Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System

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(R) 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 experteducation in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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#