Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide (Beta 1) - Free PDF from Microsoft and TFS Community

CodePlex - Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server [Beta 1 Guide Release]

"Welcome to the patterns & practices Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server project site! This guide shows you how to make the most of Team Foundation Server. It starts with the end in mind, but shows you how to incrementally adopt TFS for your organization. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, Team System team members, and industry experts. This guide is related to our Visual Studio Team System Guidance Project. - J.D. Meier, Jason Taylor, Alex Mackman, Prashant Bansode, Kevin Jones

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Chapters

• Introduction
• Ch 01 - Introducing the Team Environment
• Ch 02 - Team Foundation Server Architecture
• Ch 03 - Structuring Projects and Solutions
• Ch 04 - Structuring Projects and Solutions in Team Foundation Server
• Ch 05 - Defining Your Branching and Merging Strategy
• Ch 06 - Managing Source Control Dependencies in Visual Studio Team System
• Ch 07 - Team Build Explained
• Ch 08 - Setting Up Continuous Integration with Team Build
• Ch 09 - Setting Up Scheduled Builds with Team Build
• Ch 10 - Large Project Considerations
• Ch 11 - Project Management Explained
• Ch 12 - Work Items Explained
• Ch 13 – MSF Agile Projects
• Ch 14 - Process Templates Explained
• Ch 15 - Reporting Explained
• Ch 16 - Team Foundation Server Deployment
• Ch 17 - Providing Internet Access to Team Foundation Server

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The Beta 1 Guide is a huge 360 pages of focused and detailed TFS information.

After glancing through it all I can say is "wow."

Even in its current Beta state, this project is must have resource for anyone using or thinking of using TFS.

(via Geir Morten Allum's MS application platform hvor, hva, når, hvorfor, osv... - TFS Guide - Beta 1 tilgjengelig) [I think it's kind of funny that I have no idea what this post title says, but when I saw "TFS Guide" I focused right in on it... lol]

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