Visual Studio TFS Lab Management

One of my ongoing projects is to dive deeply into Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010.  TFS is pretty easy to get up and running, but as you get into some of the advanced features like Build Services and Lab Management, it gets kind of tricky.  Luckily there’s a fair bit of guidance from our favorite blue badged company.

On the Lab Management Team Blog there is a 4 part walkthrough on Getting Started with Lab Manager in TFS.  Since they are using the RC build of TFS, the walkthrough was pretty spot on to the RTM build.  Here is the walkthrough:

  1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lab_management/archive/2010/02/16/getting-started-with-lab-management-vs2010-rc-part-1.aspx
  2. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lab_management/archive/2010/02/16/getting-started-with-lab-management-vs2010-rc-part-2.aspx
  3. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lab_management/archive/2010/02/16/getting-started-with-lab-management-vs2010-rc-part-3.aspx
  4. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lab_management/archive/2010/02/16/getting-started-with-lab-management-vs2010-rc-part-4.aspx

If you are looking for test code to try out deployments and testing check out part 3, as it contains a working project.