I’m catching up on my Inbox after my vacation from a couple of weeks ago and I ran across anemail from J.D. Meier and the announcement that the patterns & practices has released new perscriptive guidance for Visual Studio Team System.

This effort is in combination with customers, the product teams, the support teams, MVPs, subject matter experts and an internal field team called the “VSTS Rangers” to provide some guidance around everything that is Team System. Right now the content focus quite a bit on Team Foundation Server but the p&p team is working their fingers to the bone to punch outguidance as quick as possible for all aspects of Team System.

Some of the new content that has recently been released includes:

• Explained: Branching in Team Foundation Server
• Explained – Structuring Your Solutions and Projects in Source Control with Team Foundation Server
• How To: Perform a Baseless Merge in Team Foundation Server
• How To: Step Through Creating a Custom Check-in Policy for Team Foundation Server 2005
• How To: Step Through Creating Your Source Tree in Team Foundation Server 2005
• How To: Structure Your ASP.NET Applications for Team Foundation Server
• How To: Structure Your Source Control Folders in Team Foundation Server
• How To: Structure Your Windows Applications for Team Foundation Server
• Source Control Practices at a Glance
• Source Control Questions and Answers
• Video: How To – Migrate from VSS to Team Foundation Source Control
• Video: How To – Setup Your Source Tree in Team Foundation Server
• Video: How To – Structure Your ASP.NET Projects for TFS

The VSTS Guidance Project is hosted on CodePlex.com which in and of itself is hosted on Team Foundation Server. Kind of a Circle-of-Life thing. Ok, maybe not, but great stuff anyhow!