TFS & Visual Studio ALM – by Neno Loje

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• Rich // Feb 21, 2006 at 06:11

  VSTS is *hands down* the worst product Microsoft has released in a very long time. It’s surprisingly bad.

  First of all – it’s untested. That’s right. After installing RC2, I tried 2 very basic operations: Get Latest, and Merging conflicting files. Both of these operations failed miserably – so miserably, in fact, that I had to kill the devenv process.
  I was asked to install RC3, but it never connected to the new server – even though our administrator verified that what I was doing was correct.
  I backed out RC3 and tried to reinstall RC2. When I tried to reconnect to the older server, I got a null object reference exception!
  As I write this, I’m trying Repair.

  VSTS is very poorly architected. It blocks the main thread while accessing web services (hint to VSTS developers: look up how to call web services asynchronously). It’s slow, unstable, very buggy.

  I do not recommend this product at all.

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