{"id":10571,"date":"2006-07-14T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2006\/07\/14\/cool-stuff-coming-for-visual-studio-team-system\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:35:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:35:03","slug":"cool-stuff-coming-for-visual-studio-team-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/cool-stuff-coming-for-visual-studio-team-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool stuff coming for Visual Studio Team System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"5\">VSTS Training Material<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Over the past several months I&#8217;ve been hearing a lot of people asking about the availability of training for Team Foundation Server.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve heard it from end users who are working on their adoption plans and from training partners who want to add a&nbsp;VSTS offering to their repetoire.&nbsp; I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that we&#8217;ve been working on it for months now and the results of that effort are nearing fruition!<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">We have two sets of training material in the pipeline right now:<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><strong>&#8220;200&#8221; level<\/strong> &#8211; This includes 20-25 hours of self guided training material that will be made broadly available for download and is intended to teach the &#8220;how-to&#8217;s&#8221; of using Team System.&nbsp; It is broken into a set of modules so that you can go at your own pace and focus on the components you are most interested in.&nbsp; The material includes:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">A&nbsp;VPC with sample projects and data so that you can see how&nbsp;VSTS&#8217;s features work on &#8220;real-world&#8221; project and experiement with it.<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Videos, slides and other e-learning material.<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">A set of Word files containing labs or modules for each of the VSTS components.<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><strong>&#8220;300&#8221; level <\/strong>&#8211; This includes 32-40 hours of instructor lead advanced usage and customization material.&nbsp; The 300 level material will generally only be made available to training partners as the material must be delivered by a trained instructor.&nbsp; It is broken into about 12 relatively independent modules covering various aspects of VSTS.&nbsp; Based on our early experience with it, this course will require 4 full days of classroom time to adequately cover the full set of&nbsp;information.&nbsp; The&nbsp;material includes:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">A VPC with sample projects and data &#8211; based on the 200 level VPC but enhanced with additional content to support the more in depth training.<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Slides and speaker&#8217;s notes for the trainer to present.<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Labs with step by step instructions.<\/font><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">I&#8217;m really thrilled to be able to provide this and I think it&#8217;s going to be a big help for people who are making the leap to VSTS.&nbsp; The content will be released over the next couple of monts (with the 200 level content coming out first).&nbsp; We&#8217;re working now to line up training organizations to be in a position to deliver the 300 level material when it is available.&nbsp; If you are interested in getting access to the material (200 or 300), please contact your Microsoft Developer Solutions Specialist, Microsoft Account Manager or reseller.&nbsp; If only a few people out there contact me directly about it, I can probably manage forwarding you to the right people \ud83d\ude42<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"5\">Team Foundation Server community add-ons<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">I just got mail the other day about a few cool new TFS add-ons that an internal team&nbsp;built and have posted for the public.&nbsp; I sometimes hear people question how relevant Microsoft&#8217;s dogfooding of TFS is to the broader population.&nbsp; First, I believe that the quality, scale and direct feature feedback we get internally is really valuable but, these add-ons demonstrate another key reason it&#8217;s valuable.&nbsp; It&#8217;s one thing to have our one little team in Developer Division building and delivering team development and collaboration features for the world.&nbsp; It&#8217;s quite another to have every team at Microsoft building tools and solutions based on our commercial product and that we can provide to all customers.&nbsp; Over time, it will magnify our ability to deliver value to you at least 10 fold.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">Philosophy aside &#8211; here&#8217;s the cool new tools.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><strong>Code Review (CodePlex)<\/strong> &#8211; A cool add-on that includes a code review work item type and&nbsp;a checkin policy that works with it and helps manage the process of code reviews on a development team.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/Wiki\/View.aspx?ProjectName=TFSCodeReviewFlow\"><font face=\"Calibri\">http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/Wiki\/View.aspx?ProjectName=TFSCodeReviewFlow<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><strong>Custom Path Policy (Code Gallery)<\/strong> &#8211; A great add-on that enables you to scope checkin policies to portions of your source tree.&nbsp; TFS only supports project wide checkin policies but this add-on enables you to restrict it to certain folders.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotdotnet.com\/codegallery\/codegallery.aspx?id=96d7da50-0d61-4230-9af9-49684ae9881e\"><font face=\"Calibri\">http:\/\/www.gotdotnet.com\/codegallery\/codegallery.aspx?id=96d7da50-0d61-4230-9af9-49684ae9881e<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><strong>Event Subscriber UI (Code Gallery)<\/strong> &#8211; This one looks a bit less developed to me and may need further work before broadly useful, but the idea is good.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a tool to help you create and manage finer grained subscriptions to TFS events than the TFS UI supports.<\/font>\n<font face=\"Calibri\">  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotdotnet.com\/codegallery\/codegallery.aspx?id=6da8d4eb-f456-4e22-9a73-851c7341cff4\"><font face=\"Calibri\">http:\/\/www.gotdotnet.com\/codegallery\/codegallery.aspx?id=6da8d4eb-f456-4e22-9a73-851c7341cff4<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">By the way, notice that one of these tools (Code Review) is on CodePlex.&nbsp; 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