Its our 1st Birthday....

and we are going to be celebrating with a meeting focusing on the group, and its future. We are also going to diiscuss TFS Exstensability in TFS 2008. Come help us celebrate in grand fashion and have a chance at some great prizes afterwards.

for more info please check out the events page for info.

Rosario CTP Released

Microsoft has released to the public the latest CTP of the next generation VSTS code named "Rosario" You can download the bits here.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=65d0e3bd-9df3-421a-804f-8f01bd90f0b4&displaylang=en&tm

I would suggest that you use the FreeDownload Manager to make the dowload go faster.

IndyNDA meeting slides

I have released the slides from last nights talk on Windows Server 2008 at IndyNDA. You will find them in the download section.

-paul

Updated VSTS VPC images

Team System ROI

Ever need to help convince the top brass that TFS has a good return. Here is some info that may help you and them along

• ROI Case Study – Microsoft Visual Team System at EDS
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/3/8/3382e892-c592-4185-b011-27dffc25862d/G96-MicrosoftVisualStudioTeamSystemROICaseStudy-EDS.pdf
• ROI Case S ...

Saturday, April 26, 2008
8:30 AM – 5:30 PM

IndyNDA presents
Indy Code Camp

Register Now!

The continuing goal of the Code Camps series is to provide an intensive developer-to-developer learning experience that is fun and technically stimulating. The primary focus is on delivering programming information and sample code that can be used immediately. The event is free for attendees. All slides, manuals and demo code are provided to attendees.

PackageThis MSDN Content Utility

Package This is a GUI tool written in C# for creating help files (.chm and .hxs) from the content obtained from the MSDN Library or the TechNet Library via the MSDN Content Service. You select the content you want from the table of contents, build a help file, and use the content offline. You are making personalized ebooks of MSDN or TechNet content. Both help file formats also give full text search and keyword search.

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Heroes Happen Here Launch Bloomington, Illinois

Sometime back I was approached by the folks who run the Bloomington, Illinois Dotnet User Group about speaking at their launch event. I graciously accepted and helped them to get the event planned out by calling on some friends to help out with speaking. Well they have put the whole thing together and so its ready to go.

The evening is going to be a great time. The other speakers are highly knowledgeable in their areas. I will be presenting an Overview of Windows Server 2008. I fell great about this since I am really getting into the new server OS. It is an area that I hope to speak on in future meetings.

So if you are in or near the area, stop by for some good times. Please register as space will be limited.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Central Time (US & Canada)
Levi, Ray ...

Rob Caron and his team have just published a whitepaper on Requirements Gathering with Team System.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/b/e/3bed19ef-7164-42be-a03a-ff3c2b10f120/Requirements%20Management%20and%20Visual%20Studio%20Team%20System.pdf

enjoy :-)

-paul