What’s new and different in Visual Studio Scrum 2.0?

Try this: Download the Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 – Preview 3 process template from the Team Foundation Server 11 Beta into one folder and then do the same with the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 version of the template.

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Next, drop to the (Developer) command prompt and run this:

tf.exe folderdiff “C:Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0” “C:Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0” /recursive

Yep, they’ve changed a lot:

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If you double-click the ProductBacklogItem.xml difference, you can see the differences in the new new IDE-hosted tool.

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If you are wanting a complete, functional walkthrough of the differences, you’ll have to wait for my upcoming book.

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