What else can I say? The big day has arrived (read the official word here on Soma's blog) and we're all very excited to let everyone know that all parts of the Visual Studio Team System 2008 product family are available today for download from MSDN. If you're not already a subscriber to MSDN, you can download a 90-day trial of Team Suite and TFS instead. We've been working on this release for the past two years so there's a whole lot of new features available, many of which we've talked about during the beta releases. Here's a quick run down of some of the key features in Team System this time around (drop me a note if I missed your favorites):
Development EditionCode Analysis Checkin Policy Code Metrics JavaScript debugging Performance run comparisonHot pathing Code Analysis Rules Rules Management Analyze menuSpelling rules
Database EditionIntegrate TeamData v1 into Team Suite
Test EditionAuto cleanup of resultsControl Load Modeling New default viewsDevices Unit testing Test performance improvementsInherited test classes Load test and profiler integrationWeb test correlation Right-click test executionTest generation from a compiled assemblyWebtest recorder support for AJAX and popupsWebtest playback improvements Architecture EditionArchitectural RolesConform to WSDLTop-down system design Web application projects
Test EditionAuto cleanup of resultsControl Load Modeling New default viewsDevices Unit testing Test performance improvementsInherited test classes Load test and profiler integrationWeb test correlation Right-click test executionTest generation from a compiled assemblyWebtest recorder support for AJAX and popupsWebtest playback improvements
Architecture EditionArchitectural RolesConform to WSDLTop-down system design Web application projects
Team Foundation ServerSharePoint 3.0 / 2007 supportImproved deployment experience Better offline supportContinuous integrationBuild queuing & scheduled buildsDrop ManagementAnnotate Folder DiffGet latest on checkoutPerformance and scale improvements (Work Item Tracking / Version Control)Destroy filesImproved source control mergingWorkspace mapping improvementsTeam System Web Access (power tool)
Many, many congratulations to all the people that worked so hard over the past couple of years on this release. And more importantly, many, many thanks to our customers for providing us feedback on Team System 2005 as well as pre-releases of Team System 2008. You help us do a better job!
Please try it out and let us know how Visual Studio Team System 2008 works for you!
Woohoo!