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Oslo is morphing to focus on SQL Server development. For more, see From “Oslo” to SQL Server Modeling at Douglas Purdy
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This looks promising. IronScheme is available in RC form at CodePlex . Nicely, it’s under the MS-PL. There is an MIT Creative Commons-licensed HTML version of the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs textbook for Scheme at http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
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It’s out—go download it and look at the info-> Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 . There is a “Go Live” license, so if you call product support, they’ll give you product support. This is what “Go Live” means-> http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2009/10/19/going-live-with-visual-studio-2010-beta-2.aspx
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Update: Date changed to October 19th. (See: TFS Beta2 Setup Chat Postponed until Oct 19th! ) The long and short of it is that Chuck Sterling and Ed Holloway and other members of the TFS Setup and Admin team will be giving an overview of setting up TFS
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Today I presented “Building Next Generation User-Interface with Multitouch and Ribbon on Windows 7” for the Windows7 launch event in Atlanta. The slides and other materials should be posted to “ http://www.thenewefficiency.com/ ” sometime soon.
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On upgrading a VS 2008 project to VS 2010 beta 1, some of my unit tests didn’t upgrade fully. There were some references to version “9.0.0.0” assemblies. I need to go back and let people know about the problem, but I pursued a “nuke everything,
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The Patterns and Practices team has just “finished” Developing SharePoint Applications . I’m sure they’ll add more to it, and it’ll be a growing document, but it’s become a polished and well-rounded set of guidance. You can find more at http://www.microsoft.com/spg
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Jeff Barnes has put together a series of afternoon talks about Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 3 . This innovation showcase will highlight IE8 and Silverlight 3 features that deliver the best web experience for end users. Some of the other
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I’m trying to sync a mpp file with a few thousand rows. I haven’t made assignments for everything yet, so I just want to sync a few rows. There is some help in the documentation, if you remember a few nuances: There’s a sweet article called
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There are a lot of stupid top 10 lists out here, and maybe we should leave writing them to David Letterman. 10 Reasons Why Flash Is Better Than Silverlight | Connected Internet was posted on www.connectedinternet.co.uk by one of it’s writers, but
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As if I’d know “hip” if we sat next to each other on the bus. Still, this was my first impression on Channel 9 today: Ping 22: Microsoft & Linux BFF's! Xbox handheld coming, Bing Jingle, Win a Surface | Ping! | Channel 9 . If you’re out there, look
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Over the last few years, I’ve had a lot of friends lose their jobs, have their companies disappear, withstand RIFs , worry about their jobs, not get a raise, or not get promoted. I also know a lot of consultants and contract workers who are looking
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The P&P team is looking for feedback and avid readers of their Acceptance Test Engineering Guide. Beta 2 was released yesterday on CodePlex. It’s a svelte 209 pages, in “commentable PDF”. It’s a thick, thick document. They cover
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(I’m back after a few weeks away. Nice to be back) RDA is giving an Azure deep dive on Tuesday, July 7th at the Microsoft Atlanta Office. Here’s some detail from the horse’s mouth: We are pleased to invite you to a complimentary day of intensive
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One of the fine people over at EMC (nee Conchango) describes a permission you need to set to enable the Task Board report to work. Just look at the blog entry Scrum for Team System : Task Board Report for the details. Bonus points-they have a SQL script
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