If you will be in the Waltham, MA area this Wednesday night (6/9), stop by the Microsoft offices for two Boston .NET User Group presentations.
The first, at 5:00, will be yours truly along with the other group development leaders giving a review of TechEd and an overview of Visual Studio Team System.
The main presentation at 6:30 will be from Jeffrey McManus of eBay. Jeffrey will speak about web services at eBay, their origins, supporting technologies and their use by affiliate companies.
It should be a great evening of content and discussion!
-Chris
UPDATE 6/9/2004 - Corrected start time of first session.
A common reaction to hearing about the functionality coming with Visual Studio 2005 and the Team System additions is to point out that much of the functionality already exists today in many open-source, third-party and even Microsoft products.*
So this weekend, I wanted to quantify exactly how many of the tools that we use today at Monster will be affected by the adoption of VSTS. That done, curiosity got the best of me and I decided to expand the list to include any tool that will be affected in some manner by the VS2k5/TS launch - whether they are swallowed entirely, have some overlapping functionality or will be integrated through the Visual Studio Integration Partner (VSIP) program.
Please let me know which tools are missing (I know there are many) and I'll keep this list updated.
-Chris
* While much of the functionality in VSTS can be found elsewhere today, a primary benefit VSTS brings is one-stop shopping for that functionality and very good integration between each. It is also important to remember that existing third-party tools will be able to integrate through the VSIP program, so we can continue to leverage these tools while enjoying VSTS integration going forward.
Tools Affected by Visual Studio 2005 Core Features
Code Editing & Refactoring
XML/XSL Development
ASP.NET Development
Tools Affected by Visual Studio Team System
Test-Driven Development & Code Coverage
Profiling & Load Testing
Build Tools
RAD, Modeling, Management
Source Control & Change Management