Today I upgraded my development team member. He had previously installed Visual Studio 2005 and TortoiseSVN as guided, so I got to point him at our new Wiki, and watch him follow the “software build process”. And it just worked… there were a couple of missing notes about setting the debugging options as these are stored in the <project name>.vcproj.<user name>.user which I have in the SVN ignore list. So I showed him how to updated the Wiki.
I got to show him around the layout, debugging, and configuration UI of Visual Studio, and the workflow of SVN. It’s so nice when people go ooh-ah, makes the effort of driving for change feel rewarded.
I feel so much happier now we have move past Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Source Safe, and Word documents for notes.
I’m now getting the build scripts updated to use the new tool set. And then we will be reading to start testing the “tool update” before new development get mixed in.