In response to this morning's post, I was sent more information. The Team System web site is now active at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/default.aspx
This includes information on the new (codename “Burton”) Source Control System. There is a session on this Thursday here at TechEd.
Steve Ballmer gave his keynote this morning. I was hoping for some “Dance Monkey Boy”-style antics but no luck. He did start chanting “Features, Features, Features, Features...” at one point but his heart didn't seem in it.
They announced the release of WSE 2.0. I haven't really looked at WSE all that much. It is probably time I put it on my list of things to learn.
They announced a beta release of an Office integration framework. It makes for a cool demo, but I can't picture using it in the wild. We'll see.
The announcement that I was most interested in was for the VS.NET 2005 Team System. It looks like a set of great collaboration and SW lifecycle tools built right in to VS.NET. The things I saw that will be cool were: a bug/issue tracking system, better modeling tools, a Unit Test infrastructure that does code coverage analysis (HUGE!), a security hole checker (they showed it identifying a buffer overrun hole that was NOT obvious in the code), and new test tools including load testing.
At last night's BOF meeting, they asked for any comments or recommendations we had for Microsoft. I raised my hand and said “Either improve Visual Source Safe or replace it!“ That drew applause from the whole room. His response was “I'm not allowed to talk about that“ (which translates to “There is going to be an announcement pretty soon about that“) which also drew applause. In the discussion of Team System, he mentioned “enterprise-level source control“, but didn't give any detail. Here's hoping!
I went to Don Box's SOA talk right afterward but it was mostly about the philosophy of SOA. I was hoping for more detail. Oh well. There are lots of SOA talks this week.
Time for lunch!