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Just been trolling through the forums and it looks like my team mates didn’t leave me much to answer.  -Just more time to pull together another FAQ!  If you haven’t checked out the first two they can be seen at: Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 Day...

Had a couple of people ping me about running Blend 3.0 with Visual Studio 2010.  Blend 3.0 Preview was released two months ago and it is no surprise the two aren’t compatible – yet. When opening a .NET 4.0 project you get the error: “The solution...

If you haven’t seen Soma’s blog we have just released Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1 to the MSDN Subscribers . To make it easier for you to get started with the product, connect with people interested in the same technologies and give us feedback...

I compiled the questions from the forums and internal discussion lists. Q: Where is the Visual Studio 2010 documentation? A: With Beta1 the documentation will only be available online.  This can be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library...

Not a lot of new traffic on the forums today but they are good ones!   Q: Is the checking of contracts in static code analysys implemented in beta 1? A: Static checking of contracts is available as a DevLabs download here: http://msdn.microsoft.com...

With Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 now becoming mainstream i needed to format my work laptop to be able to install it natively –as there was no install for the previous VS 2010 CTP.   Friday i download the Windows 7 RC ISO then realized i didn’t...

Okay the Video on Downloading and installing Visual Studio 2010 isn’t new but i keep getting the question “How do i easily create a virtual image with Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2010?” –and Brian Keller does such a great job on this video...

Just had a visit from Doug Seven and the VSTS marketing team is donating an 80gb Zune and a full version of Team System Suite for the Portland Code Camp! YEAH DOUG !!! I also received email from Arnie Rowland, one of the Code Camp organizers and my session...

If you haven’t visited the Visual Studio Beta1 2010 home page i would highly recommend it! In addition to listing all the downloads key bloggers and great resources we have just posted a bunch of new walkthroughs to get you started!

If you are US based I hope you enjoyed your long weekend…we had glorious weather Seattle.  I realize i should have posted this yesterday…but my weekend just didn’t want to stop! The languages team is getting together tomorrow to walk through their...

The next Seattle.Net User Group meeting will be this Wednesday night May 13, 2009.  Remember this will be our first meeting at our new location – Starbucks Support Center (it’s the big Starbucks corporation building by Sears accessible from 1st Ave...

Just found out one of the VSTS MVPs William Bartholomew from my “home town” of Brisbane is doing a series of Live Demos on Team Build. So come along, learn something about Team Build, and then ask all of your questions from three of the best VSTS MVPs...

Thursday, May 21, 2009 Time: 10:00AM Ian Ceicys will be doing a lap around Work Item Enhancements in 2010 at the VSTS Virtual User Group. Abstract: Want to get the skinny on the latest enhancements coming in TFS 2010, come see demos of the updated MSF...

The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle team has just announced a new offering that makes writing secure code easier! This morning they released the Microsoft SDL Process Template for Visual Studio Team System. I have had several sneak peaks at this...

Wednesday, May 20 @ 5pm Bill Maurer will be doing his presentation on Team System 2010 – Taking ALM to the Next Level…and Beyond Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 will include across the board enhancements for the Team System product family as...