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Waiting for the "blue" wave and GIT on TFS

jose — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:16:00 GMT

I sincerely hope the blue team and the Windows 9 team are getting up to speed.

Although it is not necessary, some people wait for updates to speed up adoption. Come on guys and gals, lets get it done.

I also hope the wait for updates do not obstruct the way for server features and improvements. Anyway, its fun to have git on TFS

VS2012 Current Build

jose — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:07:00 GMT

Check out the current build of VS2012 here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/

Win 8 store apps.

jose — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:41:00 GMT

Take a look around the windows store apps

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/apps/br229512

Ballmer says they are growing

Hotfix for TFS SP

jose — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:23:00 GMT

If you apply the sp1 you'll need this hotfix

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/01/11/tfs-2012-update-1-hotfix.aspx

How about a surface tablet for devs?

jose — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:27:00 GMT

I am envious of certain colleagues who have been playing with something that looks like the Surface Tablet.

I cannot wait to get my hands on one and try VS 2012....

I hope it has at least a dual core, would it be too much if I asked for quad core??

So long as metro runs flawlessly

Build Service with TFS (TFSPreview.com)

jose — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:54:00 GMT

I think TFSPreview.com has come a long way since last year. Check it out, it will be worth your time

Let the VS Team know about VS 11

jose — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:55:00 GMT

You should really take advantage of the opportunity, tell them what you dont like and what you really like

Link to Team's blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/03/21/visual-studio-11-beta-survey.aspx

So far so good, My laptop is a little clunky and I had a lot of problems installing on a 64 bit machine but the problem was Win Update and not VS.

TFS 11 EXPRESS, now thats a good idea

jose — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:40:00 GMT

I thought a product with similar specs was going to ship with vs 2010, but now the tfs team saw the light. I think this is a really good product for small teams.

Version contro, easy install, no need for sql server (it uses express)

Read the original blogpost by bharry

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/02/23/coming-soon-tfs-express.aspx

Getting ready for the Next Wave

jose — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:51:00 GMT

Its good to know that once a logo is adopted, then its really time to get going and have your apps ready.

I am looking forward to really get the hang of the Metro Style. My feeble attempts at the new ui design look a little "boxy"

Using Web Services to validate data in VS Lightswitch

jose — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:23:00 GMT

This is a useful post by Beth Massi on calling web services to validate data.

I found it useful because Lightswitch does not easily present this facility for data validation

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2012/01/30/calling-web-services-to-validate-data-in-visual-studio-lightswitch.aspx

Build Windows ?

jose — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:03:00 GMT

Ok, 30 years after dos, 25 after win, 16 after 95 now pdc=build windows, but then windows8 not equal to legacywin, then .net @risk and silverlight in doubt....

So secret that a refreshed agenda is not on the site, afraid of angering devs a gag order is issued...

Tech Ready shall have the answers? or NOT

Anyway, windows 8 means a new device, in my case a long overdue upgrade...

http://www.buildwindows.com/

Would like to see the future NOW, or wait for the robotoid apples to rot.,.,., lol

windows 8 changes everything???

Beth Massi on lIghtswitch

jose — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:49:00 GMT

Chances are that if you work or play at all with lightswitch, that you are going to encounter some contribution by Beth Massi of msft

Goto her blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch

Jason Zander on lightswitch

jose — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:43:00 GMT

A quick explanation

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2011/07/26/visual-studio-lightswitch-2011-is-available-today.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch

Turn on the lightswitch...

jose — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:28:00 GMT

Its about time, it only took about 5 years from kitty hawk, but I guess it was worth the wait.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lightswitch

TFS on Azure?

jose — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:52:00 GMT

I guess its coming, but have not heard of any formal announcement except for Brian Harry's blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2011/05/18/update-on-tfs-on-azure.aspx

it would be nice to see an instance of TFS running in the cloud

Visual Studio 2010 SP1

jose — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 04:32:00 GMT

If you use silverlight you will appreciate SP1

So far it installs without flaws in test and production machines in our team.

From KittyHawk, to FightClub to Lightswitch - lets hope not too many people get turned off!

jose — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:20:00 GMT

Its finally here!

Follow the announcement of Lightswitch

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch

The public beta is going to be available on late August, I suggest you try it out.

I still remember hearing about this years ago in Redmond and the mixed reactions are still fresh on my mind.....

Requirements Management on TFS 2010 should be improved out of the box

jose — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:45:00 GMT

Reliance on third party products is Ok if you want to feed an ecosystem of partners, However for customers, the TFS requirement management should include something to use straight out of the box instead oo relying on word or excel interfaces.

Its just an opinion and it was reinforced by attending a session at Tech Ed which seem more like a marketing session for third party tools.....

Tech Ed Rocks

Tech Ed 2010, TFS 2010 and then some

jose — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:11:00 GMT

With a few TFS 2010 implementations under my belt , I got the chance to get to check out the following presentations at Tech Ed 2010. I am looking forward to match the "tips and techniques" presented against real world implementations

DEV206 | Requirements Management with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server

Session Type: Breakout Session

Track: Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks

Speaker(s): Lori Lamkin

Level: 200 - Intermediate

In this session, we cover how you can use Team Foundation Server to define, track, and verify against requirements. We cover the key partners that TFS integrates with, both TFS handles both formal requirements and agile requirements management techniques, and how to test against requirements using Team Test and Team Lab.

DEV405 | Deep Dive into Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Reporting

Session Type: Breakout Session

Track: Developer Tools, Languages & Frameworks

Speaker(s): Steven Borg

Level: 400 - Expert

This sessions dives deep into understanding Team Foundation Server 2010 reporting. We very briefly overview the provided reports, both SSRS and Excel that come out of the box, before diving into what makes these reports possible. We dive into the behind-the-scenes data stores: the TFS_Warehouse and the OLAP cube, and understand their relationship as well as their structure. Then we step back up into the world of reporting where we create and extend reports from WIQL queries (built-in capability), create new Excel pivot-table reports and host them on a SharePoint portal, and modify SSRS reports. Finally, we look at how to make decisions about what data to capture to help drive overall process improvement.

DPR04-INT | Strategies for Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Session Type: Interactive Session

Track: Development Practices

Speaker(s): Jeff Levinson

Level: 200 - Intermediate

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance

jose — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:49:00 GMT

http://vs2010quickref.codeplex.com/wikipage

This is one of the greatest overviews of TFS and VSTS. It is a VSTS Rangers project and I give it high marks for its brevity and simplicity