Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Programmer to...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 744 pages
• Published by: Wrox May 30, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764584367
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764584367
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Weighs: 2.4 pounds

Product Description

• A team of Microsoft insiders shows programmers how to use Visual Studio 2005 Team System, the new suite of products from Microsoft that can be used for software modeling, design, testing, and deployment
• Focuses on practical application of the tools on code samples, development scenarios, and automation scripting
• This timely book serves as both as a step-by-step guide and as a reference for modeling, designing, and coordinating enterprise solutions at every level using Team System
• The book begins with an overview of Team System and then offers nuts-and-bolts guidance on practical implementation
• Code examples are provided in both VB.NET and C#

Back Cover Copy
The launch of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) is the most significant event in the software development lifecycle tools market for many years, and this book supplies the tools you need to take full advantage of it. Comprising three new role-based editions of Visual Studio, a server-side repository for all software development artifacts, a process enactment framework, and numerous integration features, VSTS is set to revolutionize collaborative software development.

What you will learn from this book

• How VSTS can enable software architects to visually model your distributed systems and deployment scenarios
• Various ways VSTS can help developers to write, validate, refactor, debug, and unit test your code
• How testers can use VSTS to manage test cases for unit testing, web testing, load testing, and manual testing
• How Domain Specific Language tools allow you to create a custom graphical designer using a domain model
• The two flavors of the Microsoft® Solutions Framework and how the associated process guidance is included in the toolset
• How software development artifacts and process-specific work items are contained and controlled in the centralized Team Foundation Server

Who this book is for

This book is for intermediate- to advanced-level professionals in the field of commercial or enterprise software development who want to learn about the newest Microsoft tools.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world requirements of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Reader Reviews
This is the book for leverage the power of VSTS. It covers setup and install of VSTS, specific Visual Studio tool enhancements, implementing methodology, extensibility, and overall team integration. Each of the authors are experts in specific technologies/methodologies that VSTS addresses and they take you through the insides of all the major components of VSTS. - Sam Guckenheimer's book "Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System" is focused on software engineering and project management using VSTS. - Richard Hundhausen's "Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System" is an introduction to "What is Team System?" This book is the technical ins and outs of Team System. Comment | | (Report this)