Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Awesomeness

  You can find all of the Visual Studio 2008 Training recordings on Channel 9 here.  Microsoft has released days 1 and 2 of the 5 day training so far. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008 Training

Now that you have downloaded Visual Studio 2008 you can grab the training kit from Microsoft. The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, […]

I just read on Martin Woodward’s blog that it has been released on MSDN.  I am sure the other editions and Team Foundation Server will appear soon.  Congratulations to both Microsoft and the Visual Studio Team! Enjoy! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008

  Read the official press release here Microsoft Commits to November Release Date for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Sweet! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008

  It has been discovered that the operating system for this particular VPC will expire November 1st.  While this may seem like a major pain in the ass, Microsoft is releasing an updated VPC image next week and moving your TFS databases is straight forward.  Here is the link to the Orcas docs at MSDN […]

So I dived right in last night and upgraded my TFS 2005 server.  I had already installed TFS SP1 and SQL SP2 a few months ago so I didn’t need to bother doing that before I got started. The upgrade went very smoothly except for a few things I found odd: 1)  I was not asked during setup […]

Red is never a good sign?  So the error log reads like this: Microsoft .NET Framework v3.5 (x64): [2] Error code 1058 for this component means "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " Microsoft .NET Framework v3.5 (x64): [2] Component Microsoft […]