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Our Upcoming VSTS Events
Although you can always visit our website, and look at our Upcoming Events page to see a list of our upcoming events. However, here’s a quick summary of many of the events we’re either running or participating in until the end of the year.
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Free VSTS Training - Lap around VSTS 2010 / Rosario
On December 4, 2008, Northwest Cadence will be sponsoring a free “Lap around VSTS 2010 / Rosario” session, here in our Kirkland offices overlooking Lake Washington. Come hear about the latest information about VSTS 2010 (AKA Rosario) from Jeff Levinson, Team System MVP. This free VSTS
VSTS Training - Building Applications using Visual Studio Team System 2008
We’re running our VSTS 5-Day course again, here at our offices at Northwest Cadence on December 8-12, 2008. Get ready for a new year of VSTS productivity by learning the deep ins and outs of VSTS 2008! Here’s a brief blurb. To learn more, send an email to
Portland, OR: Enterprise Build Automation with VSTS 2008 Team System and Team Build
If you’re in the Portland, Oregon area, I’ll be speaking on Enterprise Build Automation. Drop by this free event and learn the characteristics of an Enterprise Build Automation tool, the process to follow, and how to set up automated builds across the entire organization. Code will be
Microsoft combines Development and Database Editions of Team System
Microsoft announced that if you own Team System Development Edition, you will automatically be able to download the Database Edition and vice versa. This is in preparation for there being only a Development version with the just announced Visual Studio Team System 2010 (this will include the Database
Easily Output the Built-in Team Build 2008 Properties
Anyone who was worked with MSBuild to customize Team Build knows the pains of debugging your build scripts and that many times it resorts to outputting property and item values out with the message task. There is also the major issue of just knowing what each built in property contains and not mixing
Speeding up your Team Builds
Tom Janssen is a Senior Consultant covering ALM in Munchen, Deutchland (Munich, Germany for us English speakers). I thought it was worth highlighting his comment to the Team Build Breakfast post.
Log on as Service
You need to add the Log on as Service right to the TfsService account when installing Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008. (And for that matter, TFS 2005.) So, how do you do that? If you’re not an IT Admin type, it can be difficult to find. The best practice is to have the IT folks do this
Team System 2008 March ‘08 Power Tools
Microsoft is finalizing the release of the Team System 2008 Power Tools and working hard to finish up SP1 which is due out a little later (the Power Tools are now available here).
Differences between VS2008 Editions
Rob Caron has put together a wonderful comparison chart between ALL the various versions of Visual Studio 2008. Everything from the Express Editions to Team Suite. And he breaks it down into specific features. I highly recommend taking a look if you’re trying to determine which version is right
Branching Strategies
Any and all comments are welcome regarding this series of posts (okay, you can comment on other posts too). We woul appreciate any feedback pointing out alternatives to these strategies, whether they helped you or not and maybe your experiences dealing with branching strategies. This series of posts
Sabotaged…
So I was due to speak at an MSDN events in, of all places, Redmond! 20 minutes before the presentation was to begin, a driver (I will refrain from adding additional descriptive words, but you can fill that in yourself) hit a transformer pole and took out power to an entire city block in downtown Redmond!!!!