As we’ve been lucky enough to get hold of Jason Zander , the Global General Manager for Visual Studio, for the week of the 12th April, we’ve extended the launch events to include an further event in our Edinburgh offices on Friday 16th April. This is...

Brian Harry has posted about a new project on Codeplex that uses the DGML capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 to visualise work items . This means you can see the relationships and dependencies of your work items and therefore be better equipped to understand...

There are now 2010 RC Virtual Machines available for download – see Brian Harry’s post Cheers, Giles Technorati Tags: Visual Studio , 2010 , Release Candidate , Virtual Machines

Cameron Skinner has blogged about an upcoming Feature Pack for the UML, DGML and Layer tools in Visual Studio 2010 . Well worth a read, so I won’t go through it all but here are the key points I drew from this: Available shortly after RTM Visualisation...

Some French MVPs have put together a Surface device front end for Scrum planning in Team Foundation Server . It looks really nice and I think that this (and a multi-touch Windows 7 equivalent) could provide real value in team planning (as well as being...

I thought it would be interesting to take a closer look at the Test Driven Development support that Visual Studio 2010 Professional provides. Before diving into some code, let’s recap what we’re trying to achieve and what’s new: What is Test Driven...

I’ve been a bit busy lately and I’ve been catching up on interesting things, so this post is a bit of a selection of miscellaneous stuff that caught my eye: A really interesting blog from Brian Harry on the success and failure rates of installing and...

There are existing blogs that cover this but I thought I’d finally get around to including architectural validation in a build on one of my projects. I have a solution (it’s actually a custom check-in policy for TFS 2010, I’ll probably blog about it in...

Brian Harry has announced the release of “Eaglestone”, which is the first release of the cross platform team explorer following the acquisition of the Teamprise assets . His blog provides a lot of details but I’ve just downloaded the Eclipse plugin and...

Danny Crone from nFocus has put together a really thorough video walkthrough of test impact analysis . This covers Test Manager, action recordings, intellitrace, video recording of tests, fast forward playback, associating with a build to determine recommended...