During the keynote at TechEd 2008, Brian Harry demonstrated DBPro working with a DB2 database . This capability is the result of IBM writing is DSP (Database Schema Provider) for DB2. At VSLive! in San Francisco, today, Feb  24, we announced the...

This Patterns & Practices book, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications , has been out for while but if you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you. Just kidding. This book provides an end-to-end approach for implementing performance testing for...

Due to some technical issues we had with recording the first webcast, Overview of Visual Studio Team System, we’ll be repeating it on April 21 at 10 AM PST . Excelsior! Technorati Tags: Webcasts , VSTS

Along the same vain as “ I’m a PC ” and the Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ads, Visual Studio Team System now their own set of commercials (online) in the form of Pep Talks . After watching the initial talk, there are a few “game” films that discuss what you...

Over the next few months, my colleagues and I will be doing a number of webcasts covering different aspects of Visual Studio Team System. The schedule and topics are listed below. Hope you can make it. Date and Time Title and Link...

I recently had a Windows XP desktop computer die on me a while ago, so I basically cannibalized the parts (memory, video, and hard drives). I couple of days ago, I was looking for some data and realized that it was on one of the hard drives from the dead...

Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now in Release Candidate (RC). It was release last on Tuesday, Feb 3 and there’s already been a refresh to the release candidate because there was a last minute bug discovered, fixed, and QAed. So if you don’t loaded it...

It’s pretty much a default reflex that whenever I install Visual Studio on a demo machine/environment, I increase the font size so that people can see the code better when using a video projector. But when it comes to the other windows within the IDE...

Local shore development. Near-shore development. Off-shore development. They all need source code. Team Foundation Server (TFS) as designed with geographically distributed developers in mind. First, TFS communicates to its clients via HTTP/HTTPS. Second...

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) synchronizes business goals and IT investment priorities, provides valuable insight into the software development lifecycle at each stage of the process, and can enable organizations to get the most value out of...