“NTeam” Open Source Project Based on Team System
E-Week has coverage of the fledgling effort, called NTeam, just getting underway to create an open-source counterpart to Visual Studio Team System. They seek to integrate existing open-source solutions (e.g. NUnit, NAnt, etc.) to enable smaller development organizations to achieve a degree of VSTS-like functionality without a VSTS-like price.
Here is the project home page.
It will be interesting to see if the initial fuel of interest is enough to propel this effort through the many issues that will undoubtedly be faced trying to integrate disparate technologies in a workable (and pluggable) solution. While they mention they aren't trying to directly compete with VSTS, even trying to emulate the features and integration of VSTS is a tall order.
Whidbey/VSTS Newsgroups Moved to MSDN Forums
As reported by Rob Caron, The microsoft.private.whidbey.* groups have now been replaced with new groups in the MSDN Forums.
Command-Line Code Coverage with VSTS
John Cunningham has a great post on how to perform code coverage using the command-line tools in Team System. It is based on Beta 2 APIs, but you'll have it very soon, right? ;)
Class Designer Channel 9 Videos
While Visual Studio 2005's Class Designer isn't technically part of Team System, it can be considered an “honorary“ part of Team System Architect and Developer editions. There is a three-part series of short videos with John Stallo demonstrating the Class Designer over at Channel 9:
“.NET Rocks!” on Team System at TechEd
Carl and Richard will be recording a .NET Rocks show at TechEd during a lunch break. The guests will be members of the Team System development team, including Eric Lee, Michael Leworthy, Ajay Sudan and Beindia Hallauer.
I'll see you there, Carl!
-Chris