VSTS

Is your source control branching out of control? How much time have you wasted trying to discover which branches your code changes have been merged into? What are the code-level differences between your main, test, and production branches? Branch visualizations to the rescue!Matthew Mitrik,…

Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager, gives us an overview of the new architecture tools coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Cameron tells us what types of designers his team is building, about the decision to support UML, and how this relates to "Oslo" and their modeling…

Part II of "Late Night with the Burton Team" takes you further into the new world of Visual Studio Team System. If you missed it, Part I is here. (The clip here is the second 30-minute segment out of a two-hour session filmed late at night a few weeks ago -- the rest of the session…

Brian Harry, technical fellow at Microsoft, has pretty much become synonymous with Team Foundation Server. He not only leads the Team Foundation Server team in Raleigh, North Carolina, he also has the most widelyread blog about what's going on with Team Foundation Server. But…

A single Team Foundation Server 2008 instance can support thousands of developers working on hundreds of projects. But what if you need even more than that? How do you drive increased uptime and availability of your server to keep your developers productive? Team Foundation Server can already…

"Top-down" design is an approach that the Visual Studio Architect team is enabling with their upcoming release, Visual Studio Team System 2010. In this "humanized screencast" we asked Mark Groves, senior program manager, to show us a demonstration of the new UML designers…

In January Ali posted a preview of the Distributed System Designers to his blog. The screenshots he posted are cool, but we figured it would be better if we went over for a live demo.  We split this video up into three parts. In part 1 Ali demo's the Application designer.  This part is…

Suhail Dutta, a program manager on the Visual Studio Team System Architect team, gives us a demonstration of the "bottom-up" design approach which will be possible with the Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architect product.With "bottom-up" design, you can quickly reverse…

I found Ian, a Developer on our Performance tools, because of his blog. He has been writing a great series of posts that preview the Performance Profiling tools you'll find in Beta 2 of VSTS.  Pictures are great, but I asked him if he'd also like to do a demo.  Part 1…

Unlike the other videos in today's series this one doesn't focus specifically on Team Foundation Server 2010. But since I was "in the neighborhood" I dropped by Doug Neumann's office to catch up on the latest tools and samples available for people wishing to migrate to or…