After a few weeks of silent ship, which did not reveal any showstoppers, we would like to announce the general availability of BRDLite on Codeplex . Kudos to John Jacob and Myself, the co-leads of the project, and the team, for this achievement which...

So, I started writing some of my apps I had for Android and WP7 for Windows Phone 8 and to my surprise Nokia Maps are looking to be a really good thing. With the New Nokia Maps, there are Maps services that come with the Windows Phone 8 SDK. One in particular...

Hello, had a great time seeing all the Virginia developers at the September version of the Virginia Software Developers Group. We talked about what's new in TFS 2012 and my special topic "BRDLite Suite v2.0". We had a great turnout and I hope BRDLite...

In my previous post, What is BRDLite? I talked about what is BRDLite and what is coming in the next release. Today, I am going to tell you about BRDLite for SharePoint that is part of the BRDLite Suite. Remember, this is a overview of the template, Please...

Most companies I have been working with have a lot of problems trying to adopt to a SDLC model with SharePoint and TFS (Team Foundation Server). I will go over some if the pain points, recommended practices and ways to adhere to the practices in your...

Ever since I started on the ALM Rangers project "BRDLite Reference Template", I hear this question a lot... "What is BRDLite? How do I use it?". Well, in this blog I am going to tell you. What is BRD? B uild ..R elease ..D eploy Ready to use...

In partnership with MSDN Samples Gallery, OneCode this morning is releasing a brand new version for its Sample Browser , which introduces a big search expansion to over 3500 quality code samples from MSDN Samples Gallery, the new "Favorites" functions...

Hello everyone, Today, I officially became a VSTS ALM Ranger, check out my ranger index: Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – John Spinella This is a great honor to be part of such a great team of professionals. I look forward to a long stay. For...

Introduction I wanted to write this blog for the benefit of anyone trying to dip their toes in the BizTalk pond. BizTalk is a great tool and has many different uses. The example that I will present is based on my work at the Dept. of Corrections. This...

The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have finally shipped the Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Guidance. Check it out here… Rangers blog or on Codeplex http://ralabman.codeplex.com/ Happy Coding! John

The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have finally shipped the Visual Studio 2010 Build Management Guidance. I have to say this is great guidance, great work from the Rangers! Check it out here… Rangers blog or on Codeplex http://rabcg.codeplex.com/ Happy Coding...

I just watched a great webcast on learning how to scale your asp.net applications with Windows Azure. Below is a snippet from the cast. Common scenario: you suddenly need to increase the horsepower behind your application (or some combination of compute...

So, many of you have seen or heard about the sneak peek of the new version of Windows. I have read some of the articles and I have to say it looks pretty cool! One of the big things is how they integrated HTML5 and Javascript, so if you wanted to write...

Hello Everyone, Here is a blog post from Visual Studio Architecture, Visualization, Modeling, and UML Tools blog site. This blog post talks about what was presented at TechEd 2011 for Visual Studio ALM. Take a look... http://blogs.msdn.com/b...

I am sure alot of us when sending mail from a web application, we sometimes run into some unforeseen error becuase the mail being sent threw an exception. How do we solve this? Do we just throw the exception and that's it. No, If we look into this problem...

Hello Everyone! This is my first blog post on my new official MSDN blog site. I am very excited to be part of a great company and help other developers like me with topics like ALM, TFS and Windows Azure. As more time pasts, you will find me posting...