Making Developers More Productive with Team Foundation Server 11

This lab is all about those "fit-and-finish" scenarios in Team Foundation Server 11 which will make developers more productive as they write code and collaborate with other team members. You'll learn about the new integrated code reviews; the new "My Work" experience for managing your active tasks; and once you're "in the zone" Visual Studio will now help you stay focused on the task at hand, no matter how much you're randomized, with a new suspend/resume experience. You'll also learn how to work offline seamlessly, how the new merging experience works, and how you can more easily find work items.

Overview

This lab is all about those “fit-and-finish” scenarios in Team Foundation Server 11 which will make developers more productive as they write code and collaborate with other team members. You’ll learn about the new integrated code reviews; the new “My Work” experience for managing your active tasks; and once you’re “in the zone” Visual Studio will now help you stay focused on the task at hand, no matter how much you’re randomized, with a new suspend/resume experience. You’ll also learn how to work offline seamlessly, how the new merging experience works, and how you can more easily find work items.

Prerequisites

In order to complete this lab you will need the Visual Studio 11 virtual machine provided by Microsoft. For more information on acquiring and using this virtual machine, please see this blog post.

About the Fabrikam Fiber Scenario

This set of hands-on-labs uses a fictional company, Fabrikam Fiber, as a backdrop to the scenarios you are learning about. Fabrikam Fiber provides cable television and related services to the United States. They are growing rapidly and have embraced Windows Azure to scale their customer-facing web site directly to end-users to allow them to self-service tickets and track technicians. They also use an on-premises ASP.NET MVC application for their customer service representatives to administer customer orders.

In this set of hands-on labs, you will take part in a number of scenarios that involve the development and testing team at Fabrikam Fiber. The team, which consists of 8-10 people, has decided to use Visual Studio application lifecycle management tools to manage their source code, run their builds, test their web sites, and plan and track the project.

Exercises

This hands-on lab includes the following exercises:

1. Team Explorer Overview
2. My Work
3. Local Workspaces
4. Pending Changes
5. Suspend and Resume, Code Reviews
6. Merging

Estimated time to complete this lab: 60 minutes.