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The final article of the Global Bank: A Scenario for Visual Studio Team System 2008 series is now available.

From the overview:

Are you wondering what you can do in Visual Studio Team System 2008 that you couldn’t do before? We’ve created a series of articles to show you. In this series, we'll explore how Global Bank uses Visual Studio Team System 2008 to help design and implement a new online service.

Global Bank: Adding New Services to an Existing Web Site

The first article in the series. Follow along as Alan creates the list of requirements for the new service and Ken uses these requirements to design the system.

Global Bank: Updating an Existing Database to Support New Services

The second article in the series. See how Alice implements the new table and stored procedure that are required for the new service.

Global Bank: Coding the New Service, Part 1

The third article in the series. Follow along as Martin begins coding, debugging, and testing the new service.

Global Bank: Coding the New Service, Part 2

The fourth article in the series. See how Martin uses unit testing and profiling to test the accuracy and robustness of his code.

Global Bank: Testing the New Service and Fixing Issues

The final article in the series. Follow along as Ellen uses web tests and load tests to check the performance of the new service.

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Today, we launched a new site on MSDN - the Microsoft Tester Center!

The Microsoft Tester Center showcases the test discipline as an integral part of the application lifecycle, describes test roles and responsibilities, and promotes the test investments required to deliver high-quality software.

Source: Tester Center Home

The aim of the Microsoft Tester Center is to provide a place for software testers to share their experiences and best practices, and to shed some light on how we do software testing at Microsoft. Testers from across Microsoft have contributed content for this site, and the first couple of articles are now available in the MSDN Library:

• Best Practices: Code Reviews
• Life-Cycle Performance Testing for Eliminating Last-Minute Surprises

Visual Studio Team System embraces the entire software development team. Software testers are one of the key benefactors of this expansion in the Visual Studio product line. While Team System provides the tools software testers need to be successful, this site will help provide some of the knowledge testers need to make the best use of those tools and to cultivate the software testing community.

The team that is working on this site is eager to receive your feedback and contributions:

Contribute to This Site: Submit your articles, book reviews, videos and more. Email us to find out more.

Submit Your Feedback: Send email.

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As Jeff Beehler announced on his blog today, you can now find Branching Guidance for Team Foundation Version Control on CodePlex.

I'm extremely excited to announce the availability of Branching guidance for Team Foundation Server.  This was a collaborative effort between the TFS product team and members of our "Ranger" program who are focused on accelerating adoption of V1.  While the product documentation will tell you how each of our tools works, it doesn't provide insight into the best practice usage of each.  The guidance that we recently released attempts to fill that gap in the area of version control and how to best work with branches. 

Source: Jeff Beehler's Blog : Branching guidance now available

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There are two new Team System articles on MSDN:

• Team System: Work Item Tracking by Brian A. Randell
• Database Unit Testing with Team Edition for Database Professionals by Sachin Rekhi

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Last week we published an article on MSDN on the topic of reviewing managed code, which you may find interesting if your team performs code reviews or you're just looking for ways to improve your own code.

Reviewing Managed Code

Author: John D'Addamio

Publishing Date: 02/09/2007

Printed Pages: 6

This document will discuss best practices for reviewing managed code. Some practices are universal to reviewing managed and unmanaged code. Others are unique to reviewing managed code. While it is assumed that you are familiar with at least one managed language, there is no assumption that you are an experienced reviewer of managed code.

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Richard Waymire, Program Manager Architect for the Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals group, wrote an article late last year for MSDN (A Security Overview of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals) that provides an overview of the security aspects of the product.

To integrate database development into the overall life cycle most effectively, you must understand the variety of security implications in Team Edition for Database Professionals. These implications include how to set up and configure the product more securely, how to use the security-related features of the product, and best practices for a more secure implementation of your database projects. (11 printed pages)

Source: A Security Overview of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals

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