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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 11:03 PM
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Barry Gervin |
Filed under: Humours Distractions, Southern Ontario, Events, Home, Newsletter, VSTS, Architecture, SharePoint, WPF, Silverlight
Silverlight 3 will soon be released. And to properly celebrate the excitement of its release, ObjectSharp is teaming up with Microsoft to present an action-packed first look at the UX3 platform, live from the Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto.
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An early Christmas present from our friends in Redmond! Beginning October 1, 2008 subscribers to VSTS Developer Edition and Database Edition will have access to the additional SKU. This was reported this week over at the MSDN VS 2010 & .NET Framework
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Are you a design & mac user in a Windows Development Shop? Are they eyeing your Mac and measuring your desk to outfit you with a new PC? Over your cold dead corpse I bet. No worries. You owe it to yourself to check out the Microsoft Expression Professional
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In case you didn't catch this S. Somasegar announced today during his TechEd Developers Keynote in Barcelona that Visual Studio 2008 will ship by the end of this month (November!). Yeah! Most people were counting on this before the end of the year which
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via Soma Back in the days of fxCop, (before we had to pay for code analysis in Team Developer) if you didn't like an error/warning, you could have your request to ignore said message in an external central file. With the advent of Visual Studio Team Editions
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One of the biggest wrongs in VSTS 2005 was that the Team Architect edition didn't have unit testing. Not only has that been rectified for the Orcas time frame, but this feature has been moved down into the Visual Studio Professional SKU for the next release
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A couple of weeks back (sorry still catching up) I had the great fortune of being invited to visit a MS Research event called TechFest . MS Research hosts this event annually for fellow MS Employees and opens up their doors so they can see what they've
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Well this is about the best news I've read all day. Microsoft has acquired DevBiz, the makers of teamplain, which provides web based access to work items and some source control operations. The good part of the news is that now MS owns it and is rolling
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A few weeks ago I attended the Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality ( TASSQ ). It's refreshing to attend a user group outside of the MicroSphere. There was about a 100 attendees and I like the round table format over dinner with lots of
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So we have a few service packs to talk about.... Firstly, Visual Studio 2005, SP1 is now in beta testing. This is a fairly big service pack, lots of bug fixes, and the odd new feature. The list is not complete of things fixed yet but Microsoft promises
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