Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Team System

ARCast.TV - Enabling Architects with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Bob Familiar — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:35:00 GMT

In this talk, Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio Team System, and Zhiming Xue discuss the challenges architects often face and how they may benefit from using Visual Studio 2010.

PDC09 Workshop: Developing Quality Software Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010

Robert Hess — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:51:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 recently released a new beta of Visual Studio 2010, which includes a variety of improvements for a broad spectrum of developer needs. For PDC09, Chris Tullier and Todd Girvin will present a day-long workshop which specifically focuses on the use of Visual Studio Team System to manage software development tasks for teams of any size.

Chris Tullier joins me on today’s episode to discuss his upcoming workshop and share some details and insights on how Visual Studio Team System can promote and support better software development practices.

You can find more information about this workshop here:

Developing Quality Software Using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010

as well as more details about Visual Studio 2010 here:

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Glenn Pittaway on SDL

Mike Ormond — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:30:00 GMT

I'm posting this on behalf of Andrew Fryer who usually posts to TechNet but today has something developer focused for us:

"Glenn Pittaway the Group Program Manager for the Secure development Lifecycle (SDL) talks about the past present and future of SDL. The SDL methodology is at the core of all development work that has an internet facing element (i.e. virtually everything!) at Microsoft. You might argue that this gives this gives Microsoft developers an edge over the competition as they can write more secure code more quickly, however these same SDL resources are also publicly available so you can adopt the same approach in your organisation."

10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Brian Keller — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:57:00 GMT

In this episode of 10-4 we look at a new type of test coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010 known as the coded UI test. Coded UI tests can be created to automatically navigate through your application's UI, which in turn can be used to verify that the paths your users might take through your application are working properly. You can also add validation logic along the way to verify the properties of objects within the UI. Much like unit tests can quickly surface regressions on a method or function level, coded UI tests can bring the same level of rapid automated testing capabilities to the UI layer.

This demo is based on an early build of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1.

For some relevant team blogs check out:

Amit Chatterjee's Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee/

Mathew Aniyan's Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/mathew_aniyan/

10-4! Over and out!

geekSpeak recording - What You May Not Know About the Visual Studio Team System 2008 with Mike Vincent

Brian Johnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:40:00 GMT

In this episode of geekSpeak, Mike Vincent shares some perspectives about how the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 is a good investment in these tough economic times. Mike illustrates some of the ways the Visual Studio Team System 2008 can deliver value by getting your whole organization team involved to deliver successful projects. He touches on people, process, process templates, test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, reports, and the value of good application life-cycle management. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar.

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.

Guest Presenter: Mike Vincent, Solutions Architect, MVA Software

Mike Vincent is a solutions architect based in Orange County, California. He provides clients with software architecture, application life-cycle management, and development services that primarily focus on Microsoft .NET technology. Mike has been in the software business for more than 20 years in engineering and marketing management positions. He founded both the Southern California Chapter of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) and the Orange County C# Developers group, and Mike is treasurer of INETA North America (NorAm). You can reach Mike through his blog at http://mvasoftware.com/blogs/mikev_weblog/default.aspx.

Getting started with Pex in Visual Studio 2008

Peli de Halleux — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:38:00 GMT

Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux give a short tutorial on Pex, an automated white box testing tool for .Net. The tutorial is a pair-programming session where they show us how to get started with Pex in Visual Studio, starting from an (untested) piece of C# code:

how to use Pex to explore the behavior of any method in your code,
how to save the exploration results into a unit test suite,
how to improve the generated parameterized unit tests to leverage Pex code exploration engine.

If you want to follow up the steps on your machine as well,

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

Team Foundation Server 2010 Setup and Administration

Brian Keller — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:47:00 GMT

Team Foundation Server 2010 will be getting some major overhauls to the setup and administration experience. In this interview, Ed Holloway, senior program manager for Team Foundation Server, talks about the changes his team is making. By the end of this interview, Ed will have completely deployed a 1-server Team Foundation Server 2010 instance.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

Update: This post was revised on 10/4 at 10:30 p.m. PST to fix a problem with the original video. If you downloaded the video prior to that you should re-download.

A first look at Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2010

Brian Keller — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:46:00 GMT

Visual Studio Team System Web Access has become an increasingly popular way for people to access Team Foundation Server. In this interview we meet Hakan Eskici who demonstrates some of the upcoming features his team is working on for Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2010.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

geekSpeak recording: All About Team Build 2008 with Steven Borg

glengo — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:09:00 GMT

In this episode of geekSpeak, Steven Borg shares the merits of using Team Build 2008 to radically improve the quality of the code you write. Steven gives a great overview of how to set up automated builds and a build server, and the benefits of investing the time to do it right.

Steven also spends a bit of time talking about why he loves Test-Driven Development (TDD) - but pragmatically rather than zealously. Nonetheless, things like work items, build reports, logs and changesets available with Team Foundation Server can help developers zero in on bugs that "break the build". Breaking the build is bad, and we have a good chuckle about some of the stiff "penalties" that various development teams (even some within Microsoft) come up with for that infraction.

Also in this geekSpeak, get the scoop on what's on the horizon for setup and deployment projects, and hear about a great tool called WIX which makes building projects into MSI files super easy. Steven goes so far as to say that WIX actually changed the way he works, listen to him explain why.

Steven also gives tips on how many of you already have access to Team Foundation Server (and therefore, Team Build) and don't even know it. So it's easy to incorporate these tools into your software build process and, through the Continuous Integration they afford, drive up quality and enhance team involvement. As Steven says, it's like "a little bit of magic."

This geekSpeak was hosted by Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar.

About our guest: Steven Borg

Steven Borg, a Northwest Cadence principal and the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) practice lead, works with corporations to improve their automated build process and overall software development process. In addition, Steven assists the Team System community as a Team System Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and was a founding member of the Seattle-based VSTS User Group. Northwest Cadence is a Microsoft Certified Partner and VSTS Inner Circle partner that focuses exclusively on helping companies improve their Application Lifecycle Management using Visual Studio Team System.