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Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 Now Available

Today Jason Zander announced the immediate availability of Microsoft® Visual Studio®...

Date: 03/15/2011

Visual Studio LightSwitch Feature Matrix

On his blog yesterday, Soma (Sr. VP of Developer Division at Microsoft), announced that Visual...

Date: 03/08/2011

Data Storage in Visual Studio LightSwitch

With the recent release of Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 to MSDN Subscribers, I have gotten a few...

Date: 08/23/2010

Myth Busting Visual Studio LightSwitch

Earlier this week, at the VSLive conference in Redmond, WA (on the Microsoft campus) Jason Zander...

Date: 08/06/2010

Released: Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0

Today, we released Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0, a Team Foundation Server process template to...

Date: 07/19/2010

The Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools are now available!

The Visual Studio team that brought you the SharePoint developer tools in Visual Studio 2010 is...

Date: 06/17/2010

.NET 4 on Windows Update

Lately there have been a lot of questions about when .NET 4 will be released on Windows Update (WU)...

Date: 06/14/2010

GeekFest at TechEd 2010 New Orleans

Let’s face it, going to a technical conference is good for your career but it’s not a...

Date: 05/25/2010

Improving Software Development Across the Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2010—Part 2

In this four part series my goal is to provide you a look at Visual Studio 2010 and highlight how...

Date: 04/26/2010

Improving Software Development Across the Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2010 : Part 1

In the book Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy states, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy...

Date: 04/19/2010

Improving Developer-Tester Collaboration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Effective collaboration between developers and testers is paramount and can make the difference...

Date: 04/19/2010

Code Understanding and Systems Design with Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 introduces an entirely new set of architecture tools to aide in both...

Date: 04/19/2010

Follow Visual Studio Team System on Twitter

Want to keep up on news from the Visual Studio Team System team? Want to get updates from live...

Date: 02/26/2009

Oracle Support Announced for Visual Studio Team System 2010 Development

Today it was announced Oracle support will be available for Visual Studio Team System 2010...

Date: 02/24/2009

Check Out Visual Studio Tips and Tricks

Scott Cate has started a Video Blog showing Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. Starting with Tip of the...

Date: 01/22/2009

User Group Session: A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2010

On Monday, 13-Oct I will be presenting a session at my local (and favorite) user group, the .NET...

Date: 10/07/2008

VSTS Development Edition + Database Edition

This morning we made the official announcement of the next release of Visual Studio and the .NET...

Date: 09/29/2008

TechEd Wrap Up - Better Late Than Never

OK, mea culpa. TechEd 2008 North America has been over for a few weeks now, and I have not yet...

Date: 07/03/2008

New Team System White Papers Focus on Key Benefits

Seven (7) new white papers focused on the key benefits of Visual Studio Team System are now...

Date: 05/23/2008

TechEd is Just Around the Corner (and I am working late)

TechEd 2008 Developers is less than two weeks away, and of course that means we are down to crunch...

Date: 05/23/2008

GeekFest Party at TechEd 2008 Developer Conference

Let’s face it, going to technical conferences is good for your career, but it’s not a...

Date: 05/16/2008

A Little on LINQ

Recently I was involved (only a little) in preparing some of the Visual Studio Launch content for...

Date: 03/17/2008

Upcoming Events I am Speaking At

In March and April I am actually a bit busy espousing prolifically about topics near and dear to me....

Date: 03/12/2008

I'm Moving...to DougSeven.com

For years I have used DougSeven.com as a test URL - a place where I could throw up some demo apps or...

Date: 03/12/2008

Seattle Code Camp is Coming (and Boise too)

Seattle Code Camp is coming up in a couple weeks - January 26th & 27th. They have identified...

Date: 01/10/2008

Why You Need an Architect

A colleague just emailed me a pointer to this 'comic video' explaining what software architects do,...

Date: 01/09/2008

Visual Studio 2008 for Ruby on Rails

With the release of the Visual Studio 2008 SDK, software vendors can now build IDE's on top of the...

Date: 01/08/2008

Sharing Team System Specs

Here's another nugget from Jeff... One of the things that we quietly rolled out yesterday along with...

Date: 11/30/2007

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Code Name "Rosario" November 2007 CTP is Available

Yes, the newest CTP of the next release of Team System has been made available. From Jeff Beehler:...

Date: 11/28/2007

User Group Event: A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2008

On Monday, November 26th I will be presenting at the .NET Developer's Association user group. My...

Date: 11/24/2007

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Has Shipped!

Here is the official word from Jeff Beehler, the Team System Chief of Staff, and the really official...

Date: 11/19/2007

Where in the world am I?

The more I travel, the more I realize how small our world has gotten. Rarely do I find myself...

Date: 09/08/2007

Upcoming Presentations (Come along, I'd love to meet you)

I have a few upcoming presentations. If you will be in Kuala Lumpur in mid-September, I'd love to...

Date: 08/22/2007

What Do You Want?

I'm curious. You know me...I live to work for you. I want to give you what you want.Have I buttered...

Date: 08/13/2007

Are Software Developers Perfect When They Write Code?

At TechEd 2007 this past June, TSHAK and I had the opportunity to record a video in the TechEd...

Date: 08/08/2007

Now Available: VSTS Code Name "Rosario" Aug 2007 CTP

Last week we released the first glimpse of the future of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with...

Date: 08/06/2007

Upcoming MSDN Webcast: Overview of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - Project Server 2007 Connector

From Brian Keller: If you are interested in the recently released connector which integrates Team...

Date: 07/31/2007

Now Available: Team System Web Access Power Tool

Today we released the first "official" power tool release of Team System Web Access. You can...

Date: 07/31/2007

Now Available: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is now available for download, along with NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2. The...

Date: 07/26/2007

What's In a Name?

My colleague, Rob Caron, just posted the latest news on upcoming name changes for some of the Visual...

Date: 07/26/2007

Scott Hanselman Joins Microsoft

I may be a few days behind on this one. This past Saturday, Scott Hanselman reported on his blog...

Date: 07/25/2007

Visual Studio Team System codename "Rosario" August CTP Signed Off

Brian Harry, a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, announced today that the Visual Studio Team System...

Date: 07/25/2007

Now Available: Service Release 1 (SR1) update for Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals

Service Release 1 for Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals is now available...

Date: 07/23/2007

TechEd07 Session Available: Unit Testing and TDD

At TechEd 2007 Brian Randall and I co-presented on Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD)...

Date: 07/11/2007

.NET Rocks!: Visual Studio Team System Panel Discussion from TechEd 2007

During TechEd 2007 I was asked to participate in a live panel discussion to talk about Visual Studio...

Date: 07/11/2007

Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Joint Launch Announced

Today, at the Microsoft® Worldwide Partner Conference 2007 in Denver, CO, Kevin Turner,...

Date: 07/10/2007

A New Era - Visual Studio Team System

After two years on the Microsoft.com Community Technologies Team I have decided that I needed a new...

Date: 07/10/2007

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