Guidance for Early Adopters of Visual Studio 2010

If you are an early adopter of Visual Studio 2010 I want to point you to some very good online resources.  All of these links point to resources created by the ALM RangersI am one of the ALM Rangers which means I volunteer to spend some of my off hours (aka nights and weekends) working with the MS product groups to identify missing features and/or come up with  guidance for common scenarios.   It is really cool to be able to work with the product teams (the folks who write the VS code) to find out exactly how features were meant to be used and maybe even cooler to work with the product teams and other rangers (literally around the world) to figure out how to use Visual Studio to do things it wasn?t designed to do.

The official ranger mission is to provide out of band solutions for missing features or guidance. The content in these links was created with support from Microsoft Product Group, Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) and technical specialists from technology communities around the globe, giving you a real-world view from the field, where the technology has been tested and used.

Web and Load Testers:

If you do any sort of web performance testing or load testing with visual studio you need to read this.  This is top notch information.  If I have any questions about  the behavior of the tool or best practices, this is my first and often only stop.

http://vsptqrg.codeplex.com/releases/view/42484

TFS Integration:

Here is some great guidance on making the move to TFS 2010.

We were actually able to use the the TFS Integration tools to get one customer hooked up with the new test tools when TFS 2010 was still in beta and keeping the TFS 2008 production database synched with the new TFS 2010 database until the release bits were available a couple months later.

http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/releases/view/35476

Here is some more links to to some information and or labs where I at most acted as a reviewer on some small portion of the content.

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Branching Guide 2010

Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance

Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 VM Factory

Coming Soon:

(looking forward to this as so many of my customers use database projects to manage their database)

Visual Studio 2010 Database Guidance

Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance


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