Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio Team System 2010

Team Foundation Installation Guide 2010 is available on Download Center here, it includes instructions for installing Team Foundation Server and Team Foundation Build Services

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 Beta 1 Arrived

Yesterday, May 18th, Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 were released.

If you are a MSDN subscriber, you can download the Beta from here. For the rest of the world, the Beta will be publicly available on Wednesday May 20th.

To find out how to download the beta and where to share your feedback, please visit the Visual Studio 2010 Product Page

Enjoy :)

Visual Studio DB Professional 2010 Oracle Support

Quest Software has announced that they will be creating an Oracle Database Schema Provider for Visual Studio Team System 2010, which means that all Team System users having Oracle databases in their applications will get the same benefits from the Database Edition as those given to SQL Server databases.

Quest has opened up a Beta program on their TeamFuze.net site for Oracle Professionals using Team System.

VSTS 2010 Architecture: Prologue

Cameron Skinner wrote an amazing post discussing the composition of VSTS 2010, giving some higher level descriptions of the parts that make up the whole product.

It's a must read post ... Well done Skinner ...

VSTS 2010 PDC Lab Session Available

VSTS 2010 PDC Lab Session is available on Channel 9 that was done by Cameron Skinner

In the spirit of an agile sprint, see how to use the next version of Visual Studio Team System to manage user stories and re-factor existing architecture. Learn how to diagnose real production problems, debug in-production virtual labs, capture test data to eliminate the no-repro bugs, transparently plan, monitor, and adapt software projects.

.NET Framework 4.0 Types and Namespaces

Along with all this new features found in Visual Studio 2010, there will be some new types and namespaces available in .NET Framework 4.0.

A .NET Framework 4.0 Poster is available for the ultimate way of viewing such types and namespaces.

I uploaded the poster in a large size to be available for downloading.

Of course they are subject to change as things are still at a very early stage but it's great to be on track ...

VSTS 2010 Architecture Explorer

Today I finally started playing around with VSTS 2010 CTP and started get a feel of the new wonders …

This should be the first post of a series of VSTS 2010 posts out of experiencing the upcoming release …

My first experience was with the Architecture Explorer, this great new feature of the Architecture Edition, it is a WPF interface for exploring your architecture. It allows you to drill through all of the projects, classes, methods, code metrics, relationships and just about anything else you can think of …

The above shows a basic view of the Architecture Explorer. The lists at the top let you select which objects show up on the design surface. At this point, the design surface is a read-only and all navigation is done via the lists.

If you look closely, you can see that for each object (solution, project, class, etc.) you can select items contained within, objects which contain the object and objects/methods which are called by the object. You can also see which interfaces are implemented by an object, run code metrics on an object and perform various other pieces of analysis. The resulting views on the design surface can be saved as .XPS files and distributed.

The design surface also allows you to view the information in different ways. The different views are as follows:

• The Dependency Matrix View
• The nodes appear in a matrix and dependencies between nodes are indicated at intersections of the matrix.
• The Vertical Tree View
• Nodes appear from top to bottom in order of most dependent to least dependent.
• The Horizontal Tree View
• Nodes appear from left to right in order of most dependent to least dependent.
• The Stack View
• Nodes appear from top to bottom in order of highest-level to lowest-level.
• The Nested Stack View
• Nodes appear as nested nodes with higher-level nodes that contain lower-level nodes.
• The Force Directed Layout
• Nodes appear as clusters or hubs with most dependent nodes near the center of the clusters and the least dependent nodes appearing at the outer edges of the clusters.