Ever since last May, when Microsoft announced Team System to the world at Tech Ed 2004, I’ve had a keen interest in poking around in this new application (and process guidance) suite. As I write this, I’ve started down the arduous (according to conversations taking place here) path of getting Team System up and running. I’m armed with my copy of the Oct/Nov MSDN Events DVD-ROM, with the Beta1 Refresh of Visual Studio + Team System, and I’m ready to roll.
It’s taken me a while to get to this point of “ready to install”. As it turns out, this release of Team System requires that you have 3 different machines (or Virtual PC images) to support the Client (Visual Studio), the App Server (Team Foundation) and a Database Server (SQL Server 2005). I hear that you can get away with 2 machines with Visual Studio and the App Server on the same box and the Database server on the other, but I haven’t tried it and I’m not sure how valid it is. This will all be fixed in the nextbeta release (Q1/2005 or sometime in Februrary from what I hear)as one of the main points is to get thisall up and running onone box.
My poor little Dell laptop just isn’t capable of handling a VPC setup of 3 separate images (2 Windows Server 2003 and 1 Windows XP) so I had to commandeer one of our newer Dev servers for my Team System research. The server only had 1GB of memory so I called up my favorite memory provider and I had an additional 1GBof memory in my possession within 36 hours.Now the Dell PowerEdge 300SC is running with a cool 2GB of memory andis now sitting there, teasing me into installing TeamFoundation.
So now I’m off to start my adventures in Team System. I’ll keep you posted on my progress. Wish me luck!
In preparation for a glorious Thanksgiving, U2 is releasing their next album (How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
) on November 23rd, but you can listen to it now on U2.COM!
According to Brian White…
The slides from the Team System sessions presented at DevConnections are now available for download.
VMS351: Managing the Software Life Cycle with Visual Studio 2005 Team System- Kevin Kelly, Microsoft
In today?s business climate, companies are under increased pressure to save resources by better managing how applications are designed, developed, tested, and deployed. In Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft and its partners will offer advanced application life-cycle management tools and processes that will assist organizations in delivering their solutions on time and under budget. In this general session, you will get the first-ever glimpse of Microsoft?s new enterprise tools and see how Visual Studio 2005 combines its historic leadership in developer productivity with a focus on tight integration, to deliver new products that will forever change the way you write software.
VMS352 – Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Software Project Management – Brian White, Microsoft
In this session you will learn how to take advantage of the combined power of Visual Studio, the Microsoft Office System, and industry proven practices to successfully manage software projects?from conception to deployment.
VMS353: Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Enabling Better Software Through Better Testing – Jason Anderson, Microsoft
Building higher-quality software requires better testing tools and methodologies. In this session we will discuss best practices and showcase new tools to formulate test cases, run load tests, automate nightly builds, and view historical results and quality trends.
VMS354: Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Building Robust and Reliable Software – Jason Anderson, Microsoft
Visual Studio 2005 will provide Microsoft best practices and development tools that used to be available only internally, including: the profiler used by the Windows and SQL teams; the integration of the Application Verifier into Visual Studio; and the source code analyzers used to check the reliability of Windows source code. In this session, you will learn how these tools, together with unit testing and other enterprise tools, will empower development teams to write reliable and performant code in Visual Studio 2005.
VMS355 – Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Enterprise Class Source Control & Work Item Tracking – Brian White, Microsoft
This session introduces the new Team Foundation Server in Visual Studio 2005, including the new Source Code Control, Work Item Tracking and Team Portal. See how an integrated and extensible server-based system will boost your team?s productivity by significantly streamlining your development processes.
Julie Lerman will be the guest on .NET Rocks this Friday (Novemeber 19th @7:30 PM EST). I’m sure WSE2 security will come up at some point. Be sure to tune in.
Dave Bost is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft and co-host of the Thirsty Developer Podcast.
