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Using Visual Studio?2008 to Improve Software Development Deploying Visual Studio Team System?2008 Team Foundation Server at Microsoft Technical White Paper Published: June 2008 Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Overview of Software Development at Microsoft IT 4 Team Foundation Server 7 Visual Studio?2008 8 Deployment 12 Application Tier and Data Tier 12 Client Tier 13 User Experience Enhancements 15 Improved Visibility 15 Enhanced Team Build 16 Integrated Power Tools 17 Team System Web Access 17 Improved Source Control Management 18 Benefits 20 Best Practices 21 Conclusion 22 For More Information 23 Executive Summary To support the IT infrastructure in the largest software company in the world, the Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) department is responsible for the ongoing development of more than 1,400 software applications that consist of approximately 2 million lines of code. These applications are a critical part of managing the day-to-day business operations at Microsoft. These business operations include the following: Sales Marketing Software licensing and operations Services Other corporate functions such as human resources (HR), legal, and finance. Microsoft IT employs approximately 11,000 people who develop and support internal business applications. As part of its mandate to support internal business applications, Microsoft IT implemented the Program Delivery Engineering Excellence strategic initiative. The goal of this initiative is to improve code quality, developer productivity, and the accuracy of the programming schedule and the programming budget for software development at Microsoft IT. To make these improvements, Microsoft IT created a series of metrics that it can use to define guidelines for software development among all of its development groups. Additionally, Microsoft IT gave these groups the tools to gather the appropriate metrics. As part of the movement toward supporting formalized development methodologies,