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Recent Whitepaper Overview on Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas")

erikgun — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:01:00 GMT

Here is an updated great overview of "Orcas" as of July 2007,by Microsoft veteran Tony Goodhew

"Team Development with Team Foundation Server” Guide now Available

erikgun — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:29:00 GMT

August 6^th, 2007

Microsoft just released the final version of the “Team Development with Team Foundation Server” Guide. This guide has been in beta for the last couple of months. This guide shows you how to get the most out of Team Foundation Server to help improve the effectiveness of your team-based software development. Whether you are already using Team Foundation Server or adopting from scratch, you’ll find guidance and insights you can tailor for your specific scenarios. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, Team System team members, and industry experts.

http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide

"Rosario" August 2007 CTP News - From Jeff Beehler

erikgun — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:17:00 GMT

It’s with great pleasure that I announce the availability of the Rosario CTP (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” August 2007 CTP). Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images and learning more about the specific features in this release from the Rosario CTP whitepaper.

http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/08/03/first-rosario-ctp-now-available.aspx

Upcoming TFS MSDN article

erikgun — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:02:00 GMT

In the pipeline is an MSDN technical article based on a large government TFS implementation (can’t say which one yetJ). It will be technical content to educate the MSDN readers on "how to extend TFS functionality" with practical 'real world' examples. It will include the following:

Brief comparison of TFS and IBM Rational Clearcase functionally - and
how TFS adds value in the enterprise space.
Overview of MSSCCI Interface and how we can extend it to communicate
with non MS products
Solution Architecture for hosting mainframe and Seibel code in TFS

Step by step process to create scripts to access MicroFocus
using MSSCCI
'Check in' and 'Check out' of mainframe code
Generate a Build report. By implementing the Code Migration
process as a TFSBuild, a Build Report is automatically generated within the Source Control repository.
Tracking errors / exceptions from mainframe seamlessly to be
handled by TFS build

Stay tuned…