We’re starting to see Visual Studio Team System User Groups starting to pop up in our area. Chicago’s has a VSTS group (no group site just yet) and they’ve held twomeetings all ready (sorry for slacking on my blogging duties and not informing you in time that there was a group - a mistake I don’t plan to make again).
There’s also a group starting up in Indianapolis as a Special Interest Group of the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association (IndyNDA). Their plan is to meet every 4th Wednesday of the month. Here are the details of their kickoff meeting on May 23rd…
When:
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 @ 6:00PM
Where:
Microsoft Corporation
Parkwood Business Park, Building Four
500 E. 96th St., Suite 460
Indianapolis, IN 46240
Click here to register
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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!
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Camron informs us that CTP6 of Visual Studio 2005 Team System Edition for Database Professionals (aka “Data Dude”) is available for download.
There have been a number of enhancements made between CTP5 and CTP6 including…
- Full SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 Object Support
- Inline Constraints
- Team Build Support
- Selective Database Project Imports
- Etc…
Not to mention the standard stability and performance enhancements. You can download CTP6 from here.
Speaking of Data Dude, don’t forget to check out the upcoming launch events coming to a city near you.
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Are you as excited about the new Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (whew!) as I am??? We are getting ready to host a number of launch events across the country starting November 30th. Come out and hear how VSTS-DB Pro (or “Data Dude”) can help you take control of your database throughout it’s lifecycle as well an introduction to the tools that will allow you to include testing methodoligies in at the database level.
You can catch me at the launch events taking place in Milwaukee on December 6th and Chicago on December 12th. To find a city launch nearest you, check out http://teams-deliver.com.
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Do you want to help drive product direction? The team behind Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (phew!) or the product affectionatly known as “Data Dude” is looking for 15-mins of your time to help them nail down feature requests for the upcoming release. So… please take the time to fill out this survey and please hurry as the survey closes on Oct. 13th.
Thank you for your support!
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