Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2& .NET FX4 Beta 2, Available (Public)

A new target is reached by Announcing Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 2 and Windows 7 OS by Microsoft on Monday october 19-2009.

To simplify the search load for the new Visual Studio 2010 & .NET FX4 Beat2 stuff, see the links bellow for more information:

Download Links:

Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 (ISO)
Team Explorer 2010 Beta 2 (ISO)
Compatibility Patch for Team Explorer 2008

Related Resources

Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2010
Enabling New ALM Features for Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 2 in Upgraded Team Projects
Compatibility Notes for TFS and Visual Studio 2010, 2008 and 2005 versions

Have fun with this great new bits and up to next release. Congrats to the product teams.

TeamReview 1.1.2 Released!

The most complete solution for Team System Code Reviews: a specific work item type and a Visual Studio add-in for a completely in IDE code review experience. TeamReview exploits the advantages of Team System and VSX to reduce waste and surface new business value from code reviews.

A new release(1.1.2) of this great tool is released and contains the following features/fixes:

- 2010 Beta 2 Support
- Fixes for UAC issues found on Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Allow for cross Team-Project code-review submissions, so source code to be in 1
Team Project and work item tracking in another. In the source control project set
up a Team Query that returns work items from the "other" work-item tracking
project. Then use this query during code reviews with TeamReview.
- Some Fixes see the list at the following location:
http://teamreview.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=30743

TechEd Europe 2009, Berlin here we come!

Just 3 weeks to go, and TechEd Europe 2009 begins.
The event information is available on the TechEd Europe site at:
http://www.msteched.com/europe/Public/event.aspx

I hope to meet you there.

If you are there, don't forget to visit the INETA Europe booth for more information about the community efforts and great goodies....

Rangers Solutions and Projects

Team System Rangers deliver out of band solutions for missing features and guidance in the Team System suite of products.

More information about VSTS Rangers projects and efforts can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/ee358787.aspx
and http://blogs.msdn.com/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2009/03/18/vsts-rangers-projects-project-announcement-vsts-2010-101-guidance-sheets.aspx

Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier

The ASP.NET team have released a significant new update of the Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6). This update includes a bunch of new capabilities and improvements to our client-side AJAX library, and can be used with any version of ASP.NET (including ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0), and can be used in both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC projects. 15-10-2009’s release includes the following feature improvements:

Better Imperative Syntax: A new, simplified, code syntax for creating client controls.
Client Script Loader: A new client-side script loader that can dynamically load all of the JavaScript files required by a client control or library automatically, and executes the scripts in the right order.
Better jQuery Integration: All Microsoft Ajax controls are now automatically exposed as jQuery plug-ins.
In addition to the client library improvements, we also today released a new (free) Microsoft AJAX Minifier tool. This tool allows you to substantially improve the performance of your websites by reducing the size of your JavaScript files. It can be run both as a command-line tool, and also ships as a Visual Studio MSBuild task that you can integrate into your VS projects to automatically minify your JavaScript files whenever you do a build.

For more information about this release, see:
http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=34488