Developer Training with Visual Studio Team System 2010

Developer Training with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

To sign up for any of these courses, please contact Notion Solutions at 972.607.4830 or via email at sales@notionsolutions.com.

Next Scheduled Class: Dallas, Texas - (Please Call 972.607.4830 for Available Dates) - 8:30am-5:00pm ($1795 USD)

This four-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to improve the development practices of their organization and team. This course focuses on improving interaction between team members as well as enhancing architecture compliance, coding practices and debugging techniques using tools all integrated directly into Visual Studio 2010. By the end of the course, students are equipped to enforce architecture and coding standards, perform unit testing during builds, setup gated checkin processes, use historical debugging, uncover performance bottlenecks and interact better with test teams.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for Enterprise IT Staff who actively participate in developing software using Visual Studio and either C# or Visual Basic.NET. They participate in design, development, debugging, testing and deployment.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe integrated Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) and how Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate aids the ALM process.
Identify the components of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and how these are used to improve collaboration and increase the overall efficiency of the team development process.
Describe work management tools available in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
Describe a Developer’s tasks in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
Describe how to use Team Build to deploy and test.
Explain how to create unit tests and execute them during a build process.
Access and use Team Foundation Version control.
Use buddy builds and gated checkins to improved code review.
Use historical debugging and profiling to more quickly find application problems.
Explain how code analysis can be used to automated compliance with coding standards.

Course Topics and Labs

Introducing Visual Studio 2010 Overview
Overview of Application Lifecycle Management
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate in the enterprise
Overview of targeted roles and capabilities
New architecture and administration in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

Work Tracking Overview
Work Item States
Work Item Links
Custom link types
Hierarchical Work Item Management
Labs

Creating and managing Requirements
Working with Visual Studio 2010 Web Access
Working with Team Explorer
Working with hierarchical Work Items

Retrieving Work Items
Work Item Queries
Work Item Query folders
Hierarchical Work Item queries
Link queries
Managing Work Items with Excel and Project
Labs

Creating flat Work Item queries
Managing Work Item data in Excel
Creating hierarchical Work Item queries
Managing hierarchical data in Project and Excel

Management and Reporting
Team Project Dashboard
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Reports (Reporting Services)
Reporting with Excel Reports
Labs

Working with the Team Project Dashboard
Working with Excel Agile Reports

Version Control Overview
Description and Team Foundation Server version control concepts
Parallel development
Architecture overview and changes in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Storage and reverse-delta storage
Changesets and Pending Changes
Workspaces
Adding files to version control
Check-Out/Check-In
Deleting files from version control
Labs

Adding projects to Team Foundation Server version control
Checking changes work into Team Foundation Server version control
Working with unbound files in Team Foundation Server version control

Version Control Features
Viewing Version Control History
File and Version Comparison
Annotate
Labels
Working with shelvesets
Labs

Working with Team Foundation Server version control history
Working with annotate in Team Foundation Server version control
Working with labels in Team Foundation Server version control
Shelving

Branching and Versioning
Branching Overview
Branching guidance and workflow
Creationg and managing branches
Branch visualizer
Branch history
Labs

Branching in Team Foundation Server version control
Branching using Team Foundation Server version control history
Working with the Branch Visualizer

Merge
Merging Overview
Merging between branches
Merging conflicts
Promoting code
Merging best practices
Labs

Merging between branches
Merging conflicting changes
Viewing branch and merge history for changesets

Build Process
Team Build Architecture
Creating Build Definitions
Executing Builds
Scheduling Builds/Continuous Integration
Gated Checkins
Private/Buddy Builds
Symbol Server Integration
Log Enhancements
Running Tests As Part Of The Build
Labs

Creating new build
Executing builds
Working with gated checkin

Visual Studio 2010 Overview for Developers
Developer workflow
"No Repro" and the developer-tester relationship
Roles and capabilities of the Visual Studio 2010 development tools
What's new for developers in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

Visual Studio 2010 Architect Tools
Overview of Modeling Projects
Activity Diagrams
Use Case Diagrams
Logical Class Diagrams
Component Diagrams
Sequence Diagrams
Labs

Creating a Modeling Project
Creating Use Cases
Working with Logical Class Diagrams
Working with Component Diagrams
Creating Sequence Diagrams

Architect Tools - Working with Existing Assets
Understanding existing assets
Architecture Explorer
Standard/Dependency Graphs
Sequence Diagrams from existing code
Architectural validation
Labs

Generating standard/dependency graphs from existing code
Generating sequence diagrams from existing code
Working with Architecture explorer and validating architectures

Architect Tools - Collaboration
Team collaboration
Layer Diagrams
Layer Diagrams as part of the build process
Linking model elements to Work Items
Labs

Generating a Layer Diagram
Evaluating Layer Diagrams in build
Creating traceability between architectural components and Work Items

Developer Tools - Debugging Code
Working with Bugs in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Using the Historical Debugger
Labs

Debugging defects with the Historical Debugger

Developer Tools - Unit Testing
Test-driven development
Unit Test philosophy and understanding
Working with the Visual Studio unit test tools
Using Mocks, Inversion-of-Control, and Initialization/Teardown
Integrating with Data Generation
Integrating with Build
Enabling and using Code Coverage to influence software quality
Using Test Impact
Labs

Creating Unit Tests with the Visual Studio Unit Test tools
Creating data-driven Unit Tests
Enabling and using Code Coverage
Enabling Code Coverage during the build process
Using Test Impact analysis

Developer Tools - Improving Code Quality
What's new in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to improve code quality
Understanding and using Code Metrics
Enabling and using Code Analysis
Working with Code Analysis rule sets
Using the Code Profiler
Interpreting Code Profiler reports
Labs

Using and interpreting Code Metrics
Using and interpreting Code Metrics
Exporting Code Metrics data to Excel
Enabling Code Analysis and resolving issues
Creating custom Code Analysis rules
Creating Code Analysis rule sets
Profiling code to fix performance issues
Enabling the Code Profiler during the build process