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