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October Team System Chat

Joe Sango — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:19:00 GMT

Visual Studio Team System Chat

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers.

In addition, discuss what's new in Visual Studio Code Name Orcas September CTP
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82243606-d16d -445c-8949-9ee8c10cda2e&DisplayLang=en>
and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals CTP 5
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4014554E-903A -4A62-B429-2B027321C32D&displaylang=en>

Join the chat <http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats> on Wednesday, October
4th, 2006 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time.

To add this to your calendar, click here
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/outlook_reminders/06_1004_MSDN_VSTS.ics>

To see your local time of when this chat is, click here
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=10 &day=4&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=234>

TFS SP 1 Beta Released

Joe Sango — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:57:00 GMT

For all you TFS junkies, check out Brian's post about the release of the much anticipated TFS Service Pack 1 Beta! Nice.............Well done guys.

OzTFS Launched

Joe Sango — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:51:00 GMT

Got news form Grant Holliday that his online OzTFS comunity baby is launched and ready to go. Nice job mate. I'm subscribed!! If you want to be aswell, head down to OzTFS.com and join the community.

Let's Play with Power Toys

Joe Sango — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:52:00 GMT

A new build of Team Foundation Power Toys (TFPT) has been released! You can download it from here.

Check out Brian's post for all the goodness. There is also a new forum dedicated for power toys along with all the other VSTS and TFS forums. Check it out and post your questions/troubles/comments there once you get in and start playing with the toys.

Team System Chat

Joe Sango — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:10:00 GMT

The guys are at it again. Catch up with the product group, get your questions ready and fire away!
3am start for us Aussie's. :-o

Here are the details:

Visual Studio Team System Public MSDN Chat

Come and join members from the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Architect, Developer and Tester editions and Team Foundation Server. There will be experts on hand to answer your questions, so we hope to see you there!

Join the chat <http://msdn.microsoft.com/chat> on Wednesday September 6th, 2006 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific time.

To add this to your calendar, click here
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/chats/outlook_reminders/06_0906_MSDN_VSTS.ics>

To see your local time of when this chat is, click here
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=9&day=6&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=234>

Tech-Ed Summary

Joe Sango — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:17:17 GMT

Everyone is talking about their Tech-Ed experiences so I thought I would rant in. I must say that my first Tech-Ed experience was awesome. A few highlights come to mind.

Managed to get to a couple of VSTS sessions which were great.
Networking with people who I had never met, rarely see and see all the time!
Watching the Devgarten flourish and deliver.
Presenting with Mitch.
Tech-Ed Party, Croatian restaurants and everything in-between!

All in all, it was a great experience and I am looking forward to the Gold Coast next year for Tech-Ed ‘07.

Professional Team System

Joe Sango — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:24:33 GMT

Speaking of Jean Luc, get your hands on his (and co) Professional Team System book when you get a chance. Thouroghly recommended. It has been out for a while now and I know some of you out there were at the launch and had it signed and such. Grab it. It’s a good read.

I was lucky enough to contribute to this fine publication which was a great experience and seeing my name in a published tech book is a little weird and cool at the same time!

Nice work guys.

JL makes the move

Joe Sango — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:07:28 GMT

Just wanted to congratulate (belatedly) my friend Jean Luc David for his move to Microsoft Canada as a developer evangelist. Well done JL!

VSTS Content at Tech-Ed Oz 2006

Joe Sango — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:17:05 GMT

As everyone pretty much knows, Tech-Ed is happening next week in Sydney and being my first TE (and presenting), I’m pretty excited! I am especially looking forward to the VSTS and TFS related content and as such, I thought I would collate it right here. Check it out.

DEV202:
Introducing Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals – Michael Leworthy

DEV303:
Concurrent Development with Branching in Team Foundation Server – Mitch Denny

DEV306:
Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server: Step-by-Step Migration and Adoption Planning – Eric Lee & David Lemphers

DEV309:
Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - Applying Version Control, Work Item Tracking and Team Build to Your Software Development Project – Joe Sango & Mitch Denny

DEV316:
Extending Team Foundation Server – Mitch Denny

DEV411:
VSTS Performance Tools – Nick Weinholt

WEB310:
ASP.NET: Creating High-Performance, Enterprise-Scale Web Applications Using Visual Studio 2005 Team System – Keith Smith

There will undoubtedly be more mentions through other presentations as it’s such a wide and diverse product, not to mention lots of cabana sessions centered around VSTS and TFS, so it should be a good VSTSFest.

It's been how long!!!

Joe Sango — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:25:22 GMT

Holy crap!!! 5 months since my last posting. I have some ground to make up me thinks…..apologies to the three people who read my blog!!

Anyways, I will be back with more ramblings anytime now.

My Little Guitarista

Joe Sango — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:28:00 GMT

I received an unexpected suprise in the mail last week. My own little Fender Stratocaster!

How cooool!! Thanks Ready 2005 gang!

Final Reminder

Joe Sango — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:16:00 GMT

Just a final reminder for our Melbourne VSTSUG being held this Thursday 23rd March starting at 6pm. Check out the VSTSUG website for more info.

It should be a great night so looking forward to seeing everyone there. Drop me a line and tell me your coming for final numbers.

Thanks All!

March VSTSUG

Joe Sango — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:45:00 GMT

Just a reminder to everyone that the March VSTSUG meeting is just under a fortnight away. Please register your attendance by dropping me a line and check out the VSTSUG website for more info.

We also now have confirmation on Jeff's session. Here are the details:

Title
Team Foundation Server Overview:
Abstract:
With the upcoming RTM release of Team Foundation Server, we have managed to bring in the Program Manager that was in charge of shipping this product-Jeff Beehler. Jeff's hour long presentation will cover the features that make Team Foundation Server unique in the industry for doing team development such as it's integrated version control, work items/lists, collaboration, notifications, reporting and an automated build process but since Jeff real passion is in team dynamics we have asked him to also cover what where the processes and methods he employed to ship this product.

And just in case you you have missed Jeff's bio:

I’ve been the Lead Program Manager for VSTS for the past 2 ½ years. In this role, I coordinate the release activities for all of Team System including our upcoming release of Team Foundation Server. As a result I’m involved with each of the teams shipping VSTS, but most directly the team building the Team Foundation since this is the integration point for all of Team System. It’s exciting to see the excitement VSTS is generating both within Microsoft as well as the .NET development community. Before working on VSTS, I was a founding member of the Visual C++ team way back in the early 90’s (and even QuickC for Windows before that). I took some time off between working on VC++ and VSTS (a little over 7 years) to start a family, consult with ISVs on how to ship software, work for an Internet start up and teach 6th grade. I returned to Microsoft because I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to be on the team that helped expand Visual Studio beyond ‘just’ writing code. It's been a great experience.

Big thanks go out to Chuck for organising Jeff's availability. Thanks Chuck!!!

Thanks all and I hope to see you on the 23rd.

Extensibility and Power Toys

Joe Sango — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:43:00 GMT

We were talking about TFS extensibility and VSTS power tools the other night at our VSTSUG meeting and I thought I would post some links up. (Plus I said to everyone that I would!)

Extensibility

VS2005 SDK Feb 2006
TechNet Article (Dec 2005)
Fresh MSDN article on CI (March 2006)
CI Using Team Foundation Build (MSDN)

Free VSTS Power Tools

TFS Admin Tool
Project Server Connector for VSTS

This is just a quick start. I will update this post as appropriate. Thanks all.

March VSTSUG Announcement

Joe Sango — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:10:00 GMT

For an early heads up, the next VSTSUG meeting is going to be held on Thursday 23rd March. Same time and place. Check out the website for more details.

I am very happy to announce that Jeff Beehler, lead program manager of VSTS will be one of our speakers for the evening. Exact content is being finalised so I will let everyone know when I have the details. Whatever it is, Jeff's the man so you know it's gonna be cool!
Also, Queenslander Anthony Borton is in Melbourne doing some VSTS partner training and he will also be doing a session on Work Item Tracking so all in all, it should be a great meeting!

There will be reminders going out closer to the date so I hope to see you all there!

February VSTSUG Wrap

Joe Sango — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:15:00 GMT

We had our Feb meeting earlier tonight and unfortunately our speaker Karl had to cancel his presentation at the last minute. The session rolled on quite well with the die hard VSTS community coming along and we had a good yak about all things Team Foundation Server RC, extensibility and I gave away most of my goodies!

Huge thanks to everyone who came tonight. You guys rock! I will do some follow up posts with the information we talked about regarding extensibility and power tools for VSTS.

I will also have details of our March meeting coming up shortly and it's going to be a biggin'!!!

VS2005 SDK Latest Release

Joe Sango — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:14:00 GMT

The February release of the VS2005 SDK is now available from the VSIP Member download area. Grab it for all your VSTS extensibilty needs.

The download is around the 166MB mark.

Go Greg!

Joe Sango — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:21:00 GMT

Great news! Greg Low has been selected to join the RD program!

Congratulations Greg. Very well deserved.

VSTSUG Reminder

Joe Sango — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:07:00 GMT

Just a quick reminder about this Thursday's VSTSUG meeting. Please let me know by today if you are coming along so I can finalise numbers.

We are kicking off at 6pm with Karl Kopp from WDG sharing his TFS experiences and the Dev'Garten initiative, followed by a TFS extensibility discussion. Pizza and drinks are provided and I might have some nice giveaways aswell!

All the info is on our website so check it out.

Thanks all. See you there!

TFS Version Control Summary

Joe Sango — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:33:00 GMT

Buck has posted a great summary of TFS version control posts with the release of RC. Definitely worth a browse.