Jeff Beehler's Blog : Code analysis

Soma writes about Team Developer features

jeffbe — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:42:50 GMT

Soma's writing a series of blog posts on VS2008 features in anticipation of our coming release. As part of that, he's posted twice in recent weeks on features coming out in the Development edition of Team System:

These in turn refer to additional blog entries from Team System team members so they're rich with information for those that are interested.

Enjoy!

Aggregating popular Team System blogs

jeffbe — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:02:53 GMT

Blogs have quickly become a primary means for the Team System team to communicate with our community and as a result we have dozens and dozens of valuable blogs from our team. Because of this distributed approach, it’s hard for our customers to navigate and track all of the blogs related to various topics. We’ve also heard from many customers that they tire of the endless cross posts between our blogs…the echo can sometimes be deafening.

To help us dampen the echo and to provide one place for customers to go to learn about their favorite portions of the product, we are now aggregating the best Team System blog articles on each of the role specific Team Centers. As we learn more about how this approach works (and doesn’t work) for us and our customers, we’ll evolve this program. To get us started, I have identified key posts and posters to help us kick off this program. Please take a look, subscribe to your favorite feeds and let us know if this help you to stay in touch with us better.

Thanks!

jeff

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New spelling features added

jeffbe — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:18:56 GMT

David Kean recently posted an article announcing new spelling support for Code Analysis in Team System 2008 - Development Edition. It's kinda funny...when I describe what static code analysis is to people who aren't coders, I use the example of Word's spell checker. While it can't ensure that what you write makes sense, it'll help you catch and fix well known errors. With the spelling support now available in Team System, my example no longer has to have the obvious caveat that we didn't actually support spell checking your code. :-)

Watch our TechEd 2007 sessions

jeffbe — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:29:00 GMT

The Team System team and community delivered quite a few talks at TechEd 2007 last month and I'm happy to announce that the recordings of these sessions, demos and all, are now available on the web for your viewing enjoyment. Here's a quick listing:

DEV347: Unit Testing and Test Driven Development: Brian Randell and Doug Seven
DEV309: Best Practices for Team-Based Software Development: Joel Semeniuk
ARC303: Building Your Own Software Factory: Edward Bakker and Jezz Santos
DEV313: Improving Code Performance with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Marc Popkin-Paine and Steve Carroll
DEV320: Writing Maintainable and Robust Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Abhijit Rao and Noah Coad
DAT317: Database Schema Versioning: How to Use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals and Team Foundation Server to Version and Deploy Your Databases: Gert Drapers
DEV322: Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (Part 1 of 2): Applying Work Item Tracking and Version Control to Application Lifecycle Management: Brian Harry
DEV336: Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (Part 2 of 2): Customizing Team Foundation Server for Application Lifecycle Management: Jeff Beehler
ARC315: Loose Coupling in Practice: Composite UI Application Block (CAB) in the Real World: David Platt
DEV329: Testing .NET 3.0 Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Test Tools: Mark Michaelis
DEV337: End-to-End Database Development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals: Duncan Davenport
ARC305: Practice-Centric Software Development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server: David West and Ivar Jacobson
DEV210: Microsoft Solutions Framework 4.0 Core and its Families: Rafal Lukawiecki
DEV335: What's New in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for Testers, New Features in Visual Studio 2008 and Best Practices for Testing AJAX, SharePoint, and Reporting Services: David R. Williamson
DEV321: Best Practices for Deploying and Migrating Projects to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server: Doug Neumann
DEV301: Integrating the Database into the Application Lifecycle Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals: Duncan Davenport

I think Noah's talk (with Abhijit demoing) got the highest rating of all of these and of course you've got to watch mine!

Enjoy!

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available!

jeffbe — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:07:49 GMT

I'm sure there will be many more posts (from me and others) but I wanted to get the good word out quickly that Visual Studio Beta 2 is now available for download! It's been a long haul but I'm really excited about what we've achieved. I'm confident it's ready for people to really pick up and use on a daily basis. But what really matters is to hear what you think...please let us hear from you!

For more information, please see Soma's announcement. If you just want to get to the bits, please head to our recently redesigned Developer Center on MSDN.

Woohoo!

Overview of Visual Studio Team Developer Tools

jeffbe — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:59:44 GMT

At TechEd this year, Noah and Abhijit gave one of the highest ranked talks of the week. I had the pleasure of attending in person to experience their enthusiasm first hand. If you weren't able to attend but you have questions about the latest in team development tools such as Profiling, Unit Testing or Code Analysis, I'd highly recommend taking a look at the artifacts from their session.

Team System Orcas Beta feedback trickling in

jeffbe — Tue, 22 May 2007 17:01:32 GMT

I was happy to see Orcas Beta1 feedback from our Team System MVP and friend Willy-Peter yesterday. In his post he reviews:

Code Analysis
Class Modeling
Code Coverage
Code Metrics
Profiling
Continuous integration
Version control
Data warehouse
SharePoint 2007 support

Overall, he says he's happy in general with the 'rock-solid' stability of the release and has created a new "q;-)" based scoring system to share his thoughts.

What other reviews of Orcas Beta1 have you seen?

Tell us about Beta1

jeffbe — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:57:00 GMT

Brian's asking folks about their reaction to Team System "Orcas" Beta1:

We released Orcas Beta 1 a few weeks ago now and I'm really surprised at how little feedback I've heard. I'm curious what's going on. Are people too busy to mess with it? Has releasing all of the CTPs ahead of time taken the excitment out of playing with the Beta? Is it so unbelievably good that you are stunned into silence? Are you just waiting for Beta 2?

Take a look and let us know what you think. We look forward to hearing from you!

YATSCS: Yet Another Team System Case Study

jeffbe — Thu, 03 May 2007 18:43:00 GMT

These seem to be coming out of the woodwork...I just posted an announcement of three new ones earlier this week and now we have another one. This one's from the Washington State Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development, and is indicative of a small, 10 person dev shop. Here's a quote:

It’s now easier to answer questions such as, Are requirements being met?, Are my teams adhering to quality standards?, and, Is the product ready? - Jim Cristofono

Check it out for yourself: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=201406

All Orcas Beta1 downloads now available

jeffbe — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:01:10 GMT

I'm happy to announce that all of the Visual Studio Team System "Orcas" Beta1 downloads are now available. The VPC images were available a couple weeks ago but last night we finally got the self extracting installer images available for folks that want to install the product themselves on their own machines. As I've said in previous posts, Orcas Beta1 is the best first beta release we've issued in a long time...we're using parts of it internally and I have no complaints so far.

So, please take it for a spin and let us know what you think. We're currently in the process of testing early Beta2 builds and fixing the bugs we've found so your timely feedback will certainly help us ensure that Beta2 is even better. Please let us know what you think through Connect or leave a comment here...we're really eager to hear from you.

Another chat - by popular demand

jeffbe — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:43:36 GMT

Based on the feedback that we've received on our upcoming chat, we decided to add another session later in the day to accommodate folks in other timezones. Of course it'll be on Saturday in many timezones around the world so hopefully folks will still be able to join us. Here are the two times we'll be chatting:

Join the chat on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones
Join the chat on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones

In the future, we'll schedule our chats on days other than Fridays to avoid running into the weekend for those of you ahead of us.

New forums for Team Developer

jeffbe — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:42:00 GMT

To help us better align our Team Developer forums with our feature and how our customers use our products, we have created several new forums:

Check out David's post to learn more.

PS - And check out Noah's post to learn even more.

One more goodie with the March CTP

jeffbe — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:11:57 GMT

There really is just so much in the recently released Visual Studio March CTP that it's frankly hard to keep track of it all. Todd King, from our Static Analysis team, has recently posted about yet another important advancement from his team that's new as of the March CTP. He writes:

Announcing the new Code Metrics feature for Visual Studio ‘Orcas’...this new feature allows users to generate code metrics for projects and solutions and displays the results in the Code Metrics Results tool window... This feature currently calculates five different metrics; Maintainability Index, Cyclomatic Complexity, Depth of Inheritance, Class Coupling, and Lines of Code.

Using these metrics, you'll be able to find those areas of your code that are particularly complicated and hard to maintain that might benefit from refactoring or a bit of rearchitecting. Perhaps, even more interesting, using these metrics during new code development, you can monitor your progress and know when you're getting into trouble before it's too late.