In case you haven't heard, it was with mixed emotions that I decided to leave Microsoft back in January after spending over 12 years as part of the Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE) and Services teams. I am excited to now be part of Neudesic - a Microsoft...

Accelerate Testing with Lab Manager 2010 Microsoft and Sirk Technologies are proud to offer this half-day live event – during which we will demonstrate the testing and quality assurance lifecycle using Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server...

A glimpse of the future for Visual Studio's Application Lifecycle Management tools was announced today by Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President for Visual Studio, at Tech-Ed 2011. Visual Studio vNext is another major step forward as we extend our...

XAPFest LA 2011 Saturday, June 4th, 2011 | 9AM – 10PM Loews Santa Monica 1700 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA, 90401 | (310) 458-6700 REGISTER HERE *Registration is required About XAPFest XAPFest is a Windows Phone 7 Hackathon for developers...

On Tuesday March 8th, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1. We also released the Team Foundation Server Project Server Integration Feature Pack for MSDN subscribers. Non-MSDN subscribers can download the VS...

Today Microsoft released an update to the Team Foundation Server Power Tools. You can download them here: Main Power Tools Build Extensions MSSCCI plugin (unchanged from previous release) For additional details, visit Brian Harry's blog...

Thank you to everyone who attended the Visual Studio 2010 Build & Brew event in San Diego (1/20) and Costa Mesa (2/9) held at Karl Strauss Brewery. Based on initial feedback, it looks like these events were very well received. As promised, I’ve...

We held our Visual Studio Build & Brew event in San Diego, CA last night to a full room. Based on initial comments, it seems everyone found this event valuable and useful! As promised, I will be uploading all the content from this event, including...

Web Matrix is a brand new web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need for website development. Start from open source web applications, built-in web templates or just start writing code yourself. It’s all-inclusive, simple...

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our Visual Studio 2010 Hands-On Lab in Irivne, CA yesterday. I hope everyone enjoyed this one-day hands-on experience designed to educate our customers on the new features in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate...

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our Visual Studio 2010 Hands-On Lab in Los Angeles, CA on 11/10/2010. I hope everyone enjoyed this one-day hands-on experience designed to educate our customers on the new features in Visual Studio 2010...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio...

Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Event Series in Southern CA. I hope you enjoyed the sneak peek of Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010, which will be a landmark release of the premier development toolset for...

Thank you to everyone who attended our SharePoint as a Development Platform event in San Diego, CA on February 18th. We hope this event helped your organizations in further realizing the return on your existing SharePoint investment via Enterprise SharePoint...

Thank you to everyone who attend our SharePoint as a Development Platform event in Irvine, CA today Dec 10th. We hope this event helped your organizations in further realizing the return on your existing SharePoint investment via Enterprise SharePoint...

Can’t make it to Los Angeles for The Underground @ PDC? You can still be a part of the action! The Underground will live stream these special presentations so no matter where you are, you can to hear from Microsoft and tech community leaders announcing...

We announced yesterday the immediate availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to MSDN subscribers; general availability will follow on Oct. 21. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 will include a simplified product...

Interactive technologies are evolving quickly. Development and design are converging, collaborative workflow is a necessity, and people expect intuitive interfaces and rich experiences. Responding to this new landscape, Microsoft is changing interactive...

SoCal Team System is a user group focused on software application lifecycle management. We provide a forum for learning about, exchanging ideas, and using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. If you are new to VSTS, just checking it out, want to learn...

Don't miss the Michael Jackson memorial tomorrow live via the internet using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight! Tomorrow, July 7th, 10AM PT/1PM ET – The Michael Jackson memorial will be broadcasted live in HD from the Staples Center in Los Angeles...

This morning, the VSTS Rangers released to Codeplex a new beta of the WCF Load Test tool adding support for ASMX web services. Download it from here . This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy, or a WCF interface contract, and generates...

Rational eyes services Inc. announced today the availability of hosted and professionally guided Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 trials through its TeamDevCentral (TDC) technology. The free trials allow companies...

Episode 23: An Introduction to Manual Testing Despite all of the advances in automated testing tools and frameworks over the last decade, manual testing still constitutes the lion's share of testing effort within most software development organizations...

SoCal Team System is a user group focused on software application lifecycle management. We provide a forum for learning about, exchanging ideas, and using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. If you are new to VSTS, just checking it out, want to learn...

A Day in the Life of Scrum with Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server Please join Microsoft and Neudesic for a day in the life of Scrum with Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server! Agile methods are a set of...