Comprehensive Visual Studio Team System 2008 Training

Delivery Options

• Customized Onsite Training (5 days): Request a Proposal

Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Understand Team System's capabilities
• Understand Team System's support for the Software Development Life Cycle
• Understand the architecture of Team Foundation Server
• Plan and create a team project
• Manage and secure a team project
• Choose an appropriate software development methodology and process template
• Create and query work items using various client applications
• Use the Distributed System Designers to architect a connected .NET solution
• Validate solution deployment and generate a deployment report
• Use database projects to manage change to SQL Server database schemas
• Use automation to build, deploy, generate test data, and unit test SQL Server databases
• Leverage Visual Studio 2008's new software development features
• Understand the architecture and usage of Team Foundation Version Control
• Work with version control from Visual Studio 2008 in a multi-user environment
• Improve code quality through unit testing, code analysis, code metrics, and profiling
• Test web applications using automated tools
• Place web and unit tests under load to stress your architecture and plan for capacity
• Automate the software build process using Team Foundation Build
• Understand the architecture of a process template
• Customize a process template
• Create a new work item type
• Alter work item types for existing team projects
• Understand parallel development
• Understand Team Foundation Server's support for parallel development
• Setup and manage workspaces
• Detect and resolve conflicts in a parallel development environment
• Apply the correct branching pattern for a given SCM environment
• Use branching and merging effectively
• Use shelving and unshelving effectively
• Secure version control assets
• Use alternate compare and merge tools
• Use Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools effectively
• Use the MSSCCI provider from SQL Server Management Studio
• Create and use work item, code analysis, and unit testing check-in policies
• Create and deploy a custom check-in policy
• Manage check-in policy failure and overrides
• Configure check-in policy failure notifications
• Create and execute a Team Foundation Build manually
• Schedule a Team Foundation Build using Windows Scheduler
• Run code analysis as part of a Team Foundation Build
• Configuration of Team Foundation Build notifications
• Implement Continuous Integration using Team Foundation Build
• Customize Team Foundation Build
• Create custom MSBuild tasks
• Configure Team Foundation Build to build and deploy a Web application

Class Outline

1. Introduction
   1. The challenges with building software
   2. What is Team System
   3. Architectural overview of Team System and Team Foundation Server
   4. Team System features by role
   5. Lab: Add a team project to Team Explorer
   6. Lab: Manage documents
   7. Lab: Create and execute queries
   8. Lab: Execute reports
   9. Lab: Customize the project portal
2. Team Projects
   1. Project manager role
   2. Project administrator role
   3. Team projects
   4. Configuring team projects
   5. Managing team projects
   6. Client applications
   7. Lab: Manage Team Foundation Server level security
   8. Lab: Create a team project
   9. Lab: Explore and modify the process guidance
   10. Lab: Enable check-in policies
   11. Lab: Setup classification areas and iterations
   12. Lab: Secure the classification areas
3. Methodologies and Work Items
   1. Software development methodologies
   2. Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF)
   3. Methodology support in Team System
   4. Process templates
   5. Work items
   6. Creating and managing work items
   7. Lab: Create a scenario using Team Explorer
   8. Lab: Create a risk using Microsoft Excel
   9. Lab: Create a task using Microsoft Project
   10. Lab: Query work items using Team Explorer
   11. Lab: Query and manage work items using Web Access Power Tool
4. Architecture
   1. Architect role and responsibilities
   2. Distributed system designers
   3. Logical datacenter designer
   4. System designer
   5. Application designer
   6. Trial deployment
   7. DSL vs. UML
   8. Lab: Create a logical datacenter diagram
   9. Lab: Create a system diagram
   10. Lab: Create an application diagram
   11. Lab: Perform a trial deployment
   12. Lab: Validate the deployment
   13. Lab: Generate a deployment report
   14. Lab: Implement a web application from a diagram
5. Database Edition
   1. The database development life cycle
   2. Database projects
   3. Importing schemas and scripts
   4. Comparing schemas and data
   5. Database unit testing
   6. Database refactoring
   7. Data generation plans
   8. Building and deploying
   9. Lab: Create a database project
   10. Lab: Import an existing database schema
   11. Lab: Refactor database objects
   12. Lab: Build and deploy the database project
   13. Lab: Generate test data
   14. Lab: Create and run stored procedure unit tests
6. Version Control
   1. Benefits and architecture of Team Foundation Version Control
   2. Comparison to VSS
   3. Using version control
   4. Integration with Visual Studio
   5. Get, check-out, check-in, label
   6. Branching, merging, conflicts, shelving
   7. Lab: Create a workspace
   8. Lab: Place a solution under source control
   9. Lab: Check out and check in files
   10. Lab: View history and compare files
   11. Lab: Resolve conflicts
   12. Lab: Shelve and unshelve changes
7. Development Edition
   1. The developer and tester roles and responsibilities
   2. Developer features in Visual Studio 2008
   3. Unit testing, code coverage, and Test Driven Development (TDD)
   4. Code analysis
   5. Code metrics
   6. Application profiling
   7. Lab: Create a unit test
   8. Lab: Refactor the method and re-run the unit test
   9. Lab: Create a data-driven unit test
   10. Lab: Calculate code coverage when running a unit test
   11. Lab: Run code analysis on a .NET assembly
   12. Lab: Calculate code metrics
   13. Lab: Profile a poorly performing .NET application
   14. Lab: Using Team Foundation Version Control and code profiling tools
8. Test Edition
   1. Web testing
   2. Data bound and coded web tests
   3. Load testing
   4. Manual tests
   5. Generic tests
   6. Lab: Create a web site based on the personal web site template
   7. Lab: Record a web test
   8. Lab: Create a data-driven web test
   9. Lab: Create a load test, placing the web test under load
   10. Lab: Modify load test properties
   11. Lab: Create and execute a manual test
9. Team Foundation Build
   1. Introduction to Team Foundation Build
   2. The Build Process
   3. Reporting
   4. Automating Team Foundation Build and Continuous Integration (CI)
   5. Lab: Create a build definition
   6. Lab: Queue a team build in various ways
   7. Lab: Set the quality of a completed build
   8. Lab: Schedule a build to queue at a specific time
   9. Lab: Configure build notifications
   10. Lab: Enable continuous integration
10. Customizing Process Templates
    1. Customizing vs. extending
    2. Process template architecture
    3. Modifying process guidance
    4. Modifying process templates
    5. Work item type schema
    6. Customizing work item types
    7. Configuring work item state transition workflow
    8. Lab: Download and explore a process template
    9. Lab: Create a new process template
    10. Lab: Upload and test a process template
    11. Lab: Alter work item types of existing team projects
    12. Lab: Use the Process Editor found in the Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools
11. Parallel Development
    1. Introduction to parallel development, terminology
    2. Parallel development scenarios, locking models
    3. Branching, merging, and promotion modeling
    4. Branching patterns, conflict detection and resolution
    5. Shelving, unshelving, achieving peer review using shelving
    6. Securing version control files and folders
    7. Using Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools
    8. Lab: Understand and resolve conflicts in a multi-user environment
    9. Lab: Branch code, manage branches, merge changes between branches
    10. Lab: Use the command-line tool to perform a baseless merge
    11. Lab: Secure artifacts in version control
    12. Lab: Shelve and unshelve changes
    13. Lab: Explore the widget: alternate merge tool (optional)
12. Check-In Policies
    1. Ensuring changes are properly implemented
    2. Configuring check-in policies and notes
    3. Using Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools policy-pack
    4. Understanding policy failure, overriding, and managing overrides
    5. Creating, deploying, and debugging a custom check-in policy
    6. Lab: Configure the work item association check-in policy
    7. Lab: Configure the code analysis check-in policy
    8. Lab: Migrate code analysis policy settings to Visual Studio projects
    9. Lab: Create a unit test and manage test lists
    10. Lab: Configure a unit testing check-in policy
    11. Lab: Use the Custom Path policy to scope other check-in policies
    12. Lab: Create, deploy, and debug a custom check-in policy (optional)
    13. Lab: Explore the widget: Policy Override Notification Tool (optional)
13. Advanced Team Foundation Build
    1. Team Foundation Build architecture
    2. Automating Team Foundation Build
    3. Continuous integration
    4. Customizing Team Foundation Build
    5. MSBuild Architecture
    6. Understanding targets and tasks
    7. Creating custom MSBuild tasks
    8. Common build recipes
    9. Lab: Define an automated build
    10. Lab: Queue (execute) the automated build in various ways
    11. Lab: Ensure a quality build by enabling code analysis
    12. Lab: Ensure a quality build by running Build Verification Tests (BVTs)
    13. Lab: Configure build notifications
    14. Lab: Customize the automated build definition
    15. Lab: Create a custom MSBuild task (optional)
14. Patterns, Best-Practices, and How-To's
    1. Common SCM patterns
    2. Organizing team projects
    3. Planning iterations and releases
    4. Configuring areas, iterations, and version control settings
    5. Bulk copying and moving work items and artifacts
    6. Promoting an application from Dev to QA to Production
    7. Promoting an application through major and minor version changes
    8. Best practices - workspace management
    9. Best practices - branching and merging
    10. Best practices - working with shared code and components
    11. Best practices - working offline
    12. Best practices - achieving traceability
    13. Team Foundation Server capacity planning
    14. How-To - various topics around work items, version control, and build automation
    15. Resources

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• Working on a team-based software development project
• Basic familiarity with your organization's Software Development Life Cycle.
• Using one or more roles in the SDLC: PM, architect, DBA, developer, tester
• One or more methodologies. (example: MSF, XP, Scrum, RUP)
• Distributed application design. (example: client/server, web applications, web services, etc.)
• Visual Studio
• Reading user requirements and business-need documents.
• The basic foundations of .NET
• Basic C# .NET code (all source code will be provided)
• Microsoft Windows operating system and security basics
• A reporting tool. For example: SQL RS, Access, Crystal

Technical Requirements

Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.

• Onsite and Instructor-led Online course technical requirements and setup instructions.
• WebEx system requirements for Instructor-led Online delivery option.