TX Looker allows both developers and non-technical staff to access Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) through the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface, without having to use several applications to access Visual Studio Team System The new add-in improves team performance and productivity, eliminates double entry, and makes software development projects more visible and predictable.

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“In order to use both MS Outlook and VSTS, a developer should switch between the interfaces repeatedly and handle the same amount of tasks in these two systems simultaneously,” said Leo Matveev, President of SearchInform Technologies, Inc., a developer of enterprise search solutions. “TX Looker solved this problem for our company.”

“TX Looker for MS Outlook helps project managers and developers get rid of the odd actions,” commented Andrei Yurkevich, CTO of TeamExpand. “At TeamExpand, our goal is make TX Looker a must-have tool for organizations standardizing on Visual Studio .Net development environment.”

TX Looker features:

1. Add, edit, and delete tasks (Work Items)

2. Report bugs and issues

3. Report time spent on Work Items

4. Link e-mails and meetings to Work Items (manually and automatically)

5. Receive notifications about new assignments and events in real time

TX Looker benefits:

1. Improve productivity and reduce learning curve

2. Monitor employee activity in real time

3. Provide team members with a single interface instead of two disparate environments

4. Enable collaboration between developers, quality assurance professionals, project managers, and non-technical staff on top of Microsoft Outlook

5. Accelerate development cycles

Who can benefit from using TX Looker:

1. Managers and supervisors

2. Non-programming staff of project teams, such as copywriters, graphic designers, QA engineers

3. Software developers who don't use Visual Studio IDE (for instance, developers working with non-Microsoft programming languages, such as Java, PHP, Python, Delphi, Ruby, etc.)

Pricing

The TX Looker license is priced at $99, per seat, per year. A 60-day free trial version of TX Looker is available at http://teamexpand.com/product/tx-looker .

About Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS)

VSTS is a set of development tools and features, which help IT departments standardize and automate almost all areas of the software development lifecycle. For more information visit: msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem .

About VSLive!

VSLive! reigns as the foremost conference and trade show for developers building applications with Microsoft.NET. 2008 marks the 15th Anniversary of VSLive! Meet industry gurus; network with other professional developers, Microsoft product teams and executives at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center West on March 30 – April 3, 2008. To participate, please visit www.vslive.com .

About TeamExpand

TeamExpand develops products complimentary to Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and provides specialized application lifecycle management (ALM) services to software organizations standardizing on Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft .Net. TeamExpand services include VSTS customization, automation, process guidance, support, training, and consulting. Headquartered in Western Massachusetts, TeamExpand operates a development center in Minsk, Belarus. For more information on TeamExpand, please visit www.teamexpand.com .