In the world of Scrum or Agile, do requirements really still matter that much? Well, if you want to compete in the world of the modern application, absolutely! In fact, they matter more than ever. Shorter release cycles mean that typical impediments to value delivery impact the application lifecycle...

If you’re not heading to Seattle for the Visual Studio 2012 Launch Event on September 12th, don’t worry: We’re coming to you! Be our guest and attend in person to experience all of the incredible new capabilities of Visual Studio 2012 first hand. UPDATE For those of you who...

Come join Microsoft and Notion Solutions on May 24th in our Lehi office as we present the latest tools and techniques for managing your software process to attain quality software using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools provided with this release. ...

With the Windows Phone 7 RTM announcement this week, it’s time to start building your apps to run on it!  What better way to get excited about this new platform and enjoy a jumpstart in your development than developer launch events! There will be national and regional launch events, along with an...

Better Software Quality with Visual Studio Team System 2010 Please join Microsoft and Northwest Cadence for these free half-day sessions designed to introduce you to the quality tools of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010. Learn how Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) coupled with ALM tooling...

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...

We will be reviewing some technologies first discussed at PDC -- such as Windows Azure and C# 4.0. But we will not only be talking about the future.  We will also discuss some recent releases that you can take advantage of now, including the WCF REST Starter Kit and the Silverlight Toolkit. ...

[Updated 12/17/08:  The Salt Lake City date has changed to 1/20/2009] You’ve heard buzz about “ the cloud ”, and your interest was further heightened with the announcement of Azure , Microsoft’s new cloud computing platform.  Now you can jump in head first with other technical and business...

We've been able to add another stop for this event series in Salt Lake City!  On October 23rd, Rob Bagby will be covering ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, Dynamic Data, WCF, and WPF & Silverlight. Registration: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032390917&Culture...

So while I wish I could say that there is once consolidated site that lists all the events for a particular region, there isn't one. There's the Microsoft Events site, MSDN Events , User Group sites, INETA , and many more. I've pledged to do my best to maintain a Live calendar for all pertinent developer...

This is a little late of a post for Albuquerque, but hopefully you can take advantage of other ones! There is a series of FREE MSDN events touring around the region, called "MSDN Events Unleashed".  Topics will include: .NET 3.5 SP1 Entity Framework Astoria Dynamic Data WPF/Silverlight...

I mentioned this was coming last week, and here it is! Hey Denver, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City! Agile methods are a set of development processes intended to create software in a lighter, faster, more people-centric way. Many development teams have adopted "agile" methodologies to manage change...