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VSTS is dead, long live VisualStudioUK - renaming and moving this blog
We’ve decided that this blog finally needs to be renamed as the VSTS (Visual Studio Team...
Date: 01/31/2012
EVENT: Implementing the Secure Development Lifecycle in your ALM Process
One of our ALM partners, Black Marble is running a free event on implementing the Microsoft SDL...
Date: 01/23/2012
Testfest 2012, sponsored by Visual Studio
Some exciting news about a brand new testing event that we are sponsoring. To quote from the...
Date: 01/09/2012
An introduction to Agile development with Team Foundation Server: TFS Support for Agile practices
TFS support for Agile practices Tailoring TFS to support your Agile process with process templates...
Date: 12/28/2011
ALM Research Project
I met Rob Myers at an event recently and he would like to get some anonymous information on ALM for...
Date: 12/20/2011
ALM On-line Assessment Tool launched
We’ve just launched a new on-line tool to help provide feedback and inputs into your Application...
Date: 12/02/2011
GoingNative 2012 Conference
GoingNative 2012 is a 48 hour technical event for C++ developers. Distinguished speakers include the...
Date: 12/02/2011
Fixing the TFS SharePoint integration after a password change
I run TFS 2010 and SharePoint 2010 on my laptop so that I can demonstrate TFS without needing to be...
Date: 11/25/2011
Bag yourself an Xbox360 by writing Windows Phone 7 apps
Got an idea for an awesome WP7 application? Well, get writing it before the end January 2012...
Date: 11/22/2011
Introducing the Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management Assessment
Microsoft UK have just launched the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Assessment which is...
Date: 11/21/2011
Deploy your cloud applications to Windows Azure from TFS Automated Build
The Windows Azure SDK (November 2011) has just been released and one of the updates caught my eye:...
Date: 11/17/2011
UK Visual Studio Team @ EuroSTAR
The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 team will be at EuroSTAR, Europe’s premier event for software...
Date: 11/17/2011
euroSTAR Test Talk Series
In the run up to the November euroSTAR test conference, euroSTAR has started publishing a number of...
Date: 10/07/2011
Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN Licensing White Paper
I ought to build up to this quite slowly in case the excitement is too much for the more sensitive...
Date: 10/05/2011
Professional Scrum Developer course in November
If you’re interested in a five day Scrum development course then you may be interested to know that...
Date: 09/29/2011
Using Excel to easily create reports from TFS Work Items
I want to highlight an easy way to create project reports from data held in Team Foundation Server...
Date: 09/29/2011
Scrum for Team System v3 Open Sourced
I had an interesting email update about Scrum for Team System today – version 3 is now open sourced...
Date: 09/21/2011
ALM Summit 2011
If you’re interested in attending the Application Lifecycle Management for the Microsoft Platform...
Date: 09/21/2011
iqnite UK 2011, 6th October
We’ll be at the iqnite UK 2011 conference on the 6th October at the Russel Hotel in London....
Date: 09/20/2011
TestExpo, London, 22nd September 2011
We’re going to TestExpo next week at the QE2 conference center and I’m delighted that...
Date: 09/16/2011
More Team Foundation Service activation codes
Brian Harry has extended the number of “bharry” activation codes for TFS Service Preview, so have...
Date: 09/15/2011
EuroSTAR Virtual Conference on Software Testing
The EuroSTAR Virtual Conference on Software Testing takes place tomorrow and we’re going to be...
Date: 09/12/2011
Extending TFS to embed work items in check-in comments and link them to changesets
I’ve been dabbling with TFS event handlers and check-in policies recently – which came about because...
Date: 07/20/2011
Managing the size of attachments stored after Visual Studio 2010 or Test Manager test runs
Visual Studio 2010 introduced significant new testing tools including the notion of “actionable...
Date: 07/15/2011
Visual Studio Event in Edinburgh, 8th September
We’re going to run a Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Event in the Microsoft Edinburgh office on...
Date: 06/29/2011
Connected.Development Session Videos now available
If you couldn’t make the Connected.Development event , or you could but would like to see the...
Date: 06/22/2011
Reduced price on Visual Studio Training Courses
Testhouse are running two Visual Studio Testing training courses at the Microsoft Campus at Reading...
Date: 06/07/2011
Special Offer on Visual Studio 2010 Test Manager and Coded UI Training Course
I was attending and speaking at the Connected.Development event in Leeds yesterday, which included...
Date: 05/27/2011
Visual Studio vNext Application Lifecycle Management
Last week at TechEd North America the ALM capabilities of the next version of Visual Studio (vNext)...
Date: 05/24/2011
Professional Scrum Developer Courses
There are three Professional Scrum Developer courses being hosted at the Microsoft Campus in...
Date: 05/16/2011
TFS Java SDK Released
An interesting post from Brian Harry today about the release of a Team Foundation Server SDK for...
Date: 05/16/2011
Agile Development and Testing Breakfast Briefings
I’m going to be speaking in a short series of breakfast briefings that have been organised by SQS,...
Date: 05/05/2011
TFS Phone Explorer
Black Marble recently released their Windows Phone 7 TFS Phone Explorer App and I’ve just got round...
Date: 05/03/2011
Connected Development event in Leeds, 26th May
Connected Development is a free, one day event being held near Leeds on the 26th May. There are two...
Date: 05/03/2011
Visual Studio Testing Training Courses
One of our partners, Testhouse, is going to be running two Visual Studio Testing training courses at...
Date: 05/03/2011
How Do I Get Started With Team Foundation Server?
This question pops up quite often and I thought it would be useful to have a refreshed summary of...
Date: 04/06/2011
Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 Now Available
I’m trying not to repost other articles but I think this post from Brian Harry is worth...
Date: 02/09/2011
TFS and Tools Overview Competition Questions for 8th Feb
Some questions for attendees of todays LiveMeetings. If you were on the Visual Studio 2010 Tools...
Date: 02/08/2011
nFocus are Gold
Congratulations to nFocus, who have become only the second organisation in the UK to achieve Gold...
Date: 02/03/2011
Project Management and Reporting 19/01/11 Competition Question
A question for attendees of the Project Management and Reporting LiveMeeting held today: Question:...
Date: 01/20/2011
Team Explorer Everywhere 18/01/11 Competition Question
A question for attendees of the Team Explorer Everywhere LiveMeeting held today: Question: Team...
Date: 01/18/2011
Visual Studio 2010 Tools Overview 18/01/11 Competition Question
A question for attendees of the Visual Studio 2010 Tools Overview LiveMeeting held today: Question:...
Date: 01/18/2011
New Year, New Events Schedule
A New Year reminder that our new expanded range of events, mainly LiveMeetings, is going to start...
Date: 01/07/2011
Writing and publishing a Windows Phone 7 App
I’ve finally got my first real Windows Phone 7 App published onto the marketplace, and, although...
Date: 12/19/2010
Adding your own Layer Diagram Patterns to the Toolbox
I like the Layer Diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and the idea of creating my own patterns to...
Date: 12/16/2010
From Express to Ultimate: Improving Productivity with Visual Studio 2010, 14th Dec
I’m presenting at this Black Marble event in Microsoft’s London offices, at Victoria, on the 14th...
Date: 12/06/2010
Get a TFS “elf” check and enter a draw for an XBox with Kinect
Black Marble, one of our key UK partners and the first UK partner to achieve Gold certification in...
Date: 12/06/2010
New UK Visual Studio 2010 Events
We’ve just updated our schedule of Visual Studio 2010 related events and the new list, taking us...
Date: 12/04/2010
Free Visual Studio eBooks
I was on the tube this week re-reading the Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide on my wonderful new...
Date: 12/03/2010