December 16th What's Happening Around Visual Studio

Quick recap on what's been happening on the team.

• Team Foundation Server and Project Server Integration - Learn more about this feature pack released to MSDN subscribers. This integration is a leap forward for organizations that have both Project Management Offices managing many projects and development teams using TFS.
• Eurostar 2010 at Copenhagen - Amit Chatterjee recently attended Europe's largest conference for testers.  I recommend checking out his post to get an inside look at the conference and how the awareness of our testing tools has increased in the testing industry.
• Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine - Check out Brian Keller's recent update to the virtual machine that contains the latest feature packs, power tools, and Windows Updates.  This VM is a simple way to try out Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010. 
• Force VS to Garbage Collect - Cameron Skinner's recent post shows how to force the runtime inside Visual Studio’s address space to collect garbage via a simple keystroke.
• How to Create a Many-to-Many Relationship - Check out Andy Kung's walk through of creating a movie database application using Visual Studio LightSwitch.
• Visual Studio Library Documentation Updates - Our documentation team recently published additional content for Feature Pack 2 and ALM in the VS Library.
• Team Foundation Build Activity Reference - Andy Lewis just released an article that describes in detail the fundamental components of the build process. To learn more, check out Andy's post.
• Martin Woodward Brings Team Foundation Server to Everyone - Listen in to .NET Rocks! latest Internet audio talk show with Martin and learn about Team Explorer Everywhere and TFS in general.
• Print Your Code in Color -  Download this free extension that restores support for printing code in color.  To learn more, check out the team's post.
• WCF Load Test Tool - The Visual Studio ALM Rangers recently released an update to their WCF Load Test tool. 
• TFS Ecosystem - Brian Harry recently started a series on TFS and VS ALM as an open platform.  If you haven't gotten a chance to check this out, here are the latest posts > Tasktop Announces TFS and VS Support for Mylyn and TeamCompanion and TFS.
• ALM Summit 2010 - If you didn't get the chance to attend this year's ALM Summit, I recommend you check the presentations and video recordings. If you're on Facebook, you can also get a good behind-the-scenes look on the ALM Summit page.
• The Anatomy of a LightSwitch Application - The LightSwitch team started a series of posts that shed light on "what is LightSwitch really building under the covers?".  I recommend you check out this series. Their latest post goes into detail about data access and storage.

Enjoy!

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