Horray! Microsoft has acquired the TeamPrise related technologies from SourceGear, and will begin offering a Microsoft branded solution for non-.NET and Windows developers, directly from Microsoft, to interoperate in Team Foundation Server environments!!!
See the Pathways site for complete details!
http://www.microsoft.com/pathways/teamprise/
Our Microsoft Developer Tools team is presenting a live seminar on Visual Studio 2010 at our Meadowvale office on November 3rd. This would be a great opportunity for you to learn about the latest tools and techniques for managing your software development projects using Visual Studio 2010 and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools. These new tools provide significant value beyond what is available with Visual Studio Team System 2008 and this would be a great opportunity to meet and talk directly to our team to learn more.
Please register quickly as seats will fill up fast:
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Invitation Code: 29D997
Tuesday, November 3
8.30 – 11.30am
What’s New
with Visual Studio Team System and MSDN?
Don’t be left behind… Come learn about all the exciting changes in Visual Studio 2010
Join us in a city near you as we present a comprehensive overview of the capabilities and licensing changes coming with Visual Studio 2010.
This new release introduces an exciting set of additional functionality in areas such as architecture, modeling, testing, quality assurance, and team management. These new features extend the capabilities of Microsoft’s ALM solution in rich new ways to improve your ability to build quality software and execute on business projects.
This event will explain the recently announced major changes in the product line-up for Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN subscriptions. As well, we will cover the Ultimate Offer an upcoming version step-up program that will impact all current users of Visual Studio with MSDN Premium subscriptions.
Come and discover what's new with the products, capabilities, and licensing of Visual Studio Team System.
Register today before these events reach capacity.
Questions about these events?
Call us anytime at 1-888-789-7770 and reference SVI-10,084.
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Invitation Code: 29D997
Tuesday, November 3
Microsoft Canada
1950 Meadowvale Blvd.
Mississauga, ON L5N 8L9
AGENDA
Registration and Breakfast
8:30am-9:00am
Presentation
9:00am-11:00am
Q & A
11:00am-11:30am
Now this is really really super cool.
When VSTS 2010 launches on Mar 22nd 2010, make sure you have an MSDN Premium subscription attached to your Visual Studio version, because if you do, you’ll get upgraded to the next higher version of Visual Studio for FREE…
That means if you have a VS 2008 Team edition today with MSDN Premium, you’ll be getting VSTS 2010 ULTIMATE (equivalent of Team Suite) when we launch. HOW COOL IS THAT!?!?!?
If you don’t have MSDN Premium attached to your subscription, you can add it between now and March 22nd to take advantage of the free step-up.
Check out http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/msdn/default.mspx#roadmap for way more information, and remember, you can start with VSTS 2010 Beta 2 today!
MSDN subscribers, start your engines! VSTS 2010 Beta 2 is up on MSDN subscriber downloads! This includes TFS 2010 Beta 2 as well!
WooHoo!
More details on new product lineup, general release, etc, soon!
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| Event Summary You’re invited to join us October 19-23, 2009 at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Washington for the Development Tools Ecosystem Summit focused on Visual Studio extensibility! Whether beginner or expert, you’ll learn tips and tricks, best practices, and meet 1:1 with developers and architects. Visual Studio is an open, extensible platform that can be customized for everything from individual productivity tools to enterprise-wide development needs. The Visual Studio Shell enables developers to leverage a world class IDE to build specialized tools for any number of vertical industries, and can even be custom-branded with your own splash screen and app icon. The conference is open to all developers on October 19th and 20th to learn how to extend Visual Studio 2010. October 21st through October 23rd is a private event for VSIP program members under NDA to receive exclusive business and technical content. For more information on the VSIP program, click here. October 19th & 20th - Visual Studio Extensibility Days: All developers are invited to join us for two full days of sessions. Each day will have two session tracks presented by Microsoft product team members and industry influencers.
A broad range of Visual Studio extensibility topics will be presented including: • Visual Studio extensibility overview • Extending the new Editor in Visual Studio 2010 • Using the Visual Studio SDK • Building applications based on the free Visual Studio Shell • Programming language service integration • Building custom Domain Specific Language (DSL) tools • Team Foundation Server (TFS) extensibility • Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) extensibility • Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) • And many more Visual Studio extensibility topics! October 21st - Partner Business and Strategy Day: Two tracks for VSIP, Inner Circle partners and insiders under NDA only, focusing primarily on the business strategy, marketing discussions, and early information about undisclosed technologies. This may include unannounced changes to Dev10, Dev11 planning, other platform strategies & initiatives. October 22nd and 23rd - VSIP Developer Clinic: Developer clinic on Microsoft campus B20 where VSIP program members, under NDA only, meet 1:1 with Microsoft subject matter experts. Social Events Monday October 19: 6:00-7:30 PM - Ask the Experts, Partner & Publisher Fair: During this social event, Visual Studio extensibility developers, VSIP and Inner Circle partners can interact with Microsoft experts, other partners and 3rd party publishers. Tuesday October 20: 6:00-8:00 PM - Partner Networking Reception: After a visit to the company store, VSIP and Inner Circle partners are invited to network at the Microsoft Company Museum. Drinks, desserts, and appetizers will be served. Wednesday October 21: 6:00-9:00 PM - VSIP Partner Dinner: Dinner at the Januik Winery in Woodinville, WA. Buses will provide transportation from the Conference Center to and from the event. Maps will be provided for those that have their own transportation. |
| Registration Details General Extensibility Developers: Check out full event details on MSDN, an agenda and session details will be posted soon!  VSIP Partners & Inner Circle Partners: All partner program members are invited to this event and should register on the Development Tools Ecosystem Partner Portal. Microsoft FTE: Microsoft employees are invited to attend this event. When you register on the link above, please ensure to enter Microsoft as your Company and use your alias as your email address. Additional Resources Hotel Information List of commonly used hotels in the Redmond/Bellevue area): | A. Residence Inn
Redmond Town Center
7575 164th Avenue NE
Redmond, WA 98052
(425) 497-9226
(800) 331-3131
B. Timberlawn Apts
15850 NE 40th Street
Redmond, WA 98052
(425) 883-6801
C. Residence Inn
14455 NE 29th Place
Bellevue, WA 98007
(425) 882-1222
(800) 331-3131 D. Courtyard Bellevue
14615 NE 29th Place
Bellevue, WA 98007
(425) 869-5300
(800) 321-2211 | E. Fairfield Inn
14595 NE 29th Place
Bellevue, WA 98007
(425) 869-6548
(800) 228-2800 F. Homestead Village
15805 NE 28th Street
Bellevue, WA 98008
(425) 885-6675
(888) 782-7473 G. Hyatt Regency
900 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
(425) 462-2626
(800) 462-1234 H. Hilton Bellevue
100 112th Avenue NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
(425) 455-3330
(800) 235-4458 | I. DoubleTree
300 112th Avenue SE
Bellevue, WA 98004
(425) 455-1300
(800) 733-5466 J. Embassy Suites
3225 158th Avenue SE
Bellevue, WA 98008
(425) 644-2500
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Learn more about Visual Studio Team System and our promotional offer!
Visual Studio Team System provides software development organizations with comprehensive capabilities for supporting software development projects, to help address all the roles that play part in delivering products to customers.
In recognition of the critical role Gold Certified and Certified partners play in the overall success of the Microsoft ecosystem, we’re excited to announce the special promotion offering of Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team Editions or Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite at approximately 65% off of Open Value ERP for purchases made between April 15, 2009 through June 26, 2009. These offers are available exclusively for active Microsoft Partner Program Gold Certified and Certified partners and partners are referred to their preferred reseller or distributor for fulfillment. See terms and conditions for additional details .
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If you know me, you would know that I’m a passionate fly fisherman. As well, if you fly fish, you may or may not know that southern Ontario has some of the best fly fishing in the world, for all species of fresh water trout, smallmouth and largemouth bass, as well as regular runs of Great Lakes steelhead, and our runs of Chinook, Coho, and Pink Salmon. Not to mention Pike, Gar, Muskies….
Anyways, my brother and I (Josh Gallant, Technical Account Manager extraordinaire) finally got out this season, and we went to Bronte Creek, a great local spring creek that hosts great runs of Salmon and Steelhead. We had a great time, and although it was busy, I had lots of hits, some small stuff, hooked into quite a few large fish, and landed a really nice post-spawn female on the fly:
On a size 12 barbless fly, fished deep. If you look close, you can see that she’s fresh from the rigours of spawning (fins are scraped red from gravel). She had 5 or 6 runs, and at least five nice leaps…
She was release without harm, hopefully to grace our southern ontario tributaries and make lots of babies for years to come.
For more information on southern ontario fly fishing, check out http://www.grindstoneangling.com …
From John Valk:
On Wednesday April 22nd at 10:05 a.m. the fly fishing community in Ontario lost one of its most genuine, sincere and best loved members. John Ponsford.
John was a great teacher who taught thousands the art of fly tying. Whether you were a beginner or seasoned tier, John had special methods and techniques that he shared with anyone who walked through the door. He has been teaching at Grindstone for the 16 years we have been in business. The local fly-tying clubs had John in for presentations and he was very popular through-out the community. He also has created many of the guide patterns we use and many of our clients from all over the globe have landed not just trout but very large trout on his signature caddis patterns.
John was always the gentleman. ‘Please’ and ‘thank-you’ were the most often used words in his vocabulary and this great man always put everyone else above himself. It didn’t matter what John was doing but it could always wait for a friend who needed help. As recently as 4 weeks ago, he made a special trip to the shop on his way to work to drop off a fly pattern book for a customer to borrow for a specific pattern. That was John. Every-one at the shop and all of our customers will miss him greatly.
To Carolyn, John’s wife, Jeff and Jennifer and her children, our deepest sympathies are with you, you lost the most wonderful husband, father and grandfather. The passing of John is a shock to all of us.
As per Johns wishes his family will not be having a formal funeral service.
Last tuesday, I had the please of co-delivering our “Better Development with Team System” session at the Microsoft Montreal office with Claude Remillard from InCycle Software .
We had some great questions from the audience, and had some great conversations afterwards!
For a copy of the deck, check out : http://cid-bfc5a11b75eac1c9.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Better%20Development%20with%20Visual%20Studio%20Team%20System.ppt
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This webinar is focused on quick and cost-effective methods for moving critical applications out of obsolescence.
A number of business reasons continue to compel companies like yours to move away from legacy platforms such as VB6 and ASP.
The need to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with easier integration of enterprise systems, to improve developer productivity and reduce specialty skills, and to consider compliance and scalability issues continue to drive companies to search for legacy transformation and migration options.
Artinsoft’s Visual Basic Upgrade Companion (VBUC) is the industry-leading tool for migrating from VB6 to .NET, offering 80% savings against a manual re-write and a 4x lower timeframe. Don’t miss this chance to learn more about VBUC and other cost effective migration options, including:
• Which migration strategy works best for you (complete, partial,
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Past webinars have reached capacity in less than a week, so register early to guarantee your spot!
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| Microsoft invites you to attend two complimentary sessions around Developer Tools on Thursday April 30th Morning Session: scenarios for the adoption of Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server There are many scenarios where moving to Team Foundation Server can provide tremendous value to your organization. In these sessions, we will provide a thorough overview of the functionality provided by Visual Studio 2008 Team Editions and Team Foundation Server, with particular emphasis on: · Source Control integration, · Work Item and Defect Tracking, · Automated Build Services, · Project Management capabilities, · Process and Governance, · Portal Services, and · Reporting We will illustrate different scenarios for the adoption of Team Foundation Server, as well as demonstrate some core capabilities that have high impact on project teams, from Teams with Visual Studio Team Edition clients, to those without. We will also provide background information on how to move forward and build out an roadmap for implementation using assessment tools and services. Also included will be information on licensing models that can help you efficiently move your team onto Microsoft’s next generation development platform. This session will also highlight particular Visual Studio 2010 pieces of functionality throughout the presentation, as they apply. Thursday April 30th 2009, from 8:30 AM for the morning Session Agenda: 8:30 - 9:00 am - Welcome & Breakfast 9:00 - 11:45 am - Presentation (a break will be provided from 10:15 to 10:30 am) Register online using the code 1A02FE or by phone 1-877-673-8368 with the event number 1032410680 Afternoon Session: Leveraging Visual Studio Team System for Best Practices in Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Development As more organizations are turning to SharePoint Server 2007 to develop business applications, they soon realize that SharePoint Server 2007 does not provide seamless integration into the development platform for the mature management of the application life-cycle . This session will show how the use of Visual Studio Team System, Team Foundation Server, and Concerto, a toolset that integrates SharePoint Server 2007 with Visual Studio Team System can help organizations manage the delivery of SharePoint Server 2007-based solutions more effectively . We will demonstrate team development practices around the same SharePoint Server 2007-based solution, allowing multiple developers to work in concert without conflict. We will also discuss how to implement a simplified and repeatable deployment process, including test environments, and how to apply capabilities of Visual Studio Team System such as code traceability, continuous integration, centralized source control and work items with all associated best practices.
Thursday April 30th 2009, from 12:15 PM for the afternoon Session Agenda: 12:15 - 1:00 pm - Welcome & Lunch 1:00 - 3:30 pm - Presentation (a break will be provided from 2:15 to 2:30 pm) Register online using the code 585C68 or by phone 1-877-673-8368 with the event number 1032413562 | |
| WHERE: WU Conference Centre in Fredericton Room Aitken — University of New Brunswick
6 Duffie Drive — Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3 | |
It’s a question that keeps coming up on internal DLs, customer emails, and on the web, so I thought I’d share a quick walkthrough on the Team Foundation Server workgroup edition and its 5 user limit.
Backgrounder:
Team Foundation Server currently comes in two flavors, a workgroup edition, and a standard edition. Both of these editions are functionally equivalent. In other words, you don’t get more functionality or capability with the standard edition of TFS, except, and this is the BIG EXCEPTION, you are limited to 5 named users accessing the TFS Server in Workgroup edition. Workgroup edition does not require any client access licenses, so it is free to use from a TFS perspective, once you have it installed. It is most commonly acquired through available through MSDN subscriber downloads for license holders of the following products:
- Visual Studio 2008 Architecture Edition (with MSDN Premium)
- Visual Studio 2008 Developer Edition (with MSDN Premium)
- Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition (with MSDN Premium)
- Visual Studio 2008 Test Edition (with MSDN Premium)
- Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite (with MSDN Premium)
Managing Your TFS Workgroup Edition
OK, so you can only have 5 named users in TFS Workgroup Edition.
TFS Workgroup edition can be installed in a number of different configurations, per the installation guide available at : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ff12844f-398c-4fe9-8b0d-9e84181d9923&DisplayLang=en . All the same topologies for standard edition apply to workgroup edition.
In order to manage your TFS Workgroup implementation, you’ll need to have the Team Explorer client installed. It can be installed on the server interactively, or on a client machine, either from the TFS installation source or media, or from one of the above listed client product versions installation source or media, or indeed, you can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0ed12659-3d41-4420-bbb0-a46e51bfca86 as a standalone installation.
Managing your Users:
First, the users need to exist in your Windows account database. You can do that by adding the users from your active directory, or, if standalone, adding users to the local Windows security accounts database. All credentials for the Windows user are managed here, particularly their local group membership and their account password. For ease of use, and some seamless interactions, you’ll want to try and synchronize the passwords between the different user environments (clients) and the server, by setting the passwords to be the same. It’s not necessary, but it can help the user experience.
To manage the users connecting to Team Foundation Server, you go from the team explorer, right click on your server, and select highlight Team Foundation Server Settings:
Choose Group Membership…
The resulting dialog shows the root groups with [Server]\ predicated. These are TFS groups, that only exist in TFS, and all versions of TFS use this model. There is a special group that only appears on the workgroup edition, the “[Server]\Team Foundation Licensed Users” , that manages the users allowed to connect to the server. Only 5 user accounts can appear in this list.
When you then go to properties for the group, and try and add a number of users, any user beyond the 5th causes an error, per below, and the additional users do not get added:
Once you’ve got the users added, everything works like normal.
If you then try and change the valid users, it works fine, by first removing an existing user, and adding the new user. So the result is that you CAN change the users that have access, but the total cannot exceed 5 named users.
When you grow:
If you need that 6th user, you can move to Team Foundation Server standard edition. Your server can be “upgraded” for this by following the procedures in the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404848.aspx . It’s pretty straightforward.
VSTT Quick Reference Guide 1.0 on Codeplex.
This document is a collection of items from public blog sites, Microsoft® internal discussion aliases (sanitized) and experiences from various Test Consultants in the Microsoft Services Labs. The idea is to provide quick reference points around various aspects of Microsoft Visual Studio® Team Test edition that may not be covered in core documentation, or may not be easily understood. The different types of information cover:
· How does this feature work under the covers?
· How can I implement a workaround for this missing feature?
· This is a known bug and here is a fix or workaround.
· How do I troubleshoot issues I am having?
Hey hey, our latest introductory session on Visual Studio Team System is being held in Montreal on April 14th….
I will be co-presenting with Claude Remillard from InCycle Software, a great Montreal area partner with tons of experience working with clients in Central and Easterm Canada and the US, in all industries, around Application Lifecycle Management. Claude will be able to provide us with real world insights on how he’s implemented VSTS to help customers improve their development practices to meet varying goals.
More details below, look forward to seeing you there!
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April 14, 2009 9:00 AM - April 14, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 8:30 AM
Microsoft Canada Co.
Montreal Room
2000 Avenue McGill College, Bureau 450
Montréal, Quebec
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032389053&Culture=en-CA
Did you know that you can get the benefits of using Team Foundation Server without needing Visual Studio Team Editions as clients? Did you know that Team Foundation Server can be used as a replacement for Visual SourceSafe, and adds scale, reliability, and security to your environment, while providing easy migration of existing source control files AND history? Did you know that Team Foundation Server adds defect tracking and enhancement request functionality to your entire organization, without the need to client access licenses? Did you know that your team can build more advanced solutions, more easily using Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition Clients?
There are many scenarios where moving to Team Foundation Server can provide tremendous value to your organization. In these sessions, we will provide a thorough overview of the functionality provided by Visual Studio 2008 Team Editions and Team Foundation Server, with particular emphasis on:
· Source Control integration,
· Work Item and Defect Tracking,
· Automated Build Services,
· Project Management capabilities,
· Process and Governance,
· Portal Services, and
· Reporting
We will illustrate different scenarios for the adoption of Team Foundation Server, as well as demonstrate some core capabilities that have high impact on project teams, from Teams with Visual Studio Team Edition clients, to those without. We will also provide background information on how to move forward and build out an roadmap for implementation using assessment tools and services. Also included will be information on licensing models that can help you efficiently move your team onto Microsoft’s next generation development platform.
The sessions will be delivered by Adam Gallant, the Developer Tools Technical Specialist for Microsoft Canada, and Claude Remillard, President of InCycle Software, a Microsoft Partner and VSTS Specialist Organization. Both Adam and Claude will be available to answer your questions about product functionality and licensing. Claude will also provide unique insights into implementing improvements to development practices based on his real-world experiences at several well know organizations across different industry segments.
Better Development with Visual Studio Team System
