November 2008 - Posts
I would like to invite you all to ALM panel at the Dev Academy (15/12/2008)
Panel title: Align the development process with the Business using Visual Studio Team System
The current situation force us to cut unnecessary expenses and align our development process with the business.
We are going to discuss the following issues with the panel that will help you better focus your efforts:
1. Team system deployment – Do it your self
2. Agile vs. Scrum and CMMI best practice for selecting process template
3. VSTS2010 and new power tools
4. Team system for non .net development teams
and more
The Panel fellows are:
1. Ariel Gur arieh – MCD
2. Maor david – SRL
3. Shahar bracha - SRL
4. Shmulik Segal – Sela
5. Eyal reisman – Mobideo Aerospace
6. Hila Lahav - teamuto
What's New?
Team Members
Adds a new node to under each Team Project to the Team Explorer called "Team Members" that identifies people and who work on the project. Windows Shell Extension
Allows core version control operations within Windows Explorer without using Team Explorer. 
PowerShell Support
· Provides a PowerShell pipeline and cmdlets for TFS. Initial support is for core version control operations
· tfpt searchcs - The Search Changesets Power Tool brings up a dialog from which the user can search for changesets that match specific combination of criteria including server path, committed date range, committed user, check-in comments, and check-in notes.
· tfpt unshelve /undo - Finds all pending changes in your workspace that match the changes in the shelveset and undoes them (including deleting the local files for pending adds).
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBD14EEA-781F-45A1-8C46-9F6BA2F68B F0&displaylang=en
We released a new on line training that cover developing internet facing web sites using SharePoint.
The course includes the following topics:
· Packaging and deploying your SharePoint assemblies.
· Branding and customizing your .COM SharePoint site.
· Creating custom fields, web parts and lists.
· Forms-based authentication.
· Integrating Web services and applications with SharePoint.
· Customizing search functionality.
· Web content deployment.
· Enabling social networking.
· Site customizations with Silverlight 2.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/
Enjoy