Visual Studio Team Studio 2005
As other bloggers have already mentioned, Microsoft has just unveiled
announced Visual Studio Team Studio 2005.
This tool is used to help define, build, and test software projects, and all
can be done from within Visual Studio.
The things I thought most useful from this product:
Unit Testing integrated into project, including code coverage of tests
and reporting of results.
Binding of source safe with policy and work Items (e.g., assigning a check-in
to a bug)
FxCop integration with visual studio
I know that most of the stuff can be done today, using 3rd party
software. This product may not be a good thing from the perspective of
these companies, but from the perspective of a developer this is very good for
many reasons:
- Better integration with Visual Studio.
- Better integration with other Microsoft products which are used by many
teams such as: Visual Source Safe and Microsoft Project.
- Creates common working standards.
- Costs lest. Not every company has an open budget for buying developer
tools (Even if they are proved to save time and money).
- Will enable better work practices. e.g., running FxCop and Unit Tests with
every build.
To learn more about Visual Studio Team Studio 2005:
FAQ:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/burtonfaq.aspx
Demo Video's:
http://www.activewin.com/awin/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=24465