This week in UK Dev Tools
It has been an exciting week with the release of Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management and Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta1 being made available to MSDN Subscribers.
Here are some of the questions we have been asked:
Q. Do Visual Studio Database Projects support Oracle Databases?
A. We support Oracle databases through Quest’s DSP
Q. How does TFS deal with SOX Compliance?
A. SOX compliance whitepaper. It was published for TFS 2008 but concepts are still valid.
Q. How do I upgrade TFS2008 to TFS2010?
A. See the section in the Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio 2010 and the Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide
Q. How do I get performance statistics for my TFS Server?
A. Try the Administrative Report Pack for Team Foundation Server 2010
Q. How do I change the frequency of the TFS data warehouse update (default is every 2 hours)?
A. Change a Process Control Setting for the Data Warehouse or Analysis Services Cube
Q. How can I have a constantly updated screen in the office showing the state of my project in TFS?
A. Check out the Telerik TFS Project Dashboard – Dynamic Visualization of Your Project
Q. Can I branch code between TFS Project Collections?
A. No. You should think of TFS Project Collections as separate instances of Team Foundation Server. The only difference in TFS 2010 is that you can now centrally manage these TFS instances and share infrastructure. If two projects need to share files then they are probably related and should be in the same TFS project collection.
Q. Can we control the permissions within TFS to ensure users cannot perform destructive actions?
A. A user with check-in/check-out permission on a version control file or folder can delete it but in order to destroy you must be a member of the Team Foundation Administrators group (not just a Project Administrator) and the action is only possible through the command line.
Q. Can we archive a single Team Project within a TFS Project Collection?
A. You cannot archive a single team project. I would suggest splitting the Project collection and archiving the projects that are no longer active
Q. Do the MSF Agile Workbooks work with the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template?
A. No, not in this release but check out the very nice Urban Turtle for Scrum Planning which plugs into Team Web Access.
Q. How can I print my test plan from the Microsoft Test Manager tool for documentation and sign-off?
A. TestScribe is a very nice add-on for Microsoft Test Manager
Some useful resources:
TFS Version Control Resources
Visual Studio TFS Branching Guide 2010
Patterns & practices: Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
See Chapter 6 - Managing Source Control Dependencies in Visual Studio Team System
Load Testing Resources
WCF Load Test Version 3.0 (Beta) for Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide (Version 3.5)
Ed Glass’ awesome Load Testing blog
Content Index for Web Tests and Load Tests
Visual Studio 2010: Testing Application Performance and Stress
Cheers,
Rich & Giles.