Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010 Service Pack 1 had been released to all MSDN Subscribers. Also the brand new TFS-Project Server Integration Feature Pack had been released and is also available for download. You can access the bits directly...

LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the cloud and the desktop. Today, businesses move at the speed of light even as people balance the responsibility of more than one role within their organizations. As this shift becomes...

Have you ever asked yourself what SCRUM really and practically means for the Development side of the house. It is more komplex then just Backlogs, Planning Sprints… What Agiel Best Practices should you use, how do you set up and use corresponding tools...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 we have put in place tons of new features and ways to work. But how do you use this in a Best Practice way? What we here a lot, is that you need more guidance. Folks want and need to understand best practices and...

If you are unsure what Windows Azure is about I have a very good tip for you to get a holistic understand on Azure Cloud Platform without needing to go technically deep. On an internal Microsoft Conference we had David Chappell as speaker and he really...

The first CTP (Community Technology Preview) containing TFS-Project Server Integration is now available for download from here . It comes in a virtual machine including sample scenario data. Be aware that the CTP is mainly to validate and understand the...

Effective immediately, MSDN subscribers at the Premium, Ultimate, levels are eligible for 16 months of Windows Azure platform benefits instead of 8 months. This increased commitment to MSDN subscribers again demonstrates the value of MSDN Subscription...

As we work hard to consolidate the most relevant information for Siemens in this news/blog area, there are tons of additional blogs that are all really extremely worth reading and it depends on you special interest which ones you should add to your list...

  You can adopt Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 in production using supported, pre-release ‘go-live’ licenses today. Microsoft also provides a fully configured sample Virtual  image including detailed walkthroughs to help you evaluate the...

A partner of ours has assembled a great document summarizing all VS2010 ALM Whitepapers and Guidance. The Summary is in German but the links guide to English content: http://www.teamsystempro.de/publications/checklists/TFS0092_VisualStudioALMWhitepaperVonMicrosoft...

Today I want to update you regarding Trainings Material in out of different areas. Hopefully you find something helpful: Free Visual Studio 2010 Training for Customers from AppDev AppDev and Microsoft are pleased to announce an exciting Visual Studio...

The maybe most asked question from Siemens is “Do you also support C++ / unmanaged code”. This request has really been heard by the Product group and here you see a first result as “Feature Pack” release. If you wonder what a Feature Pack is, read here...

The May update to the documentation is live. In addition to several minor fixes, this update includes new and updated content: New content · Shipped content to support the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack scenarios. · Added new ports and protocol...

With VS2010 Microsoft made a significant number of platform investments including the new WPF based editor, DGML, UML diagrams, and TFS extensibility.  We took advantage of a lot of these features for building out the final product. But it has always...

A we have changes here I want to clarify on what you can expect from Microsoft regarding release types: Product Releases Our primary distribution vehicle is normal product releases such as Visual Studio 2010 itself.  These releases are fully tested...

This morning at TechEd New Orleans Jason Zandor (Microsoft) announce several new releases.  Here are a set of links to help you get started: AppFabric V1 RTM Windows Server AppFabric makes it easy to create long running services that combine the...

The new Directed Graph Documents (DGML) Rendering Engine enables it to easily show rich graphs on unrestricted relationships. A new free project now enables the visualization of the work item store. Find all relevant details on CodePlex: http://visualization...

The DPE Team in Corp. has released a Deep Zoom map, that shows the different scenarios we address with Visual Studio 2010 Test Tools. All Scenarios contain small walk through videos showing the different areas in a proactive and easy way. You can find...

Spec Explorer 2010 is a tool that automates the creation of test cases for complex systems. It’s based on technology originally developed at Microsoft Research and later transferred to the Server and Cloud Interoperability Engineering team at Microsoft...

This year’ Microsoft @ Siemens Conference in Erlangen was a big success. Siemens and Microsoft are jointly organizing the German edition of the conference for more then 6 years now and every year seems to top the last one again. A few impressions here...

As always MSDN subscribers are the first ones to get their hands on the bits. Visual Studio is available in the localized versions for Japanese, German & French. Office 2010 Client as well as Project, Visio 2010 and the Office SharePoint Server is...

We are very excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. The englisch version is now available for all MSDN subscribers to download . Additionally you can download the TRIAL Versions from here . As already stated in...

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 codename "Eaglestone" is the beta release of the Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server. You can download it today from here: http://www...

This week, we released a new Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit. This is a downloadable version of Training Workshops that we developed for a internal adoption program. It includes 17 presentations, 21 Demos and 26 Hands-on Labs. The...

Branching and merging of software is a very large topic. It is an area where there is a lot of maturity in the software industry. This is already the second major release of the guide and it focuses on applied and practical examples of branching that...