Visual Studio Blog

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

VS2010 Beta 2 Available

jose — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:31:00 GMT

VS 2010 is going Beta 2

Get all the info you need here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

There is going to be Go LIve Support availability!

Windows 7 is here!

jose — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:19:00 GMT

Well, I hope everyone has a great experience with 7. Personally I have been working with 7 for almost 6 months now, and I think it is a solid product that lays the foundation for exciting things to come. i think I am going to need a faster machine!

So far VS 2010 plays extremely nice with 7. Way to go MS !

Common Question: How many Team System Web Access Users can TFSsupport?

jose — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT

I finally found the answer to this common question.

There is wonderful post at http://blogs.msdn.com/dstfs/archive/2009/07/02/determining-team-system-web-access-usage-levels.aspx

in which JimSau references a scalability white paper http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ee378d7b-45c3-4690-bd06-a060cfa43b06&displaylang=en

To sum it up: Keep it at less than 100 concurrent TSWA users. Jim also provides a report to show how many users are accessing the system.

Great Work!

Download TFS2010 Beta 1 Available to the Public!

jose — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:29:00 GMT

Go to the link below to download TFS 2010 Beta 1, you will be pleasantly surprised

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=58665c27-7023-4a50-b31d-c39cd86a415f&displaylang=en

TFS features and prominent blogs

jose — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:56:00 GMT

One of the blogs with plentiful links and overall TFS information is Brian Harry's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry) I have mentioned this blog before, but If you are looking for information on the upcoming TFS 2010, All I can say is that TFS 2010 is looking better and better by the day, and that there are some new concepts such as Team Project Collections, that will help administrators manage the TFS environment in an easier way.

Many people are dazzled and confused about getting up to speed in TFS 2010 features, I highly recommend taking a look at the forementioned blog, not only you get a quick and accurate overview, but also you get info from the epicenter of activity on TFS...

It covers a lot of areas, but mostly you will find information about the following topics

Work item hierarchy & linking
Improved Agile template
MOSS & WSS Dashboards
Simplified reporting
Improved support for parallel development
Rollback
Build queuing and pooling
Gated checkin
Simplified setup
Scale out of web and data tiers
Admin console
Project move/archive/restore

He also lists other blogs that have a focus on specific features such as:

Architecture (http://blogs.msdn.com/camerons/)

Architecture Explorer
Layer diagram
Use case designer
Activity designer
Component diagram
Logical class designer
Sequence diagram
Modeling project system
UML Model explorer
Architecture validation during build

Development & Database (http://blogs.msdn.com/habibh/)

Historical debugging
Test impact analysis
Improved code analysis
Improved profiling (especially multi-tier)
Database extensibility

Lab Management (http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee, http://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management)

Multi-tier Environment creation and management
Automated deployment
Easily manage machine pools
Network fencing
Checkpoints

Test (http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee, http://blogs.msdn.com/james_whittaker)

Test planning
Test case management
Test prioritization
Run management & reporting
Project quality reports
Manual test execution
Diagnostic recording (environment, video, etc)
UI Automation recording
Coded UI tests

A new look for Visual Studio 2010

jose — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:27:00 GMT

If you want to get a glimpse of VS 2010 with WPF features take a look at Jason's blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/02/20/a-new-look-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx

I like the colors on the right side of the editor, they might seem trivial but I am sure they are useful

Check out theJanuary 2009 CTP of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK

jose — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:50:00 GMT

The Jan 2009 ctp release of the Windows Azure tools is here!

You can also get more info on the Jim Nakashima blog at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jnak/default.aspx

Links for the new VPCs for VS 2008

jose — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:30:00 GMT

Many people keep asking me about the vpc images for VSTS 2008 and 2010. I keep referring them to the Bryan Keller blog, but for some unexplained reason, people are asking for a direct link. Here you go:

VSTS 2008 “all-up” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (6 GB download, expands to 15 GB)

TFS 2008 “only” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (3 GB download, expands to 8 GB)

VSTS 2008 “all-up” Hyper-V image (6 GB download, expands to 15 GB)

TFS 2008 “only” Hyper-V image (3 GB download, expands to 8 GB)

Visual Studio 2010 September 2008 CTP (7 GB download, expands to 24 GB)

If you missed pdc 08 or a virtual pdc or simply did not have time, almost all the content is published on MSDN, direct links follow:

https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx

Bryan Keller's blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/

Microsoft Cloud Computing Tools

jose — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:23:00 GMT

Check out this site on how to get started on Microsoft Cloud Computing

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/cc972640.aspx

Check out Brian Harry's blog on VSTS latest

jose — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:34:00 GMT

I came across Brian Harry's blog, and it is a treasure trove full of VSTS and Rosario info.

Plus he has the latest on VSTS PDC sessions

Check it out !

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/default.aspx

Tech Ed 2008

jose — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:12:00 GMT

I had a great time at the OCS booth during developer's week.

I am looking forward to the IE 8 and Vista Security experience during this week.

Tech Ed 2008 Orlando

jose — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:07:00 GMT

If you did not make it to Orlando this year, you still can follow major developments on line

Check out http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/ !!

The keynote for the developer's week was great (Bill Gates was here) but the keynote event for the IT pro week had more attendance.

Out of the many new announcements, one that caught my attention was the MSL announcement of virtualization certifications.

So now you can be certifiable "virtualized"

blogging from the 2008 Microsoft MVP Summit

jose — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:08:00 GMT

Finally made it to Seattle. Found a lot of really smart people and uber geeks.

Check out the awesome agenda at http://mvpsummit2008.com

They have a really cool type of sessions called openspace where you get to hear a lot of interesting ideas

Mix 08

jose — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:10:00 GMT

If you could not make it to MIX08 checkout the Kawasaki/Ballmer conversation

http://www.visitmix.com

A cool LINQ learning tool

jose — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:23:00 GMT

I came across a cool LINQ learning tool, its called LINQpad and it was written by Joseph Albahari

dowload it here or go to: http://www.linqpad.net/

Sorting out VS 2008 product comparisons

jose — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:52:00 GMT

A handy link for VS 2008 product comparisons.

A lot of questions pop up regarding specific features

Check it out http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx

A good link for people who like Posters.....

jose — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:59:00 GMT

I found this interesting blog post containing links to posters about Microsoft technologies.

I have been carrying around a copy of the C# shortcuts, and I have been unable to memorize them, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the VS 2008 are already out!

http://blogs.msdn.com/carloc/archive/2007/11/24/posters-posters-and-again-posters.aspx

ms sql team blogs

jose — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:50:00 GMT

The following blogs tell the story about SQL Server:

Microsoft SQL and Data Programmability:
Microsoft SQL Everywhere Blog
Microsoft SQL Server Support Blog
Microsoft SQL Manageability Team Blog
Microsoft SQL Protocols Blog
Data Programmability Blog
ADO.NET Team Blog
Project Astoria Team Blog
Microsoft JDBC Driver Team Blog
XML Team Blog

First "Rosario" CTP is out

jose — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:45:00 GMT

Well, It has finally arrived and it Rocks!

If you want the fine print and details check out Jeff Beehler's Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/

There is a dedicated page on msdn as well: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb725993.aspx

You can get to the downloads from there!

Get Inside and cool down using Rosario!