With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 this week, a new Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit has also been released. This kit includes 28 presentations, 13 demos, and 16 hands-on labs. Excelsior! Technorati...

The Linked .NET Users Group will have Scott Guthrie giving a live webcast entitled “The Gu talks shop with developers" on May 27th at 11:30 AM PT. Registration Link: http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-ScottGu-talks-shop-developers/pub/60571 Location...

Ramp Up is a free online learning program for developers. Ramp Up recently launched three ASP.NET tracks: Web Development with ASP.NET Move from ASP to ASP.NET Move from PHP to ASP.NET These tracks, along with the other currently offered ones (e.g., Windows...

Our Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team has release a process template for Team Foundation Server 2008 . Why is this important? Ask yourself, how secure is your application? Is security built into your application from the beginning or an afterthought...

Jason Zander, our DevDivision General Manager, posted a really great article on VSTS 2010 / .NET 4.0 . It has a lot of screenshots of the new interface (which uses WPF), a quick run through of each Role Edition of VSTS, and as well as what to expect for...

Bruce Kyle, one of the ISV Architect Evangelists, wrote a nice blog article on the Microsoft product roadmaps based on things that were announced at TechEd 2009 last week. It doesn’t talk about specific release dates, but if you were trying to figure...

I know…for all of you who came up to our booths at TechEd 2009 last week, why didn’t we say something? Honestly, they didn’t tell us until the end of the last day. Go figure. For all you MSDN users, Beta 1 is available to you today. To non-MSDN subscribers...

If you've had an opportunity to play around with the VSTS 2010 CTP 12 image that was made available to world back at PDC 08 in October, you probably saw glimpses of a product we codenamed "Camano." It's a separate test case management and manual test...

The TechEd conference is best known for showcasing Microsoft technology that is currently shipping or will ship within the next 6 months. I would say that's changed for this event with regards to Visual Studio. In some of the sessions and in the exhibit...

Last week, we released the Windows 7 Release Candidate to TechNet and MSDN subscribers . Today, May 5, 2009, its now available for everyone to download and try . Remember, even though it’s fairly stable, you want to really be careful installing this on...

As of today, May 5, 2009, the Release Candidate for Windows Server 2008 R2 has been made available. This of course includes the Hyper-V RC technology. For more information and to download it, go to the Windows Server 2008 web site . Excelsior! Technorati...

I just assumed the rumors were true that there was no upgrade path from Win7 Beta (Build 7000) to Win7 RC (Build 7100) and decided to use the trick the Win7 Dev Team wrote up on their blog entitled Delivering a quality upgrade experience . Sure enough...

In case you missed Brian Harry’s presentation at the Linked .NET Users Group on VSTS 2010, you can download the replay from their web site at http://www.lidnug.org/Presentations.aspx . According the LiveMeeting console, it showed that were 357 attendees...