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About This Course

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

This four-day course provides students with deep dive information on Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2005, including a brief refresher/overview of the Visual Studio 2005 Team System, the architecture and capabilities of both the client SKUs as well as TFS at a 300 level, and commonly encountered Visual Studio 2005 Team System customization and extension scenarios.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for experienced developers who want to learn more about Visual Studio Team System 2005.

Prerequites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• At least six months experience extending, customizing, and doing customer implementations of Visual Studio 2005 Team System
• Visual Studio 2005 Team System Training experience
• At least three years experience in software development with one or more of the following languages: Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual C++
• At least two years experience in MS CTEC/CPLS developing and delivering training in Visual Basic, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft ASP.NET, the Microsoft .NET Framework, Commerce Server, or other Microsoft technologies
• Experience with using and configuring Microsoft Virtual PC, Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0, Visual Studio 2005, the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

Reviewed and walked through 300-level training content and viewed a beta live meeting recording of this training

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Position the value of Team System to customers.
• Explain the basic licensing requirements of Visual Studio Team System.
• Describe the architecture of Visual Studio Team System.
• Reinforce the key concepts behind Visual Studio Team System.
• Review the architecture of Visual Studio Team System.
• Understand the components that comprise Visual Studio Team System.
• Understand the steps, requirements, and deployment options for the installation of Team Foundation Server and its components.
• Understand the various management activities required postinstallation.
• Understand the difference between customization and extensibility.
• Review the Team Foundation Core APIs (application programming interfaces).
• Understand the eventing and security services.
• Discuss the resources available in the Visual Studio 2005 software development kit (SDK).
• Review the reporting capabilities of Team Foundation Server.
• Understand the architectural components and security model of TFS reporting.
• Discuss customizing a Process Design Template.
• Understand the Team System reporting cube structure.
• Understand the process of managing and viewing reports.
• Author and deploy reports.
• Review considerations for team projects.
• Understand process template customization.
• Define work items and understand the work item customization process.
• Review additional resources for Visual Studio Team System extensibility.
• Gain advanced understanding of Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC).
• Understand how to leverage TFVC in deployment scenarios.
• Get familiar with migration challenges and scenarios.
• Perform advanced administration operations on TFVC.
• Create and deploy custom policies.
• Configure and administer proxy server for distributed teams.
• Gain advanced understanding of Team Foundation Server Team Build.
• Understand how to leverage Team Build in deployment scenarios.
• Create and deploy custom build tasks.
• Perform advanced administration operations on Team Build.
• Gain advanced understanding of Team Edition for Software Architects.
• Understand how to use Team Edition for Software Architects in customer deployment scenarios.
• Get familiar with migration challenges.
• Extend the tools by using validators and custom definitions.
• Gain advanced understanding of Team Edition for Software Developers.
• Perform advanced administration operations on Team Edition for Software Developers.
• Create custom code analysis rules.
• Configure the profiling and code coverage tools.
• Migrate NUnit Tests to the Unit Testing Framework.
• Gain advanced understanding of Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers.
• Describe common customer scenarios.
• Understand how to use Team Edition for Software Testers in deployment scenarios.
• Get familiar with migration challenges.
• Perform advanced admin operations on Team Edition for Software Testers.
• Understand customization and extensibility.