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Many organizations frequently struggle with an outdated business development process in the current market, and simultaneously meeting the high-pressure expectations of both end-users and decision makers. Supercharge Your Environment How do...

There's all kinds of great resources I've posted on this content page. Take a look: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adamga/p/resources.aspx

The Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Release is pretty exciting. It delivers on the product group's commitment to regular updates, fixes, and new functionality, for Visual Studio 2012 users. There's quite a lot of new stuff there, and below is a list of some...

There's a whack of new ebooks and bound whitepapers available online, for free, from TechNet. http://bit.ly/13ReYNA Check out this awesome list! Lync Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Step by Step for Anyone Office Deployment...

This post is from an article I contributed to Quest Magazine. Check them out at http://www.qaiquest.org/2013/quest-magazine/?utm_source=QAI+Global+Institute&utm_campaign=e20dee456c-QUEST_Magazine_03.22.2013&utm_medium=email Recently, I was...

I know that when I was a kid, my folks refused to let me get a video game console (at the time, I really wanted collecovision). Instead, I got a Commodore Vic 20. I taught myself to program. It was like MAGIC! It changed everything. It opened soooo...

  Exciting stuff, Soma just announced the availability of the release bits for Office 2013 development with Visual Studio 2012! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/03/04/now-available-office-developer-tools-for-visual-studio-2012.aspx...

A colleague of mine just shared a number of great examples with a customer around using cloud services in Windows 8 Apps, and I thought the list was outstanding. It also highlights how amazingly comprehensive the support in Azure is for Windows 8 scenarios...

I wanted to share a video snippet from a webcast I recently delivered on the Team Foundation Service (you can view the entire webcast on demand, at http://bit.ly/VNAw7O ). The really amazing power of this scenario is very compelling. From having a...

In my job at Microsoft, I get the privilege of interaction with hundreds of development customers of all shapes and sizes across the country. One of the trends that I’m seeing in every customer, of every size, is that application development is...

So I've gone ahead now and started putting together resources, posts, and videos under what I like to call Visual Studio ALM WebChunks... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adamga/p/webchunks.aspx . The idea behind this is to provide resources in one place...

It’s common for our large customers to have a need to support business user created applications. These applications are often conceived and built to support “point in time” business needs at the workgroup level. However, a major issue...

InCycle here in the great white north has a great series of webcasts around ALM in VS2012. This is a great way to learn the amazing capabilities that VS 2012 will bring to organizations. Date Time Title Length Level August 1, 2012...

Wow. I think it’s been a couple of years since I last wrote in this blog. Bad ADAM!!! Look for a regular cadence from me going forward!

So we had our webcast today… In case you need to watch it on demand, or check out additional sessions/topics in our series, check out the VSTS Dev Tools Power Hour page at http://msdn.microsoft.ca/devtoolspowerhour … The slides from the session are available...

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...

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...

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...

  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!

      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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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