Thursday, March 24, 2005

Rick LaPlante is asking for people's opinions about Team System's ability to support nDoc (and other types of tools like that) here.

My answer is that Microsoft should be cognizant of the community developed projects surrounding their products, and try to support these tools through communication with the community.

In the case of nDoc, Microsoft should support the nDoc development team by providing them with enough information to integrate their tool into the VS IDE. I would bet that they are already planning to provide more than enough documentation for developers to build plugins into Team System (as they had with the VS.NET 2003 IDE), and I suggest looking to the nDoc development team to actually take advantage of this option!