I usually ask my customers about business priorities before a Microsoft Development Toolset presentation or discussion. In most cases the response is something like 'must be on time', 'must come in under budget' or 'must be feature complete'. Most vendors...

KJ Ross , a premium Microsoft Partner, is now offering Visual Studio 2010 based Testing Courses (see dates & locations below). KJ Ross has an excellent reputation and a deep understanding of Software Testing and Software Quality in general. This is...

You should be aware of a number of updates to TFS 2010, one is available now, the other two coming soon.... Here they are: 1. TFS has been re-released ( available now on MSDN ) to include an important fix, solving a specific problem when upgrading...

Given the Team Foundation Server 2010 Release Candidate has been released, you may want to upgrade your current Beta 2 installation (you have installed it right?). Here are the instructions of how to do this: http://blogs.msdn.com/bkrieger/archive/2010...

The Australian ALM Conference Early Bird Offer The inaugural Australian ALM Conference and Microsoft Australia official launch of Visual Studio 2010 is scheduled for the 13th & 14th April this year. Registrations have just opened and we would like...

As you probably know, VS2010 ships March 22nd 2010 , but there is no need to wait until then. Beta2 has been out for a while and we encourage you to use it in earnest now . We provide 'limited support' for production application development. Jeff...

Microsoft has finally decided to acquire TeamPrise - a long overdue decision! TeamPrise provides an integration to Team Foundation Server for Java developers. It comes as an Eclipse plug-in, as a standalone client and as a command line version. If...

The next wave of the latest Microsoft technologies is about to land on our shores, providing new and exciting ways to develop custom applications. Visual Studio 2010 is the upcoming release of Microsoft’s market leading integrated Development Tool Platform...

Now that VS2010 Beta 2 is available, check out the Channel 9 Learning Center for updated VS2010 online training courses - six are available, more are coming in the near future.

Now that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available, why not install it? Check out Brian Keller's video of where to get the bits and how to install a Visual Studio & Team Foundation Server 2010 in no time!

If you are an existing Visual Studio customer with a current MSDN subscription, you will transition to the following new editions (on March 22nd): a) Visual Studio Professional with MSDN Pro ==> Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN b...

Finally the cat is out of the bag - the next version of Visual Studio will be available Monday, 22nd of March 2010! You don't have to wait until then to play with this new exciting release, Visual Studio Beta 2 bits are available on MSDN now! At a...

I am busy getting people excited about VSTS2010 (it's not very hard :-)) and often I get questions about customising workflows, work items, Team Build, etc. Terry Clancy has written a good blog post listing all the extensibility points in Visual Studio...

I get more and more questions about VSTS2010 - Microsoft's next generation tool platform - as the days go by. I am not surprised given the exciting stuff we'll release on **/**/20** (sorry date is TOP SECRET). In the meantime here is a collection of links...

Enhance ALM, a Microsoft Partner in Australia, offers training courses this month to get you started with Visual Studio Team System. If you live in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane see the schedule below. The courses are short and well priced. This is a...

Readify, one of Microsoft's best partner is running a 2-day workshop in Brisbane, covering agile development with VSTS - an event not to be missed! For details of how to sign up, click the link below: Readify's Professional Series Training ... ...

If you are using Visual Studio Team Test (VSTT) I suggest you download the new VSTT Quick Reference Guide here . The document explains product specifics in great details, it includes tips & tricks for unit, functional and load tests. A wealth of information...

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The magic formula is: Success == People + Process + Tools Well this is hardly a revelation of historic proportions, but why is it people keep looking for that elusive tool that will solve all their problems? Tools are very important, don't get me wrong...

TimelyMigration offers a migration tool to move your Subversion , StarTeam and CVS repositories to Microsoft Team Foundation Server - check it out here . Our folks in Redmond have only good things to say about them - so try them out!

In case you haven't heard (or haven't read my blog!) there is a 30% promotion available to step up from Visual Studio Professional to one of the Team Editions or from a Team Edition to Team Suite. This offer is valid until June 30th 2009 , so you still...

In my role as a Visual Studio Team System technical specialist I spend a lot of time talking to customers about quality software - after all the product is designed with this in mind. Naturally most customers are very keen to increase quality - but only...

Quality is one of those words that seem to be self explanatory - "of course we want quality, lots of it!", but when asked "and why is that?" my customers are often at a loss to elaborate. The term is used very liberally in most industries but rarely goes...

I couldn't resist... Windows 7 and Visual Studio Team System 2008 - all on HyperV .... very nice!

In case you don't know, our VSTS virtual demo images expire in a couple of days, but thanks to Santa Claus you'll find new ones (for VPC and HyperV) here .