Visual Studio 2005 Team System - Developer Dream Come True

TechEd 2004 was an exciting week of announcements. First, we were excited to see the announcement regarding the Information Bridge Framework. Another exciting announcement is for a new product called Visual Studio 2005 Team System. You can get an overview of it at MSDN by reading the following article: Visual Studio 2005 Team System Overview.

To be honest, I'd be happy if Microsoft just updated Visual Source Safe and made it web friendly. This new product not only gives us a whole new source code management but is designed to addressed the entire development life cycle. Some of the additional features is a work-flow based issue tracking system, advanced static analysis, code profiling, code coverage, unit testing tools, and much more. Needless to say I'm excited about it and can't wait to start using it.

Speaking of source code management, if I had a dime for every time a Microsoft employee asked me if I used source code management as an Office Developer I'd be about $100 richer. So here is a formal annoucnement of my own, one that will forever chronicle my official stand:

As an Office Developer, I have used source code management on every project I've worked on. It is mandatory for every team I've run. I vow to continue to use it the future and evangelize its benefits.

As a side note I am currently using SourceGear Vault. Vault is a SourceSafe compatible SCM that works across the web (VSS is not good across the web).