TechEd Developer in Europe

Big News for VSX from TechEd Europe

Aaron Marten's WebLog — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:38:17 GMT

Earlier today, Soma (VP for Microsoft Developer Division) announced some big news for VSIP partners and

re: TechEd Developer in Europe

mkprilliman — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:52:11 GMT

I am really glad to see the RTM date is still set for the end of the month, but it still begs the question as to why there have been no "fresh" public CTPs or RC drops since July's beta 2 release?

We have already made a fairly significant investment in .Net 3.5 for a product we are hoping to ship in January 2008. It would be extremely nice to know if there are going to be any substantial breaking changes between B2 and the RTM bits (especially in the WCF/WPF stacks).

Thanks (and congrats).

Major Visual Studio 2008 Announcements Today

Chris Bowen's Blog — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:16:00 GMT

We've taken the wraps off some big announcements related to Visual Studio 2008. As Soma mentions on his

Visual Studio 2008/.NET FX 3.5 on track for release before the end of November

Righthand blogs — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:16:25 GMT

I thought it will happen soon since there was no public post beta 2 version out there and TechEd Developer

VS2008は11月中にリリース（確定情報）

どっとねっとふぁんBlog — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:23:26 GMT

SomasegarのBlogで発表!!! ということで確定ですね。まぁ、製造工程にわたる、という状況でしょうからMSDNでダウンロードは可能になるのかなぁ。。。日本語版は2ヶ月先と考えると年明けかなぁ。ちなみに、Windows...

Visual Studio 2008 et VSTS 2008 disponibles avant la fin du mois

Visual Studio Team System — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:25:28 GMT

Somasegar, le VP de la division outils de développement, vient d'annoncer au TechEd de Barcelone la disponibilité

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Craig Nicholson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:36:16 GMT

Does "remove license restrictions with Visual Studio and the Visual Studio SDK" mean that the Express editions will now be able to use add-ins as well?

Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Release This Month

WebLog of Ken Cox — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:37:49 GMT

Announcements about Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 are gradually coming out. Soma confirms

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Dan Fernandez — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:48:39 GMT

@Craig – To your question on removing licensing restrictions, the restrictions we are moving are designed to enable developers who are building custom developer tools with the VS SDK to target other platforms beyond Windows. This announcement is not related to Visual Studio Express which does not support 3rd party add-ins.

Thanks,

-Dan

Visual Studio 2008 - Release date announced

Walter Stiers - Academic Relations Team (BeLux) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:59:51 GMT

At TechEd 2007 Barcelona and DevConnections Las Vegas, Somasegar announced that Visual Studio 2008 (aka

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 - here comes the finish line

Allan's Best Week Ever — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:04:08 GMT

Shukriya Soma! "Orcas" is coming to town this November! Sync Framework, Popfly Explorer, S+S? More on

Visual Studio 2008 Will Be Released in November 2007

Mehran Nikoo's Notes — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:11:51 GMT

Somasegar has more on this and here is the press release .

New and Notable 200

Sam Gentile — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:39:15 GMT

Finally! Its taken me like 5 years to get to 200. I sometimes I wish I was prolific like Mike Gunderloy

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 to RTM before the end of November 2007

Paulo Morgado — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:47:14 GMT

Today, S.Somasegar announced at TechEd Developers EMEA , amongst other things, that they the product

Visual Studio 2008 e .NET FX 3.5: Lançamento antes do final de Novembro de 2007

Paulo Morgado — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:01:09 GMT

Hoje S.Somasegar anunciou . no TechEd Developers EMEA , a equipa de produto da Microsoft está a dar os

Visual Studio 2008 e .NET FX 3.5: Lan

Paulo Morgado — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:01:13 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 のリリースは今月中 ?

かるあのメモ — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:11:18 GMT

VS2008は11月中にリリース（確定情報） (どっとねっとふぁん）経由 TechEd Developer in Europe(Somasegar's WebLog)より Visual Studio の開発が今月中に終了しRTMに向かうらしいです。 SQL Server や Windows Server は予定どおりのスケジュールで進んでいるらしいですね。

somasegarの発表でVSなどはもうすぐでるそうな

中の技術日誌ブログ — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:14:15 GMT

somasegarの発表でVSなどはもうすぐでるそうな

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Dragan Panjkov — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:17:29 GMT

Congratulations!

So, does it mean that VS2008 will be available to MSDN subscribers by the end of november?

Thanks!

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Ryan T. — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:22:05 GMT

Congratulations on the upcoming RTM of VS2008.

However, what is the schedule for SP1?

.NET Framework 3.5, Visual Studio .NET 2008, Microsoft Sync Framework y PopFly Explorer anunciados

Rodrigo Díaz — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:26:24 GMT

Hoy tuvimos en el TechEd el Key Note por parte de Somasegar quien nos dio excelentes noticias entre las

Visual Studio 2008は今月中に出荷予定だそうな。

ひろえむの日々是勉強 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:26:32 GMT

Visual Studio 2008は今月中に出荷予定だそうな。

ひろえむの日々是勉強 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:28:48 GMT

Visual Studio 2008は今月中に出荷予定だそうな。

VS2008 to be released by end of November 2007

Craig Bailey Link Blog — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:16:06 GMT

Thanks to Angus for alerting me to this... Somasegar has 'announced' that Visual Studio 2008

re: TechEd Developer in Europe

Somasegar — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:38:48 GMT

Hi Dragan - yes, VS 2008 will be available for download by MSDN subscribers before the end of this month.

-somasegar

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Gunady — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:53:12 GMT

What a great news!! I look forward to this release. I have been using beta 2 in VPC, and get excited of LINQ feature.

Will Team Foundation Server 2008 be released to MSDN subscriber at the end of this November too? Our company plans to use TFS since some time ago, but because there is no integration supported to WSS 3.0, we postpone it until now. If the TFS 2008 is released, we will surely implemented as soon as possible :).

Will TFS 2008 support for VS2005 (Team Explorer 2005)? Some of our current developments will be moved to use new TFS, instead of VSS 2005 that we are currently using.

Visual Studio 2008 Available at End of November

The Curtain Raiser — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:20:25 GMT

That's right. You heared correctly. The next release of Microsoft's premier integrated development

Visual Studio 2008 to ship in 2007 :-)

Ahmed Salijee — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:53:32 GMT

Soma made the announcement at TechED Europe yesterday that VS08 should be available by the end of the

Visual Studio 2008 und .NET Framework 3.5 kommen im November

~sebastianweber; — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:02:08 GMT

Das Warten hat ein Ende, noch im November werden MSDN-Abonnenten die finale Version von Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2008 und .NET Framework 3.5 kommen im November

Noticias externas — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:41:31 GMT

Das Warten hat ein Ende, noch im November werden MSDN-Abonnenten die finale Version von Visual Studio

THE THIRD BIG WAVE COMING!!!

aspxの日記2008(ASP++ブログ) by Moo — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:44:51 GMT

ASP.NET 3.5の情報も出始めましたね New Features in ASP.NET 3.5 ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Site 世代ﾊﾞｰｼﾞｮﾝ対応するIDE 11.0 1.1VS2002,VS2003,WebMatrix 22.0VS2005,VS2008 33.5VS2008 VS2008のマルチターゲット

THE THIRD BIG WAVE COMING!!!

aspxの日記2008(ASP++ブログ) by Moo — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:44:52 GMT

Attending TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona

ToDotNet — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:50:55 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 te vroeg? ;-)

ISV blog-voer — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:09:29 GMT

Gisteren tijdens de Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007 keynote in Barcelona announceerde Soma Somasegar

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Tom Kirby-Green — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:58:12 GMT

Awesome. Can we expect the ParallelFX CTP to follow shortly after the Orcas RTW?

Kudos to the Dev Div team.

TechEd Barcelone

Cheffage de produit Devtools en France — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:45:05 GMT

Je suis cette semaine à Barcelone, au TechEd , la conférence technique de Microsoft. Sur le plan des

TechEd Barcelone

Noticias externas — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:51:02 GMT

Je suis cette semaine à Barcelone, au TechEd , la conférence technique de Microsoft. Sur le plan des

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Morten Mertner — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:15:07 GMT

I attended your talk at TechEd, but must admit that I am not impressed by the direction Visual Studio is taking with 2008 and Rosario. In my opinion there is way too much focus on ALM and enterprisey stuff, when there are still many of the basic things that aren't working properly.

WYSIWYG was a big thing for word processors in the past, but VS still does not do this properly for web applications. Web controls render somewhat like they will look in a browser, but not perfectly so. User controls have improved, but often fail to render in nested master pages. Templated user controls do not render in pages at all (grey box syndrome). This really should be addressed before anything else.

When designing user controls, they only render correctly if links to stylesheets are added to the markup, but this causes lots of invalid link tags to be emitted when the controls are used in pages. Design-time attachment of style sheets ought to be a feature.

The rules for code formatting are insufficient for complete control of how the code should look.

There are many things one could add to the current refactoring options. Also, these is to my knowledge no facility for applying common design patterns (e.g. in the class designer).

These are just examples of the basic day-to-day functionality that imho will affect many more developers and add much more value than the suggested features for Rosario.

VS2008, SharePoint Search Server 2008 Express Announced

Eli Robillard's World of Blog. — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:20:00 GMT

I'm not at [SharePoint|Dev|Win|Exchange]Connections 2007 or TechEd EMEA 2007 Barcelona this week, but

TechEd 2007 Barcelona, Spain : Somasegar, 4000+ audience, and Visual Studio 2008

Danish Sami : MVP, Windows Server System - SQL Server — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:26:55 GMT

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jeffbe — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:28:20 GMT

Gunady -

Regarding the release timeframe for TFS 2008, we fully intend to release TFS on the same day as the rest of the Visual Studio 2008 product line.

Regarding the question of Team Explorer compatibility, we have worked hard to make sure that TE 2005 is compatible with TFS 2008 and that TE 2008 is compatible with TFS 2005 so that the migration process of servers and clients can happen independently of one another.

Hope that helps!

Jeff

Visual Studio 2008 con .Net Framework 3.5 a finales de este mes [ENG]

meneame.net — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:50:39 GMT

Ayer Somasegar, vicepresidente de la División de desarrollo de Microsoft, ha anunciado que .NET 3.5 y Visual Studio 2008 serán lanzados al final de este mes de Noviembre. Esta versión incluirá versiones de produccion de Visual Basic 9 y C# 3, nuevas herramientas

Visual Studio Team System 2008 -- Coming this Month

Shake to Develop — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:11:02 GMT

You've likely heard the new by now -- as Soma has said in his blog , Visual Studio 2008, and the corresponding

Visual Studio Team System 2008 -- Coming this Month

Noticias externas — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:02:36 GMT

You've likely heard the new by now -- as Soma has said in his blog , Visual Studio 2008, and the

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Anders Borum — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:25:14 GMT

I'm sorry, but the keynote delivered was too shallow, and was presented with little heart by both presenters (Somasegar and co.). The primary part of the keynote used analogies to wedding day shopping add-ins for Microsoft Outlook that were completely out of this world and others that few could relate to.

A highlight was two grafitti artists painting live to the elegant wall of tech-house music presented by a DJ live on stage. I'd like to kudos the TechEd team for deciding on this highlight - it was a very nice start to an otherwise boring keynote littered with buzzwords and artificial conversation between the speakers.

Aside from that, the TechEd event is becoming more of a product showcase and tends to focus on high level architectural overviews instead of "going deep" sessions on great API design, patterns in software (with real work examples) and so on - stuff that relate to the problems the developers are facing on a day to day basis.

We were looking for hardcore SharePoint developers on the Ask the Exports booth area; we're facing some problems with large scale deployments and was unable to find - or be directed to - staff that could participate in a meaningful discussion on the topics.

Great to see people like Ron Jacobs on site - the should put him on the keynote instead.

TFS 2008 ships this month

Buck Hodges — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:52:04 GMT

Yesterday, Soma announced that VS 2008 and TFS 2008 ship this month. Prior to that, we had only said

TFS 2008 ships this month

Noticias externas — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:08:10 GMT

Yesterday, Soma announced that VS 2008 and TFS 2008 ship this month. Prior to that, we had only said

Release date announced for Visual Studio 2008 & .NetFx 3.5

Shiju Varghese's .NET Blog — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:06:48 GMT

At TechEd 2007 Barcelona, Spain, S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division, announced

Visual Studio 2008 will be released at the end of this month

Hartmut's Box — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:00:16 GMT

S. Somasegar, Vice President of the Developer Division at Microsoft, announced on his blog, that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 will be released at the end of this month. The official marketing launch, which will include Windows...

ORCAS: Visual Studio 2008 coming end of Movember!

Thushan Fernando — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:18:51 GMT

Thats right, it appears S. Somasegar let werd out that Visual Studio 2008 (aka 'Orcas') will ship sometime...

Team System 2008 shipping soon

Jeff Beehler's Blog — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:33:39 GMT

In case you're not an avid reader of Soma's blog (why not!?), I just wanted to make sure everyone heard

Tech Ed Developers 2007 - Day 1 and 2 - Catch Up

Andrew's Blog — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:36:05 GMT

Tech Ed Developers 2007 - Day 1 and 2 - Catch Up

Team System 2008 shipping soon

Noticias externas — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:09:20 GMT

In case you're not an avid reader of Soma's blog (why not!?), I just wanted to make sure everyone

Exciting Week for VS Extenders and VSIP Partners!

vs.Eco — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:36:55 GMT

What a great week for the VSX community! This week, we made several major announcements that will greatly

re: TechEd Developer in Europe

Mohamed Omar — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:10:25 GMT

Congratulations on the RTM

but I ask about this release if it contains bug fixes for the CLR 2.0 engine as itis the base for .netfx 3.0 and 3.5 ??

Great work and innovation.

[PL] VS2008 oraz .NET Framework 3.5 RTM

Only Human | Devoted to technology v.2.0 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:29:41 GMT

Dla tych, którzy ominęli Tech*Ed Europe oraz nie doczytali na blogach i w prasie, krótka informacja.

[PL] VS2008 oraz .NET Framework 3.5 RTM

Noticias externas — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:55:01 GMT

Dla tych, którzy ominęli Tech*Ed Europe oraz nie doczytali na blogach i w prasie, krótka informacja.

Visual Studio 2008 by end of November

Geeky Storytelling — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:49:23 GMT

Somasegar's WebLog : TechEd Developer in Europe . If you are doing WPF, WCF, and/or WF development this

Visual Studio 2008 by end of November

Noticias externas — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:56:18 GMT

Somasegar's WebLog : TechEd Developer in Europe . If you are doing WPF, WCF, and/or WF development

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Somasegar — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:19:24 GMT

Mohamed Omar - The .NET FX 3.5 contains the latest, up-to-date servicing of the CLR, as well as an update of the llibraries in 2.0 and 3.0.

-somasegar

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Elena — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:10:20 GMT

"... we are going to remove license restrictions with Visual Studio and the Visual Studio SDK to enable you to use the Visual Studio IDE and build applications that target the platform of your choice."

Does this mean Visual Studio SDK for Linux/Solaris/Mac OS, or what else?

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Leon Zandman — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:05:57 GMT

Soma, just a quick note on your keynote speech. I found it a good keynote, but must tell you that even though you speak English very well, your pronunciation of the English language is terrible. Added to that you also spoke very quickly. I found it very hard to understand what you were saying. And I wasn't the only one who was bothered by this. Everyone that was sitting near me complained about this! I don't want to bash you, but maybe you should do something about it.

Popfly Explorer: Nifty & Smooth!

Jelle Druyts — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:08:58 GMT

Orcas cometh

Don Box's Spoutlet — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:03:40 GMT

TechEd Developers 2007 Barcelona personal highlights

Tech MOSS Team — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:43:06 GMT

We had to leave on Sunday from Amsterdam at 4:30 AM to get the plane to Barcelona at 6:55 AM. At the

MSBuild 3.5 Tips and a Small MSBuild 4.0 Wish List

John Robbins' Blog — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:06:32 GMT

Earlier this week, I spent some quality time porting a moderately complicated build over to MSBUILD 3.5,

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Gabriel Lozano-Moran — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:05:58 GMT

We are starting a new 6 month project with about 10 developers and we are still not sure whether to go for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 or wait for Visual Studio 2008 RTM. The problem is that we need to prepare the dev workstations next week as we start developing the 26th November. I don't want an exact release date but can we expect the golden bits by the end of this week of in the middle of next week?

re: TechEd Developer in Europe

Somasegar — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:17:16 GMT

Hi Gabriel,

Can you send me your email address?

-somasegar

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Vasu Manickam — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:33:57 GMT

Hi Somasegar,

Will VS 2008 address the performance issue with the IDE.

Thanks

vasu.m

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Oscar — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:26:25 GMT

Hi there !!,

Here from Italy wondering when is going to be the italian release ready ???

Best Regards

Oscar Lagatta

oscarlagatta@hotmail.com

Cosenza- Italia.

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Somasegar — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:35:01 GMT

Vasu - there are a number of performance enhancements we have done to the IDE in VS2008. I covered some of this in one of my earlier blogs. Are there any specific things you are looking for?

-somasegar

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Somasegar — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:38:46 GMT

Hi Oscar,

We are currently looking at RTM'ing (release to manufacturing) the Italian version in Fenruary 2008.

-somasegar

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kettch — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:43:18 GMT

The news of the impending RTM is good, but there are a few lingering (and one showstopper) bugs for us in SQLCE 3.5. The big one is that subqueries don't work in Beta 2. I've read that they are supposed to be fixed in RTM, but it's getting difficult to explain to customers why we can't tell them when we can get bits out to them.

I know that DevDiv has no obligation in this area but it's frustrating. Vague time frames are fine when something is months out, but it gets hard as the release window looms closer.

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SvenC — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:54:16 GMT

Hi kettch,

please don't push too much. I think it is very good to get our handy early on beta releases to see how the product evolves. This is good for Microsoft and for us. But if you start to develop software which depends on beta builds and then want to put pressure on influencing the release time I could understand thar Microsoft might want to rethink how early in the developing cycle they could give us their bits. Come on, you are a developer, you should know how easy it is to find bugs which either force you to delay shipping or ship known bugs. I prefer the delay over known bugs. I think we all remember the crying about VS2005 shipping too early and waiting for SP1.

Nevertheless, I also cannot await to download RTM ;-) This is going to be a cool version.

Regards,

SvenC

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kettch — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:07:03 GMT

Sven,

I see your points and agree. The problem is that this little thing with SQLCE is the only thing that's holding us back, and we've been waiting on it for quite a while now.

P.S. Sometime in the next day would be great. ;)

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SvenC — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:17:00 GMT

Hi kettch,

I hope you are depending on the english version of VS which should typically appear first ;-)

Sounds to be fun to be a so called "early adopter" - all the best to your upcoming product shipment,

SvenC

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Ambrish Mishra — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:00:33 GMT

Hi Kettch,

I am the Program Manager for SQL Server Compact 3.5. Can you please provide the sub-query that is not working in SQL Server Compact 3.5. My email address firstname.lastname_at_microsoft_dot_com. The firstname and lastname is the placeholder.

Regards

Ambrish

The RTM of Visual Studio 2008 Is Coming

Is This Thing On? — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:54:16 GMT

By now it is no secret that Visual Studio 2008 will RTM before the end of November. Soma mentioned this

Visual Studio 2008 e .NET Framework 3.5 RTM - versão final

Good News and No News: Cezar Guimarães — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:17:07 GMT

Hoje foi liberada a versão final do Visual Studio 2008 e do .NET Framework 3.5. No início do

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koldovsky — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:08:39 GMT

Hi, Soma!

I was at Barcelona - that was a great conference.

I'm finishing my article for magazine about the conference and I need some official photos (from your keynote also). There are no photos on official conference site from developers conference (present only from IT Forum).

Can you (or someone else) help me with high quality professional-made photos? Maybe you can point to some link, etc.

That is really important for me, thank you in advance!

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Gunady — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:38:00 GMT

I check in partner download, and check that TFS 2008 is only for trial version, the other is Workgroup Edition, which is not suitable for us. Previous version, we have full version of TFS 2005. Will partner receive full version of TFS 2008? Is it ok for us to install the trial version first?

Orcas Next Thursday?

Sam Gentile's Blog — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:14:20 GMT

So sayeth Don ? Soma's announced that Orcas will RTM this month . Lots of .NET families will have something extra to be thankful for next thursday...