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 | Team System Quickstart |  Table of Contents |
- Overview: Visual Studio Team System product (Microsoft)
- Intro: Introduction to Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Microsoft)
- Chart: Feature comparison chart (Microsoft)
- Virtual Lab: What's new in Visual Studio Team System (Microsoft)
- Demo Video: Visual Studio Team System end-to-end (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (10.7MB): Visual Studio Team System (Microsoft)
- FAQ: VSTS Frequently Asked Questions (Microsoft)
- Glossary: Visual Studio Team System Glossary (Microsoft)
- Where peers share know-how and experience: ITKnowledge Exchange (SearchVB.com)
| Team System Downloads | Table of Contents |
- Download: Visual Studio Team System evaluation software (Microsoft)
- Download: Visual Studio Team System installation guide (Microsoft)
- Download: Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development, Beta (Microsoft)
- Download: Distributed System Designer samples (Microsoft)
- Download: Help Integration Wizard Beta (Microsoft)
- Download: Free DVD containing 75+ tool and component trial editions (Microsoft)
| Project Managers | Table of Contents |
- FAQ: Microsoft Solutions Framework for Agile Software Development (Microsoft)
- Forum: Visual Studio Team System General (Microsoft)
- Homepage: Visual Studio Team Edition for Project Managers (Microsoft)
- Article: Office Integration (Microsoft)
- Article: Agile software development for projects large and small (Randy Miller's Blog)
- PowerPoint: Sam Guckenheimer: EuroSP3 & SD Process (Microsoft)
- Webcast: Implementing and customizing MSF 4.0 process guidance (Microsoft)
- Webcast: Managing work with Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Microsoft)
- Webcast: How and why process guidance matters in Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Microsoft)
- Webcast: Project management and reporting in Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Microsoft)
- Article: Software project management (Microsoft)
- Blog: Agile management blog (David Anderson)
- Blog: Agile software development news (Randy Miller)
| Software Architects | Table of Contents |
- FAQ: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects (Microsoft)
- Forum: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects (Microsoft)
- Homepage: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects (Microsoft)
- Article: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects (Matt Publishing)
- Article: Introduction to the Visual Studio 2005 Application Designer, Part 1 (Microsoft)
- Article: Introduction to the Visual Studio 2005 Application Designer, Part 2 (Microsoft)
- Article: Introduction to the Logical Datacenter Designer, Part 1 (Microsoft)
- Article: Introduction to the Logical Datacenter Designer, Part 2 (Microsoft)
- Article: Design and implement systems using SOA (Microsoft)
- Article: Designing distributed systems for deployment (Microsoft)
- Article: Modeling languages for distributed applications (Microsoft)
- Guide: Getting started with Distributed System Designers (Microsoft)
- Guide: Distributed System Designers in team environments (Microsoft)
- Guide: Designing applications with Application Designer (Microsoft)
- Guide: Designing application systems with System Designer (Microsoft)
- Guide: Evaluating system deployment with Deployment Designer (Microsoft)
- Guide: Representing datacenters with Logical Datacenter Designer (Microsoft)
- Guide: Settings and Constraints Editor (Microsoft)
- Guide: Extending Distributed System Designers (Microsoft)
- Blog: Alan Cameron Wills' WebLog (Alan Cameron Wills)
- Blog: Bill Gibson's WebLog (Bill Gibson)
- Blog: Jack Greenfield's Blog (Jack Greenfield)
- Blog: jaredpar's WebLog (Jared Parsons)
- Blog: JeffDW's WebLog (Jeff Welton)
| Software Developers | Table of Contents |
- FAQ: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers (Microsoft)
- FAQ: Microsoft Solutions Framework (Microsoft)
- Forum: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers (Microsoft)
- Forum: Visual Studio Team System Workshop (Microsoft)
- Forum: Domain-Specific Language Tools (Microsoft)
- Forum: Microsoft Solutions Framework - MSF (Microsoft)
- Homepage: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers (Microsoft)
- How to: A collection of over 50 developer how to's for the Team Edition (Microsoft)
- Article: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers (Matt Publishing)
- Article: Make your apps fly with the new enterprise performance tool (Microsoft)
- Article: A developer's introduction to Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Sys-Con)
- Article: Microsoft Solutions Framework (Microsoft)
- Guide: Conducting design and code reviews (Microsoft)
- Guide: Writing secure code (Microsoft)
- Guide: Checking in quality code (Microsoft)
- Guide: Debugging (Microsoft)
- Guide: Using code analysis tools (Microsoft)
- Guide: Detecting and correcting C/C++ code defects (Microsoft)
- Guide: Detecting and correcting managed code defects (Microsoft)
- Guide: Code analysis check-in policies (Microsoft)
- Guide: Working with unit tests (Microsoft)
- Guide: Analyzing application performance (Microsoft)
- Guide: Using the Application Verifier verification tool (Microsoft)
- Class Library: DataCollection (Microsoft)
- Enumerations: MarkOperationResult (Microsoft)
- Enumerations: NameOperationResult (Microsoft)
- Enumerations: ProfileLevel (Microsoft)
- Enumerations: ProfileOperationResult (Microsoft)
- Demo: Try Visual Studio Team System in a hosted environment (Rob Caron's Blog)
- Blog: Eric Jarvi's WebLog (Eric Jarvi)
- Blog: IanWho's bLog (Ian Huff)
- Blog: Under The Hood (Matt Pietrek)
| Software Tester | Table of Contents |
- FAQ: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Tester (Microsoft)
- Forum: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers (Microsoft)
- Homepage: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers (Microsoft)
- Article: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers (Matt Publishing)
- Article: Enabling better software through better testing (Microsoft)
- Guide: Getting started with Team System testing tools (Microsoft)
- Guide: Creating and editing tests (Microsoft)
- Guide: Managing tests (Microsoft)
- Guide: Running tests (Microsoft)
- Guide: Test results and analysis (Microsoft)
- Guide: Working with agents (Microsoft)
- Guide: Working with unit tests (Microsoft)
- Guide: Working with Web tests (Microsoft)
- Guide: Working with load tests (Microsoft)
- Guide: Working with manual tests (Microsoft)
- Guide: Working with generic tests (Microsoft)
- Guide: Working with ordered tests (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.LoadTesting (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.Web (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting.Rules (Microsoft)
- Blog: Team System Quality Tools (Microsoft)
- Blog: Visual Studio Team System - Web and Load Testing (Josh Christie)
| Database Professional | Table of Contents |
- FAQ: Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Tester (Microsoft)
- Forum: Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (Microsoft)
- Homepage: Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (Microsoft)
- Demo: Team Edition for DB Pros (5 min video) (Channel9)
- Screenshots: Image1 | Image2 | Image3
- Article: What Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals can do for you (LOTONtech Limited)
- Article: Visual Studio Team System aims at DB crew (SearchVB.com)
- Article: Visual Studio Team System adds database personality (SearchVB.com)
- Guide: Getting Started with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (Microsoft)
- Guide: Creating and updating version-controlled database schemas (Microsoft)
- Guide: Editing database scripts and objects with the Transact-SQL Editor (Microsoft)
- Guide: Generating data with data generators (Microsoft)
- Guide: Comparing databases (Microsoft)
- Guide: Verifying databases with unit tests (Microsoft)
- Guide: Refactoring databases (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.Common.Exceptions (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.DataGenerator (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.Schema (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.UnitTesting (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.UnitTesting.Conditions (Microsoft)
- Class Library: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.Data.UnitTesting.Configuration (Microsoft)
- Webcast: Overview (Pt 1 of 4)
- Webcast: Managing and Deploying SQL Server 2005 Schemas (Pt 2 of 4)
- Webcast: Database Testing and Refactoring (Pt 3 of 4)
- Webcast: Schema Source and Version Control (Pt 4 of 4)
- Blog: VSTE for DB Pros: The What, The Why, The How (Cameron Skinner)
- Blog: Data Dude (Gert Drapers)
- Blog: VSTE for DB Pros: How? and Why does it do that? (Mairead O'Donovan)
- Blog: Musing on Database Development (Matt Nunn)
- Blog: Mastering DB Development with VSTE for Database Professionals (Sachin Rekhi)
| Team Foundation Server | Table of Contents |
- Common FAQ: Visual Studio Team Foundation (Microsoft)
- Forum: Visual Studio Team Foundation (Microsoft)
- Forum: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Setup & Administration (Microsoft)
- Homepage: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (Microsoft)
- Article: VSTS: Team Foundation Server (Matt Publishing)
- Overview: Team Foundation overview (Microsoft)
- Article: Team Foundation team projects (Microsoft)
- Article: Team Foundation process guidance (Microsoft)
- Guide: Team Foundation work items (Microsoft)
- Guide: Team Foundation source control (Microsoft)
- Guide: Team Foundation servers (Microsoft)
- Guide: Team Foundation security groups (Microsoft)
- Walkthrough: Team project (Microsoft)
- Walkthrough: Team Foundation work item tracking (Microsoft)
- Walkthrough: Team Foundation source control (Microsoft)
- Walkthrough: Team Foundation build (Microsoft)
- Walkthrough: Team Foundation server administration (Microsoft)
- Walkthrough: Team Foundation reporting (Microsoft)
- Guide: Team Foundation for project members (Microsoft)
- Guide: Team Foundation for project leads (Microsoft)
- Guide: Team Foundation for administrators (Microsoft)
- Guide: Troubleshooting Team Foundation issues (Microsoft)
- Blog: Team Foundation's WebLog (Microsoft)
- Blog: I know the answer (its 42) (Abhinaba Basu)
- Blog: Veni, vidi, expertus sum- I came, I saw, I tested (Adam Singer)
- Blog: Anutthara's WebLog (Anutthara Bharadwaj)
- Blog: bharry's WebLog (Brian Harry)
- Blog: Buck Hodges' Weblog (Buck Hodges)
- Blog: Chris Rathjen's Weblog (Chris Rathjen)
- Blog: Ed Hintz Weblog (Ed Hintz)
- Blog: James Manning's Blog (James Manning)
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Brent Sheets is a former Senior Editor at TechTarget and a frequent contributor to SearchVB.com. He founded and managed the popular Visual Basic Web Directory website until it was acquired by TechTarget in 2000 and relaunched as SearchVB.com. Brent offers tips and tweaks about Apple technology at
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This was first published in November 2005