"Rosario" is the name of Microsoft's next release of Team Foundation Server. Got a great look at new features in Brian Harry's 3:30 session. TFS "Rosario" at a high level Protect the quality of your code - Making sure the quality of the code that makes it into the tree is of the highest quality; issues that are found early are rejected and fixed. Understanding parallel development - how does the development team handle lots of branches, releases and builds Managing your project - A number of enhancements have been made to make PM tasks easier Reporting on your entire portfolio - New enhancements help managers and team members understand what's going on across multiple projects Coordinate across development platforms - New support for Eclipse, Mac development tools, etc. Administer TFS in your environment - New improvements in flexibility and scalability for large enterprises Protecting the quality of your code Gated check-in and buddy builds - an evolution of continuous integration; build server can automatically build, test and deploy interactively with proofing upon check-in; Buddy builds allow user to package up changes, ship it off to build server and run tests on isolated server without deployment Workflow based builds - In TFS 2005, 2008, build engine is based on MSBuild. New enhancements in TFS 2010 allow builds to be triggered as Windows Workflow events. Brian demonstrated this during his presentation - trust me when I tell you it kicks ass. Build queuing - manage large groups of many people doing many builds Build agent pooling - setup farms of build machines; kickoff builds and TFS finds available build machines and builds Symbol server and source server support - making it easier to debug builds that come out of the automated build (since there's no symbols on the build server) Understanding Parallel Builds First class branches Visualize branch relationships Track changes across branches (History, Timeline, Annotate) Conflict resolution Rollback Managing your Projects Agile project management workbooks Work item linking and hierarchy Work item usability (Rich text, Links control, HTML link control, drag and drop support) Traceability queries Query folders (with independent permissions) Excel and Project improvements (excel workbooks no longer lose their custom stuff upon TFS refresh; new styles and report workbooks) Reporting on your entire portfolio Customizable dashboards SharePoint web parts Excel reports using MOSS Relational warehouse Excel reporting At the end of the session Brian had time to take some Q&A. I asked if the Team System Web Access for 2010 would be as functional as the Visual Studio integrated Team Explorer, which he responded with a resounding "Yes". I also asked if there were improvements in customizing process guidance or work item templates -- unfortunately not for this release -- let's hope for some service pack improvements! Truthfully, I think Brian had even more amazing content to go over in his demo but got cut short on time. TFS Rosario literally has hundreds of new features and enhancements. I'll blog more about the product as I have bits and more information is made available! Technorati Tags: TFS 2010,Rosario