Introduction to Visual Studio Team System 2008 Training

Delivery Options

• Customized Onsite Training (3 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

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

Class Materials

All students receive a course manual or book and all the class examples.

Students in private onsite classes will also receive:

• Technical Reference Library

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.

• Course technical requirements and setup instructions.