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This week we will have Noah Coad, David Guyer, Heath Stewart and Aaron Ruckman from the Visual Studio Platform Team on the phone to cover off setup in Visual Studio 2010.  These sessions are hosted through live meeting with the stated goal to be...

EVENT ABSTRACT Please join Northwest Cadence for this half-day training event on Visual Studio Team System 2008. Successful Adoption of VSTS Are your legacy tools no longer meeting your needs? Is VSS too small for your development team or not well suited...

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 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...

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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sorry about the late notice (long day) Gregg Principal Program Manager on the Team Foundation Server Work Item Team (and one of my favorite VSTS presenters) will be doing his TechEd presentation tomorrow to a couple of the VSTS MVPs and thought other...

In partnership with Jeff Levinson and Steve Borg from Northwest Cadence we will be bringing you a free day of VSTS training based on the best VSTS sessions by the best Presenters from TechEd 2009: VSTS FireStarter May 21, 2009  8AM– 5:00PM Microsoft...

  Been working with one of my favorite field folks, Caroline Williams and one of the new community stars, Larry Guger to bring more VSTS Events into the area and they have created the Portland VSTS Big Event – and have asked me to come along and...

I have met a lot of really smart and impressive people at Microsoft but must admit Brian resets the bar for these categories- and dispels the old myth that a jack of all trades is a master of none.   So if you have never had the opportunity...

If you live in Bloomington, MN or just visiting Bloomington April 23 Seattle’s very own Shad Timm will be delivering the VSTS Usergroup presentation “Metrics that Matter” Thursday  April 23 @ 5pm 8300 Norman Center Dr., Suite 950 Bloomington, MN...

Well i haven’t asked the boss yet but assuming it is okay I will be doing a quasi hands on session of my favorite part of Visual Studio 2010- the Test Tools!   Test Tools in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 The largest enhancements for Visual...

First meeting: Visual Studio Team System Adoption at Microsoft with Brian Harry   Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and serves as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server - a server based product designed to dramatically improve...

Reminder Tonights Seattle Usergroup is on the Advanced developer features in Visual Studio Team System 2010   Abstract: Experience a tour of what’s coming soon in Visual Studio 2010 for debugging, profiling, analyzing and diagnosing your applications...