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Monday, November 19, 2007 5:00 PM

Visual Studio 2008 has RTM'd

It's done, officially announced today, so if you have an MSDN subscription you can download the English version of the product immediately. Still reading? Well then in case you need some reasons, try 5 reasons to check out VS 2008 CI with VS 2008 5 cool
Posted by ronang | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:44 PM

Take 5 - 5 time-saving features in VS 2008

Ok, in no particular order, here are 5 features in VS 2008 which are going to save me some time: Extender Wizard This is convenient for use with the AJAX Control Toolkit: to add an extender to a given control, just click the to show the popup menu below:
Posted by ronang | 3 Comments
Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:58 AM

Final TFS 2008 Feature List

Brian Harry has posted what he believes to be the final feature list for TFS 2008. A few interesting ones: Support for Windows Server 2008 Support for SQL Server 2008 Support for HTTPS communication to the TFS server Simpler installation :-) - Incidentally,
Posted by ronang | 0 Comments
Monday, August 06, 2007 9:17 PM

"Team Development with Team Foundation Server" Guide Released

Previously I highlighted the beta 1 of this guide, well now the final version has been released and is available for download at http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide In addition to the Parts I-VIII in the beta it also includes a section on Visual Studio 2008
Posted by ronang | 1 Comments
Friday, July 27, 2007 3:11 AM

5 reasons to check out Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

Its all about Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Quite an old video :-), but the gist is about right - this release is all about improving developer productivity, so even if you don't want to target the .NET framework 3.5 you can still take
Posted by ronang | 3 Comments
Friday, July 27, 2007 12:53 AM

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

You can download VS 2008 beta 2 and the .NET framework 3.5 beta 2 from here (you can also grab VS 2008 TFS beta 2 and the MSDN Library for VS 2008) VPCs are available if you want to evaluate on a virtual machine, which is convenient (biiiggggg though).
Posted by ronang | 0 Comments
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 4:30 AM

Wire in your design with VS Team System and WF

I've produced my fair share of class diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams and package and deployment diagrams; at times I've gone down the route of round-trip engineering, generating skeleton code from a full design and and round-tripping
Posted by ronang | 1 Comments
Friday, July 13, 2007 6:28 PM

5 Features I'm glad to see in Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server

Apart from CI support which I wrote about in a previous post there's a whole bunch of new features in TFS which are noteworthy, such as SQL named-instance support (so multiple TFS instances can share a SQL server), simplified installation, support for
Posted by ronang | 9 Comments
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:59 PM

TFS Migration / Integration / Extensibility

In my experience, people tend to like TFS when they see it and a typical next question is "How can I start using it with my existing systems?" Unless you're starting from scratch, what this typically boils down to is a question of once-off migration vs.
Posted by ronang | 0 Comments
Monday, June 25, 2007 2:53 PM

Continuous Integration with Visual Studio 2008 (“Orcas”) Team Foundation Server

I first started using Continuous Integration (CI) in 2002 when my then company started eXtreme Programming – I found it great and subsequently introduced it at every opportunity using combinations of CruiseControl / scheduled tasks and so on. When I started
Posted by ronang | 8 Comments
Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:27 PM

VSTO - Visual Studio Tools for Office

I went to the VSTO: Roadmap to the Future talk by Mike Hernandez last night organised by the MTUG in Dublin. VSTO will be in the box with Orcas (as opposed to being a separate download as has previously been the case), so in Orcas if e.g. you go to File->New
Posted by ronang | 0 Comments
 
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