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Announced at TechEd Europe, Teamprise Client Suite Acquisition
This afternoon in Berlin I gave the Developer General Session (keynote) around Visual Studio 2010.  As part of that keynote we have formally announced the purchase of the Teamprise Client Suite from Teamprise (a division of SourceGear). You can read Read More...
Posted 09 November 09 09:58 by Jasonz | 0 Comments   
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Tutorial: Getting Started with TFS in VS2010
Earlier this month we announced the new Basic configuration for TFS . This configuration gives you an easy to set up version of TFS that supports source control, work items, and builds. It is a great place to migrate your Visual Source Safe assets and Read More...
Posted 21 October 09 01:00 by Jasonz | 13 Comments   
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Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework Beta 2!
I’m happy to announce that Beta 2 is now ready for download! MSDN subscribers may download the beta immediately with general availability on Wednesday. Beta 2 comes with a “go live” license which means you can start using the product for production related Read More...
Posted 19 October 09 06:07 by Jasonz | 60 Comments   
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Announcing TFS Basic!
If you are a SourceSafe user you know VSS is an easy to install and easy to use source control system.  TFS gives you a much more powerful system including not only source control but also work item tracking and build support.  Today we are Read More...
Posted 02 October 09 04:21 by Jasonz | 25 Comments   
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Announcing the XP2Win7 Reference Application
If you are like me you’ve been using Windows 7 for a while now and it’s a great release!  There are a number of very cool features in the system, including things like touch and sensor support.  We want to make sure it is easy for you to get Read More...
Posted 14 July 09 04:46 by Jasonz | 11 Comments   
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MVC 1.1 for VS2010 Beta 1 Released
The MVC framework for ASP.NET allows you to create applications that follow the model/view/controller architecture.  VS2010 Beta 1 did not have MVC built-in to the product but you can now download it here .  MVC will be included in the final Read More...
Posted 12 June 09 07:43 by Jasonz | 7 Comments   
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VS2010 Tutorial: Building VS Extensions with the Beta 1 SDK
The SDK is used to create extensions to Visual Studio itself like those you can find on VS Gallery .  You can download it here .  The installation is done on top of an existing install of VS 2010 and gives you a set of build tools, templates, Read More...
Posted 01 June 09 04:00 by Jasonz | 10 Comments   
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Azure: New Support for the Cloud, New Skills Not Required
Last October at PDC, the Windows Azure team released the first CTP of Windows Azure along with the first SDK for developers who are interested in pushing their apps to the cloud.  The team committed to releasing regular SDK updates, and today we Read More...
Posted 28 May 09 11:00 by Jasonz | 1 Comments   
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VS2010 Tutorial: Testing Tutorial (Step 2)
Last week I posted the Step 1 tutorial for creating a WPF application from scratch using Visual Studio 2010.  In this post, I’m going to create a test plan and test case for the application using the new Visual Studio Test and Lab Manager project. Read More...
Posted 26 May 09 08:00 by Jasonz | 11 Comments   
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VS2010 Tutorial: Build a WPF App (Step 1)
For this post I’m going to build a WPF application from scratch using VS2010 Beta 1.  Along the way I’m going to show off a few new features of the product.  I built this demo using the Beta 1 build on Windows 7 RC, but it should work fine on Read More...
Posted 22 May 09 08:00 by Jasonz | 15 Comments   
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General Download of VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1
On Monday I posted a detailed walk through of Beta 1 here .  Beta 1 has been available to MSDN subscribers since Monday and will be available to everyone as of 10 AM PST today (Wednesday May 20).  I’m about to catch a plane from JFK to Seattle Read More...
Posted 20 May 09 03:54 by Jasonz | 7 Comments   
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Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1!
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that Beta 1 was imminent and now it is ready for download for all MSDN subscribers!  You can download the beta here .  General downloads will be available on Wednesday, stay tuned here for the formal announcement. Read More...
Posted 18 May 09 09:50 by Jasonz | 71 Comments   
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VS2010: On Triangles and Performance
In February I blogged about the new look for VS2010 .  You gave us a huge amount of feedback which I really appreciate.  I wanted to follow up on a couple of the themes that popped:  the outlining mode with triangles and performance. Outlining Read More...
Posted 12 May 09 06:55 by Jasonz | 34 Comments   
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New Name for Test and Lab Tools
At the Professional Developers’ Conference (PDC) in October last year, we disclosed information on a generalist testing tool (codenamed “Camano”) within Visual Studio® Team System 2010 that focuses entirely on test case management. Today we have formally Read More...
Posted 12 May 09 04:56 by Jasonz | 24 Comments   
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A Different Kind of Fan Boy
The marketing team gave me one of these really cool VS2008 fans from the Japanese sub.  It has the key board short cuts for the product on the back.  It was too cool to keep to myself:   I’ve decided to place it next to my Cup<T> Read More...
Posted 16 April 09 06:24 by Jasonz | 13 Comments   
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