Ravings of a Microsoft Evangelista

Technorati tags: patterns & practices , Team Development with TFS Guide , TFS , Codeplex Welcome to the patterns & practices Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server project site! This guide shows you how to make the most of Team...

Technorati tags: Halo 3 , XBox 360 That's right, you heard me correctly. September 24th! You need a special code to register, Dave Bost blogs about it here: http://davebost.com/blog/?p=315

Technorati tags: Indianapolis .NET Technology Briefing , TFS , VSTS , Orcas .NET Technology Briefing Come join your technology peers to learn about current and future.NET technologies. The focus of this 1 day seminar will be around Microsoft Visual Studio...

Technorati tags: SilverlightDevCamp. BarCamp , Silverlight Stolen from Dave Bost's blog . For those of you familiar with BarCamp, you know it allows you to flex your proverbial programming muscles and share ideas and war stories from the front lines ...

Technorati tags: MSSCCI , TFS , How Do I? Hope everyone had a great long weekend for the Labor Day Holiday. Ran across this today and thought it would be nice to share. Ever wondered how easy or not easy it would be to setup TFS for a non-Microsoft IDE...

Technorati tags: VSTS , How Do I? That you have the ability to send bugs and feedback to the product team from within the Visual Studio IDE? I get so many people asking me how to do this and I have always sent them to the Microsoft Connect website. This...

Technorati tags: VSTS , DataDude , Database Professional , PowerTools Waiting for Orcas to see what's new and hot with the database professional role of Team System? Tired of not having static analysis for your T-SQL? Want more refactoring options than...

Technorati tags: DevCares , ArcReady , Silverlight , Web 2.0 August DevCares: Microsoft Silverlight in Downers Grove, IL on 08/23, Indianapolis, IN on 08/28 and Brookfield, WI on 08/31 DevCares, delivered and hosted monthly by Microsoft Partners is designed...

Technorati tags: Indianapolis TFS Sig , Orcas What?: Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas)! Where?: Indy Visual Studio Team System SIG The group's very own Team System aficionado Paul Hacker, will be leading a demonstration on Visual Studio 2008 code named Orcas...

Technorati tags: VSTS , How Do I? , Team Foundation Server Our 2007-2008 Webcast series has been scheduled and the registration links are live, hope you can attend! For past events, you can view the recorded sessions. Register now and get them on your...

Technorati tags: silicon Prarie Social , XBox 360 Microsoft will be co-sponsoring a Happy Hour for techies that is starting up in the Chicago Suburbs. At the event we will have a table and will demoing some new and cool technologies. We will be showing...

Technorati tags: Rosario , VSTS , Team Foundation Server Holy Cow! Orcas is not even released and they give us this awesome little present just in time for my 33rd birthday :) I am totally late to the game here, as Brian Harry announced it days ago ....

August’s Technorati tags: Chicago VSTS User Group , ALM , Application Lifecycle Management presentation is going to be an overview of what can be called the driving goal of Visual Studio Team System: Application Lifecycle management. ALM’s impact on a...

Technorati tags: Team Foundation Server Web Access , TFS Team System Web Access (formerly known as TeamPlain) is a Web interface to Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server. TFSWA download on MSDN (might take a few hours to appear here): http://msdn2...

Technorati tags: DevCares , Silverlight DevCares presents: Microsoft Silverlight In-Depth Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications...

Technorati tags: ArcReady , Web 2.0 Microsoft ArcREADY - Web 2.0 & Beyond Applying Lessons to Your Company After Tim O’Reilly’s article “What is Web 2.0” in 2005, there has been considerable buzz around Web 2.0 technologies and the companies that...

Technorati tags: TFS Guidance , VSTS Guidance A lot of you probably get MSDN Flash, or subscribe to FTPOnline (but in case you don't), I thought it did a great job of pinpointing some of the best features of TFS and how best to leverage them. Sometimes...

Historically, Microsoft has used a variety of internal tools, such as Source Depot and Product Studio, to manage the software development process. In 2005, Microsoft decided to standardize the software development process and deliver a consistently high...

Well, I did it. I have now been at Microsoft for a whole year. Wahoo! Hopefully I'll be a bit more regular with the posts this year. Next week I am high-tailing it to Durham North Carolina to spend a week with the TFS Build, Administration and Version...

Technorati tags: TFS , TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit Well, first, note the name change to better reflect its purpose. What used to be termed the TFS Migration Toolkit, now reflects its support of synchronization of "other" applications and...

Technorati tags: Chicago VSTS User Group , ALM , Application Lifecycle Management I will be in Raleigh Durham hanging out with the TFS Version Control Team so you'll not be seeing me until the August session, but don't let that stop you :) You will be...

I am making an appearance in Indianapolis this week to present at their Visual Studio Team System special interest group. If you're interested in learning in how to create unit tests for your database schema or controlling your database schema changes...

Technorati tags: TFS , Project Server 2007 Connector , Codeplex Using Project Server 2007 and wondering how to hook it into your existing TFS implementation? Maybe you have TFS installed, and are hoping for a better Enterprise Project Management Solution...

Microsoft Expression Microsoft Expression takes your creative possibilities to a new level. The professional design tools and innovative technologies in Expression give you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality – whether you are...

Technorati tags: How Do I? , VSTS , Compuware Using Optimal Trace and Visual Studio Team System to trace requirements from business need to application delivery Compuware Webcast Details Date: Thursday, June 21, 2007 Time: 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern...