Rosario – The Nine Part April CTP Investigation (aka… “Wow, Rosario rocks!”)

Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity - Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation – Conclusion

“Over the past few weeks ... sorry for the delays which were caused by events and other distractions q;-) ... we looked at the Rosario April 2008 CTP. This final post summarizes the major areas and features we looked at, cross references each related blog post and ends with our views on Rosario so far.

Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 1) - Create Team Project

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Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 2) - Project Management

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Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 3) – Architecture

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Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 4) - Version Control

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Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 5) – Build

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Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 6) – Developer

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Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 7) – Tester

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Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 8) – Database

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Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Q&A) - List of Questions and Issues

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Conclusion

All in all, my personal evaluation score is five happy smiley's. The new features are exciting and for a Community Technology Preview (CTP), this release has proven very stable ... so much so, that we are running Rosario CTP 12 on our XEN server in semi-production mode. We are using it for evaluation and evangelism purposes, but by using it in out internal production environment.

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Wow. Talk about a v2 (IMO Rosario is like a TeamSuite/TFS v2, whereas 2008 was like a v1.5).

So I wonder about the release date and the impact of VS2008/.Net 3.5 SP1. i.e. chicken or egg… As far as I know SP1 will be first and then Rosario (since I’ve heard of Rosario features being added to SP1 thereby implying that the release date of the feature was moved forward into SP1)

PDC 2008 is a great release milestone so if I had to guess I’d say VS2008 SP1 then and Rosario in early 2009 (since it’s not beta or RC yet). But then again this is a TOTAL WAG and maybe SP1 will ship soon and Rosario a surprise release for PDC (given it’s already CTP12)?

LOL, you’ve got to love sideline release schedule pontificators… ;)

 

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