Dave Bost » Team System http://davebost.com/blog The Mind of a Developer Evangelist. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:12:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Available Now: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Fx 4 Beta 2 http://davebost.com/blog/2009/10/19/available-now-visual-studio-2010-and-net-fx-4-beta-2/ http://davebost.com/blog/2009/10/19/available-now-visual-studio-2010-and-net-fx-4-beta-2/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:35:32 +0000 Dave http://davebost.com/blog/2009/10/19/available-now-visual-studio-2010-and-net-fx-4-beta-2/

Today Soma announced the release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Fx 4 Beta 2.  Soma also added a little nugget of information around the ship date of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 – March 22, 2010.

The Beta 2 bits are available today for MSDN Subscribers and general availability will be October 21st. It was also announced that Beta 2 comes with a  “Go Live” license, which essentially states that Microsoft will provide a smooth upgrade path to the final release as well as provide support for the product.

Visual Studio 2010 is a huge undertaking. There are many enhancements not the least of which is a complete rewrite of the shell! There are also a number of improvements to the underlying .NET Framework to provide the means to build great applications on top of Windows 7. The first step for you is to download and install VS2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2. Brian Keller provides a nice walkthrough on how to download and install the necessary bits and get you up and running.

The next step is to download the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit and work your way through all of the great training content. In addition, I’d set aside some time to watch the series of 10-4 episodes on Channel9 and learn about all the new features in VS2010 and .NET 4.

From there, I’d ask that you report bugs and provide feedback on the Visual Studio Connect Site. With your feedback we can be sure that Visual Studio 2010 is the product that *you* demand on March 22, 2010.

]]> http://davebost.com/blog/2009/10/19/available-now-visual-studio-2010-and-net-fx-4-beta-2/feed/ 0 Team Foundation Server for the Little Guy http://davebost.com/blog/2009/10/02/team-foundation-server-for-the-little-guy/ http://davebost.com/blog/2009/10/02/team-foundation-server-for-the-little-guy/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:33:40 +0000 Dave http://davebost.com/blog/2009/10/02/team-foundation-server-for-the-little-guy/ Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a great enterprise-class source-control, collaboration and reporting system. Since its release in 2005, TFS has been knocked a little on its complexity and pricing. It has always been about “enterprise-class” and with that the requirements for the needs of enterprises provided a more complex solution that smaller teams couldn’t afford or administer.

The team behind TFS has finally addressed the concerns of smaller development shops with the announcement of TFS 2010 and its support for Basic installs.

What this means is…

  • No requirement for SharePoint Services
  • No requirement for SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
  • TFS 2010 can run on a local development machine running Vista or Windows 7 Home Premium and above
  • TFS 2010 can run against SQL Express

The last piece of the puzzle is price. Although pricing hasn’t been announced yet, Brian Harry states on his blog that…

We’re not quite ready to announce the pricing and licensing for 2010 yet but I can tell you that it will be at least as easy and cost effective to get as SourceSafe has been.  Stay tuned for more info on this.

This effort is more then just providing a great solution for smaller development shops. Its a roadmap to get those shops to migrate off of Visual SourceSafe and into the modern source management era with TFS 2010.

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You can download the bits, submit feedback to the Connect site and participate in the ongoing conversations on the Beta forums. The documentation has been removed from the download for Beta 1 but you can find all of the documentation online on MSDN.

Once you kicked off the download, be sure to read What’s New in .NET Framework 4 and What’s New in Visual Studio 2010.

You can install Visual Studio 2010 side-by-side with other versions of Visual Studio or you can drop it into a virtualized machine with something like Virtual PC.

Once you have everything up and running, download the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit to learning about the latest features and enhancements. There are also a number of walkthroughs posted highlighting some of these new features.

Enjoy!

]]> http://davebost.com/blog/2009/05/22/visual-studio-2010-and-net-fx-4-beta-1-now-available/feed/ 0 VSTS Users Groups Sprouting Up http://davebost.com/blog/2007/05/17/vsts-users-groups-sprouting-up/ http://davebost.com/blog/2007/05/17/vsts-users-groups-sprouting-up/#comments Thu, 17 May 2007 09:51:37 +0000 Dave http://localhost/wpblog/?p=290 We’re starting to see Visual Studio Team System User Groups starting to pop up in our area. Chicago’s has a VSTS group (no group site just yet) and they’ve held twomeetings all ready (sorry for slacking on my blogging duties and not informing you in time that there was a group – a mistake I don’t plan to make again).

There’s also a group starting up in Indianapolis as a Special Interest Group of the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association (IndyNDA). Their plan is to meet every 4th Wednesday of the month. Here are the details of their kickoff meeting on May 23rd…

When:
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 @ 6:00PM

Where:
Microsoft Corporation
Parkwood Business Park, Building Four
500 E. 96th St., Suite 460
Indianapolis, IN 46240

Click here to register

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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:

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!

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There have been a number of enhancements made between CTP5 and CTP6 including…

  • Full SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 Object Support
  • Inline Constraints
  • Team Build Support
  • Selective Database Project Imports
  • Etc…

Not to mention the standard stability and performance enhancements. You can download CTP6 from here.

Speaking of Data Dude, don’t forget to check out the upcoming launch events coming to a city near you.

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You can catch me at the launch events taking place in Milwaukee on December 6th and Chicago on December 12th. To find a city launch nearest you, check out http://teams-deliver.com.

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Thank you for your support!

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]]> http://davebost.com/blog/2006/10/03/vsts-db-team-needs-your-input/feed/ 0 Visual Studio Team System Adds Another Role http://davebost.com/blog/2006/05/31/visual-studio-team-system-adds-another-role/ http://davebost.com/blog/2006/05/31/visual-studio-team-system-adds-another-role/#comments Wed, 31 May 2006 03:22:00 +0000 Dave http://localhost/wpblog/?p=216 VSTS has always been about creating a tool to support the individual roles of a software development project. Today,VSTS supports features for Architects, Developers and Testers. Today, Microsoft announced the additon of another team role to the VSTS product lineup – Database Professional.

With the Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals, DBA’s and database developers can now enjoy the benfits of what Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server bring to Application Lifecycle Mangement. Attendees of this year’s TechEd conference in Boston will be able to get there hands on a copy of the CTP with download availability following shortly thereafter. Here’s a clipping of some of the features included:

  • The new Visual Studio Database Project allows you to import your database schema and place it under source control. When the time comes to deploy schema changes the new project system allows you to quickly build update scripts or packages and then provides a mechanism to deploy them to the database of our choice
  • Rename Refactoring allows you to easily rename any object in your database and be assured that all references to that object will be renamed to correspond to the change
  • A New T-SQL editor allows you to be more productive when writing T-SQL code from within Visual Studio including support for parallel execution of queries and viewing of execution plans
  • SchemaCompare allows you to quickly compare the schema of two databases (or your source controlled project and a database) and script updates to bring the database schemas into sync
  • DataCompare allows you to quickly compare two databases and script updates to bring the data in these databases into sync
  • The Database Unit Testing infrastructure allows you to create database unit tests using T-SQL or managed code
  • DataGenerator lets you create data generation plans that produce repeatable sets of meaningful data based upon your existing production databases that can be deployed to a database prior to running unit tests thus ensuring consistent test results

Many customers ask me what’s a best practice for moving schemea changes through the application promotion model. I can’t wait to see how the Database Professional edition can help faciliate this complicated process. Sounds like a whitepaper in the making.

]]> http://davebost.com/blog/2006/05/31/visual-studio-team-system-adds-another-role/feed/ 0 Slides from Team Foundation Version Control Webcast http://davebost.com/blog/2006/04/20/slides-from-team-foundation-version-control-webcast/ http://davebost.com/blog/2006/04/20/slides-from-team-foundation-version-control-webcast/#comments Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:11:00 +0000 Dave http://localhost/wpblog/?p=208 I would like to thank all of those who attended my webcast on Team Foundation Version Control on April 18th. We had a great turnout and a lot of great questions. As promised, here are the slides. Also, I’ve included the resources called out (and some that weren’t) during the presentation to find out more information on Team System and Team Foundation Server. Keep an eye on this blog or subscribe to MSDN Flash to find out about upcoming developer events and webcasts we’re planning.

Slide deck: TFSVersionControl.zip

Resources:

Whitepapers:

Blogs:

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