Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 Ships

Visual Studio 2010 Team Suit Beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 1 will be available to download from MSDN today at 5pm (GMT) and to the general public on Wednesday.

As you can see from this, there are more pieces to the 2010 puzzle, here is a list from Brian Harry’s blog:

Architecture (http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons/)

• Architecture Explorer
• Layer diagram
• Use case designer
• Activity designer
• Component diagram
• Logical class designer
• Sequence diagram
• Modelling project system
• UML Model explorer
• Architecture validation during build

Development & Database (http://blogs.msdn.com/habibh/)

• Historical debugging
• Test impact analysis
• Improved code analysis
• Improved profiling (especially multi-tier)
• Database extensibility

Lab Management (http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee, http://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management)

• Multi-tier Environment creation and management
• Automated deployment
• Easily manage machine pools
• Network fencing
• Checkpoints

Test (http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee, http://blogs.msdn.com/james_whittaker)

• Test planning
• Test case management
• Test prioritization
• Run management & reporting
• Project quality reports
• Manual test execution
• Diagnostic recording (environment, video, etc)
• UI Automation recording
• Coded UI tests

TFS (my blog http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry)

• Work item hierarchy & linking
• Improved Agile template
• MOSS & WSS Dashboards
• Simplified reporting
• Improved support for parallel development
• Rollback
• Build queuing and pooling
• Gated checkin
• Simplified setup
• Scale out of web and data tiers
• Admin console
• Project move/archive/restore

I will also add to that..

New WPF UI:

Jason Zander on

A New Look for Visual Studio 2010 and

VS2010: On Triangles and Performance