Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition focuses on improving the design and validation of distributed systems. It gives architects, operations managers, and developers the ability to visually construct service-oriented solutions and validate them against their operational environments prior to deployment.

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Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio Team System 2008
The Team Foundation Installation Guide for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008, which includes Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Build, Team Foundation Server Proxy, and Team Explorer
Monday, Aug 11

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1
This Service Pack contains bug fixes and new features that address feedback from customers and provide support for recent operating system and database releases. This service pack applies to Team Foundation Server 2008, Team Foundation 2008 Proxy, and Team Foundation Server 2008 Build.
Monday, Aug 11

Tools for Agility - A White Paper by Kent Beck
In this white paper, Kent Beck shares his thoughts on the relationship between tools and agile software development. Agile development seeks to increase the value of software development by increasing the feedback available to customers and developers. Some of the feedback comes from more frequent releases to production, some from more frequent testing, some from more frequent software builds, and some from social structures that encourage conversation and dialog. A decrease in cycle time implies an increase in the number of transitions between activities, though, which changes the requirements for effective development tools. Kent Beck in this paper makes the case for the appropriate use of tools (and processes) in agile development, and to look forward to the evolution of software development tools.
Thursday, Jun 26

Inside This Issue:

Let's Talk Developer Tools
Display Quality Indicators
Microsoft Static Code Analysis tools survey
TFS Personality Spotlight – Dave McKinstry
Resources
Q and A/Calendar of Events.

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Team Suite Forums

Visual Studio Team System - Architecture & Design

Additional Visual Studio Forums

Visual Studio Team System - General

Visual Studio Team System - Testing

Visual Studio Team System - Web and Load Testing

Visual Studio Team System - Database Professionals

Visual Studio Performance Tools (Profiler)

Visual Studio Application Verifier

Visual Studio Code Analysis and Code Metrics

Visual Studio 2008 (Prerelease)

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Mickey Gousset

Mickey Gousset has been involved in software development for 13 years now, utilizing Microsoft tools for the past 7. He is a Consultant for Notion Solutions, Inc. He has been learning with Team System since it was first announced in 2004. He is one of the co-founders of www.teamsystemrocks.com, THE community site for Visual Studio Team System.

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