Hello guys,
I would like to ask for some book recommendations to learn about the Microsoft Team Foundation Server. You must know, my company is currently about to change our complete software development equipment. In fact, we are emigrating from Bugzilla as issue tracking system, SVN as Version Control System, TICOS as time recording software... etc. Everything will be combined into this giant beast called TFS.
Don't get me wrong. As always, I am excited to have the chance to learn something new about Microsoft products, because they are just everywhere. So it’s more like a natural science to study them, and thus really worth to invest time. I am really looking forward to get familiar with our new TFS system, but I realized pretty quickly that this will be a greater task which is not done by some googling, but rather needs a more fundamental approach.
As you can see, I don’t need any informations about the server-side part. Neither about TFS administration or setup, nor about the installation process.
What is important for me, are informations about its usage from the point of view of a software developer. Mainly via the Visual Studio Team Explorer as well as through the TFS web interface.
What is possible? What can be done? How to manage a project. How to open, manage and close requirements, work items, bug descriptions, change requests, test cases etc. How to manage, lock, unlock, update, commit, diff, branch and merge my repositories. How to link source code check-in’s to specific tasks. What kind of logs are written and how to view them.
Just, what does a software engineer need to know about TFS?
And, of course, my company did not include any time for training or training courses in our time schedule to learn about all these things. So I don't have time to read thousands of pages of a reference type of book. What I really need are compact informations from someone who knows what he’s talking about.
Can anyone suggest me some good books to achieve this?
Yours sincerely,
Michael
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