Visual Studio business news

Stirius is the codename for the latest project demonstrating the next level of Web user interface.... Silverlight :)

http://sirius2.intersoftpt.com/

SNCF (Société National des Chemins de Fer) is the French public company leading the train public transport and freight business. They decided to use WPF to refresh the software of their ticket machines. Why Microsoft technologies ?
1 - to refresh the interfaces in a more attractive way (using WPF)
2 - to reduce the cost and develoment time (using .NET)

if you are speaking French, you can read more about the SNCF testimony.

Jihad

If you are using Telelogic DOORS for your requirements, please have a look at the new integration with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team Foundation Server Integration
This Telelogic DOORS integration, for use with Microsoft Team Foundation Server, helps development teams using Visual Studio tools to create and maintain traceability between requirements in DOORS and work items in Team Foundation Server via simple drag-and-drop. Now, development teams using Team Foundation Server can improve their requirements process using DOORS and its support for traceability into the Microsoft development environment.

This is a good news and another proof that if you need to go further the Microsoft solutions for a specific functional scenario (like the requirements with DOORS), Team Foundation Server will stay your centralized solution.

more information on : http://www.telelogic.com/corp/company/news/index.cfm

please have a look to this codeplex project : "NUnit for Team Build"

This project is adding support for NUnit to TFS 2008's Team Build so that your NUnit test results are visible in the build log and incorporated into the data warehouse for reporting.
Team Foundation server is for all the development teams (regardless if you are using Microsoft or non Microsoft technologies and quality tools)

For more information, please contact Richard on his blog : http://richardsbraindump.blogspot.com/

The reality

·         The world is not 100% using Microsoft technologies (and I regret that)

·         The developer teams did not wait for Team System to organize the development

o    Project management, source & versioning, collaboration, quality control, configuration management ….

·         The world is not only using Windows platform (L)

So why using Team Foundation Server ?

·         TFS is covering the majority of the functionalities needed by the development teams

o    helping to improve the visibility, collaboration & the quality

·         TFS is an integrated solution

o    Offering an “all in one” solution giving sense to all the pieces of information you are “managing”

·         TFS is for everybody

o    .NET, C++, VB6 developers but also Java, PHP, ….

o    Developing on Windows and non Microsoft platforms

Hello,

I'm transitionning to Australia for the same role (Developer Solution Specialist) - arrival expected for the end of july.
This is an opportunity for me to refocus my blog on the business side of Visual Studio (more "why" than "how", some news, some market data...).
Even if the technology around Visual Studio is World Wide, I'll try to be quite close of the Aussie market and not so far from the french one :)

thx

Jihad

http://codeforeternity.com/blogs/technology/DevelopersAreBornBrave.jpg

Renault (the car maker) is using Silverlight for the promotion of the new sporty Laguna coupé

http://www.laguna-coupe.com/ (click "Full immersion")

look how we can use the surface SDK to refresh our interface using the surface table ... amazing ...

Thx
Jihad

comming from Martin Woodward, I'm please to present you Brian the build bunny. Brian is a Nabaztag smart rabbit. He reads out details of check-ins and builds.  If a build has failed then his ears go down to show how sad he feels, but if you fix the build his ears will soon pick up again.

more information on
http://www.woodwardweb.com/gadgets/000434.html

Jihad

Below is an abridged version of the demo that Julie Larson-Green delivered at the All Things Digital conference. Please note, the applications you will see are for demonstration purposes only...but it's all Windows 7 underneath.

Upgrading from Trial Editions

When you're ready to upgrade from an installed trial edition of Visual Studio or Team Foundation Server (or the Workgroup Edition of Team Foundation Server), you don't have to completely uninstall and reinstall those products.

For more information, see:

• How to: Upgrade from Visual Studio Trial Edition (a Visual Studio 2005 topic, but still accurate)
• How to: Upgrade from Team Foundation Server Trial Edition
• How to: Upgrade from Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition

un exemple d'utilisation de Deep Zoom (dans Silverlight)
 http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
(zoomer avec la molette de la souris ou bouton droit plusieurs fois pour « zoom in » et shift-bouton droit pour « zoom out ». )

Tout le monde peut créer ses sites deepzoom – les explications de Benjamin sur :
http://benjamingauthey.com/post/How-To-Creer-une-collection-de-photos-DeepZoom-et-la-deposer-en-ligne.aspx

Monday night we published a whitepaper discribing VSTS licensing scenarios.

It is syncrhonized with the April 2008 Product Usage Rights (PUR) document.

what are the limitations for the compatibility around TFS (Team Foundation Server) and Visual Studio, on the client side.
     ex : With Visual Studio 2005, I can connect with TFS 2008 using Team Explorer 2005. But if I want to use the additionals features of Team Explorer 2008 with my VS2005, what should I do ?

here is a useful VSTS 2005 / 2008 Compatibility Matrix :
http://ozgrant.com/2007/10/22/vsts-2005-2008-compatibility-matrix/

Jiji