Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System [Paperback]

Jean-Luc David (Author), Tony Loton (Author), Erik Gunvaldson (Author), Christopher Bowen (Author), Noah Coad (Author), Darren Jefford (Author)

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Paperback: 744 pages
Publisher: Wrox; 1 edition (May 12 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764584367
ISBN-13: 978-0764584367
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 18.6 x 4.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #529,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A team of Microsoft insiders shows programmers how to use Visual Studio 2005 Team System, the new suite of products from Microsoft that can be used for software modeling, design, testing, and deployment
Focuses on practical application of the tools on code samples, development scenarios, and automation scripting
This timely book serves as both as a step-by-step guide and as a reference for modeling, designing, and coordinating enterprise solutions at every level using Team System
The book begins with an overview of Team System and then offers nuts-and-bolts guidance on practical implementation
Code examples are provided in both VB.NET and C#

From the Back Cover

The launch of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) is the most significant event in the software development lifecycle tools market for many years, and this book supplies the tools you need to take full advantage of it. Comprising three new role-based editions of Visual Studio, a server-side repository for all software development artifacts, a process enactment framework, and numerous integration features, VSTS is set to revolutionize collaborative software development.

What you will learn from this book

How VSTS can enable software architects to visually model your distributed systems and deployment scenarios
Various ways VSTS can help developers to write, validate, refactor, debug, and unit test your code
How testers can use VSTS to manage test cases for unit testing, web testing, load testing, and manual testing
How Domain Specific Language tools allow you to create a custom graphical designer using a domain model
The two flavors of the Microsoft® Solutions Framework and how the associated process guidance is included in the toolset
How software development artifacts and process-specific work items are contained and controlled in the centralized Team Foundation Server

Who this book is for

This book is for intermediate- to advanced-level professionals in the field of commercial or enterprise software development who want to learn about the newest Microsoft tools.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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In May 2005, Microsoft published its Visual Studio 2005 Team System Modeling Strategy at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vstsmodel.asp. Read the first page

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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Deep-dive technical usage on implementing and maximizing VSTS, May 31 2006

By Noah Coad "CTO, LifeNexus" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Paperback)

This is the book for leverage the power of VSTS. It covers setup and install of VSTS, specific Visual Studio tool enhancements, implementing methodology, extensibility, and overall team integration.

Each of the authors are experts in specific technologies/methodologies that VSTS addresses and they take you through the insides of all the major components of VSTS.

- Sam Guckenheimer's book "Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System" is focused on software engineering and project management using VSTS.

- Richard Hundhausen's "Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System" is an introduction to "What is Team System?"

This book is the technical ins and outs of Team System.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Big Book on a Big Software System, July 2 2006

By John Matlock "Gunny" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Paperback)

Big software systems such as an operating system, a database, or an integrated business package have grown where they cannot be the product of a single individual. Hence programming teams have been forced to develop. Teams have been forced to further divide into specialties such as architect, developer and tester. With all this has come the problems associated with integrating the output of the members of the team who may well be geographically dispersed (Did anybody mention India?) and may have communications difficulties.

Microsoft's answer to this is the Visual Studio Team System. It's a quite sophisticated system for the record keeping and organizating of a team programming system. Neither the software nor this book is aimed at the complete beginner who has other problems rather than team efforts.

This is one of Wrox's Programmer to Programmer books. It is written by professionals with a view to its use by other professionals.

The one complaint I have, and it's a complaint about the software, not about the book, is that this software system is very Microsoft dependent. Microsoft wants to supply all the system you have on your computers, so instead of standards like UML, Microsoft has re-invented the wheel to use their own technology.

This is a big book, about a big software package. If Visual Studio Team System is what you have decided (or been told) to use, this book is an excellent place to start.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but lacks integration, April 4 2007

By Thiago V. Temple - Published on Amazon.com

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This is a very good book, and covers a lot of information and has a very easy to understand language.

But it could have a sample project covering all steps from the beggining to the end.

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