Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System is published by Wrox and is written (like many other books from Wrox) by several authors.

The book is much bigger than Working with MS Visual Studio 2005 Team System (that was the first book published about VSTS) and covers the same arguments with more details.

It has 700 pages and is made of several parts, one for every Team Edition, and one for Team Foundation Server.

There are 6 chapters about Team Architect, one chapter about the DSL Tools, 5 chapters about Team Developer, 5 chapters about Team Tester, 6 chapters about Team Foundation Server and one chapter that covers the Microsoft Solutions Framework.

This book includes arguments that are not easy to find, like deployment and administration of TFS, using and configuring the Team Build, and others, but it covers also arguments like creating a Team Project, using the Source Control and all the client side functionalities.

Like many books written by several authors, the level of the different chapters is different. I really liked the chapter about DSL Tools (with an example that is really useful, based on the February 2006 CTP of the SDK, but useful), and found some missing details in other chapters. For example it is shown how to create a Team Build, how to customize it, but a practical example is missing.

In general the overall level of the other chapters is pretty good, and most of them are full of screenshots and real examples that are really useful both for beginners and intermediate users.

If you need a book that helps to adopt Visual Studio Team System (both client and server), this is the right one!

P.s. I bought the book during last TechEd in Boston, and I'm really happy because it was signed by three of the authors:

 

Great work guys!!!