I have started using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2008, recently. Previously I worked with Visual Studio 2005. As a matter of fact I had to use lots of external tools to perform and speedup my development process. However, while working with VSTS 2008, it's very exciting for me that, I found replacements for most of the external tools there.
Here are 10 tools which I left after using VSTS 2008:
1. Database Schema Compare
External tool: Redgate SQL Compare
VSTS 2008 tool: Menu -> Data -> Schema Compare
2. Database Data Compare
External tool: Redgate SQL Data Compare
VSTS 2008 tool: Menu -> Data -> Data Compare
3. Database Data Generator
External tool: Data Gen 0.9
VSTS 2008 tool (power tool): Add -> New Item -> Data Generation Wizard
4. Unit Testing
External tool: Test Driven.NET
VSTS 2008 tool: Menu -> Test -> New Test
5. Web Testing
External tool: Badboy
VSTS 2008 tool: Menu -> Test -> New Test
6. Load Testing
External tool: Neoload
VSTS 2008 tool: Menu -> Test -> New Test
7. Code Profiling
External tool: Redgate ANTS Profiler
VSTS 2008 tool: Menu -> Analyze -> Launch Performance Wizard
8. Code Analysis
External tool: Fxcop
VSTS 2008 tool: Menu -> Analyze -> Run Code Analysis
9. Code Matrics
External tool: nDepend
VSTS 2008 tool: Menu -> Analyze -> Calculate Code Matrics
10. Java Script Debugging
External tool: Code Project Java Script Debugging Tool
VSTS 2008 tool: see Scott Gu's post on it.
posted @ Friday, July 18, 2008 3:06 AM