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So you’ve been using VS 2010 and have something to say?
Here are some ways to provide feedback: A survey: https://mscuillume.smdisp.net/Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=VS2010-RC “Thank you for taking the time to evaluate this pre-release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4. We would like to...
Posted: Mar 04 2010, 05:45 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Slides from South Florida Code Camp Session
Thanks to everyone who attended my Code Camp session this morning. Sorry some of you had to sit on the floor or stand, but it was cool having that many folks in the room. And y’all asked some great questions! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Here...
Posted: Feb 27 2010, 08:54 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Test plan documentation for Microsoft Test Manager plans
Don’t know how I missed this last month, but the test team has created a Power Tool that creates test plan documentation from test plans in Microsoft Test Manager. See http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2010/01/11/test-scribe-test-plan-documentation...
Posted: Feb 26 2010, 10:20 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Slides from the Jacksonville Ultimate Event
Thanks to everyone who attended the Ultimate Event yesterday. Great turnout, and excellent interaction. Also, special thanks to Ryan Dorrell from AgileThought and Oleg Sych from Catapult Systems for their stellar work during the series. Here are links...
Posted: Feb 24 2010, 09:46 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Slides from the FT Lauderdale Ultimate Event
Thanks to everyone who attended the event last week. What a fabulous turnout! Here are links to the slides from the event. The slides from Quent’s Keynote and my Lap Around VS 2010 session are on my SkyDrive: http://cid-f9c5089cab158b62.skydrive.live...
Posted: Feb 18 2010, 02:44 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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See you at the South Florida Code Camp, Feb 27
It’s going to be a day-long total geekfest with12 tracks, 6 sessions in each tracks. Agenda: http://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp/AgendaSL.aspx . South Florida Code Camp site: http://www.fladotnet.com/codecamp/Default.aspx My session is “How to be more productive...
Posted: Feb 09 2010, 09:12 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
It was made available to MSDN subscribers yesterday, and will be available to the general public on Wednesday. So how do you upgrade? For Visual Studio, if you’re running Beta 1 or Beta 2, uninstall that first. Then install the RC. For TFS, follow the...
Posted: Feb 09 2010, 08:13 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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VS 2010 testing videos
Wow! I just ran across a link to this , a series of videos on coded UI tests, test management, etc., for Visual Studio 2010. ( http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara/archive/2009/12/21/vs2010-demos-for-testing-tools-mtlm-cuit-and-related-features.aspx ) The...
Posted: Jan 26 2010, 02:33 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Tampa 2010 Ultimate Event
[update: Jan 22, 2010] Added link to Oleg’s “No more ‘No Repro’” slides http://www.olegsych.com/presentations/no-more-no-repro/ [update: Jan 21, 2010] I’ve just uploaded Quent’s keynote slides to my SkyDrive http://cid-f9c5089cab158b62.skydrive.live.com...
Setting up Video Recording in Microsoft Test and Lab Manager – Vs 2010 Beta 2
I had to set up a new VHD image earlier this week. When it came time to configure the Video Recording capabilities of Microsoft Test and Lab Manager, the instructions online were OK, but a bit lacking. Here are some easy-to-understand (for me, anyway...
Posted: Dec 30 2009, 09:39 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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VHDTool – special sauce for VHD disks
Dear Reader, have you ever wished you could resize – grow – a fixed-sized VHD disk? Earlier today I sure did. A couple of months ago I created a smallish fixed-size VHD file that I boot native into, to use as the “host” for running Hyper-V images. That...
Posted: Dec 28 2009, 01:27 PM by jimblizzard | with 1 comment(s)
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Do you have a .NET story?
Tell it and you could score big-time. See http://www.mydotnetstory.com/submit.aspx for details.
Posted: Nov 09 2009, 08:05 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Using VS 2010 B2? Brian Harry would like to hear from you
If you’re using Visual Studio Beta 2, Brian Harry would love to hear from you. He’s most interested in your thoughts about the way it performs. Blazing fast? Crawls like a turtle? Let him know what you think. Here’s a link to his blog post. Go for it...
Posted: Oct 28 2009, 04:50 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Compatibility matrix for TFS and Team Explorer versions
The latest from the Team WIT Tools blog is an excellent post about the compatibility between Team Explorer versions and Team Foundation Server versions. ( Link ) The highlight is and easy-to-grok matrix of Clients to Servers. From the post : “TFS compatibility...
Posted: Oct 20 2009, 10:45 AM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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Slide deck from Orlando SQLSaturday! session
Thanks to everyone who attended my database change management talk at this past weekend’s SQLSaturday! in Orlando. Having a room full of people who are engaged and asking questions makes presenting all the more fun. You can download the slide deck from...
Posted: Oct 19 2009, 12:31 PM by jimblizzard | with no comments
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