MSDN Magazine - December 2008 - (Page 44)

Team SySTem Streamline Team Projects With Process Templates Brian a. Randell Today you can collect and track all of your work and artifacts in Team Foundation Server (TFS) within a team project. A team project is simply a bucket that stores and partitions all of the artifacts you track and use during a development project. And using the New Team Project wizard from the Team Foundation Client (TFC) can help you on your way. The wizard is deceptively simple. Clicking File | New team project starts the wizard. Once it has opened, you must provide a name for your team project. Click Next and pick a process methodology template using the combobox. Click Next yet again and add a description for your team project that SharePoint displays on your portal’s home page. Clicking Next once more gives you the option to decide how you want version control defined. You can choose to create a new trunk, create a new trunk by branching from an existing trunk, or not create a trunk. After you have made your This article discusses: • Process template basics • The mSF agile and mSF CmmI templates • Customizing process templates • Creating your own templates choices, click Finish and, after a few moments, you’ll have a new team project ready for use. If that were all there was to it, then this would be a very short article. My editor would most likely withhold payment and even reconsider my column’s status. However, it’s not that simple. In fact, the page of the wizard where you choose the process templates is critical to getting your development project off to a good start when using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). This is because a process template defines the initial structure and contents of your team project. Process Templates Technologies discussed: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008 44 msdn magazine As mentioned, a team project provides a collection mechanism for all of your team’s artifacts. Naturally, you store version-controlled items, such as source files, in a team project. You also manage and store all of your work items and work item queries. You store documents in SharePoint document libraries that are a part of your team project’s portal. And finally, you run reports against the data warehouse to track how well your team is working. A process template defines the default artifact templates included in your team project. Specifically, it defines the work item types you’ll have available to you. It also defines the user interface and structure of your SharePoint site as well as the default documents loaded into the document libraries—both files and templates. It also provides the default reports for your reporting services site

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MSDN Magazine - December 2008

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