What “main” features are coming to us with Orcas?
We are continuously being asked what Orcas has in store for the solution teams, the architect, the developer and the tester.
Thanks to Brian Harry we have managed to gather some of the interesting nuggets of Orcas relevant to our current environments, which are summarised herein:
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Area |
Feature |
Operations |
SDLC |
Architect |
Developer |
Tester |
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X |
TFS |
· Support for Web Application Projects |
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X |
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X |
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· Support for Share Point 2007 |
X |
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· Support for a separate Share Point Farm |
X |
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· Support for SQL Named Instances |
X |
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· Synchronisation for Large Groups (30,000 or more) |
X |
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· Support for an installation of TFS on domain controller |
X |
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· Support for non-default ports & web sites |
X |
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· Support for client certificates |
X |
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· Simplified installation and upgrade from TFS 2005 |
X |
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X |
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· Multi-threaded builds |
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X |
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X |
X |
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X |
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· Continuous integration |
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X |
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X |
X |
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· Improved management of multiple build servers |
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X |
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X |
X |
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X |
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· Management of builds (stop, delete) |
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X |
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X |
X |
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· Improved extensibility of build targets |
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X |
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X |
X |
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X |
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· Migration toolkit |
X |
X |
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X |
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· Annotation (see TFS Annotate Power Tool) |
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X |
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X |
X |
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· Folder Diff (see TFS Tree Power Tool) |
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X |
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X |
X |
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· Permanent deletion of version control files/folders |
X |
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X |
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· Ability to check out the latest version of files |
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X |
X |
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· Performance improvements in TFVC |
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X |
C# |
· Mapping format, using DLinq t access relational data as objects. |
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X |
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X |
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· XLinq (LINQ to XML) … query extensions specific o XML. |
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X |
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X |
C++ |
· STL/CLR Library |
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X |
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· Large set of bug fixes in terms of Friend Templates. |
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X |
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