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Free Developer Training - Leverage your SA Benefits
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18 days ago
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This webinar which will help you Maximize your Microsoft Software Assurance Benefits and is hosted by Northwest Cadence, a Gold Certified ALM Partner and a national leader in Microsoft ALM and Software Process solutions. Event details: Date ...
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Free Training: Visual Studio Team System 2010-related...by Northwest Cadence
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21 days ago
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ALM Catalyst: Northwest Cadence – Double Feature: Test Professional; Intellitrace and Test Impact Analysis In this Double Feature ALM Catalyst Session webinar, we will cover both Test Professional and Intellitrace & Test Impact Analysis. During...
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Personalize your Windows Phone 7 with Custom Themes!
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1 month ago
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As yet another telling sign Windows Phone 7's appeal continues to permeate, the creative team at WindowsPhoneHacker.com have released Themes for WP7 . In short, it lets you customize the look and feel of your WP7 user interface to make it even more personal...
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Partner Offering - Technical Advisory Services Now Available!
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3 months ago
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Visual Studio 2010 w/.NET 4.0, SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint 2010 Technical Advisory Services Team is delivering a series of development guidance around Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 / Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 , Windows Phone 7 , Microsoft SharePoint...
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Top 100 Utilities & Addins for Visual Studio 2010 & TFS 2010
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3 months ago
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Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010, many tools & utilities have been released by the Open Source Community, Partners and Microsoft. The best place to discover these is via the Visual Studio Extensions Gallery ...
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New SharePoint for Developers Training Announced!
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3 months ago
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Announcing the immediate release of three SharePoint courses to the InnerWorkings Learning Platform, covering the following topics: Beginning SharePoint Development SharePoint Data View Web Part Basics SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow ...
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Complimentary Two-Day ALM EXPO Virtual Conference
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3 months ago
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Complimentary Two-Day ALM EXPO Virtual Conference Join us Wednesday and Thursday November 9 - 10, 2011 as ALM EXPO streams live from the Better Software Conference in Orlando, FL! Watch live keynote sessions and industry...
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Invitation | FREE Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools Training
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3 months ago
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FREE Public Sector ALM Training Offering - Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools Training Event Series Northwest Cadence invites you to join us for our upcoming Public Sector Training Event Series at no cost to you or your organization. These live...
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Invitation | Join the SQL Server 2012 Developer Tools (SSDT) Advisory Program!
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3 months ago
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Are you a TSQL developer interested in developing database projects for SQL Server Code-Named “Denali” and SQL Azure? Do you want access to the SQL Server Developer Tools, Code-Named “Juneau” (SSDT) engineering team and influence...
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Quickstart: Basics of Activating MSDN or VL Products
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over 2 years ago
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Microsoft includes product activation technology in some products sold through the Volume Licensing channel. A product key is required to activate these products. Recent Changes to Volume Activation With Volume Licensing for products such as Windows 7...
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Tips & Tricks: Enable Standby in Windows 2008 R2 Server
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over 2 years ago
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Simple as can be…I hope this comes in handy for those who haven’t surfed enough to figure it out yet: Right click on an empty area on your desktop. Select New>Shortcut. In the first box of the Create Shortcut Wizard, type %windir%\System32\rundll32...
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Tips & Tricks: Verify VS 2010 Packages WPSs Properly
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over 2 years ago
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If you’re building a solution for SharePoint 2010 within Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 onward, ensure that your project is properly building & packaging your latest WSP bits. VS 2010 packages/creates your WSPs when you build the SharePoint Solution, but...
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Quickstart: a good list of SharePoint Resources
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over 2 years ago
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Many customers in the process of rolling out SharePoint across the organization have recurring questions about the best sources for training and tools. Below is a compiled list of some of the available resources (kudos to Gabor & his credits...
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Visual Studio 2010: Lab Management Videos
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over 2 years ago
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Based on popular demand, here are the videos of the different scenarios and concepts in lab management, to help you get started quickly. The videos are based on Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC. The first video is an overview and the subsequent 5...
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SharePoint 2010 + SP Designer 2010 on Windows 7
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over 2 years ago
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There’s been a ton of blog postings on how to get this whole ‘SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Windows 7’ scenario working…most of which will eventually get you up & running, but I thought I’d provide a short & sweet, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Release...
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“Quickstart: a Developer’s (personal) Guide to Using VSTS
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over 2 years ago
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The following is a collection of topics & their direct resources that make the most sense for a practical “I don’t have time to look any further” view of using VSTS 2008, as a developer, for the day-to-day job. Call this a “cut to the chase” guide...
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“Test Scribe” Test Plan Tool Released for VSTS 2010
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over 2 years ago
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This tool allows users of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 to generate a Word 2007-compatible Test Plan Document from their plan, suites, test cases, and other artifacts. Using the tool is a fairly straightforward process, including: ...
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Claiming Azure benefits from an MSDN Subscription
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over 2 years ago
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Recently we announced that Azure services would be made available to MSDN Subscribers . I’ve created a short walkthrough of how an existing subscriber can go through the sign up & activation process…it’s pretty straight forward. Download the PDF Download...
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SharePoint 2010 – the Status Bar, Notifications & Dialogs
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over 3 years ago
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One of the new & useful features in SharePoint Server 2010 is the enhancements to events & notifications, the addition of the Status Bar & Dialog Framework, and how all of these features work together to provide a more productive experience...
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SharePoint 2010 – Configure it for SharePoint Designer 2010
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over 3 years ago
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If you’ve used SharePoint Designer for SharePoint 2007, it seemed pretty much like a standard web editing tool like Expression Web…not so with SharePoint Designer 2010, which is not only a brand new, fully capable user experience, but is reliant on the...
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QuickStart: Using Hyper-V 2008 R2 for Developer Virtualization
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over 3 years ago
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So I embarked on setting up a new server to run my Windows Virtual images and decided to use the barebones but powerful Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2 instead of a more conventional Windows 2008 R2 server with Hyper-V installed on top. If you’re new to the concept...
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VSTS 2010’s Project Types for SharePoint 2010
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over 3 years ago
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With the same behavior as the many other project types developers are familiar with in Visual Studio, the VSTS 2010 release includes new projects specific to SharePoint 2010. I will be walking through each of these types of projects & how you can...
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VSTS 2010’s SharePoint Explorer
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over 3 years ago
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Included in VSTS 2010 is a new Server Explorer enhancement that lets you work with SharePoint 2010 servers & instances. Most developers are already very familiar with the Server Explorer for browsing IIS, File & Database servers…and this just...
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Resize your Virtual Machine Hard Disk
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over 3 years ago
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Download the Clonezilla live ISO image and mount it as a CDROM drive for your virtual machine Once loaded, press enter on the first option(default). It will then ask for a language (defaults to English) and a keymap. If you are not sure, just press...
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Tips & Tricks: Install SCCM 2007 Client Agent on Itself
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over 3 years ago
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If you’re fairly new to System Center Configuration Manager 2007/R2 and are trying to use it in a non-critical/development/demo environment, one of the challenges is how to configure it and do things locally on the same machine. So for example...
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