Wow,
I have no idea how or why DETROIT is the #2 stop on the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Lauch tour. Maybe they think that after their big launch in San Fran, they need a list of crappy cities to work the kinks out of their tour. Don’t get me wrong, I love Detroit, I just didn’t think anyone else did.
Team System is the most integrated application I have ever seen. You can do everything from where it makes sense. Project managers can manage projects in Excel and still be working off the team server. It is really awesome. Of course, the pricetag is so insane I really don’t think very many organizations will adopt it.
The stuff about Team Foundation Server (or whatever the VSS replacement is) about concurrent versioning made me laugh. The presenter actually demoed an example of merge and I kept thinking, wow, I had this 10 years ago when I first used source control. It was called CVS.
So far I have seen a keynote and a Team System presentation. I’m looking forward to afternoon presentations about more products which I will probably never use.
Glad you could make it to the event. Thats good feedback about the source control. Its something new to the MS toolset, but definitly something thats been around for awhile in other tools. We’re just excited to finally have a “real” source control system in our suite of tools. 🙂