October 2006 - Posts
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/windowsvista/dev/default.mspx - all courses listed here See the New Capabilities: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Learn about Windows Presentation Foundation and more new capabilities provided by the
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I get a lot of questions from people about the difference between Visual Studio 2005 Pro and the Team Edition for Software Developers. Take this 30-minute virtual lab for a test drive to find out: Link to Microsoft Virtual Lab Express Registration
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Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Community
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Avanade has posted the Team Foundation Server, Project Server 2003 Connector on gotdotnet. Here's the announcement! ANNOUNCING THE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM - PROJECT SERVER CONNECTOR! ANNOUNCING THE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM - PROJECT SERVER CONNECTOR!(10/25/2006
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Buck has updated his list of Continuous Integration with Team Build resources. Check it out... Link to Buck Hodges : More continuous integration with Team Build
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OK, this is what I want for Christmas this year. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/video/0,139101587,49284379,00.htm Dell XPS M2010 Laptop, as I priced it out for my wife: $6,917 CDN (before taxes and mortgage fees) Components: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7600
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The September CTP of "Orcas" in the form of a Virtual PC image is now available on MSDN Subscriber downloads. It's not for buillding production systems, but for evaluation. Here's a list of highlights: Improvements on the widely acclaimed Visual Studio
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OK, so this may not be the typical post aimed at the corporate developer, but I often get asked before and after customer meetings about how parents might help their kids get some experience in starting to write games, since it keeps them interested in
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This is top of mind at a lot of the customers I speak with, including retails and anyone dealing with sensitive customer data. Check out this whitepaper, it's a good read. Link to Download details: Privacy Guidelines
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Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Call it "DataDude", "TeamData", "VSTSDBP" or whatever. This new Visual Studio sku is real step in right direction for getting the database development part of your projects under control. Oh yeah.
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As per Bharry's post.... The 300 level content is complete and available. Remember that it is really designed for a classroom setting with a trained trainer. If you fit this category you can visit http://connect.microsoft.com . Click on "My participation"
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So a colleague of mine asked me what I thought would be great Vista and Windows Live gadgets to have if I were a Team Foundation Server client. I suggested: 1) A Work Item gadget that exposed work items assigned to me 2) An alerts gadget that collected
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From Rob Carron's blog , comes a link to a great article by David Falkenstein, I'm not in denial, I'm in a hurry , that discusses the realities of software development today and the need to rely on automated tools to discover bad coding practices or bugs.
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For those that already are familiar with VSTS and the testing components, this ain't "Rocket Surgery", however, this is a a great introduction on how to perform testing on the reporting services components in SQL Server 2005. Particularly interesting
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