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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Team System Release Real Soon Now by Peter

I spent a couple of hours in Wellington and Auckland this week with Michael Leworthy - ex(?) TFS PM and Australian larrikin - and Jeremy Boyd - RD & Kiwi larrikin - doing a real-short presentation to the Architects Forum on my experience with Team System. Along the way Michael presented a few tid-bits of news and some nifty things you can do with TFS.

Launch of Team System is March 16 in the US. RTM will follow very shortly after this. Michael wouldn't give us a date - even off the record - but I'm guessing you can start looking for a download about the end of next week.
In April (I think) there will be a truck load of training material for TS released on the web site - 150 videos, labs, white papers etc.
In June, at TechEd US they will release the timeline for TS 2 and also the way that future version of the individual roles of Team Suite will be release. Currently all edition are released together but this may change. There's also some other big announcement scheduled at the same time but again, Michael could not be bribed or threatened into revealing the details of this.
They are looking at producing new roles such as an edition for DBA's and database designers.
Michael did a nifty demo of using Workflow Foundation to trigger some Team Build activities. It's quite trivial to hook into TFS events to fire off a workflow. I thought this was a great idea and can't wait to put this to use.
Michael also has a MSN style popup message that fired off when a TFS build event happened. The code for this will be posted shortly.

Fun times ahead!

Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:02:35 PM (New Zealand Daylight Time, UTC+13:00)

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