October 12 DotNedUG meeting was a great succes again!

dotNedUG meeting of october 12 was a great succes. With more than 120 attendees one of the most excited meetings of the year 2010. During this meeting, 2 topics are discussed:
1- Silverlight 4 and MVVM concept by Dennis Vroegop from Detrio Consultancy and dotNedUG.
2- Windows Phone 7 series with Silverlight by Arjen de Blok (@arjendeblok)from Humiq.

It was a great evening with a lot of interaction and discussion after the meeting.
I would like to thank all the attendees, Humiq for hosting our dotNedUG October meeting and also both speakers for the great sessions.

I hope to see all of the attendees next time during our next dotNedUG meeting in November 25 by vecrea in Amersfoort. Please visit our dotNedUG site for announcement and registration.

DotNed meeting of September 21th registration is open!

The DotNed (.NET & VS ALM UG NL) meeting of September 21th is online. During this session, Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tools will be demonstrated by Marcel de Vries. For registration visit our DotNed (.NET & VS ALM UG NL) site at: http://www.dotned.nl/ .
InfoSupport thanks in advance for hosting this event, and Marcel thanks for speaking.

To get an impression of this session, take a loot at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd409436.aspx

Looking forwards to meet all of you there...

Sept 2010 TFS Power Tools Release Available!

The new September 2010 TFS Power Tools Release is Available for download. For detail infromation and Download of the TFS Power Tools and Cross Platform Build Extensions, see:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2010/09/09/sept-2010-tfs-power-tools-release-available.aspx.

Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine with Sample Data and Hands-on-Labs available!

Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine with Sample Data and Hands-on-Labs is available for download.

This images are available in 3 virtual configurations thay may meet you needs:

Visual Studio 2010 RTM (Hyper-V)

Visual Studio 2010 RTM (Windows [7] Virtual PC)

Visual Studio 2010 RTM (Virtual PC 2007 SP1)

For more information and download, check:

Brian Keller's Blog: Technical Evangelist for Visual Studio Application.

Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance released!

Practical guidance for Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, focused on modeling tools. These release includes common usage scenarios, hands on labs and lessons learnt from the community discussions. Thanks all the MVP's who makes this great effort reality.

For more information about this release and the Team working on It, see:

Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Architecture Guidance gets “thumbs up”

Cameron Skinner's Blog.

@dotNedUG June 2010 meeting Related Resources!

Thanks for all attendees of my DotNed(.NET&VS ALM UG NL)meeting yesterday. It was extremely Hot, but very amazing. I like the discussions.
Below a set of related resources as promised:

VSS To TFS Migration Tool:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms253060.aspx

Rangers TFS 2010 Branching Guidance
http://tfsbranchingguideiii.codeplex.com/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2010/03/31/rangers-tfs-2010-branching-guidance-minor-refresh-of-content.aspx

TFS Branching Guide 2.0 (TFS2008)
http://tfsbranchingguideii.codeplex.com/

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance
http://vs2010quickref.codeplex.com/

Test Api- a library of Test APIs
http://testapi.codeplex.com

WCF Load Test Tool:
http://wcfloadtest.codeplex.com/releases/view/47044

Third Internet Explorer Platform Preview!
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

TechEd 2010 North America (VS ALM Summary links):
http://www.woodwardweb.com/teched_2010_nor.html

in July we have no meetings because of vacation, we hope to see you again in our August meeting.

Happy Holiday.

@dotNedUG June meeting and TechEd 2010 New Orleans announcements!

Join us at @dotNedUG on the 23st of June 2010 for #TFS2010 Session about Braching and Merging strateries in #TFS2010. Registration is open at: www.dotned.nl.

TechEd 2010 New Orleans is started and many announcements are done right now. It will be an exciting week. Have a fun week in the US and I hope to see meet you at TechEd 2010 Europe in Berlin (8-12 November 2010).

Some Announcements 07 June 2010:

Announcing: VS2010 Productivity Power Tools and Modeling Feature Packs

A Scrum Process Template for TFS

TFS Integration Tools Beta Available!

For more Information and announcements, check TechEd2010 North America Site.