14 DAY TRIAL // Concomitantly with the release of the Beta development milestone of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft also launched the first Beta build of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack. MSDN subscribers have been able to download and start testing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack Beta since last week, and the bits continue to be up for grabs.
While the solution is still in development, Microsoft expects developers to deploy the TFS-PS Feature Pack into production environments.
This is why the company provided a go-live license along with the Beta of the TFS-PS Feature Pack.
Developers looking to play around with the Beta will be able to actually download and install the bits. Early adopters involved in the testing of the CTP release of TFS-PS Feature Pack could only run the solution inside the virtual machine provided by Microsoft.
This is no longer the case. Furthermore, the software giant is even ready to provide testers with support provided that they test it and help with its finalization.
“TFS < - > Project Server integration is a server side synchronization/workflow tool that enables project managers who use Project Server to share up to date project status and resource availability with development teams who use Team Foundation Server whether they use formal or Agile development processes,” revealed Microsoft’s Brian Harry.
“It enables the two constituencies to work in the tools of their choice and at a granularity that is most comfortable to them. Project managers can work in fairly high level tasks using a long range plan.
“Developers can see the plan and decompose the high level tasks into detailed assignments in whatever fashion works best for them.”
Microsoft has been dogfooding the TFS-PS Feature Pack since May 2010, and the company is saying that the feedback has been quite positive.
According to the software giant, all developers with MSDN subscriptions purchased with Visual Studio Ultimate have access to TFS-PS Feature Pack.
“Specifically, in order to use the TFS-PS Feature Pack, an organization must own at least one license of VS Ultimate with MSDN,” Harry added.
“With that one license, the software can be downloaded and installed and then all users with access to either the Project Server or the TFS server that are connected can benefit from the integration. This is yet one more advantage to owning an MSDN subscription.”
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