Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Enterprise Class Source Control

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Visual Studio 2005 Team SystemEnterprise Class
Source Control Work Item Tracking

• Brian A White
• Microsoft
• brianwh_at_microsoft.com
• http//blogs.msdn.com/brianwh/

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Visual Studio Team System
Visual StudioTeam Architect
Visual StudioTeam Developer
Visual StudioTeam Test
Visual StudioTeam Foundation
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Guiding Principles
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What is VS Team Foundation?
Integrated Platform for Collaborating on Software
Development Projects.
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What is VS Team Foundation?
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What about all the lists I manage?
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Customized to Your ProcessWork Item Types

• Every organization works differently
• You must be able to customize
• Each type consist of
• Fields, form, rules, states
• Build on standard methodologies
• MSF Agile
• MSF Formal

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Tightly IntegratedWork Item Tracking

• Version Control check-in links
• MS Project and Excel integrations
• Found In/Fixed In Build Integration
• Testing Integration
• Shared Infrastructure
• Reporting
• Authorization and Security
• Project and Iteration Hierarchies
• Email alerts

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Work Item Tracking
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What is VS Team Foundation?
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Team Foundation Version Control

• Full featured software configuration management
  tool
• Advanced SCM capabilities
• Focus on key development scenarios
• Deeply integrated

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Developer Checkin

• All checkin activities in a single UI
• Validate and commit source changes
• Resolve work items
• Send e-mail
• Changes encapsulated as a changeset
• Applied atomically to the repository
• Convenient for managing change

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Checkin - Under the Hood
Visual Studio
WorkItem 33231
Work Item Tracking
Workspace
Change Set 727012
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Change Set 727012
Change Set 727012
Change Set 727011
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Version Control
Integration Infrastructure
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Integrated Version Control Work Item Tracking
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Parallel Development

• Path-space branching
• Powerful merging
• Merge file adds, deletes, renames, etc.
• Computes changes that need merging
• Can cherry-pick individual changes

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Innovative Shelving

• Capture changes without a checkin
• Optionally restore unmodified files
• Scenarios
• Interrupted work
• Backup/checkpoint work-in-progress
• Transfer changes
• Code review or buddy test

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What is VS Team Foundation?
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Build AutomationOut-of-the-box daily build

• Good build process is hard to achieve
• Many shops dont even bother
• Goal make it trivial
• Builds are reproducible
• VS Projects are built directly
• Builds are scheduled or on-demand
• Build report is centrally published
• Goal tight integration with VS Team System tools

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Build Automation Steps
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What is VS Team Foundation?
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Project Site

• Facilitates team communication
• Specs, discussions, announcements, lists
• Work items, reports, public builds
• Lightweight access for casual stakeholders
• Built on Windows Sharepoint Services

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What is VS Team Foundation?
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Reporting

• Provides system-wide data view
• Ships with many beneficial reports
• 50 reports in the box
• You can customize or add more
• Built on SQL Server Reporting Services

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Reporting
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What is VS Team Foundation?
Integrated Platform for Collaborating on Software
Development Projects.
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For More Information

• Visual Studio Team System Site
• http//www.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem
• Version Control Blogs
• http//blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/
• http//blogs.msdn.com/buckh/
• http//blogs.msdn.com/bharry/
• Work Item Tracking Blogs
• http//blogs.msdn.com/brianwh/
• http//blogs.msdn.com/kkellyatms/