Waiting for Rosario

by: Per Bjurström

There are so many great features coming in Microsoft Team Foundation Server "Rosario". Here are some of the most promising ones:

Historical debugger
A new window that tracks what happens in the application when you debug, kind of a callstack on steriods. Good for tracking down bugs. Maybe something we could extend with EPiServer CMS stuff?
Branching support on history view
This should have been released ages ago but I'm glad it is coming, it allows you to see history from other branches.
Hierarchical work items
One of the major drawbacks when we moved our bugs to TFS (from Mantis) was the lack of parent-child support. Looking good, should also be a perfect fit for Scrum artifacts.
Stand-alone debugger
This is really good news for us windbg analphabets.
Quality metrics for a ‘go/no-go’ release decision
I have no clue what the actual feature is here but it sounds like something we could use :-)

Here are some screen dumps from the latest CTP if you don't want to try Rosario yourself. Click on the images to see a larger version.

New "Links" user interface