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A couple of weeks back (sorry still catching up) I had the great fortune of being invited to visit a MS Research event called TechFest . MS Research hosts this event annually for fellow MS Employees and opens up their doors so they can see what they've
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Unless you have already taken a course from ObjectSharp in the past on "our machines", you may not be aware that "our machines" means modern Dell notebooks. Our classroom at 1 Yonge Street is well equipped, but sometimes, companies want the coruse on
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In November, 2005, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2005, a major new release of its developer tools environment, and the foundation of Microsoft platform development for the next few years. In addition, this marked our entry into the lifecycle tools
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This question came up in our VSTS for Developers Training Course in Toronto this week. One of my students wanted to know how to undo or rollback a checkin, something you could do in Visual Source Safe. Unfortunately this feature was cut for V1 of Team
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This past week we saw the final bits of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 get shipped up to MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Next week we'll see the official launch of these same products to the rest of the world, ushered in with a rolling thunder of launch
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Bruce Johnson is hosting our next Architect's Breakfast in Toronto this Thursday. In case you haven't been to one in the past, here's a few points of interest. This is more of an interactive event. Round tables of 5-8 have breakout sessions to discuss
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This article on gotdotnet explains in 67 pages of detail how you can integrate VSTS with Project Server for two way automatic synchronization of work items. Nice.
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The VS Team Suite Release Candidate is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. I'm downloading now - I'm assuming you'll also need the Sql Server 2005 September CTP which was also released today. Happy downloading.
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There is good news and bad news with Somasegar's blog today ( http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/08/22/451026.aspx ) The bad news is that VSTS team foundation server is not going to be released on November 7th with the rest of Visual Studio
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At TechEd today, Paul Flessner announced that these products will be released the week of November 7th. Also of interest is that SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services will be available in the express edition. Report Builder will also be pushed down into
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I'm going to be heading out in a couple of weeks to DevTeach in Montreal. In addition to my regular session talk on Datasets, I'll also be participating in an architecture panel discussion as part of Groupe d’usagers Visual Studio Montréal, Software Architecture
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I've had this question in many of the VSTS bootcamps I'm teaching across canada. “From my Application Diagram, how do I create a deployment diagram that shows my web application and database being deployed on the same box“. So I posed the
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We were expecting this first week of April but now this seems to be delayed 2 or 3 weeks. MS EMEA has a page quoting April 25th. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/betaexperience/ Beta 2 will include a Go Live license for the .NET Framework so from my
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Next week I'm travelling to Ottawa (Tuesday) and then Vancouver (Thursday) to do some boot camp training on Visual Studio Team System. This 1 day hands on, gives folks a chance to play with the new modelling and testing features. I'll also be demoing
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During one of my demos this past week on VSTS, somebody commented that typically developers want to provide project managers more information on a task other than “completed” or not. What they really want is a percentage complete. John Lawrence
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