Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)

The Visual Studio Team System (short: VSTS; Code Name "Burton") is the new set of life-cycle tools which will include the following (depending on the edition):

• PreFast and FxCop help developers detect coding and security related issues earlier in the development cycle thereby reducing the overall cost of fixing code defects.
• Unit tests
• Performance analysis tools
• Distributed System Designers that help reduce the complexity of developing and deploying service-oriented applications
• Integrated source control, work item tracking, reporting, and custom policies that enable your team to efficiently manage change in your software development projects

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See also my my new, dedicated VSTS blog for more information.

Contents of this page

General

• Announcements

Resources

• Team System Overview
• Team System for Architects
• Team System for Developers
• Team System for Testers
• Team System for Project Managers
• Team Development with Team System
• Team System Community & Blogs

Topics

• Customization
• Migration

Reference

• Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles

Announcements

• VSTS Licensing, March 2005 
• Visual Studio 2005 pricing and SKU plan announced, March 2005 
• Announcing Visual Studio 2005 Team System
• Microsoft's New Source Code Control Application
• Visual Studio Team System
• Microsoft to Deliver Visual Studio Team Tools, eWeek, May 2004

Team System Overview

• Team Up: Get All Your Devs In A Row With Visual Studio 2005 Team System, MSDN Magazine, Visual Studio 2005 Guided Tour
• Lap Around Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2005, September 2005
• Team Up! Get All Your Devs in a Row with Visual Studio 2005 Team System, MSDN Magazine, April 2005
• Team System Developer Center
• FAQ: Visual Studio 2005 Team System
• Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Overview
• Team System Whitepapers
• Extending the Suite
• Screenshots in Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap
• [Video] VSTS TechEd 2004 General Session Demo
• [Video] MSDN TV: Introduction to Visual Studio 2005 Team System
• [Video] Team Foundation: Source Code Control and Item Tracking Demo

Team System for Architects

• Service Station The Application Connection Designer, MSDN Magazine, August 2005
• Introduction to the Visual Studio 2005 System Designer, March 2005
• Distributed System Designer Walkthroughs  
• FAQ: Visual Studio 2005 Team Architect Edition
• Designing Distributed Systems for Deployment
• Modeling Languages for Distributed Applications
• [Video] Team Architect Edition Demo

Team System for Developers

• Strengthening Visual Studio Unit Tests, MSDN Magazine, March 2006
• Write Unit Tests With VSTS, Visual Studio Magazine, January 2006
• Unit Testing and Generating Source Code for Unit Test Frameworks, September 2005
• Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Web Testing, September 2005
• Off Road Profiling of ASP.NET Applications , October 2005
• Designing an API with the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer, March 2005
• Building Robust and Reliable Software
• Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer
• [Video] Team Developer Edition Demo

Team System for Testers

• Using Visual Studio 2005 to Perform Load Testing on a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Report Server, September 2005  new!
• Monitoring and Analyzing a Load Test Result, September 2006  new!
• Test Driven Development with Visual Studio 2005 Team System, March 2006
• Implementing Sync Points in Visual Studio Team System Load Tests, March 2006
• Load Agent Install Guide, March 2006
• Unit Testing and Generating Source Code for Unit Test Frameworks, September 2005
• Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Web Testing, September 2005
• A Unit Testing Walkthrough with Visual Studio Team Test, March 2005
• Enabling Better Software Through Better Testing
• [Video] Team Tester Edition Demo

Team System for Project Managers

• Office integration
• Software Project Management
• [Video] Team Project Manager Edition Demo
• [Newsgroup] microsoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.projectmanager
• [Third-Party Product] Teamlook (Outlook-Integration)

Team Development with Team System

• Extend Team Foundation Server To Enable Continuous Integration, MSDN Magazine, March 2006
• Continuous Integration Using Team Foundation Build, January 2006
• Work Item Tracking in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System, September 2005
• Using Source Code Control in Team Foundation, September 2005
• Choosing Between Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, September 2005
• Enterprise Source Control with Visual Studio Team System
• Enterprise-Class Source Control and Work Item Tracking
• Microsoft Solutions Framework
• [Video] Team Development Edition Demo
• [Download] Team Build Samples (e.g. Continous Integration)

Team System Community & Blogs

• Microsoft Technical Forums » Visual Studio Team System
• Team System Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton/
• Team Foundation's WebLog: http://blogs.msdn.com/team%5Ffoundation/
• Source Control Blogs: Korby Parnell and Buck Hodges
• Work Item Management Blog: Brian White
• Team System Blog: Rob Caron
• Build Process: vincem's WebLog [thanks to Pat]

Customization

• [Tip] How to add the Team Foundation assemblies to the .NET tab in the VS Add Reference dialog
• [Tip] Extending the team build web-view with a list of builds
• [Tip] How to receive email on a Team Foundation check in policy violation?
• [Download] Visual Studio SDK (VSIP-Registration required)
• [Download] Visual Studio Team System Customization Toolkit: Process Template Editor
• [Download] Team Foundation Server Work Item Utility
• [Download] MSFWinBuild (for compiling MSF process guidance from xml to html)
• [Download] BSDAgile Methodology Template
• [Download] VSTS Work Item Type Designer

Migration

• [Download] Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider
• [Download] NUnit Converter
• [Third-Party Product] CS-Converter (migrate source code from RCS, CVS, Subversion, Visual Source Safe, etc.)

Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles

• Limitations on access to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server over the Internet
• How to enable tracing in Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server
• You cannot delete a team query on a project when you are a member of the Team Foundation Administrators group in Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server
• How to configure Visual Studio 2005 Team System Team Foundation Server to use a different port for the default Web site
• You receive an error message when you try to use the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server tf command-line utility to access source code
• You may receive an error message when use an answer file to install SQL Server 2005 when the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server language and the operating system server language are different
• FIX: Error message when you try to use Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server to check in files on a computer that is running Content Management Server 2002: "Unable to cast object of type"
• The process to convert a large source control or work item tracking repository from Visual SouceSafe or from IBM Rational ClearQuest to Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation may fail
• Error message when you try to import a work item type in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server: "Cannot complete the operation”
• FIX: An extra file may be migrated when you use the VSSConverter utility to migrate a German or French version of a Visual SourceSafe database to Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation source control
• Error message when you save a work item in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server: “The server operation failed (BackendArgumentException)”
• Error message when you try to create a team project in Visual Studio 2005 Team System: "ProtocolError"
• You receive a misleading error message in Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server when you use strings that contain special characters
• When you download the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement - v4.0 template in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, you receive an MSF for Agile Software Development - v4.0 template Documents structure
• FIX: A resource name appears as two separate resources in Microsoft Project when you assign the resource name in Visual Studio 2005 Team System

To add more interesting sources to the list, contact me.

Last updated: 09/03/09