Team System for Everybody

Maximize Your SharePoint Investment: Leverage It as a Development Platform!

wsalazar — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:53:00 GMT

Thank you to everyone who attend our SharePoint as a Development Platform event in Irvine, CA today Dec 10th. We hope this event helped your organizations in further realizing the return on your existing SharePoint investment via Enterprise SharePoint Development. Enterprise Application Development on the SharePoint Platform enables a multitude of SharePoint benefits to be coupled with the power of the .NET platform. This combination allows the creation of flexible, integrated and secure line-of-business applications to be built in a fraction of the time of traditional development.

I want to thank all the presenters - Jay Schmelzer/Microsoft Group Program Manager for Visual Studio, David Gorgone/Microsoft Sharepoint TSP, John Roe/speakTECH Technology Specialist and Toby Zapf/speakTECH Solutions Architect. They helped articulate Microsoft’s current and long term strategy for the Microsoft SharePoint Platform and supporting Development Tools. I hope everyone came away with a better understanding of the exciting world of Enterprise SharePoint Development!

You can find a link to the presentation slides for this event at the end of this blog entry. Feel free to email me with any questions at wsalazar@microsoft.com .

The Underground @ PDC 2009

wsalazar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:38:00 GMT

Can’t make it to Los Angeles for The Underground @ PDC? You can still be a part of the action!

The Underground will live stream these special presentations so no matter where you are, you can to hear from Microsoft and tech community leaders announcing Microsoft's Technology roadmap and newly released developer strategies. Tune in and don’t miss our special keynote from Scott Guthrie!

Wednesday, November 18 at 7:00 PM

LIVE at www.undergroundatpdc.com

Twitter: @undergroundpdc

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Released!

wsalazar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:47:00 GMT

We announced yesterday the immediate availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to MSDN subscribers; general availability will follow on Oct. 21. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 will include a simplified product lineup and pricing options as well as new benefits for MSDN subscribers, including the Ultimate Offer, available to all active MSDN Premium subscribers at the official product launch on March 22, 2010.

In Visual Studio 2010 , customers will be able to choose from three main versions:

•	Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN. The comprehensive suite of application life-cycle management tools for software teams to help ensure quality results from design to deployment
•	Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN. A complete toolset to help developers deliver scalable, high-quality applications
•	Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN. The essential tool for basic development tasks to assist developers in implementing their ideas easily

New benefits for MSDN subscribers were annouced as well, including these:

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Unlimited access to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 (upon release), a server product that drives down the risks and costs of developing software by enhancing team collaboration

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Azure Development, which enables MSDN Premium subscribers to develop on the Windows Azure platform (Microsoft’s cloud services platform) with compute hours, storage, data transfers, SQL Azure databases and .NET Services.

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Complimentary e-learning, up to 40 hours per year, per subscriber

Try out Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 today at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx .

Check out Silverlight 3 and Expression 3

wsalazar — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:26:00 GMT

Interactive technologies are evolving quickly. Development and design are converging, collaborative workflow is a necessity, and people expect intuitive interfaces and rich experiences.

Responding to this new landscape, Microsoft is changing interactive design, development, and deployment forever with the latest release of the Microsoft® Silverlight™ platform and Microsoft® Expression® design tools—specifically engineered to help interactive professionals transform their vision, creativity, and energy into reality.

See for yourself and download the trial at - www.seethelight.com !

Join the Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group

wsalazar — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:08:00 GMT

SoCal Team System is a user group focused on software application lifecycle management. We provide a forum for learning about, exchanging ideas, and using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. If you are new to VSTS, just checking it out, want to learn more, or an experienced user wanting to share your knowledge, please join.

The group meets on the 4th Tuesday of every month in Irvine at QuickStart Intelligence 16815 Von Karman Avenue Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92606 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm.

Visit the group's website at http://www.socalteamsystem.org/ for more information.

Tomorrow, July 7th, 10AM PT/1PM ET LIVE, HD broadcast of the Michael Jackson Memorial Service

wsalazar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:09:00 GMT

Don't miss the Michael Jackson memorial tomorrow live via the internet using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight!

Tomorrow, July 7th, 10AM PT/1PM ET – The Michael Jackson memorial will be broadcasted live in HD from the Staples Center in Los Angeles using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight to the world. As you can imagine this has come together fast and should be a great experience!

Check out the LIVE, HD broadcast of the Michael Jackson memorial using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight at http://inmusic.ca/news_and_features/Michael_Jackson

VSTS Rangers ship WCF Load Test tool with ASMX support!

wsalazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:24:00 GMT

This morning, the VSTS Rangers released to Codeplex a new beta of the WCF Load Test tool adding support for ASMX web services. Download it from here.

This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy, or a WCF interface contract, and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence of calls found in the trace file. The code generated is easily modifiable so that data variation can be introduced for the purpose of doing performance testing.

The tool generates code for both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. It also installs a wizard into both editions of Visual Studio for creating the trace and processing it from inside Visual Studio. If both editions are present the tool is installed into both editions. The source code is a Visual Studio 2005 project.

Free trials of hosted Team Foundation Server in partnership with TeamDevCentral

wsalazar — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:51:00 GMT

Rational eyes services Inc. announced today the availability of hosted and professionally guided Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 trials through its TeamDevCentral (TDC) technology.

The free trials allow companies to ensure that TFS is the right Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) technology for them, without investing heavily in set-up or self-learning. TDC's hosted TFS environment allows trials to start immediately with available expert guidance.

Check out Brian Harry's blog post for his first impressions. More information available at the TeamDevCentral Web site

Check out 10-4 Episode 23: An Introduction to Manual Testing on Channel 9!

wsalazar — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:31:00 GMT

Episode 23: An Introduction to Manual Testing

Despite all of the advances in automated testing tools and frameworks over the last decade, manual testing still constitutes the lion's share of testing effort within most software development organizations.

This episode of 10-4 will introduce the new capabilities in Visual Studio Team System 2010 for supporting manual testing. You will see how these capabilities will not only help manual testers do their jobs more effectively, but this approach also helps developers by providing detailed diagnostics information about tests when they fail.

10-4 is a weekly video podcast which gives you a look at what's coming Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. You can be the first to get these episodes by visting http://channel9.msnd.com/shows/10-4/ and subscribing to the RSS feed of your choice.

Announcing the launch of the Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group!

wsalazar — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:21:00 GMT

Visual Studio Team System provides multi-disciplined team members with an integrated set of tools for architecture, design, development, database development, testing and building of applications. Team members can continuously collaborate and utilize a complete set of tools and guidance at every step of the application life cycle.

Come learn about Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Best Practices with Team System MVP Richard Hundhausen.

For more details visit the group's web site at http://www.socalteamsystem.org.

Upcoming Scrum Event in Southern California

wsalazar — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:52:00 GMT

A Day in the Life of Scrum with Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server

Please join Microsoft and Neudesic for a day in the life of Scrum with Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server! Agile methods are a set of development processes intended to create software in a lighter, faster, more people-centric way. Many development teams have adopted "agile" methodologies to manage change and to improve software quality. These methodologies promote continuous integration as a practice to build and test software products incrementally as new features are included, bugs are fixed, and code is refactored.

If you missed the first series of Agile & Scrum Essentials last fall; here’s your chance to attend the follow-on event where we’ll briefly revisit the basics of Agile and Scrum and provide a walkthrough of how to configure Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server for Scrum. Participants will be familiarized with how key artifacts are managed within this popular process template for enacting Scrum in organizations.

Join us for this interactive event as we explore a “day in the life of a Sprint,” that will give you a practical perspective of how Scrum teams leverage Visual Studio Team System for end to end management of the planning, execution and control of Scrum projects. The day will end with an overview of what’s coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010!

Register for a date & location near you!

Welcome: 8:30 PM

Seminar: 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

San Diego, CA

April 14, 2009

Click here to register with invitation code: 1A8639.

Irvine, CA

April 15, 2009

Click here to register with invitation code: E4995A.

Los Angeles, CA

April 16, 2009

Click here to register with invitation code: A61EB4.

To Register by Phone –

Call 1.877.MSEVENT (1.877.673.8368) with invitation code.

Microsoft Training Opportunity in SoCal! - Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals Workshop

wsalazar — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:38:00 GMT

Overview
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition provides advanced tools for database change management and testing and offers functionality to enable database developers and administrators to be more productive and increase application quality in the database tier.

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition delivers a market shifting database development product that provides a foundation for managed database evolution through the use of an offline, Visual Studio project-centered source code control system together with a suite of tools designed to help understand the impact of proposed changes. Schemas, DML and metadata can be versioned, code can be automatically reviewed using static analysis, unit tests can be created and executed to ensure quality, and comparisons can be made with test and production systems prior to deployment. Integration with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server helps increase the productivity of the database professionals by enabling them to become an integral part of the application team.

Please join Microsoft and Adventos for this one-day course to learn how the Developer and Database editions of Team System work together in the application lifecycle.

Course Outline

I. Core Features of TFS

II. Team Projects

III. Source Control and Team Foundation Build

IV. Managing Databases in a Team Environment

Who Should Attend?

Database Administrators, Database Developers

Register for a date & location near you!

Welcome: 8:30 PM

Seminar: 9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Los Angeles, CA

March 3, 2009

Click here to register with invitation code: 31A402

Irvine, CA

March 4, 2009

Click here to register with invitation code: E4995A

San Diego, CA

March 5, 2009

Click here to register with invitation code: 3B9F3B

To Register by Phone –

Call 1.877.MSEVENT (1.877.673.8368) with invitation code.

VSTS 2008 Pre-Con at PDC2008

wsalazar — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:08:00 GMT

As you may have heard, registration is now open for the next Microsoft Professional Developers Conference happening in October! PDC2008 is going to be packed with all of the latest information about the future of the Microsoft development platform. For a taste of some of the sessions being offered, check out the preliminary list of sessions.

PDC2008 will be a great place to learn more about Visual Studio Team System code name “Rosario” in addition to a myriad of other Microsoft technologies and Microsoft’s software + services strategy.

I would also recommend looking at the list of pre-conferences, which are designed to train you on how to make the most of currently shipping Microsoft technologies. I am especially excited about the Visual Studio Team System 2008 pre-conference which is being delivered by Brian Randell. Brian is a Visual Studio Team System MVP who has trained development organizations around the world on how to make the most with Visual Studio Team System. If you have ever seen Brian present then you know he’s passionate about sharing best practices for software development!

Irvine, CA - Upcoming ALM/VSTS Event!

wsalazar — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:10:00 GMT

ADOPTING VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM 2008

June 10, 2008 | Irvine, CA |Event ID: 1032374277

ABSTRACT/SUMMARY

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 is an integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 (VSTS) is an integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance to help everyone on the development team improve their skills and work more effectively together. VSTS 2008 provides multi-disciplined team members with an integrated set of tools for architecture, design, development, database development, and testing of applications. Team members can continuously collaborate and utilize a complete set of tools and guidance at every step of the application lifecycle.

While tools are a big part of producing quality software, we also understand that culture and adherence to a standard development methodology are also key to success. Often we can find guidance for using the tools, but there is limited information on what worked well and what didn’t when adopting a new methodology. We sometimes forget the people aspect of the equation in the process.

This one-day seminar will walk through VSTS 2008, highlighting new features that are available in the most recent release. Presentations will include demonstrations, discussions on all four role-specific editions, and best practices including experiences and lessons learned from customers as they went through the process of adopting a new methodology for their development team. We will also cover project management with Team Foundation Server (TFS), leveraging TFS source control, and new features such as integration with MOSS, and managing the build process with continuous integration.

Please join Microsoft and Neudesic, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for this one-day seminar. Thank you, we look forward to seeing you there!

COURSE OUTLINE

Interactive seminar and demonstrations

VSTS Role-based Editions

· Architect

· Developer

· Test

· Database Professional

Team Foundation Server

Adopting a Methodology (lessons from other customers)

Best Practices

· Version Control

· Project Management using VSTS

· Working with Continuous Integration

REGISTER

To register, please visit http://msevents.microsoft.com/ and search on the event code listed below, or call 1.877.MSEVENT (1.877.673.8366).

Date: June 10, 2008

Time: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Location:

Microsoft Corporation

3 Park Plaza, Ste. 1600

Irvine, CA 92614
Phone: 949.263.3000
See map and/or driving directions

Registration Link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032374277&Culture=en-US

Event ID: 1032374277

SoCal .NET Technology Briefings

wsalazar — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:25:00 GMT

We kicked off our SoCal .NET Technology Briefings in Irvine today. Thank you to everyone who attended! It was great to see all our technology peers present and eager to learn about current and future.NET technologies. The focus of these one day seminars is around Microsoft’s next generation application development platform, Visual Studio 2008. Special thanks go to Tim Marshall and Mickey Williams from our Gold-Certified Managed Partner, Neudesic, who help present the keynote and LINQ sessions respectively.

For those of you who were not able to obtain copies of the session content during the Irvine event, we will be posting the slides to our West Region Developer Community Site at http://www.myteamsystem.net . All the session content should be available by Friday, December 14th. Thank you!