November 2009 - Posts
Expect The Unexpected
The Microsoft Developer Platform Marketing team has launched a compelling new worldwide Microsoft® .NET Framework campaign at www.dotnetstories.com. Through online videos and written case studies featuring real developers who built amazing and diverse solutions on the .NET Framework, the campaign is intended to tell a clean and cohesive end-to-end story that is engaging and relevant to the developer community.
What a great way to see some of the “unexpected” and powerful .NET stories—by real .NET developers.
A great opportunity to learn from other experience and share yours.
Stories about using different platforms and different languages to accomplish different goals.
The common denominator is a need to build quickly on a reliable, versatile framework.
Every Developer Has A Story. Microsoft want to know yours!
- How did you use the .NET Framework to create a killer app?
- What parts of the .NET Framework (ASP.NET, ADO.NET, WPF, WCF, WF, etc.) did you use to develop it?
- What other Microsoft products (SharePoint, SQL Server, Windows Server, etc.) were used in the solution?
- What challenge did you solve? How did you integrate your solution with other solutions and systems?
Wall Of Fame
Framework Detector Supports .NET 4
An old project I wrote for OpenUp contest, I’ve just update the CodePlex project with .NET 4 Support
http://frameworkdetector.codeplex.com/
The Ultimate Offer – TFS For Everyone
In my previous posts I’ve talked about TFS 2010 Server Licensing , 500$ for TFS retail it’s a very good price,
But I have MSDN Subscription Do I Need To Pay More?
You don’t need to pay any additional fee, the opposite, you will get a Free Upgrade with many new features and new tools.
Each version of Visual Studio 2010 includes a Team Foundation Server, so if you have Visual Studio 2008 Professional with MSDN Professional you can upgrade to Visual Studio 2010 Professional for Free and get a Team Foundation Server license.
The Ultimate
As you can see from the image below if you have Visual Studio Team System with MSDN Premium you now the owner of new Team System Ultimate Package.
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The Premium
Team System 2008 Professional with MSDN Premium (Not Team System) will be upgrade to Visual Studio Team System Premium.
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Premium Version will not include:
Testing:
Debugging & Diagnostics
Architecture and Modeling:
- Architecture Explorer
- UML 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, Component)
- Layer Diagram and Dependency Validation
Lab Management:
- Test and Lab Manager
- Virtual environment setup & tear down
- Test Case Management
- Manual Test Execution
- Manual Test Record & Playback
- Lab Management Configuration
The Professional
Team System 2008 Professional with MSDN Professional (Not Team System) will be upgrade to Visual Studio Team System Professional.
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Professional Version will not include:
Testing:
Database Development
- Database Deployment
- Database Change Management
- Database Unit Testing
- Database Test Data Generation
Debugging & Diagnostics
Architecture and Modeling:
- UML® & Layer diagram viewer
- Architecture Explorer
- UML 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, Component)
- Layer Diagram and Dependency Validation
Lab Management:
- Test and Lab Manager
- Virtual environment setup & tear down
- Test Case Management
- Manual Test Execution
- Manual Test Record & Playback
- Lab Management Configuration
Microsoft Acquires Teamprise Assets
“Customers with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN also will receive the Teamprise Client Suite technology as part of their original subscription purchase.”
Microsoft Press Release - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/nov09/11-09TeamprisePR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases
Team Foundation Server, in combination with the Teamprise Client Suite technologies, will enable developers to use a single tool to overcome core development challenges, including version control, work-item tracking, build management, process guidance and business intelligence, regardless of the core platform in use. With the simplification of these important processes, developers will now be able to spend more time focusing on developing high-quality, creative applications.
Teamprise Client Suite currently includes the following:
- Teamprise Plug-in for Eclipse. The Teamprise Plug-in for Eclipse allows developers to perform all their source control, bug tracking, build and reporting operations from within Eclipse and Eclipse-based integrated development environments (IDEs), such as Rational Application Developer, JBoss, BEA Workshop and Adobe Flex Builder.
- Teamprise Explorer. Teamprise Explorer combines all the functionality available to Eclipse developers using the Teamprise Plug-in into a stand-alone, cross-platform graphical user interface (GUI) application that is perfect for team members working outside of an IDE, such as graphic designers, quality assurance testers and project managers.
- Teamprise Command-Line Client. The Teamprise Command-Line Client provides a cross-platform, nongraphical interface to Team Foundation Server, making it perfect for scripting and build scenarios or for developers who prefer a command-line interface.
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PsTFS - Cmdlet for Team Foundation Server - Codeplex
Noham CHOULANT just published a new project on codeplex called PSTFS.
PsTFS is a set of PowerShell commands to manage and use Team Foundation Server. PowerShell effectiveness is combined with the power of TFS API to maximize TFS capabilities
CodePlex Project
Visual Studio 2010 Test Case Import Utilities
CodePlex just release a really cool tool to migrate TestCases from Excel into Team System 2010.
most of the test user base have their test artifacts in Microsoft Excel. For folks who want to move this test data into TCM server and then would want to use TCM Server/Microsoft Test and Lab Manager client going forward, the "Test Case Migrator (Excel)" tool provides you this capability.
Some of the salient features associated with this tool are as follows:
- Imports Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel into TCM/TFS server – Note: This is ONE way migration only
- Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time
- Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode
- Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a mappings file to be reused later
- Default mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects are shipped along with the tool.
Click Here To Download From CodePlex
