Ahmed Salijee

A little bit on Rosario/TFS

I had a session with a customer where they wanted to know a bit on what is coming in Rosario and 1 or 2 questions on TFS08. I compiled this list of links and thought it might be useful to share. Rosario is the next major version of Visual Studio Team System.

General info on Nov Rosario CTP

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/11/28/november-rosario-ctp-is-available.aspx

Main Rosario Site

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb725993.aspx

Rosario Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4aeb24f8-e699-4091-91a2-446d75b71cbf&DisplayLang=en

Rosario Whitepaper

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0ADE6C5D-BE17-4168-B57B-4C2FA36EAD3E&displaylang=en

Rosario Specs

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb936702.aspx

Hierarchical Work Items in Rosario

http://elegantcode.com/2007/12/12/hierarchical-work-items-in-rosario/

http://reddevnews.com/news/devnews/article.aspx?editorialsid=790

http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/mickey_gousset/archive/2007/11/05/2105.aspx

http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/mickey_gousset/archive/2007/11/07/2114.aspx

http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/mickey_gousset/archive/2007/11/12/2135.aspx

Branching/Merging Visualization Enhancements. Also History improvements

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/01/16/new-features-to-understand-branching-merging.aspx

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7807943

Manual tests and test case management in Rosario

http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara/archive/2007/08/09/what-s-new-in-rosario-for-vstt-manual-test-runner.aspx

http://ozgrant.com/category/tfs-rosario/

http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara/archive/2007/12/05/your-developer-can-never-say-no-repro-to-your-bug-ever-again.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2007/08/17/august-2007-ctp-tcm-test-cases.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2007/11/29/microsoft-visual-studio-team-system-code-name-rosario-november-2007-ctp-team-test.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara/archive/2007/08/06/what-s-new-in-rosario-for-vstt-test-case-management.aspx

Architect features - Sequence and other designers

http://www.clemensreijnen.nl/post/2007/11/Rosario-Team-Architect-CTP10-Preview.aspx

http://www.clemensreijnen.nl/post/2007/11/The-Three-Most-Interesting-Features-in-Team-Architect-quot%3bRosarioquot%3b.aspx

http://www.paraesthesia.com/archive/2007/11/07/microsoft-patterns--practices-summit-2007---day-3.aspx  (see section on model based design)

http://geekswithblogs.net/stevesblog/archive/2007/12/11/117580.aspx 

Can I index and search my code in TFS today

Nothing built in but check out the products from 

Krugle - http://www.krugle.com

Koders - http://www.koders.com/corp/products/pro/microsoft-net/ 

How do I upgrade from TFS05 to TFS08 (and upgrading WSS)

http://olausson.net/blog/CommentView,guid,6f97b619-a5ac-41af-a908-f099d49a3b16.aspx  (nice post)

http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2007/05/31/upgrade-2005-with-wss2-0-to-orcas-wss3-0.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb909691.aspx

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/dd03cc53-718c-4183-af99-a5f309010fe61033.mspx?mfr=true

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2687705&SiteID=1

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/01/15/how-to-i-upgrade-to-a-proper-version-of-tfs-2008.aspx

Finally be sure to check out relevant VSTS/TFS forums (lots of good stuff here)

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=463&SiteID=1

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=5&SiteID=1

.NET 3.5 Client Roadmap

If you are doing any Winforms or WPF development, then you definitely want to read Scott Guthrie's post on the .NET 3.5 Client Roadmap. Some exiting stuff including a smaller and faster setup + new WPF controls like a ribbon and datagrid.

TechReady

Last week I attended TechReady, which can be best described as an internal version of TechED. The most interesting bits was the time spent the top techies. This included Q&A time with Scott Guthrie and Anders Hejlsberg. I also attended a session on IronRuby by John Lam and a session on troubleshooting by Mark Russinovich (guy who help create Sysinternals).  There was also a session by Brian Harry on the Team System roadmap. Other than that, I attended quite a few sessions on Rosario. We also had a keynote by Bill Gates.

Anders mentioned 3 important things. The first being multicore and how having mainstream multiproc machines will have a big impact on programming languages. He also discussed a bit on the impact of dynamic languages and finally a bit on declarative languages. The overall key point was really about the increasing levels of abstraction which then allows the compiler and framework to do some interesting stuff.

Scott covered some of the roadmap for Web and RIA as well as some of the plans for MIX. I guess you will need to wait for MIX for some of this info.