I wanted to blog during the MIX’07 Keynote on Monday but between Twitter’ing and listinging to the plethera of announcements, my notetaking suffered great. My fellow DE out of the Pacific Northwest, Jason Mauer, did a much better job than I ever could. Read his rundown of the keynote as it happend.
Here’s a quick synopsis of all the announcements made yesterday…
MIX07
It's an hour before showtime in Vegas, and I'm not talking about Danny Gans at the Mirage showtime, but MIX'07 showtime! Today we kick off MIX'07 with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie. There's surely some exiciting news on the way and I can't wait to tell you what it is.
You can follow along step-by-step of my MIX/Vegas experienceon my Twitter page, or check back here for periodic updates.
MIX07
I’m catching up on my Inbox after my vacation from a couple of weeks ago and I ran across anemail from J.D. Meier and the announcement that the patterns & practices has released new perscriptive guidance for Visual Studio Team System.
This effort is in combination with customers, the product teams, the support teams, MVPs, subject matter experts and an internal field team called the “VSTS Rangers” to provide some guidance around everything that is Team System. Right now the content focus quite a bit on Team Foundation Server but the p&p team is working their fingers to the bone to punch outguidance as quick as possible for all aspects of Team System.
Some of the new content that has recently been released includes:
The VSTS Guidance Project is hosted on CodePlex.com which in and of itself is hosted on Team Foundation Server. Kind of a Circle-of-Life thing. Ok, maybe not, but great stuff anyhow!
Team System
That is the age old question in Software Development-land. With Microsoft, the answer was buy last week when we announced the acquistion of devBiz and it’s TeamPlain product. TeamPlain provides a web access interface for Team Foundation Server – a highly requested feature from our customers.
TeamPlain Web Access is now available as a free download to all Team Foundation Server customers. In a few months, TeamPlain Web Access will be re-released as Team System Web Access as part of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools. In the Orcas timeframe, we will be releasing Team System Web Access as an official, documented, localized, fully supported component of Team Foundation Server.
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With the coming of April, we find ourselves in the midst of Spring and new beginings. Speaking of new beginings, this month’s DevCares presents what’s new in the next version of IIS 7.0.
Internet Information Services 7.0 The future of Microsoft?s Web Server Platform is exciting for developers! The release of Internet Information Services 7.0 in Windows Vista and Server will dramatically improve the development, deployment and management of web sites and applications. This demo packed session will highlight an all new, distributed configuration system and administration tool, a new modularized core web server with powerful new extensibility support.
Most importantly, you will see how to plug in a variety of custom modules into IIS7 to enhance the functionality of your websites, as well as look at other ways to extend IIS7 including adding configuration sections to the IIS7 configuration files and extending the IIS7 management tool. The possibilities are endless for making IIS7 the web server that you need for your business scenario.
- Session 1: What?s new in IIS7
- Session 2: Extending IIS7
Also, for those of you in Wisconsin, April brings us new beginnings with the introduction of DevCares to Appleton, Milwaukee and Madison! Be sure to visit http://www.devcares.com to register for an event nearest you and the chance to win an Xbox 360!
- Chicago (Loop), April 10th
- Indianapolis, IN, April 24th
- Downers Grove, IL, April 26th
- Madison, WI, April 26th
- Brookfield, WI, April 27th
- Appleton, WI, April 30th
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