Team Foundation Integration

The Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation server is the core of VSTS and is the store for work items, source code control, reporting, build management, change management, and project management, along with the services that tools invoke. Internally it uses an instance of SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) and web services to interoperate with the various versions of VS.

Although the new releases of VS will interoperate with Team Foundation Microsoft does not have plans at this point to create the integration for either Visual Studio 6 or Visual Studio .NET 2003. It is expected that other tool vendors will create the integration for their tools. Creating the integration for the existing Microsoft dev tools seems to me like a major opportunity for a third party. A command-line interface will be available for tools like the source code control so developers can use Team Foundation without full shell integration.