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An analyst report from Cascade Insights covers the Security Development Lifecycle applied at Microsoft . From the website: This article is the fifth in the "SDL series" – a set of 8 articles investigating the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle. In this series, through extensive interviews...

This week is Visual Studio Team System 2010 week on Channel 9 ! Brian Keller and friends will have 20 videos going live this week featuring interviews with the Visual Studio Team System product team including several screencast demonstrations of the latest bits. Technorati Tags: visual studio team system...

A few weeks ago we released Dynamics AX 2009 . Great news for Dynamics AX developers: they can now leverage Team Foundation Server for Version Control. Here is a preview video that was created before the final release on the version control features in MorphX , the IDE of Dynamics AX. And there is also...

Nikolai Tillman and Peli de Halleux announced the first public release of Pex (under Microsoft Research license ). From the website: Pex (Program EXploration) is an intelligent assistant to the programmer. From a parameterized unit test, it automatically produces a traditional unit test suite with...

The Belgian Visual Studio User Group is organizing a set of Visual Studio 2008 Community Launch events in May: VISUG - The ABC of Windows Communication Foundation 6 May 2008 - Merelbeke 13 May - Kortijk VISUG - Team Foundation Server 2008 Overview 7 May 2008 - Zaventem 21 May 2008 - Kontich VISUG - ASP...

You might already have heard about our 3 day launch experience: On March 11 we'll celebrate the launch of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. During this day, you'll get to see a keynote from Bill Hilf and an overview of "what" those products can mean to you (in non...

You can now watch the recording of the MSDN Evening on "Introducing Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System 2008" : With Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft is continuing to invest in the market-leading Visual Studio Team System technology. Visual Studio Team System 2008 provides...

In December Belgians and Luxemburgers can get 40% discount on the book "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art" by Steve McConnell. Often referred to as the "black art" because of its complexity and uncertainty, software estimation is not as difficult or puzzling as people...

Many have asked about it, so I'm happy to announce that the registration is open for the next MSDN Evening on 19 December: MSDN Evening: Introducing Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System 2008 With Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft is continuing to invest in the market-leading Visual...

We've recently published a great case study from the Belgian post office, De Post - La Poste, on their Visual Studio Team System testing scenario where they are using the Visual Studio Team Test Load Agent . "The Belgian Post Office De Post—La Poste (DPLP) is currently undergoing extensive modernisation...

The PowerPoint presentations of the sessions delivered at the Belgian Community Day are available for download: Keynote Discovering Software Development Life-Cycle using Visual Studio Team System SharePoint tools Discovering Unified Communications ASP.NET AJAX biTunes The Belgian Community Day was an...

Gamers amongst you might have already noticed it: there are Visual Studio ads appearing in several games. With the Defy All Challenges campaign, we're informing developers how the Visual Studio development environment helps them to defy their challenges while developing applications and websites. The...

Recently Nucleus Research published a ROI case study for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System at KBC Bank (Belgium) . This is the top outcome of their research: ROI: 89% Payback period: 1.12 year More details, such as the financial analysis, average total cost of ownership, etc, are all available in the...

Last Thursday, Scott Guthrie visited Belgium for the first time. Throughout the day, he had several meetings with customers, partners, MVP's and the developer VIP's and a journalist. In the afternoon he gave 2 talks for the Belgian Visual Studio User Group . Needless to say that the user group was very...

Following MSDN Evenings are currently scheduled at the Microsoft offices in Brussels: October 18: MSDN Evening: Developing solutions with Windows SharePoint Services v3 and Office SharePoint Servers 2007 , presented by Joris Poelmans November 15: MSDN Evening: Introducing Visual Studio Team...