Microsoft has now made the Beta 2 of VSTS 2010 available for download from MSDN. I have been waiting for these bits for some times and hopefully some issues in Beta 1 are now resolved and we have someting that is functionally close to what will be released later on.

The bits are downloading as I write these words and I hope to have a VPC image up and running TFS later tonight.

There are a number of things on the to do list now:

  • Make sure that the "new" EssUP process template loads ok
  • Create a TFS backend for the EssUP dashboard. The idea is to have one single work item type that keeps all the 8 root alpha states. I intend to create the backend as a WCF Service Application
  • Get our "hose keeper" up and running. The house keeper will be another WCF service that listens to TFS events and performs some, ta-da, house keeping task
  • Make sure that our template works well with the Excelbased agile planning tools
  • Make sure that Reports works as they should
  • Get a sharepoint template set up that integrates the EssUP dashboard

Between customer assignments that should keep me busy for a while.

I will let you know how things proceed.