Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

"The collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft’s application lifecycle management solution"


Team Foundation Server 2010 automates the software delivery process and gives you the tools you need to effectively manage software development projects throughout the IT lifecycle.

Team Foundation Server 2010 enables everyone on your team to collaborate more effectively, be more agile, and deliver better quality software while building and sharing institutional knowledge. Project artifacts like requirements, tasks, bugs, source code, and build and test results are stored in a data warehouse. Powerful reporting and dashboards provide historical trending, full traceability, and real-time visibility into quality and progress against business intent.

Reduce waste and streamline the flow of data across your entire team
Project artifacts are stored in a central repository that facilitates in-context collaboration. This reduces the amount of time wasted during handover between tasks, and streamlines the development process so team members can focus on delivering value instead of transitioning information between roles. In addition, Team Explorer Everywhere provides seamless support for Eclipse and extends these collaboration benefits to heterogeneous environments.

Reduce risk with real-time visibility
Powerful reporting tools and dashboards provide historical trending and visibility into overall project health. Real-time metrics give early warnings of potential problems so you can make data-driven decisions and course corrections.

Deliver on business intent with end-to-end traceability
Full traceability means you can track progress and quality back to business goals and customer requirements. You can easily define, query, and report on relationships between requirements, work items, test cases, and builds.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Required Processor - 1.6 GHz or faster

Required Operating System - Windows 7 (both 32 & 64 bit versions, excluding Starter). Additional versions of Windows are supported, please see Other below for the full requirements.

Recommended Memory - 1 GB (32 bit) or 2 GB (64 bit) RAM (add 512 MB if running in a virtual machine)

Required Memory - 1024 MB RAM (1.5 GB if running in a virtual machine)

Required Hard Disk Space - 3 GB (5400 RPM)

Required Media Drive - DVD-ROM

Required Video Card - DirectX 9 capable video card running at 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution display

Other System Requirements
Windows Vista (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 1—all editions except Starter Edition Windows 7 (x86 and x64) Windows Server 2003 (x86 & x64) with Service Pack 2—all editions Users will need to install MSXML6 if not already present Windows Server 2003 R2 (x86 and x64)—all editions Windows Server 2008 (x86 and x64) with Service Pack 2—all editions Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)—all editions