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 :)
The TFS Admin Tool 1.4 beta is now available on CodePlex.
The new beta version provides support for SQL Server 2008. It also contains a lot of code cleanup as housekeeping so that the full set of Code Analysis Rules run against the code come back largely clean or suppressed (suppressed a minimum amount).
TFS Code Coverage Check-in Policy is now available on CodePlex.
The TFS Code Coverage Check-in Policy enforces that the latest test run of the current solution has code coverage enabled and that the total code coverage percentage is not below a certain, configurable, threshold value.
It reads the information from test results folder stored locally beneath the current solution.
To ensure that the user actually ran all the necessary tests, this check-in policy should be combined with the Testing check-in policy, that ensures that the user has executed all tests from a predefined test list.
Jason Zander posted a blog post about Visual Studio 2010 New Look which is built on WPF technology in .NET Framework 4.0.
The new UI looks amazing in my point of view … Well done …
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.
"Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action" is a hands-on guide to Team Foundation Server 2008. Written for developers with a good handle on TFS basics, this book shows you how to solve real-life problems. It's not a repetition of Microsoft's product documentation. "Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action" is a practitioner's handbook for how to work with TFS under common constraints. This book walks you through real-life software engineering problems based on hundreds of hours of TFS experience.
You'll benefit from expert author Jamil Azher's extensive interactions with members of Microsoft's TFS team and MVPs, survey feedback from the author's blog, and interviews with organizations and user groups using TFS. Instead of just offering a high-level overview, the book provides detailed solutions for solving common-and not-so-common-problems using TFS. It discusses the strengths as well as weaknesses of TFS, and suggests appropriate problem resolution steps, workarounds, or custom solutions.
The VSTS Virtual Machines are all updates with fresh bits and expiration dates and now available in 4 different flavors on Microsoft Download Center thanks to Brian Randell
The new Virtual Machines are a VSTS “all-up” image with Team Foundation Server, Team Build, Team Explorer and Team Suite with the latest SP1 installed, and a TFS “only” image with just Team Foundation Server, Team Build and Team Explorer with the latest SP1 installed. But they are produced as Virtual PC 2007/Virtual Server 2005 R2 Compatible images and Hyper-V Compatible images to suite everybody’s needs …
The images are updated with the following:
All can be downloaded as follows:
Enjoy :)
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Team just released 6 additional languages of the recently released GDR on Microsoft Download Center as follows:
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
German
Spanish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Patrick Sirr posted a detailed post about the latest VSTS Database Edition GDR Import Scripts Add-In that is amazing.
In this blog I’ll introduce you to the Import Scripts add-in to the General Distribution Release (GDR) for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition. With this add-in Visual Studio can import multiple scripts to populate a target database project. I’ve included the source code but, in order to compile the install project you’ll need to install Votive 3.0 (I used 3.0.4707.0).
Mike Fourie had a few minor updates on the handy reference to aid your work with building software in TFS 2008.
System Center 2008 Management Packs for TFS 2008 is now available for download on Microsoft Download Center
The Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 Management Pack monitors exposed services of TFS. This management pack includes event rules and monitors. It is designed to proactively monitor quality and availability of TFS services and even automate recovery in some scenarios.
Feature Summary
I recently blogged about VSTS 2008 Database Edition GDR RC1 which is now finally a RTW available for download from Microsoft Download Center :)
Some of Team System MVPs started working on creating some translations for Team System Web Access through CodePlex as the TSWA Community Translation Project
The great work resulted in 7 new languages that are now available through CodePlex as follows:
Another release is currently in progress that will contain:
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 ...
Sticky Buddy is a Digital Dashboard that will run off Team Foundation Server and allow teams to display information on the status of their development on one or many projects.
The application will consist of a main screen that queries a TFS Server and pulls a list of projects that the user can select for display and within each project it will display the iteration tree.
This tree will be displayed as a set of concentric columns that are populated with "Change Requests" and "Requirements" that are currently within that iteration path.
Each of the Work Items displayed will show limited information about itself, which user it is assigned to, its Area and title. But it will also display the number of sub items within each item. This will give an indication of the length of time necessary to complete all of the sub-work items within that iteration so it can be moved on to the next.
A set of rules will determine the color or icons associated with each item based on their status. These rules may include:
Sticky Buddy is available on CodePlex
The TFS Power Tools October 2008 Release is now available for download on Microsoft Download Center
New in the October Release
Team Members (NEW!)
Windows Shell Extension (NEW!)
PowerShell Support (NEW!)
TFPT (Updated)
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 ...
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:
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR September CTP is now available for download through Microsoft Download Center
In addition to providing support for SQL Server 2008 database projects, this release incorporates many previously released Power Tools as well as several new features.
The new features include distinct Build and Deploy phases, Static Code Analysis and improved integration with SQL CLR projects.
Database Edition no longer requires a Design Database. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to install an instance of SQL Express or SQL Server prior to using Database Edition.
SQL Server Support
SQL Server 2008
SQL Server Configuration Options
Projects
Server Projects
Partial projects
Composite projects
Single sourcing of external artifacts
SQL-CLR references allow the user to create a reference to a SQL-CLR project or SQL-CLR assembly. This automatically becomes an ASSEMBLY type in the Database Project
Build and Deploy
The Build process now produces a separate portable schema output that is fed in to a redistributable deployment engine
A redistributable deployment engine. For example, to implement a setup application that deploys the Database Project.
Refactoring
Preservation of Intent
New Refactoring Operations
Wildcard Expansion
Move Schema
Fully Qualify
Extensibility point which enables the ability to develop and deploy custom refactoring types and targets
Schema Compare
Now supports comparing Projects, Databases or dbschema files in any combination. For example, Project to Project, which has not been possible until now.
Object Type Filtering
Additional ignore filtering options
T-SQL Static Code Analysis
Including the ability to develop and deploy custom rules
Dependency Viewer
View the dependency relationship between objects in your schema
Unit testing
Supports execution with other ADO.NET providers
Data Generation
Design-time enhancements
Runtime enhancements
Extensibility
Data Generators
Statistical Data Distribution
Test Conditions
Static Code Analysis Rules
Refactoring Types
Refactoring Target
