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VSTS MSDN Chat

coad — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:46:00 GMT

Team System MSDN Public Chat

Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developer &
Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers

When: Wednesday, November 16th @ 10am PST
What: Join us to discuss the Profiler, Test Tools (Unit, Generic, Manual), Web & Load Testing, and Code Analysis (FxCop & PREFast). We have questions for you, will answer questions from you, and will chat about the exciting new technology.
Where:http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats

VS05 Express Free for a Limited Time

coad — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:37:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 Express editions (WebDev, C#, VB, C++, J#) are officially Free! for 1 year (expires 11/6/2006).

I just watched Steve Balmer give the keynote at the first and official kickoff launch event and he talked about the great Web Developer Starter Kits w/ a demo that was real cool. Want to start up a website fast? This is the way to get started and experience the awesome power of ASP.NET 2.0!

Please be sure to register your free download so we know how popular these are. My guess is that the more people we have register, the better the chance these will be free (or as inexpensive as possible) longer.

Visual Studio 2005 Launched

coad — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:18:00 GMT

As of today, Visual Studio 2005 has officially launched! This is a fantastic product that we have all been long awaiting!

There are a number of launch events being held in cities around the world the next month. Check out if one is in your city soon. I'll be at the Dallas Launch on November 30th. If you're going to be there, `let me know`|`mailto:noah@coad.net?subject=Dallas Launch Event`.

MSDN Subscribers can download Virtual Server/PC images with Team Suite installed for evaluation. This gets you up and running quickly on Team System without having to worry about installing Team Foundation Server. There are a number of other ways you can Evaluation Visual Studio.

New! Team System MVPs

coad — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:02:00 GMT

We have new Visual Studio Team System MVPs!

An MVP competency for Team System was just created. You can see the full list of our new Team System MVPs on the Microsoft MVP Site or read what an MVP is.

We have 9 Team System MVPs who are truly rock stars in the community. It is exciting to have such stellar people as our MVPs! Welcome to the team ... Team System MVPs!

Here are some of their blogs (in no particular order):

Rick LaPlante (General Manager, top VSTS dude) with some of the Team System MVPs
From left to right: Guy Barrette (an ASP.NET MVP), Chris Menegay, Rick LaPlante, Jean-Luc David, David McKinstry, Etienne Tremblay

New MSDN Forums Replace Newsgroups

coad — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:57:00 GMT

MSDN has moved to using cool new web forums to replace the old Whidbey newsgroups. The new forums have tons of features! There are RSS feeds, alerts, a nice UI, easier moderation, and much more.

One good feature is that we on the product team recieve daily e-mails of unanswered questions. This means a quick response to your posts.

Please give them a try. What do you think?

Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) Beta2 is Here!

coad — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:16:00 GMT

Whidbey Beta2 is Released! We all (you & MS) have been waiting long for this build! Wow, it is a substantial improvement over Beta1 and the client bits even have a Go Live License. I'm excited! How about you?

If you have a MSDN Subscription, you can Get the Beta for the cost of S/H or download Visual Studio 2005 - Team System (aka VSTS). There is a Go-Live License which permits "production deployments of customer applications".

For the free (for now) Express SKUs: C#, VB, VC++, J#, Web Dev, SQL Srv

VSTS Enterprise Dev and Test (eDT) Tools Public Chat

coad — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:36:00 GMT

Join the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)'s Enterprise Developer and Test (eDT) Tools team at Microsoft in an online MSDN Chat! We will be focusing on the tools: Static Code Analysis (FxCop, PREfast), Dynamic Analysis (Profiler, Code Coverage), and Testing (Unit, Manual, Web, Load, etc). Experts from the development, testing, and program management teams at Microsoft will be available during these two chats to answer questions.

When & Where:
Wednesday, January 12th, 2005 @ 5:30pm (PST), Add to Calendar
Thursday, January 13th, 2005 @ 8:00am (PST), Add to Calendar
MSDN Chats: http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats

- The Enterprise Dev and Test Tools Team