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“Eaglestone” – Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server


Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 codenamed "Eaglestone" is the beta release of the Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server. Any of the following IDEs: Eclipse 3.0 to 3.5 on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX. IBM Rational Application Developer 6.0 to 7.5 on Windows. […]

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Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 Available for Pre-Order


by Mickey Gousset, Brian Keller, Ajoy Krishnamoorthy, and Martin Woodward Just looking online now the price has been lowered to $36.00 Canadian on Amazon.ca for pre-orders! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010,ALM,Application Lifecycle Management

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New ALM Features in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2


There are a plethora of new features no matter what role you play in Visual Studio 2010 to help you increase your teams productivity. Roles Software Designers and Developers Build Users Testers and Quality Control Managers Project Managers and Team Members Version Control Users Administrators The new features available to your Team Projects after you […]

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“Ignite your coding” webcast series


The “ignite your coding” webcast series is designed to help developers manage change by giving your team what they need to be their best.  Starting in March, every Thursday at 2pm EST, this one-hour talk show format will be focused on asking key industry experts all sorts of questions. Don’t forget to follow your hosts […]

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System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) Release Candidate – Now Available!


You can download the RC from the Microsoft Connect site. If you would like to see what the release candidate looks like before you dive in, watch Microsoft’s webcast from last month “Get Ready for DPM 2010 RC”. Technorati Tags: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, DPM 2010

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Hotfix rollup for Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2


  A hotfix rollup package is now available for System Center VMM 2008 R2 which is part of the February 9, 2010 update.  This also includes the resolutions that are documented in the following article for Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 hotfix rollup package: 976244 Description of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 […]

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Upgrading TFS 2010 Beta 2 to Release Candidate Information


  You might call this “Krieger’s Notes”, it was put together by Bryan Krieger and is a very thorough document on upgrading to the RC. The document is divided into 6 sections: Choosing an upgrade path Considerations before attempting upgrading – PLEASE READ as it contains some late breaking news related to upgrade Additional steps […]

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate Available


  Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 RC is also available (in case you were wondering) You can grab your copy from here.  How exciting! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010. .NET 4.0,.NET Framework 4

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MSF-Agile plus Security Development Lifecycle Process Template for TFS 2008


MSF-A+SDL is a TFS process template that incorporates the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for Agile process guidance into the MSF Agile development framework.  With the MSF-A+SDL template, any code checked into the Visual Studio Team System source repository by the developer is analyzed to ensure that it complies with SDL secure development practices. The template […]

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MSBuild Sidekick v3 Beta is available!


  Attrice announced a release of MSBuild Sidekick v3, supporting the full range of MSBuild versions from 2.0 to 4.0.  You don’t need to uninstall previous MSBuild Sidekick version, and no license is required for the beta (the beta expires on May 1st, 2010). NOTE: .NET 4.0 Beta 2 Runtime is required.  Please let Attrice […]

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