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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Virtual Machines Updated Again!

Posted Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:45 AM by briankel
Brian Randell has once again updated the Visual Studio Team System 2008 virtual machines for us, since they were about to expire at the end of this year. The new batch includes the latest Windows Updates as well as a new expiration date – January 31, Read More...
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Now Available: Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Virtual Machines with Sample Data

Posted Wednesday, December 23, 2009 7:01 PM by briankel
Just in time for the holidays, we have posted a brand new virtual machine (VM) which is pre-configured with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2, and sample data that you can use to help learn the product, Read More...
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Using a download manager to quickly download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 2:40 AM by briankel
10/21 Update: These instructions now include public links to the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 ISO’s. The instructions in this blog post are meant to accompany 10-4 Episode 33: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 . Please view that video Read More...
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Get ready to “go live” with Team Foundation Server 2010 beta 2!

Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 1:50 PM by briankel
Beta 2 of Team Foundation Server 2010 is going to be available very soon NOW! - unfortunately that’s all that the marketing team will let me tell you right now. :-) But the best news is that beta 2 of Team Foundation Server 2010 will have a “go live” Read More...
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Visual Studio: The Documentary

Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:39 AM by briankel
It’s here! Our team just published Visual Studio: The Documentary to Channel 9. I had the opportunity to help contribute to this piece and I’m really proud to see the finished product. Tina and team did a great job of pulling together lots of historical Read More...
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Slides from my TechEd Brazil Sessions

Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 11:55 AM by briankel
Last month I had the opportunity to visit Brazil and present at TechEd Brazil 2009 to share my passion about what’s coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010. I finally got around to uploading my slides from two of my presentations. The decks aren’t scripted Read More...
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Why BCC can be bad thing for large email distribution lists (and what to do about it)

Posted Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:43 AM by briankel
If you work at a large company like I do, then you probably participate in at least a handful of email distribution lists. An email distribution list is a single email address (e.g. example@microsoft.com) which allows you to send a mail to one address Read More...
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Zoom in/out with Visual Studio 2010 editor

Posted Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:27 PM by briankel
Edit: The keyboard shortcuts below will only work with builds of Visual Studio 2010 post-beta 1. So this is something to look forward to for beta 2, coming “soon”! Visual Studio 2010 now supports the ability to zoom in and out of the text editor by using Read More...
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Faster bootup time (sort of) for Windows

Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 10:47 AM by briankel
When Windows boots up, it will automatically start many of your services prior to you even logging in. This means that by the time you log in, many of the services your machine uses are already started and you don’t have to wait for them to launch. But Read More...
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Visual Studio Team System Rangers Web Site Goes Live

Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7:00 AM by briankel
The Visual Studio Team Systems Rangers is a group that I’ve been fortunate to work with for the past few years. They consist of VSTS product team members, top-notch Microsoft Consulting Services specialists, and VSTS MVP’s who have a straightforward mission Read More...
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This Week on Channel 9 with Amanda Silver

Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:56 PM by briankel
Despite Dan being gone on paternity leave (we miss you Dan!) it’s been a great month for This Week on Channel 9 due to the great guest hosts we’ve been getting! This week we were lucky enough to get Amanda Silver to drop on by. Amanda has been on Channel Read More...
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Habib Heydarian visits This Week on Channel 9!

Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 11:52 AM by briankel
When it comes to developing software, Habib Heydarian is one of my personal heroes. Not only is he a brilliant guy with a lot of great ideas about the future of software development, but he is also passionate about teaching people about software and showing Read More...
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10-4 Episode 30: Database Schema Extensibility

Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:57 AM by briankel
Visual Studio Team System 2005 saw the introduction of the Team Edition for Database Professionals product, which allows database developers to perform such functions as version control, unit testing, test data generation, refactoring and more against Read More...
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PDC Workshop Announced: Developing Quality Software using Visual Studio Team System 2010

Posted Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:47 PM by briankel
It’s that time of year! Today we launched the Microsoft PDC 2009 registration and announced some of the sessions which will be presented. There is a lot of great content coming to this year’s PDC, but I wanted to call out one piece in particular that Read More...
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10-4 Episode 28: An Introduction to the Historical Debugger

Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:06 AM by briankel
The new Historical Debugger coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010 promises to revolutionize the way you debug managed applications. You can think of it as something of a VCR for your debugger; "rewind" the debugging trace to examine the state Read More...
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