Working with Microsofta Visual Studioa 2005 Team System

by Richard Hundhausen

This overview of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System offers practical information and role-based guidance to get key members of your software development team working together. With insights from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735621853
• ISBN13: 9780735621855
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

An Invaluable Breadth-First Reference

Microsoft Visual Studio Team system has provided the essential tool set for the entire team to facilitate the SDLC support. Richard Hundhausen's "Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System" discusses not just the tool set but also the underlying software methodology, MSF, CMMI and Agile MSF, and provides an concrete and concise breadth first reference to the team system. This ~340 pages long MS Press book is organized into four parts; namely "Introduction to team system", "Team System for the entire team", "Methodologies and extensibility" and Appendices which contain an elaborate case study. This book provides an outstanding overview of team system and covers the entire SDLC with topics like installation, branching, merging, source control, different team system editions and their significance all the way to the deployment. It serves as an essential reference guide with team system which is Microsoft's effort to provide integrated tool set. If you are a software development manager, enterprise developer, configuration manager, or a developer who wants to learn about team system without having to read through a thousand page manual, I recommend it as "the book" for you. The writing quality is excellent and this concise and effective book definitely worth to be on every serious .NET developer's must-read books list.

A good overview of working with Team System

This book does a very good job of describing Microsoft's intention behind the new functionality available in the "Team System" versions of it's Visual Studio 2005 product. That said, it is disappointing that Microsoft has not given out Demo DVDs with this information anyway. Team System has a significant price tag (especially since many of the same features can be acquired through free add-ons) and one would have expected Microsoft to provide information for free to help people to decide whether or not it was for them. As far as this book, it was surprising that they left out the "Database Professional's" edition of the software. While that was not released when the book was printed, it should have been on the roadmap and discussed. On the plus side, while it covered the Class Designer, which is technically not part of the Team System editions, the author was careful to mention that fact several times. The reason it was included was because the author was trying to describe things more from a process perspective (how one uses Team System) rather than a product perspective. The book makes good use of illustrations, is well written, and, surprisingly, does not really push the product instead of describing it.

Great! Things Microsoft doesn't tell you.

Not only does this book give you a great overview of the new Team System, it also tells you things (usually as special notes or hints) that Microsoft does not. I strongly recommend this to anyone who knows VSS and is considering Team System.

Excellent Overview of Team System

I've found this book to be an excellent overview of Team System as the author obviously intended. This book will introduce the reader new to the subject of Visual Studio 2005 Team System (especially those not fortunate enough to attend the Professional Developers Conference) with the essentials they need to know about VSTS in order to make informed decisions within their organization. If you are a lead developer, project manager, or IT Director and are not yet knowledgeable about VSTS, you need this book.

Great Overview of VS 2005 Team System

If you are looking to find a great overview of the entire Visual Studio 2005 Team System suite, then this book is an excellent choice. The book will definitely help speed your understanding and appreciation of Team System and all that it can offer. It shows how the Team System features can be used to ensure successful software development effort in an easy to understand and thoughtful manner.