Team Server Completes Visual Studio Team System

With the release of Team Foundation Server, all the components of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System are in place. Team System is a set of tools to help teams of developers, testers, and software architects work together more efficiently by providing source code management, work item tracking, and software modeling and testing. The client portions of Team System are included in several specialized editions of Visual Studio that shipped in Nov. 2005, but the schedule for the server lagged by four months. Before this release, customers had to use a beta version of the server to access Team System’s capabilities.

Foundation for Collaboration

Team Foundation Server forms the backbone of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System-a set of products designed to help teams of software architects, developers, and testers better plan and execute their projects and track their progress. Team System uses a three-tier architecture consisting of a SQL Server 2005 database, a middle-tier application built on ASP.NET 2.0, and a set of client applications consisting of role-based editions of the Visual Studio development environment, Microsoft Excel and Project, and third-party tools from vendors such as Borland and CompuWare.