.NET Project Collaboration

Tools or packages?..

[asptony]

Our company is looking for project collaboration software to tie into our existing architecture. We saw basecamp and like it, but we can't integrate it with our current .NET projects. Does anyone have any good solutions or know of anything?

[wardbekker]

You might want to investigate if Microsoft Sharepoint is something that can help you. It's programmed in .Net, so it might offer better integration.

[asptony]

I like Sharepoint, but we wanted to see if there is already something out there...instead of re-inventing the wheel...Thanks though for the input!

[mattglet]

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server/Suite

[asptony]

Mattglat, sorry I should have been more specific. We are looking for a web based collaboration tool that would tie into our projects. This would allow all of our web editors, project coordinators, managers, developers and designers to create bugs, track issues, time spent on tasks, etc...does that bring any ideas to the table by anyone? I saw eProject yesterday, but it seems a bit pricey and almost seems better to build instead of buying. Any other input is greatly appreciated.

[wardbekker]

Did you also check out FogBugz? It's not dotnet, but I think I heard people talk that it offered webservices, not sure.

[Ocean10000]

My first question what source control system do you use currently? And check your venders website to see if they offer/recomment any Issue/Bug Tracking software that will work with it. This is what I did when I migrated away from Microsoft's sourcesafe few years ago. I found a replacement Source control system and they also offered a issue/bugg tracking solution as well.

[asptony]

We use SourceSafe for the source control and have no issues what so ever.

We need a web project collaboration software to give us the ability to track/plan/organize all the projects, issues, tasks, and development efforts that we have.

This is needed more from a Project Management standpoint to inform internal business units and management of dev efforts then a coding standpoint. Also this won't be used by solely developers but also managers, executives, etc.

[mattglet]

Honestly, Team Foundation Server while using Microsoft Project Server sounds like the best solution to what you need. There are a lot of hooks between the 2 projects, and it's quite impressive what they can pull off.