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New Team System Stuff - 2004-12-07

Visual Studio Team System

“From a Team Lead standpoint, it looks absolutely amazing.” – Sean McCormack (Visual Studio 2005 Team System at DevConnections)
“…there are new "Community Technology Preview" builds of both Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition and Visual Studio 2005 Team System waiting in the wings.” – Mary Jo Foley (Up Next: New Beta Builds of 'Whidbey' and 'Burton') Yes, there are a few CTPs that are very close to release. Be sure you know which one you’re grabbing when you download it. Also, remember that CTPs are not Betas. If you have a low tolerance to being on the bleeding edge, you may want to wait for the forthcoming Beta early next year.
“So here's basically what a VSTS install looks like…” – Scott Swigart (Visual Studio Team System: What's an Admin to do?) Be sure to read Brian White’s comment, too.
MSDN TechTalk Presentation (UK) – 'Visual Studio 2005 Team System' PowerPoint document
“I'm especially interested in exploring…Team System, especially the source-control and bug-tracking features.” – Roger (Visual Studio 2005 & SQL Server 2005 first impressions)
“DNJ Online has an interesting article on Visual Studio 2005.” – David Hayden (Inside Visual Studio 2005 - VB C# C++ Team System Express Products)
“I went through the recent set of Team System slides that show you some of the features of Team System.” – Andrew Stopford (Cool things I like about Team System)
“I think everybody watching during the demo was more than a little impressed with Visual Studio 2005 Team System, my team leader was shocked.” – Moshe Eshel (Starting the .NET path)
“Security is perhaps the final frontier for developers as they build applications for the modern enterprise.” – Darryl Taft (eWeek: Microsoft Strengthens Security in Visual Studio 2005)
Unofficial transcripts from the Team System chats earlier this month:

Team Developer & Team Test

“These demos show the static analysis features in Visual Studio 2005 Team Developer Edition.” – Visual Studio 2005 Team Developer: Feature Demos
“In VSTS the static code analysis is performed by an integrated version of FxCop and failure to pass FxCop rules can be enforced in VSTS through Source Control Check in rules.” – 3Leaf Early Adopter Blog (Static Code analysis and code reviews)
“Security testing has to do a lot with one of the seven da Vincian principles - Sfumato (literally "Going up in Smoke") - a willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox and uncertainty.” – Kintan Brahmbhatt (How to test like Leonardo da Vinci - Security Testing One)

Software Project Management

In response to Joel Spolsky’s post (December 04, 2004 and December 06, 2004) that asserts MSF is a fraud, Roy Osherove responds, “I don’t believe MSF is the problem here – in fact I believe that it’s a management problem – if you stuff a methodology down people’s throats – they won’t accept it even if it was ‘Do nothing but sit around all day, and fill out 3 reports’ – it’s a human thing.” – Roy Osherove (MSF is a fraud? A response)
“Here is the slide deck I presented at the Microsoft Architect Forum yesterday.” – Howard van Rooijen (Microsoft Architect Forum: The Value of Agile Methods - Slide Deck)
“One of the more reliable predictors of the health of a project can be to determine where the schedule came from.” – Iain McDonald (Bottoms up? not really…)

SOA, Software Factories & Domain Specific Languages

“Microsoft is sponsoring a webcast [link] hosted by John Evdemon to discuss governmental regulatory issues like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and the Patriot Act and how these issues can be addressed in a SOA world.” – Paul Ballard (Governance and Compliance in Service Oriented Solutions: Update!)
“Each major shift in software development has promised quicker, cheaper software development will Software Factories be the first to deliver?” – Ernie Booth (Software Factories)
“And so we come to the last chapter of Restuarants at the end of the Web. As I stated in the first post, the intent is to provide a framework for talking about the differences between the "factory" approach and how we do things today in the software biz.” – Michael Lehman (Restaurants at the end of the Web…The final chapter)
“We’re just as interested in supporting well-defined general-purpose abstractions (domains) – constraints are a good example, data models another.” – Steve Cook (Keeping the baby in the bath)
“…the thought of your models being able to describe things that are unique to your own problem domain appeals to me…” – Chris M (Microsoft release tech preview of Domain Specific Language tools)

Other Stuff

“Found a great summary on this [Sarbanes-Oxley] today.” – Richard Hundhausen (How Does Sarbanes-Oxley Affect Your Business?) You can find the summary here.

Published Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:05 AM by Rob Caron

Filed under: Dev Center

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Tuesday, December 07, 2004 4:03 PM by Concerned DB designer/developer

# re: New Team System Stuff - 2004-12-07

Would you please clarify an important point made on Roger Bonines's blog (which you link to in the fifth bullet point above) regarding the disappearance of the DB diagramming capabilities that are present in SQL Server 2000 from SQ Server 2005?

As he points out, this is a feature many developers and DB designers use, and its loss would be a big step back.

I really hope someone from Microsoft will provide a concrete answer to this.

Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:18 PM by Rob Caron

# re: New Team System Stuff - 2004-12-07

I'm checking on this - I hope to have an answer soon.

Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:10 PM by Concerned DB designer/developer

# re: New Team System Stuff - 2004-12-07

Any word on this yet? Thanks.

Thursday, January 27, 2005 6:20 PM by Rob Caron's Blog

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