The Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance has been quite a popular Rangers out-of-band and guidance project, holding the fourth place in terms of overall popularity (measured in average downloads per day) at the moment. It therefore comes at no surprise that this project is also a proud member...

Since we introduced the Visual Studio 11 Readiness on the Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog , as part of the Learning about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and how they embrace products announced at //BUILD/ post, we have received a number of questions which I would like to answer in this...

Following on to the Visual Studio ALM Rangers recently called it a daunting but exciting adventure … what’s coming? post, we introduce four known and fairly recent solutions that will be upgraded as part of this readiness wave. What is exciting is that three of the four are lead by Visual Studio ALM...

Francisco Fagas has stepped forward to take the responsibility of project lead for the proposed Visual Studio Architecture Tooling Guidance solution upgrade. Once again I am truly humbled by the commitment and passion this Ranger and am looking forward to the next release of these exciting solution and...

As an experiment we have started to post the Visual Studio ALM Ranger videos to Channel9 as well. The first batch is focused on the Visual Studio Architecture Tooling Guidance and the second batch are all about Visual Studio Build Customization Guidance . The next “feature” we are discussing is getting...

Since we released the latest version of the guidance and in particular the Visual Studio extension we have noticed steady increase in downloads and are also getting candid feedback :) What is not getting much traction are the new videos … are they too hidden on Codeplex? Should we be offering them as...

We are getting more and more questions when we will ship and what the status of the imminent Rangers projects are. Well, we promised transparency and therefore let me try and explain why there is this lull period between us freezing the content and us shipping to Codeplex. Which are the imminent projects...

The architecture tooling guidance contains practical guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, common usage scenarios, hands on labs, and lessons learnt in-the-field from the communities, focused on modeling tools. The guidance scenarios include understanding and reverse engineering an existing application...

As part of the testing of the new Rangers Architecture Tooling Guidance extension, which will be released shortly, we have stumbled across a Feature Builder issue that is currently under investigation by the team. Symptom When selecting an action/command, you get sporadically may encounter the error...

As mentioned in Rangers March 2011 Flash we are getting close to the release of the Build Customization Guide (ATE) and the Lab Management Guide (AHE), both of which are going through a technical review by the product owner and product group and will enter the readability review by UE next week. The...

The Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance provides practical guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, which is focused on modeling tools. There have not been any major updates for some time, however, the automation feature team lead by Francisco Fagas , has been hard at work behind the...

Our External Rangers have done phenomenal work in terms of localizing some of the Rangers Guidance on Codeplex, making the content more meaningful to a diverse community. To drive our quality over quantity objectives we need your candid feedback if you are fluent in the relevant language, so that we...

Francisco Fagas , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), has done it yet again and has localized the Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance for the Spanish communities. Find the Spanish version of the http://vsarchitectureguide.codeplex.com/ guidance here .

The Spanish Localization of the Architecture Guide is imminent and during the process of localization we noticed a few minor glitches, which have been addressed and uploaded to http://vsarchitectureguide.codeplex.com/ today:

On Monday we are kicking off the refresh of the Visual Studio Architecture Tooling Guidance ( http://vsarchitectureguide.codeplex.com/ ). No fixed delivery milestones are defined or even considered, instead the team will trickle publish refreshments as they become available, to ensure that the guidance...

In  Branching and Team Project Guidance … looking for “your” input! we started a discussion on the new branching scenarios and what the rangers are planning to add to the existing Branching Guidance ( http://tfsbranchingguideiii.codeplex.com ) and the Architecture Tooling Guidance ( http://vsarchitectureguide...

Today we have just published a new Visual Studio ALM Rangers solution,another one in the series of the Visual Studio 2010 focused projects. The exciting new family member includes … Visual Studio Database Guide   Practical guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Database projects, which is focused on 5...

We have just refreshed the hands-on-lab (HOL) content for the architecture tooling guidance project to support the Feature Builder 1.0 Power Tool . … both the HOL manuals and base environment are refreshed. What’s next? We are busy planning a refresh of the traceability scenario to take advantage of...

We introduced “a dream” in Rangers Guidance – We will be introducing a radically new landscape for ALM Guidance … is it the correct one? and some really cool nuggets in Feature Builder … some really cool nuggets on Codeplex and remembering a deprecated HOL . … with the launch of the Visual Studio Architecture...

You can find a list of all the Visual Studio ALM Rangers projects here. The most recent changes have occurred in the following three guidance projects: Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance http://vs2010quickref.codeplex.com/ The capacity planning quick reference poster has been updated to match...

Today we have just published a new Visual Studio ALM Rangers solution, one of the last of the Visual Studio 2010 guidance focused projects. The exciting new family member includes … Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance Practical guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, focused on modelling...

"The drawing shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book" … voiced by a character in Ivan S. Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons, 1862. I definitely support this statement and therefore many of the Visual Studio ALM Rangers solutions are complemented with quick reference...

Many of the guidance core scenarios refer to a 4+1 view … why 4+1 … why not just a 5 view? What is the 4+1 View all about? The 4+1 view model, was designed by a Canadian engineer Philippe Kruchten . In essence the intent is to describe your system’s architecture using four views (logical, development...

I have been reviewing the architecture guidance over the past few days, whereby the are getting close to opening the gates and publishing the guidance. Keep an eye on our Rangers blog for news on the guidance. There are a few things that made me wonder (frown) and therefore I believe it warrants a short...

The ink has not dried on the post External Visual Studio ALM Rangers embarking on ambitious localization project to increase value of Rangers Guidance , where we announced the localization efforts that MVPs and Rangers have embarked on, and Francisco (ALM MVP and Visual Studio ALM Ranger) advised that...