It's official. I'll post more thoughts and analysis about this as time permits, but, things you should know.
- Microsoft now has a new Team version of Visual Studio to be delivered “Next Year“ according to Balmer.
- new source control - more details to follow.
- Project Management - so dev's will be able to see “Work Items“ in their IDE. There is also supposed to be a sharepoint portal of some kind that dev's & pm's can go to see a dashboard view of a project, milestone's, etc. integrated with MS Project Server.
- Unit Testing - yes, a very NUnitish thing built right into visual Studio.
- Code Coverage - yes in the editor you can see what code was executed and what was not.
- Static Code Analysis - a la fxCop integrated right inside of visual studio.
- Check in Source control process policy, so a manager type can say “if you check in something, all tests must pass, all static analysis rules must pass, and your code coverage must be 100%“.
- Also showed was some Load testing stuff that is going to be better than Application Center Test - more on that later.
Of course whitehorse class modeling & SOA designer were showed quickly. Nothing new to announce yet on that front that wasn't covered at PDC....although the guy doing the demo kept saying “Services Oriented APPLICATION” designer. Is this new? Is he changing the acronym from Architecture?