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Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:09 PM

One Free Seat to the Net Objectives Design Patterns Explained Class August 4th (Bellevue)

The seat is Gone!!! May from Myspace was the first person to reply! Also Amir wanted me mentioned while there is no cost to attendees the seat is still being paid for by Net Objectives and Microsoft. We are just passing this on to a lucky individual rather
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:50 PM

Agile Presentation at the Testers SIG July 29th

A couple of people asked about getting Amir's presentation from the Testers SIG Tuesday... Well Amir has graciously posted it to their site for your convenience: http://www.netobjectives.com/files/events/download/AcceptanceTesting_0807TestersSig.pdf Thanks
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:47 PM

Australia Demo Competition -last day to register!

Are you a Hero? Will you be crowned Australian Demo Hero 2008? Demos Happen Here - Final Week of Competition This is your FINAL 36 Hours to register a demo in the competition, with entries closing midnight Thursday 31 July 2008 you must complete the registration
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:20 PM

Dallas VSTS User Group: Managing Software Quality

Managing Software Quality – Trent Nix Code coverage statistics, code churn data, cyclomatic complexity, maintainability indices, and build reports are but a few of the many tools used to analyze the quality of a software project. But what do they all
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:19 PM

Upgrading Visual Studio 2008 Trial

I received this email yesterday: Dear Sir, 3 month ago I have downloaded Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Version. This free trial edition expired last week. At the first of july I have bought DVD-ROM UPGRADE Microsoft Studio 2008 Standard Edition.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:40 PM

A new template for Team Foundation Server: NET Objectives Agile Process Temmplate and an update to the Kanban Template

Net Objectives have just release there Agile Template for the .NET Framework - I was able to to get a preview a couple of months back and it looked really good, in my preview i could see they have done a lot of work onthe sharepoint and documentation
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:13 AM

Testers SIG Recap (-and why DHCP didn't work in Virtual PC)

Yesterday at the Testers SIG we had packed agenda and a packed house! Starting with an introduction to testing in Agile development by Amir at Net Objectives , did a walk through of recording a manual test, taking the recording and turning it into a coded
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:58 PM

Hyper-V VHD from Virtual PC

I was in the process of installing Windows Server 2008 64 bit to be able to run Hyper V when I realized this is not a requirement. Turns out you can run Hyper V created VHD’s with Virtual PC as long as you have installed Virtual PC additions installed
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Monday, July 21, 2008 10:32 AM

James Whittaker joins the blogging ranks - and analyses the relationship between pubs and testing

Arguably our most influential tester at Microsoft has just created a blog. The reason i would put James at the top of the tester leader board has nothing to do with his three books on testing but rather the fact he managed to talk the XBox team into giving
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Monday, July 21, 2008 8:37 AM

Brisbane Biztalk User Group Meeting: Server Side Apps

Server Side Applications This month, we wrap up our series of presentations on the WAVE Launch products with a demonstration by Dean Robertson (Shared Information Solutions) of how server-side applications can take advantage of the new features within
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Monday, July 21, 2008 8:33 AM

Introduction to Rosario by Mitch Denny (Melbourne Aus)

Introduction to Rosario In this session Mitch will be providing a guided tour of some interesting new features coming in Rosario (the codename for the new version of Visual Studio Team System). This includes looking at the new workflow-based build system,
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:23 PM

An easy way to demo recording Ajax calls with the VSTS 2008 Web Recorder

At Tomorrows .NET Usergroup meeting i want to demo a couple of the new features of Visual Studio Team System Test Edition . Namely the ability for the Web Test Recorder to Record AJAX requests and JavaScript pop-ups. To do this i needed to find an Ajax
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 8:55 PM

.NET DA Usergroup meeting tomorrow: Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008 (and a sneak peak at Rosario)

Come Early for Pizza! The .NET Developers Association will provide pizza before the event. The beverages and meeting site are provided by the Microsoft Corporation. Meeting Room Opens @ 6:00 PM Pizza served at 6:30pm Announcements Introductions, Announcements,
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 8:45 PM

Andy Leonard talking about Team System Database Edition

If you wanted to know more about Database Testing make sure and check out Andy Leornards show with Greg Low @ http://www.sqldownunder.com on Testing with Team Sytem Database Edition
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Friday, July 18, 2008 9:59 PM

Gert and the Data Team Releases Team System Database Edition GDR July CTP

When i left the office a couple of hours ago the entire Data team was still there...I am betting they are all at the bar now! Congrats Guys! From Gert's Email: Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en
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Friday, July 18, 2008 5:09 PM

Free Hands On Testing Training for Rosario (Redmond)

The next Team Test Special Interest group will take place on Monday July 28 th from 3-5:30PM in the Microsoft Building 25 training room ( map ).  This session will feature a hands on lab of the latest functioning code that our developers have been
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:41 PM

Another Aussie joins me in Redmond-Michael Kleef

Next Wednesday long time good friend Michael Kleef will be leaving Australia to join me here on campus -He is joining the Group Policy Group! - Just hope he gets a house in my neighborhood! Andrew , can you be and sure and turn out the lights when you
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 5:02 PM

Mickey at Teamsystem Rocks announces July Power Tools Releases

http://teamsystemrocks.com/blogs/team_system_news/archive/2008/07/16/26510.aspx Big thanks to Ed, Bill and the MVP's that trialed and tested this release!
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:07 PM

Real World WPF Presentation at the Brisbane MSDN Usergroup

This month at the Brisbane MSDN User group they are showcasing a Real-world WPF application. by Patrick Klug from Novamind .  I Synopsis: A Winforms/WPF real-world hybrid application showcase along with WPF goodness, development best practises and
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Monday, July 14, 2008 6:56 PM

Brisbane SQL Usergroup: Avoiding Stored Procedure Recompiles July 24th

This month my good friend Greg Low will be presenting a session on Avoiding Stored Procedure Recompiles . In this session, Greg will describe the process by which SQL Server executes stored procedures and how it decides whether or not recompilations are
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Monday, July 14, 2008 6:54 PM

Netflix to Stream to XBox Live Subscribers

Grant just pointed out that we announced a partnership with Netflix today where existing Netflix subscribers will be able to use their XBox Live Subscribers to stream movies! I can not wait! Hopefully the DRM will work a little better than it does on
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Friday, July 11, 2008 3:26 PM

Team System Templates

In my post Team Foundation Server Process Templates?   I mentioned where you could find some of the existing templates.  A couple of weeks ago some of our MVPs Martin , Ed and Joel created a codeplex site to share templates and best practices:
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:33 PM

Brisbane Girl Geek Dinner August 28th

Good friend and creator of the lots of Virtual Earth applications, Bronwen Zande, has been very busy and has organised the inaugural Girl Geeks Dinner in Brisbane for next month. While this is obviously not a VSTS event, I thought it was important to
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:32 PM

Why i love working with MVP's -Ed Blankenship

Last week i got a piece of email from Ed Blankenship(below). Basically indicating he was willing to use his own money to fly up to Redmond and take vacation time to do something for the community. Luckily for everybody my truck is filthy so i can put
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 4 Comments
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:07 AM

Microsoft Dev Tools Ecosystem Summit -makes me mad!

Just recieved this in email and must admit it made me mad! Why did this event (which looks to be a great time) make me Mad? I can not believe i didn't think of doing something like this several months ago for VSTS! I guess that is okay, a lot of the VSTS
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:15 PM

Recipe for making an MVP

One of the absolute best parts of my job is that i get to work with the VSTS MVP's on a regular basis. Due to this interaction i have had a couple people ask: "How is a VSTS MVP chosen?" Other variants of this question would include: "What is the process
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:15 PM

Another VSTS User Group - in the Netherlands!

Just had the netherlands VSTS Usergroup president drop me a note and let me know i had missed them! Sorry about that Hassan! Domestic VSTS Usergroups Minnesota VSTS Indy TFS MA VSTS Usergroup Omaha Team System Dallas VSTS Chicago Visual Studio Team System
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:03 PM

Microsoft Virtual Earth in Brisbane August 1st

The Microsoft Virtual Earth EMEA team are holding an event on 1 st August 2008 in Brisbane to provide you with all the information you require to integrate VE into your business offering. Never before has it been so easy for companies to track assets,
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Monday, July 07, 2008 5:04 PM

Another Developer Event for your calendar

Just heard about another Developer event and from their price and incredible speaker line up looks to be a great time! -If that weren't enough one of our newest MVP's, Steven Andrews , will even be there!   http://www.devlink.net/ When : August 22
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:56 AM

Two VSTS Classes in Australia

There are two Brisbane training centres offering the new VSTS & TFS courses from Microsoft Learning in the next few months. Here are the details in case you know of anyone looking for VSTS/TFS training. 6214 – Effective Team Development Using Microsoft
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 9:39 PM

Community Update to the VSTS Product Group

Every month i send out a community update to the entire VSTS Product Group. Jeff has mentioned a couple times i should publish it to the web and I am finally getting to it (only taken me 6 months!) Please let me know if this is of value and i will continue
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