Developer Solutions Sprint 6: BPA Tool, 1.1 Releases, & The Developer Power Pack
Today the Developer Solutions team has begun its 6th five week sprint. Sprint 5 saw the release of the VSCmdShell tool & an Alpha of our Best Practices Analyzer for ASP.Net 2.0. There was buy-off to begin working with CSS on a detailed plan for a CSS involvement in released product communities.
We also prototyped a project that I’m excited about called the “Pack Installer” that has the potential to create a vehicle/channel for any team looking to ship aftermarket developer solutions to their customers.
In the next 5 weeks we plan to:
- Ship a 1.0 release of the Best Practices Analyzer Engine w/ ASP.Net 2.0 Plug-In
- Publish 1.1 Releases: VSCmdShell & TFS Admin Tool
- Prototype a Power Toy Starter Kit, Online snippet publishing, Nunit Test Generator, & a developer forum Moderator Toolbar Services
- Draft of Detailed CSS Online Community Presentation for September
- Host a brownbag on developer division involvement in Shared Source & Power Toys aimed at making it easier for every team to get involved.
- Create a public alpha of the “Developer Power Pack”
For other teams at Microsoft
By the end of this sprint we’ll be able to give you great guidance around Shared Source Projects, a solid delivery vehicle that does one step better for customers than just throwing random stuff on MS Download, and guidance on building aftermarket solutions/Power Toys that are consistent for our customers.
Thanks,
Josh
Detailed Sprint 5 Recap
Releases
- VSCmdShell 1.0: https://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=VSCmdShell
- Best Practices Analyzer for ASP.Net 2.0 configurations Alpha 1: https://blogs.msdn.com/joemorel/archive/2006/06/29/651082.aspx
Shared Source Leadership
- Partnering with LCA to create a generic license for Power Toys
- Power Toy Landing Page
- Our most famous blogger speaking at BlogHer
- Represented Microsoft at OSCON
Share and Collaborate Scenario
- Snippet Editor that integrates with the VS IDE written and polished
- Content Explorer for snippets, add-ins, templates, etc. prototyped
Power Toy Pack Installer
- Pack installer prototyped that will allow customers to download groups of our tools and automatically install them
- Pack installer specification drafted:
Best Practices Analyzer Tool
- Test Plan Completed
- Over 3,700 downloads of the alpha
- Added updating mechanism
Answerme Search Page Completed: https://answerme/search.aspx
(This is our internal forum question assignment & search tool)
Other Prototypes
- Resource refactoring tool that converts literals to resource files in Visual Studio
- Forums MSN Search tool that constructs complex search queries against the metadata on forum questions: https://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=eb5f1dc5-6868-4fde-9c78-909832315ccc
Support Channels
- CSS Online Community Engagement Proposal to Execs w/ buyoff to continue project
- MSDN Forums Over 4,000 questions a week/DevDiv over 70% overall answer rate