Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

David Boschmans Weblog

Talking to developers to be more productive

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Developer Commu... » Visual Studio 2005   (RSS)
Forrester Research says Team Foundation Server is a strong SCM performer and ready for prime time
Forrester Research did a product-based evaluation of 11 leading SCCM solutions across 123 criteria: " The Forrester Wave™: Software Change And Configuration Management, Q2 2007 ". Software change and configuration management (SCCM) solutions permit IT Read More...

by David Boschmans | 0 Comments

Take parts of the MSDN Library offline with PackageThis!
Today highlighted on the MSDN homepage : PackageThis! Created by the MSDN development team, PackageThis! allows you to choose documentation sets from the MSDN Library to save as HXS or CHM format files. Simply select nodes in the MSDN Library Tree View Read More...

by David Boschmans | 1 Comments

Family.Show: a new WPF reference sample
Tim Sneath posted the first end-to-end reference sample on his blog. The Family.Show application - developed by Vertigo Software - is a genealogy explorer that allows you to create or import a family tree and explore, annotate or save it to XPS. A couple Read More...

by David Boschmans | 2 Comments

Branching Guidance for Team Foundation Server
About a year ago at our Dev & IT-Pro Days 2006 Steven Wilssens delivered a session on advanced version control and branching strategies with Team Foundation Server . Despite Steven was announced as a speaker this year , he just notified me that - Read More...

by David Boschmans | 0 Comments

Guidance Automation Extensions/Toolkit Feb 2007 CTP to support Windows Vista
Earlier this week version 1.2 or the February 2007 Community Technology Preview of the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) and the Guidance Automation Toolkit (GAT) was released to the web. The Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) enable you to run guidance Read More...

by David Boschmans | 0 Comments

Service Locator 2.0 for Enterprise Library
I came across this post from Mark Seemann " Service Locator 2 Released ". This post caught my attention as it was a while ago that I thought of it. The "service locator" mainly reminds me to the period I was still working as a consultant. Being a technical Read More...

by David Boschmans | 0 Comments

Dynamically start and kill a workflow with Windows Workflow Foundation
Serge Luca - who recently decided to make a move from Guidance to u2u - wrote an article on starting and killing a workflow with the Windows Workflow Foundation . This was published earlier today on www.msdn.be . Here's the summary of the article: The Read More...

by David Boschmans | 1 Comments

Visual Studio "Orcas" March 2007 CTP is available for download
... from the Microsoft Download Center . Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" is the next generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web. Visual Studio code name “Orcas” delivers on Microsoft’s vision of smart Read More...

by David Boschmans | 5 Comments

Evidence on Visual Studio Team System ROI
If you're looking for some evidence on the ROI of deploying Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server than these 2 case studies on VSTS are some great evidence from and for customers, showing the high return customers can get by deploying VSTS. Read More...

by David Boschmans | 1 Comments

Installing Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals RTM
Gert Drapers reports that Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals - codenamed Datadude - has gone RTM and is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads . Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals delivers a market shifting Read More...

by David Boschmans | 1 Comments

MSDN Virtual Lab for ISV innovation
As part of the ISV training series, you can take advantage of MSDN Virtual Labs . This series of hands-on labs are hosted by Microsoft—so there's no need to format hard drives or dedicate computers, and nothing to install. With 35, no-cost lab modules Read More...

by David Boschmans | 1 Comments

Software Development Lifecycle-in-a-Box training kit
I picked this up from the Public Sector DPE Team blog : Microsoft will release in the next few weeks the second version of the Software Development Lifecycle-in-a-Box training kit . The purpose of the 3‐Day SDLC‐in‐a‐Box training program is to provide Read More...

by David Boschmans | 2 Comments

Project Glidepath gets WPF packages
Project Glidepath has been updated. I just noticed through Michael Lehman's Project Glidepath blog that now Windows Presentation Foundation packages have been added. Download it here . Project Glidepath is a Microsoft evangelism initiative. It provides Read More...

by David Boschmans | 1 Comments

Visual Studio Team System MSDN Chat
Join the members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Read More...

by David Boschmans | 0 Comments

Speaking at e-Business meeting on the Microsoft platform
Next Wednesday - October 25 - there's Customer First which I won't (unfortunately) be attending because I promised a long time ago (long before Customer First was announced) that I would deliver a presentation for AIESEC , an international association Read More...

by David Boschmans | 0 Comments

More Posts Next page »
© 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use  |  Trademarks  |  Privacy Statement
Page view tracker