Most of the technology assets of Teamprise, a division of SourceGear LLC, will be made available around the launch time of Visual Studio 2010. Teamprise is a client application that allows the integration of Eclipse with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Foundation Server from Eclipse and Eclipse-based IDEs, and from other operating systems, including UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X.

Jason Zander, General Manager, Visual Studio, announced the acquisition at TechEd Europe.

A Microsoft-branded Teamprise-based produce is planned near the time of the Visual Studio 2010 launch in the first half of 2010. Until a new release becomes available from Microsoft, Teamprise customers will continue to have access to support from Teamprise/SourceGear. In addition, customers can purchase new licenses of Teamprise v3.3 from Teamprise/SourceGear until the new release from Microsoft is available. When the Microsoft-branded release is available, customers with current Teamprise licenses (v3.x) will have the opportunity to get a no-cost upgrade to the new product.

Zander writes in his blog posting, Announced at TechEd Europe, Teamprise Client Suite Acquisition, “I’m very excited about bringing Teamprise into the Visual Studio family of products.  Many of you work in heterogeneous environments and having the Teamprise Client Suite means you can collaborate through Team Foundation Server (TFS) even if parts of your team are working with other systems like Eclipse.”

For more information about Teamprise and how it works with Eclipse, see Microsoft has Acquired the Teamprise Client Suite.

Three partners also took the stage at TechEd Europe to demo their new products base on Visual Studio 2010:

• Micro Focus demonstrated their new COBOL support in the IDE including using the editor extensions for visually showing code flow, architecture diagram extensions (through DGML) for showing a flowchart of code logic, and new visualization support for seeing a preview of mainframe terminal displays.
• Quest Software demonstrated their Oracle support for the advanced database features (now part of Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate).  With this support you can now import Oracle schema directly into Visual Studio, refactor database schema, and the other pre and post production features.
• PreEmptive Solutions demonstrated their new support for instrumentation of code which can return runtime statics and information about how code is executed in the wild.  New support includes extensions for the architecture diagram (through DGML), a new margin control with preview of runtime data, and an inline WPF based graph system so one can review data directly in their editor next to the code which is impacted.

Bruce D. Kyle
ISV Architect Evangelist | Microsoft Corporation