Event Date: May 1st, 2009

Are you excited about the WPF but concerned about the learning curve? Have you seen Silverlight but don’t know where to get started? Or are you curious about how tools like Visual Studio and Expression Blend help designers and developers work together to deliver great user experiences? If so, join us at XamlFest!

XamlFest is an interactive event where you’ll learn about the platforms, tools, and processes used to deliver differentiated user experiences. It’s a chance for you to mingle with UX-minded Microsoft folks.  To register, please send an e-mail with the names and e-mail addresses of your attendees to xamlfest-slc@live.com.

I mentioned before, but couldn’t give away the details until now.. We’re covering all aspects of Application Lifecycle Management, and I hope to see you there.  We plan to pack in each venue, so tell your friends..  There will be presenters from both Microsoft and the development community, including Team System MVP’s, so you’re bound to be entertained and learn something in the process!

Be sure to register below, and download the attached PDF to distribute as you see fit!

How do you take an idea from conception to completion? How can you truly do more with less?

Please join us for this FREE unique, invitation-only event to discover how both product and processes help your organization succeed in today’s environment. We will explore how Team System assists teams across the board to be successful in today’s tough times. This “break through” event will not only provide you with best practices around development and testing, but will demonstrate key capabilities of both Visual Studio Team System 2008 and the upcoming 2010 release. It’s a day that promises to have something for everyone!

Team System Big Event

SESSIONS

• Test Driven Development: Improving .NET Application Performance & Scalability
  • This session will demonstrate how to leverage Test Driven Development in Team System. We’ll highlight both writing unit tests up front as well as creating test stubs for existing code.
• "It Works on My Machine!" Closing the Loop Between Development & Testing
  • In this session, we will examine the traditional barriers between the developer and tester; and how Team System can help remove those walls.
• Treating Databases as First-Class Citizens in Development
  • Team System Database Edition elevates database development to the same level as code development. See how Database Edition enables database change management, automation, comparison, and deployment.
• Architecture without Big Design Up Front
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architecture Edition, introduces new UML designers, use cases, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams that can visualize existing code, layering to enforce dependency rules, and physical designers to visualize, analyze, and refactor your software. See how VSTS extends UML logical views into physical views of your code. Learn how to create relationships from these views to work items and project metrics, how to extend these designers, and how to programmatically transform models into patterns for other domains and disciplines.
• Development Best Practices & How Microsoft Helps
  • Sometimes development teams get too bogged down with the details. Take a deep breath, step back, and re-acquaint yourself with a review of current development best practice trends, including continuous integration, automation, and requirements analysis; and see how Microsoft tools map to those practices.
• "Bang for Your Buck" Getting the Most out of Team Foundation Server
  • Today’s IT budgets are forcing teams to do as much as they can with as little as possible. Why not leverage Team Foundation Server to its full potential? In this session we’ll highlight some capabilities of TFS that you may or may not already know about to help you maximize productivity.

Welcome: 8:00 AM

Seminar: 8:30-5:00 PM

REGISTRATION

To Register by Phone – Call 1.877.MSEVENT (1.877.673.8368) with invitation code.

PS - This event is Free!

In case you Sharepoint development shops out there haven’t noticed, we’ve recently released some development guidance on using Team System and Team Foundation Server for Sharepoint Development.

At the Application Lifecycle Management Resource Center for Sharepoint Server site, you’ll find helpful resources such as:

• patterns & practices: Sharepoint Guidance
• Source Code Control with SharePoint Designer: SharePoint Document Library Versioning
• Unit Testing: patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance
• White Paper: Design and Build Sites for SharePoint Server 2007

And most recently published:

• VSTS Rangers - SharePoint Server Custom Application Development: Document Workflow Management Project:  Read about the real-world design, construction, and deployment of a custom SharePoint Server 2007 application to a mid-market enterprise customer using Team Foundation Server as an ALM platform.
• VSTS Rangers - Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications:  Learn how to use TFS to support your SharePoint application development, and provide an integrated development environment and single source code repository for process activities, integrated progress reporting, and team roles.

Hey, newbie!  Want to see how easily you can envision, create, and deploy web applications on the Microsoft platform?

Check out this site to get started!

Includes:

• Free hosting for 60 days
• Choose from three options:
• Shared hosting: Basic Web presence and content management.
• Virtual dedicated hosting: Custom Web application development and high traffic.
• Dedicated hosting: Content and applications on your hardware
• Free Microsoft Expression Web** ($299 value) and Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
• Free $100 Microsoft adCenter search advertising credit

We’ve got a cool event in the works.  Covering all aspects of Team System.  Presented by Microsoft, partners, and community influentials.

Where?  Denver, Phoenix, Irvine, Mountain View, Portland.

Don’t tell anyone! (Okay, do tell people – bring them along, but don’t give up your seat!)