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Erfahren Sie das Neueste zu Team System 2010 an der TeamConf 08 in Zürich

Nicolas Mueggler — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:39:43 +0000

An der Microsoft PDC (Professional Developer Conference) von letzter Woche in Los Angeles wurden viele neue Produkte und Technologien angekündigt, darunter sind Windows Azure, Windows 7, .NET Framework 4.0, Oslo und Visual Studio Team System 2010!

Wer es nicht an die PDC geschafft hat, aber sich trotzdem die neuesten Bits vom neuen Team System 2010 (ehemals Rosario) anschauen möchte, der sollte an die TeamConf nach Zürich kommen.

Die TeamConf findet dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal statt und zwar vom 1. – 3. Dezember im Renaissance Hotel in Zürich. Ziel der Konferenz ist es, den Teilnehmern eine breite Kommunikationsplattform rund um das Thema Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) und Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) zu bieten.

In meinem Vortrag werde ich Ihnen die Neuerungen rund um Team System 2010 aufzeigen. Wir werden mit den Aufgaben des Architekten beginnen, indem ich die neuen UML Modellierungs-Möglichkeiten aufzeige, werden weiter zur Entwicklung gehen und schliesslich beim Testing abschliessen.

Am zweiten Vortrag der Trivadis wird Patrick Spieler und Ronny Gächter Ihnen anhand eines unserer realen Kundenprojekte, die agile Software Entwicklung mit Team System vorstellen.

Bei BixiSystems (ein Unternehmen der Securitas-Gruppe) zeigen wir, wie der Software-Entwicklungsprozess auf Basis agiler Prinzipien eingeführt und umgesetzt wird. Wir erläutern, wie durch Neuorganisation der Prozesse und Aufgaben sowie durch die vielseitige Unterstützung von VSTS die zahlreichen Informationen zentral bewirtschaftet und genutzt werden. Dabei steht die nutzenoptimiert Entwicklung der Software unter Berücksichtigung von Kosten und Zeit stets im Mittelpunkt.

Weiter Infos zum Event und Anmeldungen finden Sie unter: http://www.teamconf.ch

Ich freue mich Sie dort zu treffen!

Help on installing Team System SP1

Nicolas Mueggler — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:23:01 +0000

Being the first is not always the best, especially if you want to be the first on a new software release . So if you already want to install the Service Pack 1 for your Team System environment, I want to give you some hints to not getting troubles.

Before installing SP1 make sure you run the Hotfix Cleanup Utility for Visual Studio to cleanup your current installation
If you have Express Edition and normal Visual Studio installed, you can’t update Express before upgrading normal Visual Studio
When upgrading your TFS with an installation of Visual Studio make sure that you first install SP for Visual Studio and then the one for TFS. If you first install TFS SP1, then you can’t update Visual Studio anymore…
Update all your tiers with SP1 (this includes Build Server, Load Controller, TFS and Client) to avoid unpredictable errors
If you working with ASP.NET Ajax you should wait to upgrade, because there could be a bug in the SP. This was reported by Thomas Schissler in his blog post (German).
If you make a new installation of TFS and want to include installing SP1, then look for the updated TFS Installation Guide to integrate SP1 in the installation (there is currently no TFS2008 ISO incl. SP1).
Look for the Readme listing the known issues

As good practice I advice my customers (Production environments) to wait for the next 2 weeks to make sure no big problems will be found.

TFS Source Control integration in Explorer

Nicolas Mueggler — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:07:25 +0000

Do you want to checkin your files from the Windows Explorer (Shell Integration) like with Subversion add-ins?

Some people don’t want or need a Visual Studio Team Explorer, because they are none Microsoft-based developers like Oracle DBA’s. But you want to use Team Foundation Server as your source control repository by default, because you like the integration of work items or the main development of your project is in .NET.

Unfortunately, this is by default not available from TFS. But there are two tools around which are closing this gap!

LizardTF which is open source
Dubblebock TFS from Benjamin Day Consulting for about $25 per user

I hope Microsoft will implement this in a future release by it’s own. But there’s now no excuse anymore to say you need a Subversion repository because of the shell integration.

Licensing needs for Team Build Server

Nicolas Mueggler — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:56:36 +0000

I decided to write a short post about licensing of Team Build Server environments because I was asked several times in the past. There’s a good chapter in the Team System Licensing Guide which explains it in detail.

If you want to run Static Code Analysis or automated Tests you need to install Visual Studio Team System on the build server. For this Team System installation you don’t need any additional licenses as far as your developers have an appropriate license to do the specific task (extract from Licensing Guide):

Team Member Actions	Licensing Implications
Developer checks-in source code.	Team Foundation Sever CAL required.
Developer defines a team build type to include any of: - Unit Testing - Code Coverage - Code Analysis	Team Edition for Developers or Team Suite is required.
Tester defines a team build type to include any of: - Generic Testing - Web Testing - Load Testing - Manual Testing	Team Edition for Testers or Team Suite is required.
Team member initiates a build.	Team Foundation Sever CAL required.

Conclusion:
If you (=developer) only have a Developer Edition installed and queue a new Team Build, you don’t need any additional licenses. Only if you want to modify or create such a build definition.

The build server do not need any licenses (included in Team Foundation License), only the developers who working on it!