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There is a new version 0.3 release of the Kanban template for TFS on codeplex . This new release took a lot longer than I anticipated. It does include some new process templates. Also, 2 new reports are included (Cycle Time and Flow). These should begin
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The XNA Creators Club website has a nice step-by-step walkthrough of creating a game for your Zune , including a cool sample game with very nice graphics and play style: Are you ready to start programming games for your Zune? All you need is the XNA Game
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Important note for folks who are planning to try the beta of Visual Studio 2008 SP1: Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 is not compatible with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta. The good news is that Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual
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Scott has a deep and informative post on what's coming in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 beta 1 that is a must-read. Tons of feature info, screenshots, and more. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it!
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Read the whole thing here : Today we released a Beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Traditionally our service packs address a range of issues found both through customer and partner feedback as well as our own internal testing.
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I want to announce that I have posted an alpha version of the Kanban Process Template for TFS on codeplex. The template as currently has a set of Areas and Iterations to help get started with Kanban. This Process template is based off the MSF Agile template.
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Thanks to everyone who came to the launch, especially those folks who stayed for the last session of the day when Lindsay and I presented. We were the last session in the afternoon and by then everyone is just darn tired after a full day of sessions and
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I will be presenting at the HHH event in Philadelphia, Pa on April 3rd, 2008 in the afternoon. The session title is "Defying Occasionally Connected Challenges with Smart Client Applications" and in this talk, I'll be discussing some of the hottest technologies
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I've mentioned these a couple of times in the local MSDN Flash newsletter , but it bears repeating, and since Frank kindly noted these events, I'll let him do the talking : In case you missed the Heroes Happen Here Launch event in DC , you can catch the
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Michael Kennedy, who wrote a useful utility for managing the recent project list on the Visual Studio home page , gave me a heads up that he's taken the project open source. It's now available on CodePlex , and you can install it via ClickOnce, or download
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Looking at the web service factory more I see some possible value. I had problems installing the version with source, but it turns out that it was my directory structure. I initially used My Documents to store the project and the documentation does mention
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Wheck out all the great webcasts available! There's a ton, and definitely something for every developer! (Hat tip: material below copied from the MSDN Webcasts blog ) Zain Naboulsi Presents Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Overview Webcast Series Microsoft
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Just released earlier in February, is the Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition for 2008. This new software factory utilizes the Guidance Automation toolkit in the source code. An intial look seems to me that it's a bit heavy for an agile
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The folks at the Capitol Area .NET User Group are centering their meeting this month around Visual Studio 2008, in honor of the launch of same. The meeting will feature Paolo Del Mundo talking about and demonstrating some of the new features of Visual
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Marc Schweigert , one of my DE counterparts from the Public Sector team, has started a project to bring JavaScript Intellisense to the Virtual Earth map control . Awesome! I've used VE for things like the event mapping in Community Megaphone, and while
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