David Aiken : Visual+Studio

Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool (TSMMD) Ships

daiken — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:22:00 GMT

Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool (TSMMD) v2.0 CTP is now live at http://www.codeplex.com/dfo.

This project has two deliverables.

First is the Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool (TSMMD). TSMMD is a tool for modeling line-of-business health scenarios and the associated instrumentation. The tool includes guidance packages that generate platform instrumentation (called Instrumentation Helpers) and validators to confirm that application source code contains instrumentation defined in the Health Model. The tool can then be used to generate Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager 2007.

Second is the Management Guide that contains prescriptive guidance on building highly manageable applications on the Microsoft Windows platform.

TSMMD is in an early stage of development. It was developed to help raise the Architect and Developer awareness of the needs of the ITPRO.

patterns & practices is releasing this CTP with a level of functionality to enable the end-to-end adoption and consumption of the health modeling scenario from Architecture to IT.

We need your feedback. Is the tooling correct? What did we get right and where did we fall short?

New features include:

Improved model and user experience.
Limited support for Enterprise Library Logging.
Native support for model export to System Center Operations Manager Management Packs.
Support for existing applications through MSIL scanning for Event Log, Performance Counter, WMI and Enterprise Library instrumentation.

Please download the TSMMD right now and starting giving feedback.

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New Channel 9 Tag: VS2008+Training+KIT

daiken — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:48:00 GMT

Now we are pushing out the videos from the Visual Studio training kit, we have created (thanks to Charles) a new tag, VS2008+Training+Kit. What it means is i can now just view everything on that tag at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showforum.aspx?forumid=38&tagid=267.

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VS2008 Virtual Lab available on MSDN

daiken — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:27:07 GMT

You can now take one of the Hands on Labs from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit on MSDN Virtual Labs.

The lab is Building Web Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and you can access it via this link http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032360368&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Enjoy.

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Visual Studio 2008 training Kit now Available

daiken — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:26:39 GMT

Today we released the Visual Studio 2008 Training kit. You can download it right now from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397

The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management.

This content was developed over the last few months. As part of the development process, we presented many of the topics to real people we invited to Redmond. In September we recorded these sessions and are making these available on Channel 9. There will be several videos posted each Monday for the next few weeks. Today I posted:

Lap around Visual Studio 2008 & .NET Framework 3.5 presented by James Conard
What's new in C# 3.0? presented by Luke Hoban
What's new in Visual Basic 9.0? presented by Amanda Silver
.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements presented by Jack Gudenkauf
.NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ) presented by Luca Bolognese
Using LINQ with Relational Data presented by Mike Pizzo
ADO Synchronization Services presented by Steve Lasker

It was great working with all the different folks on the content and the training events over the last few months and I hope you enjoy using the kit as much as we did putting it together.

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