VSTS Ship Date?

VSTS Ship Date?

• gorganzolia

  The Fawcette article is wrong and all of Visual Studio 2005, including VSTS, will ship the week of November 7th.
  

• Conrad Lang

  I just wanted to reiterate Keith's request for this.  I can understand that exact details are still potentially a little fluid, but my company is also planned to be an Early Adopter via Ascend and I've got a lot of resources to schedule over the next 12 months & money to put aside - I can't do any of this until I have some reasonably reliable release dates and a reasonably accurate list of what features will be delivered.
  
  The post below gave me some solid points I can now cross off my list of expected features, so I now know I have to put aside a developer to do a bit more work than expected.
  http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx PostID=6237
  
  That post (while a little depressing) was really very useful and allows me to plan for the future.  Some obvious other questions come to mind like :
  
  - Will the Work Item Web Interface be included in the live release & when can we see a beta version (or even a full specification of it) so we can decide if it'll fulfill our requierments or whether I've got to assign some developers to write one that does everything we need
  
  - What's the timescales & features list for the release of the non-integrated VSTS Source Control tool   Half our company will be maintaining legacy code, VB6 code and other things which for now won't be moving into VS2005 compilation -- Lack of this client severely affects our rollout potential & I'll need to plan for this eventuality if it's possible that it won't be delivered fully at go live time.  I know we could in theory use the command lines, but this is 2005 - I leave commandline tools to autobuild scripts and sysadmins.
  
  So can we please have some dates released (even rough ones) and some functionality lists we can rely on being in the final release (v1)
  
  Thanks,
  
  Martin
  

• hfeist

  Ideally you could just tell us that the Fawcette article was wrong and VSTS will be ready along with the rest of Visual Studio 2005 the week of Nov 7th.  :-)

  
  

• Dave Bos

  Yeah I've read that press release but you will notice that it doesn't mention Team System.  And with the Fawcette article indicating that VSTS will ship sometime after the launch of VS 2005, I'm left wondering if this is true and if so, how long after the Nov 7th launch.
  

• Michelle Alexander - MS

  According to http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jun05/TechEd2005Day2PR.mspx it is Nov. 7, 2005.
  

• Mike Bautin

  As a potential early adopter of VSTS, it would be nice to now roughly when this puppy will ship.

  
  

• hopefulcoder

  That's good to know.  Thanks!
  
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