Team System Guidance

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Microsoft patterns & practices has begun developing and publishing Team System guidance. Many of these resources are "living" documents on CodePlex that will be maintained, updated, and expanded over time.

Visual Studio Team System Guidance
The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, Team System team members, and industry experts.

Team Development with Team Foundation Server Guide
This guide shows you how to make the most of Team Foundation Server. It starts with the end in mind, but shows you how to incrementally adopt TFS for your organization. It's a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, Team System team members, and industry experts.

Guidance for Structuring Team Projects
This whitepaper provides details on the components of a team project and discusses how those components may impact your decision about structuring your team projects. It also lays out a set of common strategies for employing team projects.

Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance
The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around doing branching and merging using Team Foundation Server. It's a collaborative effort between industry experts, Microsoft Services, patterns & practices, and VSTS team members.

Performance Testing Guidance
The purpose of this project is to build some insightful and practical guidance around doing performance testing and using Visual Studio 2005. It's a collaborative effort between industry experts, Microsoft ACE, patterns & practices, Premier, and VSTS team members.

patterns & practices Guidance Explorer
patterns & practices Guidance Explorer is a tool that enables discovery, composition and consumption of high quality development guidance. Guidance Explorer installs with a connection to the patterns & practices guidance library including topics for .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and Team System.

Watch this video to see how to use Guidance Explorer to build a custom set of Team System guidance.

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