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Announcement Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Enables you to Build Quality Code Be More Productive Collaborate at the Next Level

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Improve maintainability Ensure software quality Measure quality Automatically identify software issues Code Quality More easily understand the code developed by other developers Identify performance bottlenecks Automatically identify security and reliability issues in your code Dev Reduce costly bug fixes late in cycle Deliver more reliable applications Work more efficiently as a team by driving code maintainability Team

Code Metrics are a set of metrics to measure the quality and maintainability of your code What is it? Identify error-prone code and manage risks upfront It becomes easier to understand the code produced by other teams working with code metrics Why should I care? Cyclomatic complexity calculations highlight complex and error-prone code

Find performance intensive code paths Compare performance base lines What is it? You can identify the source of performance issues You can find the cause of performance changes Why should I care? Find processor intensive paths Compare results from two different performance sessions

Code Analysis automatically finds coding errors and potential security issues What is it? Code Analysis enables you to be more confidence about your code and to avoid issues Why should I care? Automatically identify coding issues

Automate deployment Keep database and code in sync Refactor database objects Ensure coding standards in the data tier Improved Productivity Lower deployment efforts Easily cascade database changes throughout the code Always work with the correct version of the database Dev Reduce your time-to-market Resolve conflicts in the data tier prior to deployment Enforce coding standards in the data tier Team

Generates update and deployment scripts Automatically generate database deployment scripts Compare database schemas and generate update scripts What is it? You don’t need to track changes to the database You don’t need to write database update scripts Why should I care?

Database objects can be stored under the same version control system as your code What is it? You can always work with the right version of the database Why should I care? Keep your Database project under version control with your application code

Database refactoring cascades changes throughout your code What is it? You don’t need to keep track of all the references to the database objects you are changing Why should I care? Cascade changes throughout the code

Focus on the right tasks all the time Share code more easily Trace back changes to their origins Collaborate at the Next Level Focus on the right tasks all the time Share code for code reviews Understand how your tasks are related to project goals Dev The team always works on tasks that accrue to business needs Facilitate code reviews Managing shifting business requirements Team

Work Item Tracking provides an efficient way to manage and monitor the status of your project What is it? You can ensure that no unnecessary work is assigned You can understand how your tasks are related to project goals as a whole Why should I care? Associate checked-in code with work items

Folder Diff, Annotate, links between work items, traceability reports and queries What is it? You can track changes more easily You can discover the purpose of code changes Why should I care? Discover who last changed a section of code and get detailed change set information

Code Shelving enables sharing a set of changes prior to check-in What is it? Shelving can be used to facilitate code reviews An incomplete effort can be backed up on the server Why should I care? Share changes across files for your code review

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