Today is the day. Visual Studio 2005 (including all VSTS editions) and SQL Server 2005 are available to the public for download from MSDN.
Thank you for attending my talk this morning. Here is a text file with my sample code. Enjoy!
The Team Foundation Server setup experience has been evolving for over a year now in response to feedback Microsoft has received. While they’ve made significant progress since the first release last year as Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh with Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, there’s still more that can be done. Microsoft has created a survey to ask some specific questions based on your experience with Team Foundation Server Beta 3. If you have attempted (successfully or otherwise) to install Team Foundation Server Beta 3, Microsoft invites you to participate in this brief online survey.
The survey can be taken anonymously, or you have the option of providing contact information should wish to be contacted about your setup experience. Partial surveys are not preserved, so please complete the survey before navigating away from the page.
Microsoft has listed the VSTS MVPs on their site. You can view their profiles here.
What is an MVP?
The MVP award is a one-year renewable reward given to just under 3,000 customers worldwide who are community leaders for their past year's accomplishments in a specific competency (ex: ASP.NET, C#, VSTS). A non-Microsoft employee is nominated by an employee or other MVP, their contributions to the community are evaluated, and they are voted on by an MVP Lead and PG Lead. Contributions can include answering MSDN Forum questions, writing articles & books, having an active & popular blog, working with the product teams, running a local user group, giving presentations, etc. A quick intro to what an MVP is can be found on the MVP Website.
Team System MSDN Public ChatVisual Studio Team System for Software Developer & Visual Studio Team System for Software Testers
When: Wednesday 10/19/05 @ 10am PST
What: The Profiler, Test Tools (Unit, Generic, Manual), Web & Load Testing, and Code Analysis (FxCop & PREFast). We have questions for you, will answer questions from you, and will chat about the exciting new technology.
A bit belated in this posting, but Steven Borg and I are both Microsoft MVPs now! I attended the MVP summit a few weeks ago as an RD, and I've got to say that I am in some good company, and am really impressed at the level of support Microsoft gives to this program.
Seattle Code Camp is just around the corner - about 10 days away. Steven Borg and I are going to be presenting a couple of Team System and SQL Server 2005 topics at camp and we hope to see you there!
A friend of mine sent me this link. It's a pretty good refrence page on the core keyboard shortcuts.
Microsoft’s senior vice president, Steven Sinofsky, discusses support for the PDF Format in Office 12. It appears it will be as simple as "Save-as".
Read the Q&A here.
I had a student just show me the Wayback Machine, which is a Web site that caches other sites all the way back to 1998. So, if you want to see how the old Microsoft or Google site looked a few years ago, you can! And, yes Google's site did look different in 1999.
You heard how much fun we had at the Portland Code Camp in July. Plan now to join us at the Seattle Code Camp October 22 and 23. That's only a few weeks away. Oh, and the best thing about Code Camp is that anyone can present a topic, so propose something!
Channel 9 has picked up the Scott Cate's AJAX video. Yes, that's me chillin in the background!
Microsoft and Plam announced today that an upcoming model of the Treo (early 2006) will run Windows Mobile 5.0. Verizon will provide the high-speed network.
I've been heads-down all week building content for the big launch on November 7, but I wanted to blog about Dave Bost being hired on by Microsoft. He'll be assuming the role of Developer Evangelist for the midwest district, and he's joining at a great time, what with Team System, Visual Studio, SQL Server, and BizTalk Server all launching soon!
Next Thursday, September 22, Boise State University will present a free conference designed to help consumers and business people alike gain the knowledge they need to protect against and recover from identity theft crimes. The conference will run from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the Student Union building.
- 0755 - 0800 Welcome
- 0800 - 0915 Rick Estberg, IOSS.GOV; ID Theft
- 0915 - 1000 IRA WINKLER, Internet Security Advisors Group (ISAG); Corporate Espionage
- 1000 - 1045 Nora Carpenter, BBB; Scam Alerts
- 1045 - 1100 Senator Larry E. Craig, R-ID; Eldercare and Protecting Seniors from Fraud
- 1100 - 1145 Debra Schriner & Kris Inskeep, INL.GOV; Talking Trash
- 1145 - 1230 C. Honts Ph.D., Boise State University; Psychology of Deception
- 1230 - 1315 Det. Quilter & Jill Langhurst Esq., City of Boise & Ada County; White Collar Crime & Det. Curt Crum, Retail Fraud Schemes
- 1315 - 1400 Detective Ed Hewitt, Ret., City of Vancouver; ID Theft & Meth
- 1400 - 1430 Special Agent Jim Hatch, USSS; Electronic Fraud Schemes
- 1430 – 1500 Brice Sloan, Sloan Fencing; Interviewing Employees for the Prevention of Occupational Fraud
- 1500 - 1530 Mark Albrecht, Hewlett Packard Privacy Manager; What Companies Do With You Information
- 1530 - 1600 Gar Hackney, Esq., Defending the Accused
- 1600 - 1630 Expert Panel: Questions &Answers OR Cory Schou, Ph.D., Idaho State University, Information Assurance
Please visit this page at BSU for more information.
In other words, he joined Microsoft. Yes, my fellow RD to the (great white) North, John Bristowe just hired-on as a new Developer Evangelist (DE) for the area.
Good luck John!
I just found the URL to my forthcoming Team System book on Amazon. This is the revised edition that I just finished last month! Too bad there's no graphic, and the date is wrong. I was told it'll be up there the first of October.
Thanks again for all your support on this!
Update: A friend, Peter Nowak, from Germany pointed me towards the listing on Amazon.de! He also mentioned it in a recent blog posting.
This was a last minute thing that came up, but yesterday morning I presented a 1-hour session on Team System to this virtual conference. I understand that they had 4500+ attendees signed-up. I know that my session had 100 people in it, which is great for a conference that was devoid of any specific tools (most topics were on management, theory, and best practice).
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People ask why we arrived at the PDC on Friday, several days ahead of the first day. Well, it was so we could present Team System at the pre-conference, as well as go sailing all day Saturday. Here is a video (scroll down) that Lorin Thwaits and Scott Cate created to show at the PDC, and show-off Ajax and myKB.
I seem to remember suggesting this to a few of the Google guys at their room party at PDC 2003. Well, it took them two years to do it, but it looks promising.
Read the CNET article here, Google's FAQ here, or try it!
My friend Scott Swigart got a chance to sit down with several Microsoft employees and chat about the planned features and changes. This is great, considering Visual Basic 8.0 isn't even out yet. One of the most anticipated features is Language INtegrated Query (LINQ).
Check out Scott's article on Dr. Dobb's.
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