Register for Microsoft Days 2010 and you can attend the TFS 2010 sessions below (also shameless plug :)). Pay attention to the keynote as important announcement will be made, exclusively for Bulgarian TFS users. Team Development Enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 (Level: 300) by Luka Debeljak Планиране и автоматизация на тест процеса с Visual Studio […]
Team Explorer for Eclipse
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle No Comments
Microsoft has just announced the availability of Team Explorer 2010 codename “Eaglestone”. Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 codename “Eaglestone” is the beta release of the Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server. Supported Operating Systems: Apple Mac OS X; HP-UX; IBM AIX; Linux; Solaris; Unix; Windows 7; Windows […]
Windows 32 bit RAM Limit (part 1)
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I just upgraded my Lenovo R61 laptop from 3GB to 4GB. After the upgrade Lenovo technician showed me that BIOS was saying – 4GB memory installed. When I started Windows 7, I fired up Task Manager and I can see that Total Physical Memory was 3,096MB or just 3GB. When I ask the technician what […]
SharePoint 2010 Webcasts
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Check out the latest releases on SharePoint 2010: TechNet Webcast: TechNet Webcast: Migrating Public-Facing Web Sites to SharePoint 2010 (Level 200) Presenter: Rasool Rayani, Director, Metalogix MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 1 of 8): What’s New for Developers (Level 100) Presenter: Paul Andrew, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2010 […]
Visual Studio 2010 Retail Price
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle 5 Comments
Microsoft announced retail prices for some of the VS2010 SKUs: Suggested Retail Pricing (USD) for Visual Studio 2010 With 1-Year MSDN Subscription* Product Buy Upgrade Buy Renew Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate – – $11,899 $3,799 Visual Studio 2010 Premium – – $5,469 $2,299 Visual Studio 2010 Professional $799 $549 $1,199 $799 Visual Studio Test […]
Speed up ASP.NET compilation
By Martin Kulov in Programming 1 Comment
If you do ASP.NET development on a daily basis, you know that any change in bin, App_Code folder as well global.asax invalidates all compiled assemblies and initiates a full recompile. This can be very tedious process, especially if you are changing these files a lot during development. Microsoft introduces a new web.config setting that prevents […]
TFS 2010 Work Item Management Links
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Here is short list of intro links explaining how to work and manage Work Items in Team Foundation Server 2010 via Team Explorer (with screenshots). TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Introduction TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Work […]
Silverlight Eco contest from SilverlightShow.net
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<repost from Emil Stoychev’s blog> I’m very excited to announce the availability of SilverlightShow EcoContest – Considering the alarming consequences of climate changes, and the actions taken to promote and carry out environmental-saving activities worldwide, we would like to give our share and show the power that web applications have to convince, persuade, and spread […]
VS2010 Launch Date announced (again)
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New dates for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RTM are announced today. The official RTM date is 12th April 2010. As I wrote before, in February there will be released also Release Candidate version. Microsoft will be supporting upgrade from Beta 2 to RC, Beta 2 to RTM and RC to RTM so […]
VS2010 Launch Date Moved Back
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The so long anticipated date of 22nd of March will be “moved back a few weeks”. Visual Studio 2010, TFS 2010 and .NET 4.0 release will be postponed due to outstanding performance issues. While I am happy that MS is taking VS perf issues so close to announce this huge change, it still messes up […]