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New Tech Talk: Brian Harry on VSS, the CLR, and Team Foundation
Brian Harry starts by giving us some history on lifecycle development tools from his days at OneTree, the original creators of Visual Source Safe. He was instrumental in Visual Source Safe's development and discusses how it brought a project and component based paradigm to the source control market.
He later went on to work on several teams at Microsoft before joining the CLR team in 1996, before it was even called the CLR. In the discussion we learn how the CLR was an attempt by Microsoft to bring the API level closer to what developers actually used to create applications.
In his most recent endeavors at Microsoft, Brian has been working on the Team Foundation product. This product is a set of services that are designed to enable whole teams to operate together and communicate better. Rather than focusing strictly on the needs of the developer, Team Foundation integrates architects, testers, project management, and developers with a consistent set of tools for tasks like defect tracking, version control, as well as build management and reporting. Historically, Visual Studio has focused very much on the developer, trying to make the developer more productive. Tools, designers, wizards, and class libraries that make the developer able to create code faster. What we realized is that as the software development projects are becoming bigger, more complicated, more people are involved and that roles are becoming more specialized. Watch Brian Harry on Visual Studio Team Foundation
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More personal opinions
I really liked the 'my personal opinion' parts of Brian's interview. There seems to be a distinct difference between TSS.Net and TSS.Com. The majority of the interviews on TSS.Net have been MS people talking about and marketing the products that they are responsible for stuff whereas TSS.Com is often individuals giving their opinions.
I think having a greater mix of people and perspectives would be excellent although I can understand that this may be a lot harder to organise ;)
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Emphatic
I enjoyed the clip. I'd agree with Chris that the personal comments were a good thing. It added flavour and colour to the interview. One could also gauge Microsoft's pledge to try to be more open with developers. This came across in his animated descriptions of the CLR.
The Team System and Foundation products look like tidy methods of solving problems that most companies are solving otherwise. I have often used disparate products to implements version control and work item tracking and have been exasperated in the past with similar problems that Ryan noted.
A great presentation! :)
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Eric Sink's view of Microsoft's Team Foundation Server
http://software.ericsink.com/item_10192.html
Very interesting.
"Microsoft staff put smiles on their faces and announced that they will be competing with almost all of us.
There was a lot of emotion in that room. Every VSIP vendor had worked very hard to be a part of Microsoft's "ecosystem" for Visual Studio, only to end up feeling very betrayed. If this is how Microsoft treats its partners, how do they treat their enemies?"
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Btw, who needs VSS when you can have Subversion with the excellent SVN explorer plugin ...
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Language "mashups" will become more prominent, and developers will become polyglots, one programmer suggests.
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