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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:45 PM

ET to Rock the house in Ottawa on Team System Process Customization

The Ottawa .Net Community community is having ET present on Process Templates in VSTS   Description :  This presentation will focus on the creation of new process templates and the various customization options that are made available to you
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:59 PM

92 Tutorial Video’s on Visual Studio Team System 2008 (Getting Started)

I know with all the noise about the next version of Visual Studio Team System code named Rosario it seems weird to have a post on how to get started on VSTS 2008 – but i have had three requests for this type of information in the last two days.  
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:10 PM

6 New Rosario Videos on Channel9

Brian Keller has done an incredible job pulling together 20! Rosario Videos which is he is gong to release through out the week. The first 6 are already live: Announcing Visual Studio Team System 2010 Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9!
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:06 PM

New Topic Area on Channel9 dedicated to Visual Studio Rosario!

This topic area is maintained by Microsoft technical evangelists to bring you all of the latest Channel 9 videos and other content related to Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. Check it out at: http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio/ September 29th
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:24 PM

Feedback and help for Visual Studio Team System Code named Rosario

Just a reminder if you are playing with Rosario and want to supply feedback or need help their are two places you can go:   For help with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Code named Rosario please see:  Team Foundation Server Code named
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:14 AM

Reminder MVP TV Sept 25th: Using Scrum with Visual Studio Team System

Mike Azocar (one of the authors of the VSTS Lightweight Scrum template) will be presenting: Scrum-tastic Development with Visual Studio Team System and Light Weight Scrum Thursday, September 25 th , 2008 | 9:00am – 10:00am (PDT, Redmond time) https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/join?id=NR4H9T&role=attend&pw=4402ml-2S65
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Monday, September 22, 2008 7:48 PM

VB Team falls in love the Seattle User group (again)-and i am on wikipedia!!

I went to the Visual Basic User group this evening knowing it was going to be good one with Beth Massi covering WPF Databinding but was still pleasantly surprised to see several members of the Visual Basic Team in attendance.  Come to find out the
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Monday, September 22, 2008 4:24 PM

MSDN Downloads not working with error “Operation aborted” and opening (lots) of new windows

I just recently upgraded my X61 laptop from Vista 32 bit to dual booting Windows Server 2008 64 bit and Windows Vista 32 bit.  The primary reason was to take advantage of the 4gb of RAM that came with the laptop.  I must admit i had expected
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Monday, September 22, 2008 10:20 AM

4 New Training Sessions for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Visual Studio 2008 available today

  Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in Visual Studio 2008 Web Seminar Series Application lifecycle management is a comprehensive approach to envisioning, architecting, developing, deploying and maintaining a software solution. In this series,
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Monday, September 22, 2008 10:10 AM

Seattle User Group Sept 22 -Data Binding in WPF

Good friend and fellow community person Beth Massi is in town this week; doing her stuff with WFP and Databinding – see you there!   Date: Monday 9/22/2008 Event: Visual Basic Meeting Location: Microsoft Building 40, Steptoe Room #1450 Time: 
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:13 PM

My Review Commitments

In the last three days I have had three different MVPs express an interest in what my day to day job really looks like as well as one person call out my name in a community blog post musing: “I wonder what their (Microsoft community people) KPIs are”
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:54 PM

First Virtual VSTS Usergroup September 18, 6:00 PM SLT

Despite loving the book snowcrash I am not a huge fan of Second Life – but I am sure having a VSTS User Group in Second life will make all the difference in the world! For more information please see: http://www.tsug-ve.com/   TSUG VE for Second
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:49 PM

New versions of the TFS Migration Toolkit and TFS to TFS migration tool

Matt and the team just released new versions of the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit and TFS to TFS Migration Tool Congrats Guys!
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:19 PM

Lots of Free VSTS Training

I just found out last night that our partner group has done a great job of pulling together lots of VSTS. While the training is targeted partners/ISV’s it does not require you to be partner just to register.  Also despite some of the training is
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:38 AM

Puget Sound Project Management User Group meeting Sept 16th

I am only going to be able to stick around for the first half but looks to be a good night When: Tuesday, September 16th, 2008      Where: Microsoft HQ, Redmond, WA Building #: Building #:36 Room: 1106 Time: Meeting Start 6:15
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Monday, September 15, 2008 10:30 PM

Training: Questions about Visual Studio Team System Version Control

I just discovered the Partner group offers free VSTS training on a regular basis.  Tomorrows training is on Version Control.  To access the training you first need to register at: http://www.isvinnovation.com After you register you can access
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 3 Comments
Monday, September 15, 2008 5:06 PM

Team Test Special Interest group Sept 22nd (Redmond)

The next Team Test Special Interest group will take place on Monday September 22 nd from 3-5:00PM in the Kalaloch Room of Microsoft Building 35 ( map ). The August Session will follow the following schedule: 1. Discussion on Leveraging and Using Requirements
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Monday, September 15, 2008 10:11 AM

Building real world, quality applications Fri Sept 19 at 12 noon

If you haven’t checked out Fitnesse yet and happen to live in North Carolina this looks to be your lucky week!  Building real world, quality applications Mark Arnott... and others Fri Sept 19 at 12 noon      http://trinug.pbwiki.com/RealWorld
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Monday, September 15, 2008 9:31 AM

Virtual Events – Death of developer events as we know them?

I just received an invitation to what looks to be a killer event hosted by DPE India called “Virtual Tech Days” and it made me wonder – i wonder if this style event is the death of our loved events from yesteryear like Dev Days . …I certainly hope not
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:56 PM

Dallas VSTS Users Group Meeting - 9/17 Requirements Management

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 @ 6 PM Requirements Management – Chris Tullier Chris Tullier will discuss how TFS and partner tools that integrate with TFS can help your software development team discover software requirements and ensure that these requirements
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:38 AM

Another new Usergroup – in Israel

Maor David just pointed out i missed the Israel ALM Usergroup in my New User groups post …and looking at their presentation on Camano last night a user group definitely worth visiting! http://vstskb.net/blog/
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:42 PM

New How Do I Video - How Do I: Use the TFPT Unshelve Command?

For all the VSTS Videos Please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/test/bb507749.aspx   Join Richard Hundhausen as we learn how to use the TFPT UNSHELVE command, part of the Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools, to overcome a limitation
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:02 PM

MVP TV: Scrum-tastic Development with Visual Studio Team System and Light Weight Scrum September 25th 9:00am

MVP TV - Scrum-tastic Development with Visual Studio Team System and Light Weight Scrum                      All the Interaction of the MSDN Chats but
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 2 Comments
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 11:18 AM

Meet one of our Game Developers: Sheridan Martin Small

One of the coolest things of working at Microsoft is that i get to hang out with the Xbox and Games developers.  One of the first i met after coming back to Redmond was Sheridan Martin SMALL - a producer working on what the next generation of what
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Friday, September 05, 2008 6:13 PM

Four new VSTS Usergroups (book mark this)

Domestic VSTS Usergroups · Minnesota VSTS · Indy TFS · MA VSTS Usergroup · Omaha Team System · Dallas VSTS · Chicago Visual Studio Team System Users Group · Seattle Team System Usergroup · A new New York City VSTS user group (NEW!) · A virtual VSTS Usergroup 
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Friday, September 05, 2008 4:18 PM

New Code Plex Foreign language localization project for Team System Web Access Site

Huge congratulations to the VSTS MVP’s  who have just released their SECOND translation Team System Web Access checked in to the codeplex site: NL-NL and PT-BR language! For more information please see the code plex site: http://www.codeplex.com/TSWAL
Posted by Charles_Sterling | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:12 PM

New VSTS White Paper: Integrating the Infosys Project Management System with Visual Studio Team System

Only took me 2 months to get it published…Man am i glad we have a site manager (Sharon Elkins) for the web site now! The white paper is on how Infosys have integrated their Project Management System with Visual Studio Team System. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc907911.asp
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:27 AM

Brisbane Developer Usergroup Ashley Hubbard on Code Generation Tools

This month's meeting - Tuesday 16 September Ashley Hubbard, Catalyticsoft: Producing a line of Business Application in Silverlight 2.0 in under 5 minutes . Synopsis: Ashley will demonstrate Catalyticsoft's CAT Accelerator automation system.  He will
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