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 | | Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Pro-Developer) by Richard Hundhausen ISBN-10: 9780735621855 ISBN-10: 0-7356-2185-3 ISBN-13: 9780735621855 ISBN-13: 978-0-7356-2185-5 Paperback 2005-11-02 Microsoft Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Get a pragmatic overview of the new team-based system of products that bring Visual Studio development tools to the enterprise—allowing architects, developers, testers, and project managers to collaborate in a single, extensible development environment. With insights from the Microsoft Visual Studio product team, early users, and the author's hands-on experience, readers will understand how to use this tightly integrated set of lifecycle development tools to simplify cross-team communication, reduce development complexity, accelerate productivity, and help save time and money. | ||
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Wrong book title I am going to give a short review for this MS Press book, because at 287 pages, it is way too thin for a mountainous product suite like Visual Studio Team System. The book's title "Working with" set a level of expectation that I can get walk out feeling confident in putting VSTS into good use. Unfortunately that is not the case. Going through the chapters only confirmed my fears - which I got with from the very first glance at the book's thickness - each chapter touches a feature set, and I really mean just "touch" and not "dig deep". Merely introducing and explaning the rationale behind them, the major capabilities are shown as "what they are" and not "how to do". As briefing material, they are fine. As a practical guide book teaching how to expertly operate and work with VSTS, it carries little value. There are absolutely no tutorials. No source content to get the reader to exercise its features to learn and understand by practical experience. It does not cover the many common scenarios development teams and try to explain how to accomplish them in VSTS. VSTS is a monumental system that is not easy to learn and leverage, and this book has zero lessons of practicality. Had this book been titled "Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System", it would have received a much higher rating. Who will best benefit from this book? Project managers and CTOs who want a high-level feature overview. Hardcore development team members who want to learn how to use VSTS to its fullest potential have to look for another book. Good: High-level briefing on VSTS features Bad: Covers them briefly; no practical exercises | ||
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. | ||
useless The book does *not* tell you how to work with VSTS. It's a summary of marketing blabla praising Microsoft for what they haven't invented at all. Almost all the info has been used when VSTS was announced in 2005. There are many MSDN articles really telling you how to use VSTS. This book is *not* for IT professionals. For example it does not contain a complete example starting from requirements analysis to integration testing. If you are paid for getting software out the door - look somewhere else for VSTS info. | ||
Not what I expected Working with Visual Studio 2005 Team System is less about working with it and more about what it is and what it can do, and even that is not more than a simple outline, just the top of the mountain. I guess I expected more How To's and less what it is. That information is everywhere on MS websites. So I am still looking for some details on how to get it done. | ||