analyzing a performance report in Visual Studio Team System 2005 Part 1: The Summary View]
• A Perf Wiki. Profiler [Rico Mariani has created a Perf Wiki on Channel 9]
• The Profiler team recommends Larry Osterman’s recent posts on concurrency. Profiler [Larry Osterman on concurrency and scalability]
• Developers must never be complacent about the quality of their product. Ranjan Sakalley [The importance of being Extreme with Development Testing]
• Jim Shore thinks you should build your software to “fail fast.” Martin Fowler [Fail Fast]

DSL Tools & Software Factories

• Gareth Jones announces a new release of DSL Tools. Gareth Jones [New Release of the DSL Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1]
• What’s new with this release? Stuart Kent [Validation in DSL Tools]
• Harry Pierson has an install tip. Harry Pierson [Update on DSL Toolkit and VC++]
• And another tip – you can’t install DSL Tools on CTP VS. Harry Pierson [DSL Toolkit on CTP VS?]
• Keith Short resurfaces to blog a bit. Keith Short [Restarting My Blog]
• Keith Short with the abridged version of the Software Factory story. Keith Short [Software Factory Elevator Story]
• Why DSL Tools & Software Factories? Stuart Kent [Building the right system, faster and more reliably]
• Pedro Silva is moving back to DSL Tools. Pedro Silva [Working on DSL Tools]

Events

• Dave Bost presents on VSTS in Chicago on Wednesday. Dave Bost [Great Team System Info at March CNUG Meeting]
• New course for VSTS in Toronto on Thursday. Barry Gervin [New Course! Architecting Applications with Visual Studio Team System (Bootcamp)]
• Chat with Eric Rudder on Friday. Josh Ledgard [March 18th: Chat with the Big Cheese about VS 2005]

Project Management

• A new process template for VSTS. Rob Caron [MSF for CMMI® Process Improvement]
• Despite news to the contrary, it won’t be in this Beta release. John Lawrence [Team System will include a methodology for CMMI Process Improvement]
• John got some insight from the source, David Anderson. John Lawrence [Team System process guidance support for CMMI Process Improvement announced]
• Dave McKinstry is looking into what it takes to customize a process template. Dave McKinstry [First thoughts on Customizing Process in VSTS]
• A man's got to know his limitations. David Anderson [Subordinating to Capacity]
• How do you measure capacity? David Anderson [Measuring Capacity]

Team Software Development

• Dogfooding Team Foundation version control. Buck Hodges [Team Foundation Dogfood]
• How is that dogfood tasting? Sam Jarawan [Fix’n bugs… and Todays bug is...]
• Moving sources from VSS to Team Foundation version control? Akash Maheshwari [Walkthrough for migrating from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation]
• Joe Sango takes a look into Team Foundation work item tracking. Joe Sango [What's WIT TFS?]

Testing

• A closer look at testing features in Team System. Edward Bakker [Testing in Visual Studio Team System]
• Load testing ASP.NET applications. Anders Norås [Kindergartens and load testing]
• 5 out of 7 on testing tenets [link]. Bruce McLeod [Tenet: To build it, you have to break it]

Other

• Next release of Enterprise Library for Visual Studio 2005. S. Somasegar [Enterprise Library]