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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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Come and join members from the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Architect, Developer and Tester editions and Team Foundation Server. There will be experts on hand to answer your questions. Join the
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If you're developing custom MSBuild Tasks, and you're interested in testing them (and you should) using NUnit or VSTS there are a few considerations. The first is the strategy you want to adopt for testing the custom task. In the spirit of “Unit” testing,
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