Want to give a shout out to our doc team!  In addition to taking a departure by including lots of screen shots with their latest updates (this is very hard due to localization issues) the team has gone through and meta tagged the docs by version...

This summer i decided my mission in life would be to become proficient at fishing for Longfin Tuna. While the weather gods have not been exactly kind I have had a couple of successful trips and have caught a bunch of fish. So what did a learn? 1. Cedar...

One of the big advantages of Team Foundation Server 2010 is the ability to easily customize process guidance by editing our HTML files and pointing to your customized content.  The process team is continually improving the guidance and Alan Clark...

Microsoft has just released Visual Studio 2010 Scrum 1.0, which is a new Team Foundation Server process template that enacts Scrum . Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management and agile software development. This template was...

The Queensland.NET folks are offering 90 minute $25AU session on Testing Software: Testing - slashing the cost, time and angst of testing Session Abstract: In the world of agile computing, timely testing becomes even more critical. Mark will discuss testing...

One of the hottest new Microsoft MVPs Stephen Godbold will be showing off his stuff in the Sydney office! Session Details: TFS Unboxing Since 2005, Team Foundation Server (TFS) has been providing integrated version control, work management and build capabilities...

One of the VS ALM MVP is going to give a a first look at Microsoft’s Scrum Process template at the Chicago User Group. Session Abstract: Microsoft announced at TechEd a new process template: Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 Beta. This is a brand new...

Anthony Borton on A look at Lab Management using VS2010 Create, manage and deploy lab environments using MTLM and SCVMM About Anthony Borton Anthony is a Development Process Specialist for Enhance ALM Pty Ltd, an Australian consulting and training company...

Rapid Development of Cloud Applications with Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure Making your application scale infinitely* isn’t that hard as long as you set out with that goal in mind. Visual Studio makes the development and deployment of massively...

I must admit i have been pretty jazzed about the May 1st Halibut opener in Westport for a quite a while…New rod holders, rewired the electronics, new lures, checking the weather every 4 hours etc etc So how did it go?  I think the pictures speak...

We have had a couple of requests for the ONE place to start learning about Team Foundation Server 2010… With this in mind we created a new page Team Foundation Server 2010 that covers: Essential Resources, Visual Studio ALM Rangers TFS Guidance, Hands...

Like me you probably installed the trial edition of Visual Studio 2010 a while back…and are now probably wondering how to activate your installation.  -And if you tried this over the last couple of days you probably noticed we had some challenges...

In Visual Studio 2010 Under certain circumstances the you may encounter problems opening the Test View window. (see image below)   Luckily it is easy to fix.  To make it go away, you need to close/reopen Visual Studio. If you don’t want this...

A long time back i posted Mediaencoder doesn’t work with Windows Vista for doing screen captures.  On Windows 7 mediaencoder at least is a little more graceful – in that it disables the Video device. (see image below)   When we built Microsoft...

One challenge working with community at Microsoft is you want to be able to show off the the latest and greatest…unfortunately often times these technologies just don’t work together.  For instance during the Dev10 push we kept leapfrogging with...

I love Code Camps and the folks in Portland do an awesome job!  In hopes of getting a presentation; I have already submitted my session proposal:   Code Monkey Tour of ALM Features in Visual Studio 2010 In typical code monkey style Chuck will...

If you are in the area and looking for something to do Seattle Code Camp ( http://seattle.codecamp.us ) occurs this weekend. This is a free event with hundreds of developers (well over 500 registered) covering a wide variety of technical (non-marketing...

There have been several posts along the lines of: VISUAL STUDIO 2010 WEB INSTALLER INSTALLS A TRAIL VERSION!!! (This one from AzamSharp) Turns out the web installer is designed to give you the trial edition -and in the defense of the release team the...

After a release one of the most commonly pieces of information we receive requests for is simply:  “How do I get started?”.  While we don’t have a ton of new content – yet- we definitely have enough to get you going and keep you busy for a while...

Visual studio 2010 ultimate loadfest At this free half-day, invite-only event, you’ll get to join your peers and load the Release Candidate of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 on your laptop machine....

Trolling the customer bugs and noticed this one: “What happen to the Visual Studio 2008 Express Download Link??” ..and thought my answer directly back to the request might be useful for other folks:   Visual Studio 2008 Express is actually comprised...

They say the two happiest moments in a man’s life are: When he gets a new boat When he gets rid of his old money pit boat If that is indeed the case then this has been a stand out month for me!  When i moved back to the US i did a lot of thinking...

Hope every one is enjoying the Visual Studio 2010 Release candidate ! Today somebody mentioned they weren’t able to open the models created in Beta2 in the Release Candidate- turns out we did change the file format! Luckily one of the PMs on the Architect...

Today 4pm Visual Studio release candidate was released to MSDN Subscribers = Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (For the rest of the world it goes live Wednesday at 12:00pm via Microsoft Downloads) Please let us know what you think! -The two easiest ways to let us...

Note this post has been edited to have people copy the files to their hard drive BEFORE running setup!)   The release candidate of Visual Studio 2010 is only available as iso*…Now for me this isn’t a big deal as ISO’s are the ONLY thing i download...