30 Jul 2009

Omaha Team System User Group

User Group, Visual Studio 2010
I have been somewhat behind posting lately (I hear new babies in the family will do that ) so it only seems right that I post about the next Omaha Team System User Group meeting 12 hours before it starts. This month, the Omaha Team System User Group and the Omaha .NET User Group are combining their efforts into a single meeting.  Tonight, I will be presenting on “VSTS 2010: What’s in it for me?”.  This will be a presentation that covers the major, new features that have been added to Visual Studio Team System 2010.  There are a LOT…
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18 May 2009

Visual Studio 2010 – Beta 1 Available

Visual Studio
As of today (May 18th, 2009) Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (various SKUs) and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 have shown up on the MSDN subscriber site. Here is a quick list of what shows up for the Enlish language (I'm not sure what other languages, if any, are yet available):.NET Framework 4 Beta 1 (ia64) .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 (x86 and x64) .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 (x86) .NET Framework 4 Client Profile Beta 1 (x86 and x64) .NET Framework 4 Client Profile Beta 1 (x86) Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 (x86) - DVD Visual Studio 2010…
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09 Apr 2009

VSTS 2010 Feature List

Team System, Visual Studio
Brian Harry has started a series of posts detailing the new features in Visual Studio Team System 2010.  In his first post, he lists the high-level features along with associated blogs that provide further details.  He will be drilling into more detail with future posts but this is a great list if you’re just wanting an idea of what’s new in VSTS 2010.
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20 Mar 2009

IE 8, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight 3 Beta and More

Silverlight, Utilities, Visual Studio
For those of you who have been following the MIX conference this week, there have been several new (final and beta) releases.  So far, the ones most interesting to me personally include: Internet Explorer 8 (final) – there are some great improvements in this version of IE that you can read more about here. ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (final) - ASP.NET MVC enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET framework. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative, not a replacement, for ASP.NET Web Forms that offers the following benefits: Clear separation of concerns Testability - support for…
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13 Mar 2009

Free ASP.NET MVC Tutorial

Visual Studio
Scott Guthrie recently announced a new ASP.NET MVC book that he co-authored with Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack.  Scott wrote the first chapter, a 185 page end-to-end tutorial that walks through the creation of a complete ASP.NET MVC application.  As part of his agreement with Wrox to write this chapter for free, he asked that they make the tutorial available as a free download.  Nice! You can read the details in Scott’s post here.  You can download the free PDF tutorial here.
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09 Feb 2009

VS 2008 Project Template for TFS Utilities

TFS, Visual Studio
If you’re like me and create a lot of simple, “one-off” TFS utilities, you’ve probably followed steps similar to these multiple times: Create a new “Windows Forms” (or “Console”) project in Visual Studio 2008. Add various TFS assembly references which can range anywhere between one or a dozen references. Add some “using” statements to your code. Finally, start coding the utility. Apparently, Neno Loje (a fellow Team System MVP) has done this a time or two as well and decided to create a Visual Studio 2008 Project Template to alleviate some of the repetitive tasks. After installing the template, you…
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27 Oct 2008

VSTS 2010 + .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

CTP, Team System, Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) has been made available for download (as of 26 Oct 2008).  You can get the latest bits here. It is about a 7.5 GB download so be prepared for it to take a little while, especially since it was just released. There is a ton of new functionality in VSTS 2010, far too much to enumerate in this post.  However, you can check this previous post of mine as a starting point for getting more details. Download VSTS 2010 .NET 4.0 CTP
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14 Oct 2008

Visual Studio 2010 Links

Team System, Visual Studio
There has been a lot of information coming out over the past couple of weeks regarding Visual Studio 2010 so I thought I'd consolidate a list of links that provide some information about what may be included in the next release: Informational Posts Visual Studio Team System 2010 Overview - a quick overview of what's being accomplished in VSTS 2010. PodCasts and Videos RadioTFS Interview with Habib Heydarian on VS 2010 Developer Features. Historical Debugger (10:47) - demonstrates the use of the Historical Debugger in VSTS 2010.  This promises to be a great feature for developers everywhere! An early look…
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14 Aug 2008

VS 2008 SP1 Tidbits – 1 of X

Team System, TFS, Visual Studio
Sometimes it’s the little things that excite me the most :-)  For instance, in the recently released Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (VS 2008 SP1), there are a few nice enhancements to the Team Explorer and Source Control Explorer that I find extremely helpful.  These enhancements include: The ability to right-click on a build type within Team Explorer and select “View Configuration Folder”.  This will open the Source Control Explorer pane and take you directly to the folder containing the selected build type.  This is a great time saver – especially now that TFS 2008 supports storing your build…
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13 Aug 2008

VS/TFS 2008 SP1 – Installation Tips

Team System, TFS, Visual Studio
Well, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (VS 2008 SP1) has been out (RTM’d) for about three days now and several tips have materialized across the Visual Studio community that may help save you some time.  These tips are broken out into Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio. Updating Team Foundation Server 2008 When upgrading a Team Foundation Server, Installation order is important (read the installation guide).  As per the guide, “In deployments where the application tier and a client tier component are installed on the same computer, you must install SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 before you install SP1…
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