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By P J Connolly

November 15, 2006 — (Page 1 of 5)
Microsoft’s Visual Studio development platform has been a cornerstone of the company’s development strategy for years. Essentially, if one intends to develop for .NET, the Visual Studio IDE is the only reasonable choice of tool. Although the community seems to be satisfied with the core of the ecosystem—the core IDE, languages and so forth—some discontent with the way Microsoft has handled the challenges of a rapidly shifting landscape lies just below the surface.

With Windows Vista due to land in the hands of business customers at any moment and general availability due at the end of January, there’s a growing sense that Microsoft may unintentionally be offering its customers an excuse to avoid the new operating system. The disconnected release of the APIs in Vista, and the tools to fully exploit them—not due until the release sometime next year, maybe, of Visual Studio “Orcas”—provides another reason for businesses to do so, beyond Vista’s hardware demands.

But perhaps of most concern to enterprise developers is a sense that the key collaboration tools Microsoft offers to developers—the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and the associated role-based packages aimed at architects, testers and, soon, database professionals—are a long way from being complete.

A CUSTOMER LOOKS AT TFS
In conversations with members of the Visual Studio community, there appeared to be a great deal of agreement that Visual Studio’s Team Foundation Server (TFS) has a way to go before it’s as mature as the rest of Visual Studio. Although several people echoed these sentiments during interviews, one was particularly eloquent on the pros as well as the cons of TFS.

Chris Kinsman, founder of custom development organization Vergent Software, described the experiences of his developers as being typical of “a 1.0 release, with all that implies and intends.” Vergent’s development teams started using TFS because source code control was an issue for them and the mix of CVS and VSS (Visual Source Safe) wasn’t getting the job done.

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