Visual Studio business news

Visual Studio 2010 - Microsoft Acquires Teamprise and provide support for Eclipse IDE, Unix / Linux / Mac OS X platforms

2009-11-10T03:24:00Z

On November 9, 2009 Microsoft announced the acquisition of most of the technology assets of Teamprise, a division of SourceGear LLC, a provider of client applications for accessing Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Foundation Server from the Eclipse IDE and from other operating systems, including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X. With this announcement Microsoft is proving our continued commitment to supporting interoperability and heterogeneous development environments. The Teamprise technology will be available...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Test and Lab Management ressources

2009-11-02T23:31:00Z

A good source of information on Visual Studio 2010 Test and Lab Management is the respective team blogs at VSTS Quality tools blog and Lab Management team blog . J....(read more)

“Visual Studio 2010 – the ultimate offer” roadshow - invitation

2009-10-28T02:37:00Z

The next wave of the latest Microsoft technologies is about to land on our shores, providing new and exciting ways to develop custom applications. Visual Studio 2010 is the upcoming release of Microsoft’s market leading integrated Development Tool Platform - specifically designed to leverage these new capabilities. Come to this presentation to learn how Visual Studio 2010 has been enhanced to enable you to deliver modern, high quality applications to your organisation. We will tell you what you need...(read more)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 – 4 major announcements today (what you need to know)

2009-10-19T23:08:00Z

Here we go; we have 4 key announcements today to the developer community Information #1: Visual Studio 2010 (and .NET Framework 4) will be officially launched on March 22 nd , 2010. Microsoft has also simplified the product lineup, customers will be able to choose from three main versions of Visual Studio 2010: • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN . The comprehensive suite of application life-cycle management tools for software teams to help ensure quality results from design to deployment...(read more)

Microsoft Courier: not a new tablet ... a Booklet :)

2009-09-30T04:24:00Z

What a good suprise with this Microsoft Courier (still not officially confirmed) I'm happy to see Microsoft moving forward on the Tablet concept with not only a technological platform but an end-user solution with the final experience "built right" (that means Microsoft don't rely 100% on partners to move the solution to the final stage and the consumer space). Watch this video of a late prototype" stage of development. J....(read more)

Why building software solution during this (soon over) Global Financial Crisis (GFC) is a key priority?

2009-09-29T09:27:00Z

Any enterprise, during a downturn or a slowdown, will focus on 2 priorities · Growing the share · Reducing the operational cost Why growing the share? If you can’t increase your revenue with your customers as they are asking you to cost less, then you need to take on your competitor in order to maintain the same level of activity. This fiscal year, the market share will be a metric as important as the revenue growth. Why reducing cost? Very obvious but you can’t cut in the muscle, you have to cut...(read more)

Check the URL - "Wehatemanualtesting"

2009-09-15T04:30:00Z

Funny URL but a good reference page http://wehatemanualtesting.spaces.live.com J....(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 - Oracle database development support

2009-08-13T05:07:00Z

In Visual Studio Team System 2010, Microsoft made this area of the product extensible in order to support 3rd party databases. Quest Software is hard at work on a database schema provider to support Oracle database development from within Visual Studio Team System 2010. In this 10-4 episode Brian Keller sat down with Daniel Norwood of Quest Software to get an early look at "Project Fuze." http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-30-Database-Schema-Extensibility/ To access more information...(read more)

August 6th: Windows 7 RTM bits on MSDN

2009-07-28T22:07:00Z

from the Windows team blog ' Here is a good news, who are eagerly waiting for Windows 7 RTM. Today Microsoft stated, Windows 7 RTM will be available on Microsoft Connect, MSDN and TechNet on August 6th. Windows 7 RTM will be available to download from Microsoft Connect, MSDN and TechNet on August 6th in English only. By October 1st, the remaining languages will become available to download. Here is the time-line for Windows 7 RTM availability: For Partners & OEMs: ISV (Independent software vendor)...(read more)

Windows Azure: Pricing and licensing

2009-07-15T20:10:00Z

Pricing and licensing overview: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/pricing.mspx ex: Windows Azure: Compute = $0.12 / hour Storage = $0.15 / GB stored / month Storage Transactions = $0.01 / 10K Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB SQL Azure: Web Edition – Up to 1 GB relational database = $9.99 Business Edition – Up to 10 GB relational database = $99.99 Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB …...(read more)

Sketch flow … the missing link?

2009-07-09T18:58:00Z

How are you capturing the business needs when building a software application? Data diagram, requirements? Can your business contacts (the one requesting a new solution through a software application) understand and read these “pre-technical” documents? Can you capture properly their demands and visions? We know the answer … the standard process is to capture the business requirements in some kind of Word document, to let them sign off and then handover to the developers … crossing the fingers that...(read more)

Moving from CVS or SVN (Subversion) to TFS (Visual STudio Team Foundation Server) ?

2009-06-23T05:09:00Z

Best of breed open source solution will not help you in supporting the best practices when building application software. Even if you invest a lot of time (and money), you will only acheive a minimum level of integration (source control and project management or source control and code quality checks …). For that reason, many teams are moving from CVS or SVN (Subversion) to TFS (Visual Studio Team Foundation Server). Not because CVS or SVN is not doing a good job for source control management but...(read more)

Integration between Word and TFS (Team Foundation Server) with Team Spec

2009-06-23T03:26:00Z

Have you heard about TeamSpec ? Team Spec provides rich team project artifact management directly inside Microsoft Office Word allowing specification, requirement, and other document content to maintain integrity with TFS (Visual Studio Team Foundation Server) content. Most of the DEV teams are using Word as the primary tool for authoring requirements and then use TFS to manage them (thru work items). Team Spec offers a smooth integration between Word and TFS. ex: TeamSpec enables you manage changes...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 - Introduction to manual testing

2009-06-15T09:58:00Z

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. This episode of 10-4 will introduce the new capabilities in Visual Studio Team System 2010 for supporting manual testing. You will see how these capabilities will not only help manual testers do their jobs more effectively, but this approach also helps developers by providing detailed diagnostics...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 : Web based training

2009-05-28T03:58:00Z

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en...(read more)