I am no PR guy but ...
I came across this post first on the weblogs.asp.net site and then saw it mentioned in Trumpi's blog post . I tried to comment in on Trumpi's post - both yesterday and today from 2 different machines - but no luck hence this post.
If you did read the post I would recommend going back to the original post from Scott and noting the comments from Scott Guthrie and others. The Boo page was last updated in 2005 and as this post (Jan 06) indicates it is fine to release extensions to Visual Studio under open source licenses.
We had a session with a customer last week who was asking about our support for multiple versions of the framework in Visual Studio. Some comments from that session
- Visual Studio 2008 (aka Orcas) has a feature called multitargeting that allows you to target v2.0.v3.0 and v3.5 of the framework. Technically this is all really possible since the core CLR has not really changed. In v3.5 the revision number of the CLR has changed but the major and minor bits have not. So while we are targeting multiple versions of the framework we are not targeting multiple versions of the CLR
- For a good explanation on why VS only targets one version of the CLR check out this blog post by John Rivard
- The good news and something that has not really got that much attention. According to this blog post by Jason Zander side by side in process support for multiple versions of the CLR starts with Silverlight.This is a biggie!
- Right now I have no idea if releases of VS post VS08 will support multitargeting but it is good to know that one of the core limitations (i.e issue raised in 3) is being addressed.
Someone asked this me this question at Devdays and I had no idea. As luck would have it as I was doing some browsing yesterday I came across the "Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth Technology" which has exactly what this developer wanted. Hopefully he reads this blog :-)
eScrum is an end-to-end Project management tool for Scrum. It is a web based tool built on the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) platform. Its components include a web interface,and a TFS Process template.
History
eScrum was developed for internal use at Microsoft but due to many requests internally to make it available to customers (from consultants and the field) we have decided to make this available to customers
Features
o Multiple ways to interact with your Scrum project, with integrity of data:
o eScrum web-based UI
o TFS Team Explorer
o Excel, via TFS integration
o MS Project, via TFS integration
o Intuitive and rich web interface built using ASP.NET Ajax.
o One-stop place for all Scrum artifacts such as product backlog, sprint backlog, task management, retrospective, and reports.
o Context-sensitive help across all pages
o Multiple products and multiple sprints per project
o Categorization of product backlog items and tasks using a customized list of values per project
o Prioritization, sorting, filtering, and sequencing of product backlog items and tasks
o Hierarchically organized product backlog items and its tasks with rollup totals.
o Rich Reporting
o Sprint totals
o Sprint metrics
o Sprint burndown
o Sprint cumulative flow
o Product summary
o Export any report to Excel, pdf, xml, or csv formats
o Custom reports can be built using SQL Reporting services integrated with TFS Team Explorer
I mentioned some of the VSTS Guidance docs to a customer and he wanted me to email them. I thought this might be useful to others as well.
Guidance on TFS. Note that some of these are in beta
1) Patterns & practices Team Development with TFS Guide - http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide/
2) General VSTS Guidance site - http://www.codeplex.com/VSTSGuidance
3) VSTS Branching Guidance - http://www.codeplex.com/BranchingGuidance
4) Performance Testing Guidance - http://www.codeplex.com/PerfTesting
5) Guidance on structuring Team Projects - http://www.codeplex.com/BranchingGuidance/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Guidance%20for%20Structuring%20Team%20Projects
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