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It is clear that Visual Studio Team System is the future of development from Microsoft's perspective. We agree. Development is no longer a personal pursuit by one developer in a darkened room; it is a collective effort by a team of peers. VSTS supports this broader vision by providing a complete collaboration platform for the entire project team. VSTS takes a services-oriented approach leveraging Windows Sharepoint Services and SQL Server Business Intelligence Suite. Additionally, VSTS brings the lifecycle to life by making it part of the integrated suite.

This book will guide you through the entire breadth of VSTS. If you are a stakeholder, you have a portal that gives you instant access to project documents, status, and performance indicators. If you are primarily a project manager, you will learn how create, manage, and assess the team performance. As VSTS is integrated with MS Office, you can quickly assign tasks and gather work status. With reporting from the data warehouse you get real-time view of all project metrics. If you are a developer, you will learn how to write higher-quality code, ensure that the code works, and that it performs well.

For those seeking to use test-driven development, VSTS is the tool for you. If you're an architect, there is a new set of domain-specific modeling tools that makes it easy to visualize systems, determine application relationships, and deploy into a logical datacenter. For testers, Microsoft's new suite of test tools provides a powerful web testing environment with virtually unlimited extensibility. In addition, the new load tools allow you to perform world-class scalability testing.

Even if you are just considering adopting VSTS, you will be provided with a comprehensive overview. Further, you will be able to deep-dive into any area with detailed descriptions, samples and walk-throughs. Roll up your sleeves and get ready for a new way of developing solutions!

About the Author

Jeff Levinson is a Solution Design and Integration Architect for The Boeing Company. He is the author of Building Client/Server Applications with VB .NET: An Example-Driven Approach (Apress 2003) and has written several articles for Visual Studio Magazine. He speaks at various Microsoft user groups and was a speaker at Microsoft’s DevDays 2004. Jeff holds the following certifications: MCSD, MCAD, MCSD.NET, MCDBA, SCJP, and Security+. He is currently finishing his Masters in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He and his wife Tami live in Redmond, Washington. He enjoys golfing, reading, running, and spending time with his wife.

David Nelson is an Enterprise Solutions Architect and Associate Technical Fellow for The Boeing Company, where he has been employed for 20 years. His tenure at Boeing has allowed him to become expert at various technologies, including database solutions, grid computing, service orientation, and most recently, Visual Studio Team System. David is currently responsible for architecture and design of computing solutions across Boeing, with primary focus on the application of emergent technologies. He has taught Windows Server System (SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and Windows Server) classes, and is regularly invited to present at national industry conferences. David resides in the state of Washington with his wife and five children, where he enjoys riding horses and motorcycles. He is building a tree fort with his sons, planting a garden with his daughters, and restoring a horse trailer for his wife.

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Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (May 8, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590594606
ISBN-13: 978-1590594605
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.3 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars I have to disagree, October 6, 2006

By	Jeff Levinson (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Normally as an author I wouldn't bother with a reply to this but considering "neo" wrote such an inaccurate and short review I decided to chime in.

The book does contain walkthroughs and screenshots because it is a new product and no one had used it before - it can be used by the novice to get up to speed quickly.

Having said that it also includes numerous undocumented features and details on certain areas of extensibility that are not even supported at this point (but will be at a later point in time). It also contains information on the future direction of VSTS and the reasons that certain aspects of Team System were created.

While I'm disappointed that "neo" found the book as not quite helpful, I would be interested in addressing those issues next release. You can contact me via Apress.

Jeff Levinson

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book on TFS and VSTS !, June 30, 2006

By	Michael A. Kaminchak "Developer at a Major Bank" (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There is very little WRITTEN documentation on Team Foundation Server. This book tells you how to set it up and how it works in relation so Visual Studio Team System. This is the best doc I've seen out there. A must buy !

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to VSTS!, January 22, 2007

By	J. Fernando Cardenas "Software Architect" (Boulder, CO USA) - See all my reviews

Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) was Microsoft's foray into the collaborative development and software development life-cycle (SDLC) space. As such, VSTS is a platform for companies with large development teams (at least ten developers, but it can be used for smaller teams) to communicate with each other. At its core, VSTS helps teams (project managers, stakeholders, directors, architects, developers, database administrators, and testers) manage and customize the SDLC on an individual project basis.

Levinson and Nelson do a good job covering the different aspects (and there are many!) of VSTS is good detail and provide a great deal more information than the basic Microsoft documentation (of which I have read hundreds of (useless) pages). This edition of the book covers the four main areas of VSTS: Team Foundation Server, Team Edition for Software Architects, Team Edition for Software Developers, and Team Edition for Testers. As of the publication date (2006), the Team Edition for Database Professionals had not been released, so this edition obviously does not cover this latest addition from Microsoft. Tons of details and examples are provided for each of the functionalities in each of the four areas. This book is really meant for beginners and intermediate users who want to understand how to set up and use VSTS, and is not really focused on best practices of how to design and build software (many other tomes are focused on this difficult topic). It will help you customize the different parts of VSTS to your liking and is quite helpful in explaining the implications of the hundreds of different options in VSTS on your SDLC.

Since VSTS is a new product from Microsoft, this book assumes you know very little about VSTS and very little about the different roles in the SDLC as it applies to the different VSTS product lines for architects, developers, and testers. As such, it explains everything to you in a clear top-down approach and then focuses on the details that you will need to use VSTS in the most effective manner. There are many useful reference tables for many of the settings and code samples when appropriate. Overall this book is great for beginners and intermediate users since it will help you get up to speed rather quickly on two flavors of the most widely used programming methodology types (Agile and CMMI).

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