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Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate on Windows 8 Consumer Preview
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1 day ago
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rerwin
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A word of warning - If, like me, you thought: “I haven’t got time to upgrade my Windows 8 version but I’ll quickly upgrade Visual Studio 11 Beta to Visual Studio 2012 RC” Then hold on, don’t uninstall VS 11 Beta just yet! If you take a look at the system...
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Visual Studio 11 Release Candidate now available, and called “2012”
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2 days ago
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gdavi
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The Release Candidate is now available and the name for Visual Studio 11 is announced as Visual Studio 2012, complete with a new logo: Loads of updates included in this, with a couple that I’d highlight: 1. You don’t need to uninstall the Beta – the RC...
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Free One Day F# Workshop
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4 days ago
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gdavi
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F# is now one of the managed languages that comes with Visual Studio. If you haven’t had the chance to look into F# yet then this free workshop, with a key note from Don Syme (creator of F#) could an excellent introduction. It’s being run by Microsoft...
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Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension – Updated for Visual Studio 11 Beta
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11 days ago
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gdavi
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I’ve been meaning to update the UML Design Patterns extension I put together a while ago and have finally got round to it. There are no functional changes, I’ve just changed the VSIX installer to allow it to be installed into Visual Studio 11 as well...
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Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio & TFS: Downloadable Course
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23 days ago
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gdavi
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Lee Stott recently told me about a course on Agile Software Engineering using Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 from the University of Calgary. What I find fascinating about this is: It’s a complete, tried and tested course, designed...
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UK Tech.Days Visual Studio 11 Beta & Team Foundation Server 11 Beta Videos
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23 days ago
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gdavi
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We recorded some sessions a little while ago around Visual Studio 11 Beta and these are now available to watch on Channel 9 in the UK Tech.Days area . I thought it was worth highlighting the Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 related topics...
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Visual Studio 11 Event in Yorkshire, 31st May
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23 days ago
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gdavi
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We’ve decided to run a Visual Studio event at Black Marble ’s offices on the 31st May. The event will cover an overview of the Application Lifecycle Management capabilities of Visual Studio 11 Beta and Team Foundation Server 11 Beta. This session will...
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TFS 2010 and Visual Studio 11 Training Courses in June & July
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1 month ago
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gdavi
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I’ve just been introduced to Anthony Borton, a TFS MVP, and he’s looking to run some TFS 2010 courses that he has developed and delivered in the United States, Australia and New Zealand in London this June and July. The details for the TFS 2010 courses...
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What Agile or Lean Process Do You Use: Poll Results
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1 month ago
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gdavi
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I see a lot of different organisations and meet many development teams and the impression I get is that Agile, and Scrum in particular, is the main software development process in use. However, it’s hard to get clear statistics, and a lot of the industry...
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Getting feedback on your Visual Studio 11 Storyboards
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1 month ago
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rerwin
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I really love the PowerPoint Storyboarding and the Stakeholder Feedback Client that are part of Visual Studio 11 and using the tools together is a great way of getting feedback on your proposed design. However, just hitting F5 in PowerPoint to launch...
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New Visual Studio Events
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1 month ago
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gdavi
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Rich and I are presenting at some additional events running in the next couple of months. They’re all free to attend, and hopefully we’ll see you at one of them: What Where When How to register Agile Development with Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation...
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@VisualStudioUK March Review
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1 month ago
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rerwin
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If you follow this blog then you may have noticed that we’re not the best at scheduling updates. When things get really busy (for March, see DevWeek ) blogging is probably the first thing to go on the backburner. We’re trying to address the...
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Team Foundation Service - Build in the cloud!
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2 months ago
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rerwin
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This is very cool: Today at the VS Live conference in Vegas, Microsoft announced a new cloud based build service for Team Foundation Service. Can't wait to try it out. More details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/03...
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Free Webinar on Team Explorer Everywhere from Black Marble
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2 months ago
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gdavi
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Richard Fennell , MVP and ALM Ranger from Black Marble , is following up the guest post he wrote for this blog with a free webinar on how Eclipse developers are supported in using Team Foundation Server using Team Explorer Everywhere: Date: 19th March...
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Visual Studio 11 Beta download now available
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3 months ago
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gdavi
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A very short post to point out that the VS 11 Beta downloads, including TFS and TFS Express, are now available. Key links: Visual Studio 11 Beta downloads Jason Zander’s blog post explaining what’s new Rich and I are going to be installing the Beta and...
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Dealing with conflicts in TFS work items using the Excel integration
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3 months ago
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gdavi
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A question that pops up reasonably regularly when showing the Excel integration into TFS is how it deals with conflicts, e.g. a work item is updated by someone else not using Excel, and then you try and update (publish) the same work item from Excel....
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An Overview of the Visual Studio 2010 Testing Tools LiveMeeting
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3 months ago
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gdavi
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We’re delivering a joint LiveMeeting with one of our Testing Gold Partners, Testhouse , on Wed 29th February, to provide an overview of the testing tools in Visual Studio 2010. So, if you’re interested in how Visual Studio can help you with test case...
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Visual Studio 11 Beta
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3 months ago
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gdavi
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There’s a been a flurry of information last night about Visual Studio 11 Beta and I’ve been trying to work through it to provide a summary of what’s been announced: The “go-live” Beta will be available in 5 days time ...
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Windows Azure Tech.Days Online Conference
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3 months ago
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gdavi
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I thought it was worth pointing out the following Azure online conference, the details below are self-explanatory so here’s the information: “We are pleased to announce the next iteration of the Windows Azure Tech.Days Online Conference . Why attend?...
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Learn about the new SQL Server Data Tools from the original DataDude
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3 months ago
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rerwin
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SQLBits is coming to London on 29th – 31st March this year and there are some great sessions for database developers. You can register for the whole conference, sign up for the deep dive pre-conference sessions or attend the free community...
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An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: But I’m not a .NET developer
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3 months ago
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gdavi
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TFS support for Agile practices Tailoring TFS to support your Agile process with process templates Iteration planning Information radiators But I’m not a .NET developer Agile support in TFS 11 I thought it would be interesting to get some guest writers...
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An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: TFS Support for Agile practices
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4 months ago
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TFS support for Agile practices Tailoring TFS to support your Agile process with process templates Iteration planning Information radiators But I’m not a .NET developer Agile support in TFS 11 [Reposted from the old blog site...
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Visual Studio 2010 UML Design Pattern Toolbox Items Extension
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4 months ago
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gdavi
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I presented at the Black Marble Architecture Forum in the North event in December and one of the things I showed was how to create a toolbox item extension to add a UML design pattern into Visual Studio’s UML toolbox. Having done this I checked...
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