I think TFSPreview.com has come a long way since last year. Check it out, it will be worth your time
You should really take advantage of the opportunity, tell them what you dont like and what you really like
Link to Team's blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/03/21/visual-studio-11-beta-survey.aspx
So far so good, My laptop is a little clunky and I had a lot of problems installing on a 64 bit machine but the problem was Win Update and not VS.
I thought a product with similar specs was going to ship with vs 2010, but now the tfs team saw the light. I think this is a really good product for small teams.
Version contro, easy install, no need for sql server (it uses express)
Read the original blogpost by bharry
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/02/23/coming-soon-tfs-express.aspx
Its good to know that once a logo is adopted, then its really time to get going and have your apps ready.
I am looking forward to really get the hang of the Metro Style. My feeble attempts at the new ui design look a little "boxy"
This is a useful post by Beth Massi on calling web services to validate data.
I found it useful because Lightswitch does not easily present this facility for data validation
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2012/01/30/calling-web-services-to-validate-data-in-visual-studio-lightswitch.aspx
Ok, 30 years after dos, 25 after win, 16 after 95 now pdc=build windows, but then windows8 not equal to legacywin, then .net @risk and silverlight in doubt....
So secret that a refreshed agenda is not on the site, afraid of angering devs a gag order is issued...
Tech Ready shall have the answers? or NOT
Anyway, windows 8 means a new device, in my case a long overdue upgrade...
http://www.buildwindows.com/
Would like to see the future NOW, or wait for the robotoid apples to rot.,.,., lol
windows 8 changes everything???
Chances are that if you work or play at all with lightswitch, that you are going to encounter some contribution by Beth Massi of msft
Goto her blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch
Its about time, it only took about 5 years from kitty hawk, but I guess it was worth the wait.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch
I guess its coming, but have not heard of any formal announcement except for Brian Harry's blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2011/05/18/update-on-tfs-on-azure.aspx
it would be nice to see an instance of TFS running in the cloud
If you use silverlight you will appreciate SP1
So far it installs without flaws in test and production machines in our team.
Its finally here!
Follow the announcement of Lightswitch
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch
The public beta is going to be available on late August, I suggest you try it out.
I still remember hearing about this years ago in Redmond and the mixed reactions are still fresh on my mind.....
Reliance on third party products is Ok if you want to feed an ecosystem of partners, However for customers, the TFS requirement management should include something to use straight out of the box instead oo relying on word or excel interfaces.
Its just an opinion and it was reinforced by attending a session at Tech Ed which seem more like a marketing session for third party tools.....
Tech Ed Rocks
With a few TFS 2010 implementations under my belt , I got the chance to get to check out the following presentations at Tech Ed 2010. I am looking forward to match the "tips and techniques" presented against real world implementations
DEV206 | Requirements Management with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server
Session Type: Breakout Session
Track: Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks
Speaker(s): Lori Lamkin
Level: 200 - Intermediate
In this session, we cover how you can use Team Foundation Server to define, track, and verify against requirements. We cover the key partners that TFS integrates with, both TFS handles both formal requirements and agile requirements management techniques, and how to test against requirements using Team Test and Team Lab.
DEV405 | Deep Dive into Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Reporting
Session Type: Breakout Session
Track: Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks
Speaker(s): Steven Borg
Level: 400 - Expert
This sessions dives deep into understanding Team Foundation Server 2010 reporting. We very briefly overview the provided reports, both SSRS and Excel that come out of the box, before diving into what makes these reports possible. We dive into the behind-the-scenes data stores: the TFS_Warehouse and the OLAP cube, and understand their relationship as well as their structure. Then we step back up into the world of reporting where we create and extend reports from WIQL queries (built-in capability), create new Excel pivot-table reports and host them on a SharePoint portal, and modify SSRS reports. Finally, we look at how to make decisions about what data to capture to help drive overall process improvement.
DPR04-INT | Strategies for Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Session Type: Interactive Session
Track: Development Practices
Speaker(s): Jeff Levinson
Level: 200 - Intermediate
http://vs2010quickref.codeplex.com/wikipage
This is one of the greatest overviews of TFS and VSTS. It is a VSTS Rangers project and I give it high marks for its brevity and simplicity
VS 2010 is going Beta 2
Get all the info you need here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx
There is going to be Go LIve Support availability!
Well, I hope everyone has a great experience with 7. Personally I have been working with 7 for almost 6 months now, and I think it is a solid product that lays the foundation for exciting things to come. i think I am going to need a faster machine!
So far VS 2010 plays extremely nice with 7. Way to go MS !
I finally found the answer to this common question.
There is wonderful post at http://blogs.msdn.com/dstfs/archive/2009/07/02/determining-team-system-web-access-usage-levels.aspx
in which JimSau references a scalability white paper http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ee378d7b-45c3-4690-bd06-a060cfa43b06&displaylang=en
To sum it up: Keep it at less than 100 concurrent TSWA users. Jim also provides a report to show how many users are accessing the system.
Great Work!
One of the blogs with plentiful links and overall TFS information is Brian Harry's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry) I have mentioned this blog before, but If you are looking for information on the upcoming TFS 2010, All I can say is that TFS 2010 is looking better and better by the day, and that there are some new concepts such as Team Project Collections, that will help administrators manage the TFS environment in an easier way.
Many people are dazzled and confused about getting up to speed in TFS 2010 features, I highly recommend taking a look at the forementioned blog, not only you get a quick and accurate overview, but also you get info from the epicenter of activity on TFS...
It covers a lot of areas, but mostly you will find information about the following topics
- Work item hierarchy & linking
- Improved Agile template
- MOSS & WSS Dashboards
- Simplified reporting
- Improved support for parallel development
- Rollback
- Build queuing and pooling
- Gated checkin
- Simplified setup
- Scale out of web and data tiers
- Admin console
- Project move/archive/restore
He also lists other blogs that have a focus on specific features such as:
Architecture (http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons/)
- Architecture Explorer
- Layer diagram
- Use case designer
- Activity designer
- Component diagram
- Logical class designer
- Sequence diagram
- Modeling project system
- UML Model explorer
- Architecture validation during build
Development & Database (http://blogs.msdn.com/habibh/)
- Historical debugging
- Test impact analysis
- Improved code analysis
- Improved profiling (especially multi-tier)
- Database extensibility
Lab Management (http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee, http://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management)
- Multi-tier Environment creation and management
- Automated deployment
- Easily manage machine pools
- Network fencing
- Checkpoints
Test (http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee, http://blogs.msdn.com/james_whittaker)
- Test planning
- Test case management
- Test prioritization
- Run management & reporting
- Project quality reports
- Manual test execution
- Diagnostic recording (environment, video, etc)
- UI Automation recording
- Coded UI tests
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