{"id":5543,"date":"2012-02-29T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/02\/29\/welcome-to-visual-studio-11-alm-rangers-readiness-beta-wave\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T01:42:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T09:42:32","slug":"welcome-to-visual-studio-11-alm-rangers-readiness-beta-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/welcome-to-visual-studio-11-alm-rangers-readiness-beta-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta \u201cWave\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/jasonz\/archive\/2012\/02\/29\/welcome-to-the-beta-of-visual-studio-11-and-net-framework-4-5.aspx\">JasonZ<\/a> announced the Visual Studio 11 Beta, which triggered a <strong>SIM<\/strong>ultaneous-<strong>SHIP<\/strong>ping event for the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/ee358786.aspx\">Visual Studio ALM Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Updated: 2012-04-13. Changes marked with <span style=\"color: #c0504d\">\/\/date \u2013 change<\/span> token.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Visual Studio Readiness Quick Reference Poster\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Visual Studio Readiness Quick Reference Poster\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/2475.Visual-Studio-Readiness-Quick-Reference-Poster_thumb_1B2EFB3B.jpg\" width=\"651\" height=\"488\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"PPP_PRD_045_3D_people-Thumbs_Up\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PPP_PRD_045_3D_people-Thumbs_Up\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/3527.PPP_PRD_045_3D_people-Thumbs_Up_thumb_3B1A5838.png\" width=\"103\" height=\"103\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/rangersgig\">Gig<\/a>\u201d solutions are now available for download from CodePlex:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solutions<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;float: none;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;margin-left: auto;border-left-width: 0px;margin-right: auto;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/4670.image_thumb_1F955635.png\" width=\"358\" height=\"133\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c0504d\">\/\/ 2012-04-13 Shipped!<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230936\">**Branching and Merging Guide **<\/a><br \/>\nBranching and merging strategies on Team Foundation Server. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230941\"><strong>Practical Kanban Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nUsing Kanban in Team Foundation Server. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230942\"><strong>Practical Ruck Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThe Visual Studio ALM Rangers Ruck process. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230938\"><strong>Team Foundation Build Customization Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nIncludes hands-on lab guidance for the customization and deployment of Team Foundation Build. <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c0504d\">\/\/ 2012-03-07 Shipped!<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230946\"><strong>Team Foundation Server Process Template Customization Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nWork Item Tracking (WIT) and Process Template customizations. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230947\"><strong>Team Foundation Server Planning Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nImplementation planning of Team Foundation Server. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230948\"><strong>Team Foundation Server Upgrade Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nUpgrade scenarios and post-upgrade issues for Team Foundation Server and associated technologies. <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c0504d\">\/\/ 2012-04-11 Shipped!<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230942\"><strong>Team Foundation Service Practical Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nUsing the Team Foundation Service built on Windows Azure, and its use by the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230949\"><strong>Test Release Management Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGuidance and tooling to support scenarios for test case and test plan release management, including reporting and base-lining: sprint to sprint, release to release, and moving a feature through the branching guidelines scenarios. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230942\"><strong>Visual Studio ALM Rangers Personas and Scenarios<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCommon definition of personas and scenarios used in Visual Studio ALM Rangers guidance. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230950\"><strong>Visual Studio Architecture Tooling Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nFocuses on modeling tools and includes understanding and reverse engineering an existing application or starting a new application from scratch. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230951\"><strong>Visual Studio Lab Management Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nVisual Studio Lab Management, backed by <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230953\">VM Factory<\/a> automation. <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c0504d\">\/\/ 2012-04-04 Shipped!<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vsartesttoolingguide.codeplex.com\"><strong>Visual Studio Test Tooling Guide<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a>A range of test tooling practical and scenario based guidance. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230953\"><strong>VM Factory Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGuidance and a reference implementation of a software solution that automates the creation of Microsoft environments, in particular Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c0504d\">\/\/ 2012-03-05 Shipped!<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=237638\"><strong>Visual Studio Coded UI Microsoft Word Plug-in<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGuidance and tooling for the Visual Studio Coded UI Microsoft Word Plug-in, which extends the Coded UI feature support to Microsoft Word documents. ****<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c0504d\">\/\/ 2012-03-12 Shipped!<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230952\"><strong>Visual Studio Quick Reference Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAn overview of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server in the form of compact, quick reference sheets. Users who are unfamiliar with Visual Studio get a \u201cquick\u201d overview of features, value and associated Rangers guidance. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following solutions will be available for Beta download in the near future:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;float: none;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;margin-left: auto;border-left-width: 0px;margin-right: auto;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/1680.image_thumb_51404DBD.png\" width=\"358\" height=\"128\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230938\">**Team Foundation Build Customization Guide **<\/a>**\u2013 BRDLite Reference Templates<br \/>\n**Includes reference build process templates, based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230938\">Team Foundation Build Customization Guide<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following solutions have been cancelled or merged with other solutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c0504d\">\/\/ 2012-03-05 Cancelled <br \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=230944\"><strong>Requirements Engineering Guide<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRequirements Engineering (RE), which addresses people, processes and technology for Team Foundation Server. <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #c0504d\">\/\/ 2012-04-04 Merged <br \/><font color=\"#0080c0\"><strong><font color=\"#0080ff\">Coded UI and MTM Guides<\/font> <br \/><\/strong><\/font><font color=\"#333333\">Merged with the Test Tooling Guide project. <br \/><\/font><\/span><span style=\"color: #c0504d\"><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>None of this would have been possible without a dream team, made up of contributors and reviewers from all over the world, as well as phenomenal product owners from the product group.<\/p>\n<p>Our product owners \u2026<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;float: none;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;margin-left: auto;border-left-width: 0px;margin-right: auto;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Slide1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Slide1\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/6371.Slide1_thumb_2DC3A958.jpg\" width=\"721\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The team members who signed up for the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/rangersgig\">Gig<\/a>\u201d, listed in alphabetical order \u2026 <em>Aaron Bjork, Abhimanyu Singhal, Adam Gilmore, Adimulam Sudheer, Alexei Govorine, Andr\u00e9 Dias, Andrew Whitechapel, Anutthara Bharadwaj, Babu George Padamadan, Bijan Javidi, Bill Essary, Bill Heys, Bob Hardister, Brandon Hawbaker, Brian Blackman, Brian Minisi, Caroline Williams, Casey OMara, Cesar Solis Brito, Chandana Athauda, Charles Sterling, Chris Burrows, Christian Nielsen, Cl\u00e1udio Bernardo Leite B. R. da Silva, Claudio Leie, Clementino de Mendonca, Craig Riter, Daniel Manson, Daniel Margetic, Daniel Meixner, Daniel Oliveira, Danny Crone, David A. Clark, David Corbin, David Hay, David Scruggs, Doug Neumann, Ed Holloway, Eric Golpe, Ethem Azun, Ewald Hofman, Fabio Stawinski, Francisco Xavier Fagas Albarrac\u00edn, Gaurav Aggarwal, Giulio Vian, Grant Holliday, Gregg Boer , Harish Reddy Kothapalli, Hassan Fadili, Hosam Kamel, Jahangeer Mohammed, Jakob Ehn, James Pickell, Jean-Marc Prieur , Jeff Bramwell, Jens Suessmeyer, Jim Lamb, Jim Szubryt, Joe Donnelly, John Bergman, John Jacob, John Spinella, Jon Guerin, Kris Lankford, Krithika Sambamoorthy, Lennart Jansson, Leonard Woody, Lukasz Gratkowski, Mahesh Babu Nalla, Manish Ahuja, Manuel Boendel, Mario Rodriguez, Mark Nichols, Martin Kulov, Mathew Aniyan, Mathias Olausson, Matt Nunn, Matthew Mitrik, Mattias Sk\u00f6ld, Micheal Learned, Mike Abrahamson, Mike Douglas, Mike Fourie, Mike Schimmel, Neno Loje, Nico Orschel, Paul Meyer, Pete Elliott, Petr Moravek, Pierre Donyegro, Pramod Vasanth, Prasanna Ramkumar, Rahul Chugh, Ramon Aldana Borjes, Raul Guerrero Carreon, Rene Schumacher, Richard Albrecht, Richard Fennell, Richard Florance, Rob Jarratt, Rob Maher, Robert MacLean, Roy Robertson, Rui Melo, Sai Charan Chirravuri, Scott Tomas, Shawn Cicoria, Siddharth Bhatia, Silfarney Wallace, Subrahmanya Somayajulu, Taavi Koosaar, Ted Malone, Thomas Isler, Thomas Schissler, Tiago Pascoal, Tim Omta, Tim Star, Tina Erwee, Tony Feissle, Tony Whitter, Vijay Machiraju, Vladimir Gusarov, William Bartholomew, Willy-Peter Schaub<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>**Downloads******<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=239723\">Windows 8 Consumer Preview<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/p\/?LinkId=240162\">Visual Studio 11 Beta, Team Foundation Server 11 Beta, and .NET Framework 4.5 Beta<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Blogs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/b8\">Windows 8 Consumer Preview <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/jasonz\/archive\/2012\/02\/29\/welcome-to-the-beta-of-visual-studio-11-and-net-framework-4-5.aspx\">Visual Studio 11 Beta, Team Foundation Server 11 Beta and .NET Framework 4.5 Beta<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>**Send Feedback ******<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t wait to hear from you, and learn more about your experience using the Beta. Here are some ways to connect with us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask a question on the respective CodePlex discussion forums. <\/li>\n<li>Contact me on my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willy-peter_schaub\/contact.aspx\">blog<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Submit a suggestion on <a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\">UserVoice<\/a>, using the <strong>Rangers Project<\/strong> category tag. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow me at *<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wpschaub\"><em>twitter.com\/wpschaub<\/em><\/a><\/em>.*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JasonZ announced the Visual Studio 11 Beta, which triggered a SIMultaneous-SHIPping event for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. Updated: 2012-04-13. Changes marked with \/\/date \u2013 change token. I am happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta \u201cGig\u201d solutions are now available for download from CodePlex: Solutions \/\/ 2012-04-13 Shipped! **Branching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>JasonZ announced the Visual Studio 11 Beta, which triggered a SIMultaneous-SHIPping event for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. Updated: 2012-04-13. Changes marked with \/\/date \u2013 change token. I am happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta \u201cGig\u201d solutions are now available for download from CodePlex: Solutions \/\/ 2012-04-13 Shipped! **Branching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}