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Tuesday, December 08, 2009 7:44 AM

Visual Studio Testing Tools Roadshow in Chicago and Milwaulkee

Angela Dugan (Binkowsky), a friend of mine in the field, asked that I help her advertise a roadshow she is doing.  Here’s what she had to say about it: Visual Studio Testing Tools Roadshow and Deep Dive Ram Cherala, Principal Program Manager in the
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Monday, December 07, 2009 7:35 PM

Some WPF Designer Performance Improvements

We've heard loud and clear that the WPF designer performance in Beta 2 was unacceptable.  Well, in a good kind of way, we knew that before we shipped Beta 2.  This was one case where our performance tests were telling us the right thing. 
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Monday, December 07, 2009 2:42 PM

WPF TreeView performance tip

Another of the many performance issues we hit (trust me not all of them were WPF related, it just so happens that the first two I've blogged about were)... http://blogs.msdn.com/permanenttan/archive/2009/11/20/wpf-treeview-memory-consumption-and-performance.aspx
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Monday, December 07, 2009 12:47 PM

Team System Web Access 2008 Scalability Update Released

While we're talking about perf... Over the past year we've heard increasing complaints from customers about the scalability of the Team System Web Access Power Tool as more and more people try to use it. The problem is usually manifested as frequent application
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Monday, December 07, 2009 10:47 AM

The first of many performance discoveries

Along with painting the big picture of our performance efforts I'd like to share a few specific things we've learned along the way. The first is hosting a WPF window inside a Windows Forms Window. We've spent a lot of time looking at memory usage over
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Monday, December 07, 2009 7:33 AM

Shipping a great release

I've seen a number of comments here (and elsewhere) about VS 2010 being another "Vista". We are very aware how weakness in a few key areas (like performance) can cast a pall over an entire product. As I said in the original post, we are committed to shipping
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Saturday, December 05, 2009 8:00 AM

Anatomy of a Performance Problem

You've seen me write a fair amount recently about the VS 2010 Beta 2 performance problems - well, you're going to see me keep writing about them :) We've had enough time, at this point, to understand the feedback and characterize the problem - I'd like
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Saturday, December 05, 2009 7:18 AM

Lab Management in VS 2010

One of the coolest new capabilities in 2010 is "Lab Management". It enables you to automate the setup and configuration of test environments, saving you a bunch of time doing it every time you have a new build you want to test. We first released it in
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Friday, December 04, 2009 8:03 AM

Improvements in Intellisense post Beta 2

I’ve written a couple of posts in the last month or so soliciting performance feedback from you all and talking about our performance efforts.  Since we realized the degree of performance problem that we still had, we have spent a ton of effort working
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Friday, December 04, 2009 7:15 AM

Quest releases a public Beta of Oracle integration

Quest software has been working on a provider to enable the Visual Studio database tools to work with Oracle databases (refactorying, deployment, testing, analysis, etc). They've just released a public Beta that you can try out with the VS 2010 Beta 2.
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 10:53 PM

SCRUM For Team System V3, Beta 2 released

EMC (formerly from Conchango) has recently released a Beta of a new release of their popular SCRUM for Team System. This Beta is designed to work with TFS 2010 Beta 2. You can find download details here: http://scrumforteamsystem.com/cs/forums/4554/ShowPost.aspx
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 10:02 PM

TFS 2010 Power Tools are Available

The first public build of the TFS 2010 Power Tools are now available. I wrote details about them a couple of weeks ago: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/11/18/tfs-2010-power-tools-coming-soon.aspx A reminder – these are really “pre-release” Power
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:50 PM

More Beta 2 Localized builds available publicly

German Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 - ISO http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dc333ac8-596d-41e3-ba6c-84264e761b81&displaylang=de Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 – Web Bootstrapper http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=92c65d2d-0a6b-4507-a4dc-767f4cc6e823&displaylang=de
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Friday, November 20, 2009 10:23 PM

VS Beta 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers in German

In addition .NET 4.0 Beta 2 is available in Arabic. Here's the SKU list: Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 (x86 and x64) - DVD (German) Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 (x86) - DVD (German) Visual Studio 2010 Professional (x86) - DVD
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:01 PM

Beta 2 Survey Results

A couple of weeks ago I asked you all for feedback on Beta 2 and pointed you at a survey .  I think, all of you that contacted me directly have been contacted by someone to investigate the issues you reported.  If not, let me know and I’ll get
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