Building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using Silverlight Microsoft Silverlight is a new generation of technology that allows for creating an UI (User Interface) in a declarative format using XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language). Applications...

Just updating the web site , specifically the page   Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Code Name "Rosario" and somebody pointed we removed the link to the documentation.   The reason we removed it is the documentation is included...

Despite being sick for the last several weeks Paul Hacker has still managed to get another great instalment of the TFS Times .   

June 8 th The Monthly Testers SIG is having three incredible back to back presentations: Model Based Testing ( 30 min) presentation by Keith Stobie  Reporting Testing Progress (40 min) : The ability to visual the testing and the overall development...

I was looking to visit a couple of the Team System Usergroups after TechEd and was wondering how many Visual Studio Team System usergroups there are. If you know of a VSTS Usergroup or even a non product specific Usergroup (like a Testers Usergroup) that...

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software architecture guidance: Enterprise Library 4.0 May 2008 Release for Visual Studio 2008   – MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com...

Looking for a fun role with huge impact?  We are looking for a person to manage our website, help drive content strategy, work with UE, the Tester Center and the Patterns and Practice groups . -As an added bonus this person gets to work on the best...

Please to announce one of our partners stpsoft just released ReqSheetTM for Microsoft Visual Studio® Team System Reqsheet is a productive and lightweight environment for working with requirements in Team System projects. Requirements are stored hierarchically...

  Just received an email from Ed Blankenship, one of our MVP's at  Infragistics that i had to share!   “We completely use Microsoft® Team Foundation Server (w/ TeamPrise ) for the development of all of our products now. ...

Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group Thursday, May 15, 2008, 6:30 pm 1756 114th Avenue SE, Suite 220 Bellevue, WA 98004 Phone: (425) 974-2000 or (800) 5-EXCELL Fax: (425) 974-2001 Email: info@excell.com EMULATION AS A TEST INFRASTRUCTURE  ...

Last Wednesday Pilar (my wife) indicated she signed us up to the $10 Netflix subscription service. I did the analysis and the cost per DVD per rental came up ~$1.40   -based on a fast postal service and returning the DVD the day after we receive...

In this video we will use the Data Generation Wizard, found in the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools, to quickly generate a data generation plan from an existing data source. Presented by Richard Hundhausen http://www.accentient...

Title: Unit Testing with Visual Studio When : 6:30 PM on May 28, 2008 Where :  Microsoft Campus in Redmond - Building 118 - Mt. Sai. Room Speaker :  Bruce Taimana (Microsoft VSTS Product team) Overview : Unit testing is integrated within Visual...

Just updating the Team Architect web site and will be updating the Team Architect Blog roll to:   Cameron Skinner Peter Provost Erbil Yilmaz VS Team Architect Blog Mark Groves

This white paper provides an overview of Visual Studio Team System 2008 licensing and can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ce194742-a6e8-4126-aa30-5c4e969af2a3&displaylang=en&tm Visual Studio Team System 2008...

Thursday 5 June 2008 there will be a Presentation on the Microsoft Mobility Program at the Brisbane Convention Centre. The Program is a competitive initiative amongst Microsoft Queensland Partners to develop the best mobility solution. The finalists will...

Enjoy!   Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta was announced today after being kept as a secret for some time. Here is the list of available downloads as part of this release: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta Microsoft...

The new Rosario specification can be found here: Team Foundation Server Properties   Remember new specifications are always getting put up at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb936702.aspx and feedback can be supplied at: Discuss and Provide...

Anthony Borton is running a demo competition at his usergroup in Brisbane - should be a lot of fun if you happen to be around! What’s in it for you? You’ll have the opportunity to be in the running for some unbelievable prizes – including...

The boys in Australia just launched the Teched Australia site: http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched/