patterns & practices: Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

TFSGuide.zip (11,9 MB)
Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

TFS Integration Platform

The TFS Integration Platform enables developers to build tools that integrate other systems with TFS. Building one way and bidirectional tools for VC and WIT is much simpler with this platform, as most of the TFS interaction and migration/sync actions are provided for you.

ALM Assessment Guidance

Use the ALM Assessment to evaluate where your organization stands in case of ALM Best Practices by using the assessment questions and qualitative discussions.

Visual Studio Architecture Tooling Guide

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical guidance for Visual Studio architecture tooling, which is focused on modeling tools.

Version Control Guide (ex-Branching & Merging)

Practical guidance for version control strategies on TFS, TFVC, Git and NuGet.

BRDLite Reference Templates

vsarbrdlite.zip (12,3 MB)
Visual Studio ALM Rangers build templates and guidance for build, release and deploy (BRD) build automation.

Team Foundation Build Customization Guide

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical guidance for the customization and deployment of Team Foundation Build activities such as versioning and code signing.

Supporting Guidance and Whitepapers

vsarguidance.zip (301,1 MB)
This Visual Studio ALM Rangers project delivers research whitepapers and practical guidance for Visual Studio and TFS, which have and are being created as part

Practical Kanban Guidance

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical and scenario based guidance for the use of Kanban in Team Foundation Server.

Visual Studio Lab Management Guide

vsarlabman.zip (15,7 MB)
Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical and scenario-based guidance, backed by custom VM Template automation for reference environments

TFS Planning and Disaster Avoidance and Recovery, and TFS on Azure IaaS Guide

Visual Studio ALM Rangers practical and scenario based guidance for the implementation of TFS and DR Avoidance.

Visual Studio ALM Quick Reference Guide

The VS ALM Guidance is a library of compact how-tos for TFS and VS for ALM experts who have no time and would like a "quick" overview.

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Requirements Engineering Guidance

VS ALM Rangers Requirements Engineering Guidance, showing the best you can do with our current tooling to support RM best practices

TFS Upgrade Guide

How to deal with potential issues after upgrading to Team Foundation Server with special focus on process template, Reports, and Enhanced TFS Management (ETM)

Visual Studio and TFS VM Factory

vsarvmfactory.zip (151,3 MB)
Guidance and a reference implementation of a software solution that automates the creation of Microsoft environments, in particular Visual Studio and TFS.

Team Foundation Server Word Add-in

The Visual Studio Word Add-in for TFS allows you to import work items from a Team Foundation Server Team Project and generate professional-looking Word document

Visual Studio Database Guide

Practical guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Database projects.

Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide

VSPTQRG.zip (9,1 MB)
A quick reference guide to help with performance testing aspects of Visual Studio

patterns & practices: Visual Studio 2005 Team System Guidance

The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around using Visual Studio Team System 2005. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, VSTS team members, and industry experts.

WCF Load Test

This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy, or a WCF interface contract, and generates a C# unit test that replays the same sequence of calls found