WPF Master Class with Brian Noyes (IDesign) in Belgium from 1 t/m 5 March2010!

Pieter Gheysens found Architecting WPF Applications with Brian Noyes from IDesign on LinkedIn Events and thought you might be interested in going!

http://events.linkedin.com/Architecting-WPF-Applications-Brian/pub/204041

Architecting WPF Applications with Brian Noyes from IDesign
Mon, Mar 01 to Fri, Mar 05
Antwerpen, VLAAMS GEWEST, BE

To build great compelling, responsive, secure smart client applications with WPF you need to master not just the basic building blocks of WPF but how to compose the rest of the application that sits behind the façade of the user interface. You need to understand user interface presentation patterns and more...

If you are interested in this Master Class, just visit the link above...

Rangers shipped Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Branching Guide 2010!

Congrats to the Rangers Team with shipping Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Branching Guide 2010 today. With this great effort, we reached a great milestone again. Thanks for all the team.

More information about Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Branching Guide 2010‏, can be found at: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Branching Guide 2010.

Looking forwards to work together at the next release.

Rangers shipped Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance‏

Congrats to all our Rangers Team with shipping Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance‏ today. With this great effort, we reached a great milestone again. Thanks for all the team.

More information about Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance‏, can be found at: Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance‏.

Up to the next release....

Peli de Halleux comes to NL and speaks for DotNed (.NET & VSTS UG NL) again on 19-01-2010

DotNed (.NET & VSTS UG NL) is very pleased to welkom Peli de Halleux again during his talk for DotNed.

The talk of Peli for DotNed (.NET & VSTS UG NL), will take place on Januari 19th, 2010 from 18:00 until 21:00 and will be hosted by Microsoft Nederland at Schiphol Rijk, thanks in advance.
During his talk, Peli will show the latest release of the tools from Microsoft Research.

This talk presents 3 innovative tools from Microsoft Research in collaboration with Visual Studio DevLabs related to software reliability and testing: Code Contracts, Pex and CHESS (all tools are available for evaluation through the DevLabs incubation site from Visual Studio).

The talk will give you a glimpse at those new technologies, along with coding demos.

Links:
- Research in Software Engineering
- Code Contracts
- Pex
- CHESS
- DevLabs

Bio of Peli:
Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux is actively working on Pex, an Automated Whitebox Testing tool for .NET at Microsot Research. Peli also collaborates with his colleagues from the CHESS and Code Contracts projects. On the side Peli also wrote MbUnit, an extensible unit test framework, many Reflector addins and other fun geek projects. Peli joined the Research in Software Engineering group in October 2006 where he has been working on Pex since then. Peli worked in the CLR as a tester in charge of the Just In Time compiler (2004-2006) and earned a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Catholic University of Louvain (2000-2004).
Links:
Home page at MSR: http://research.microsoft.com/~jhalleux
Blog: http://blog.dotnetwiki.org

Please visit our DotNed Event site for subscription to this exclusive event. We hope to meet you there.

Cheers,

Hassan Fadili

MVP Team System # Architectuur
DotNed (.NET & VSTS UG NL)VSTS track owner.

Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 VM Factory released today on CodePlex!

Another milestone is reached again. Congratulations for the Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 VM Factory Rangers Projectteam with this release on codeplex.
For more information about this great release, see Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 VM Factory. Well done guys, up to the next steps...

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance Released on CodePlex!

I would like to congratulate all the members of the "VSTS 2010 Rangers Guidance project" and "VSTS 2010 Rangers Upgrade Guidance project" with releasing the new release of "Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance" and "VSTS 2010 Rangers Upgrade Guidance" that are released today on Codeplex.

More information about this projects and artifacts can be found at:
http://vs2010quickref.codeplex.com/wikipage
http://vs2010upgradeguide.codeplex.com/wikipage

Guys, we made it real, Well done. Up to the next steps...

Have fun.

Hassan Fadili
MVP VS ALM

Happy New Year 2010 to everyone!!!

I wolud like to wish everyone a Happy New Year 2010 with a lot of love, succes and good health.

I'm very pleased to be Re-awarded as MVP Team System. With the upcoming releases of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010, I'm looking forwards to implement more of them by our customers and continuing working together with other MVP's and productteams to get these products more stable and well performed...

The community effort still goes on and many VS/TFS sessions are scheduled for this year with the new releases.

BTW: If you're interested in a full day talking about TDD,DDD, Mocking and more? Just visit our DotNed Community site to register. The event will be hosted on Saturday, February 27, 2010 by Oosterkamp Trainingen Leersum, The Netherlands.

I hope to see you there.