Visual Studio Team System

• According to my sources, the Team System VPC that was distributed to TechEd attendees in the US and Europe will be available for download sometime this week.
• Soma blogged about Team System’s contribution to distributed development productivity.
• At TechEd Europe, more information was released about the Team System/SQL Server/BizTalk Server launch event in November. You can find more coverage at uk.builder.com.
• An alpha version of the consolidated SDK for Visual Studio technologies is available for download [via Allen Denver’s blog]. Meanwhile, Jim Glass is working on how to package the accompanying documentation.
• Eric Jarvi shares a good tip – subscribe to the Team System forum RSS feeds.
• Neno Loje has started a Team System blog as a companion to his Team System page.
• The Microsoft UK team has created Microsoft Developer Road Trip CD for your listening pleasure. Here’s a shortcut to the Team System track, you should consider downloading the whole CD.
• Korby Parnell has coverage of Team System at TechEd Europe.
• Although it’s a bit on the pessimistic side, there’s this article (no byline) in CIO Today about Team System.

Architecture

• Mike Burner has an article on software development modeling in the Architecture Resource Center.
• The Architecture Resource Center has a master list of related blogs, too.
• Edward Bakker has some SOA guidance.
• Martin Fowler on ServiceOrientedAmbiguity.
• Ralf Westphal has an interesting comparison for the shift to SOA.
• Jeroen van den Bos has coverage of SOA at TechEd Europe.
• As I blogged earlier, Marcus Mac Innes has great coverage, too.
• Gianpaolo has started a series of articles on the 5 pillars of connected systems (I, II).

Development

• Windows IT Pro Magazine has an article on the Profiler in Team Edition for Developers.
• Eric Jarvi has a post about ASP.NET code analysis missing line number information.
• James Newkirk has released v0.4 of his NUnit Converter.
• Brian Button shares more of his Team System unit testing learnings.
• Owen Allen blogs about a user group presentation on unit testing.
• Heath Stewart has a book review of the Microsoft Press title, Threat Modeling.
• Register now for an upcoming (8/11 at 11AM PDT) webcast on Implementing Security in the Development Lifecycle.

Project Management

• David Anderson has several great posts on the Agile Management blog:
  • MSF for CMMI Process Improvement
  • CMMI and the Declaration of Interdependence (Joel agrees)
  • It's Time to Declare Victory
  • Agile Fence Painting
• Udi Dahan explains that programmers don’t make projects fail.
• Randy Miller blogs about the power of integration.
• Back in May, Andrew MacNeill shared a FoxPro user’s impressions of MSF.
• Brad Appleton encourages a look at Feature-Driven Development (FDD) as an alternative to XP.
• Dave McKinstry blogs about the recently unveiled MSF for CMMI Process Improvement and compares it to MSF for Agile Software Development. Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz blogs about it, too.
• According to Howard van Rooijen, Conchango loves agile.

Team Software Development

• Abhinaba Basu has a post that covers renaming, deleting or hiding a build type.
• Sam Gentile blogs on adding users to the Namespace Administrators application group.
• Korby Parnell covers the TechEd Europe breakout session on Team Foundation version control.
• John Morris reports that he is now working on Team Foundation version control.
• Manish Agarwal, a developer on the Team Foundation Build team has started blogging.
• Brad Appleton is seeking the principles of software change management.
• Richard Hundhausen, author of Introducing Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta, has posted his presentation materials from TechEd Europe.

Testing

• Roy Osherove blogs about performance vs. testability and semi-virtual method calls.
• Paul Gielens was anxious to see Roy Osherove present at TechEd Europe and links to Roy’s Testing Guidelines.
• John Long considers whether he is a tester who writes software, or a developer who tests.
• Brian Marick blogs about breaking tests for understanding and the actual lesson learned.

Team System Workshop

• The MSF for CMMI Process Improvement workbench led by David Anderson is open for business.
• Tom Hollander blogs about James Newkirk’s use of the Guidance Automation Toolkit in the NUnit Converter.
• Edward Bakker has a couple of posts on Software Factories based on the presentations he attended and discussions he had at TechEd Europe:
  • Building and using Software Factories
  • Software Factories

My Team System Posts

• MSDN Webcast: Testing For Better Design (Level 200)
• Dr. Dobb's Journal: The VSTSEclipse Project
• Redmond Magazine: Pre-announcing the Announcement
• MSF for CMMI(r) Process Improvement Beta Now Available
• Team System July CTP Coming Soon
• Roy Osherove Interviews Randy Miller & Steve Cook