.Net Jonesie - Team System B3R Observations

Friday, November 04, 2005

Having spent most of the day mucking with VS 05 RTM & Team System Beta 3 Refresh - here after called TSB3R - these are my initial observations and comparisons with Beta 2 - no particular order.

Source Control is wickedly fast! Ok, so my database is probably pretty empty but it's at least as fast as Vault - maybe even faster if that is possible.
Creating a new Team Project is faster - ~30 seconds instead of 2 minutes.
The Agile process template and process guidance are much improved.
The default new tasks for an Agile project - only 14 of them for a new project - include useful details and references to the process guidance (but these are not hyperlinks unfortunately).
Compiling a project does not check out the project file anymore.
When I edit a checked in file, focus shifts to somewhere else when it does the check out and I have to click back in the code window. This may be because I have the tool windows undocked onto my 2nd monitor. I'll experiment with this and log a bug.
There's a few new reports with interesting names, eg, "Unplanned Work", "Bugs found without corresponding tests", and "Regressions".
The Team Build progress & results window is WAY nicer than B2.
Code Analysis still slows down the build hugely - ~10 seconds without, ~120 seconds with.
There is a new Task type of Risk for Agile projects.
Test Controller and Agent setup is confusing - I think it's now part of the Team Suite install because there's nothing in the TFS install that looks relevant.
You get little pad-locks on the tab pages in VS so you can see if the file is checked in or not.
Refactor rename still tries to drill into code that it shouldn't. For example, renaming a private variable in a class library searches through web service code that in no way can ever see the var. It is quicker but could be a lot quicker if it didn't do this. Another bug to log.
The command line tools for TFS are simpler and easier to find but there's no project delete tool - maybe this will be in the SDK?
Despite my problems I think they have got the server install as simple as it can be. Installing SQL Server is the hardest part really and that take about 5 minutes - not enough time for a game of Spider :{

So, after day 1, I'm very impressed. I've got lots of coding to do over the next few weeks so will reserve final judgement :}

Friday, November 04, 2005 2:55:06 PM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00)

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