The first stable release of the Community TFS Build Extensions has been shipped. It contains around 100 activities. It is hoped that this project will be be shipping on a 2 to 3 month cycle in the future. So have a look, this project provides many ways to extend your build process. And if you have ideas for more …

I am really pleased to say I have been re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM for 2011, this is my fourth year. I am looking forwarded to another year of working with such a great crowd of people.

A series of updates are available for Enterprise Library and Unity and a few other bits of general interest There is an update for the Enterprise Library 5.0 which is only required if you are using the Silverlight Integration Pack and need WCF RIA Services Integration or configuration tool support. get it here However …

New BizTalk 2009 and Adapter Pack 2.0 as recently had some rollup updates Cumulative Update Package 1 for BizTalk Server 2009 (KB 2429050) contains 60 fixes get it here Cumulative Update Package 1 for BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 (KB 2444952) contains 11 fixes get it here. More great news, There is now a poster available …

I looked back and realised I had missed a few updates to post ( I blame Microsoft for bringing out lots of great things all at once ) Light switch Beta 2 is out get it here, the site now suggests that a July 26th launch date is on the cards StyleCop 4.5 has now been released get it here , if you haven’t tried StyleCop, …

Thanks to everyone who came today’s ISV session at TVP. You can find all the slides from the event at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukisvdev/archive/2011/06/27/slides-and-links-from-alm-and-visual-studio-2010-event-on-the-27th-june-2010.aspx

The videos from the various Microsoft UK Techdays events can now be viewed at the UK TechDays site. This includes my session on ‘Virtualisation of the Test Environment’ and the joint one I did with James Mann on the new experience for developing SharePoint solutions in VS2010 from the Leeds event.

I will be speaking at Microsoft UK’s ‘Application Lifecycle Management for Independent Software Vendors’ event next Monday. I am one of four speakers, between us well all address a variety of subjects within ALM Modern Software Delivery: The continuous delivery of high quality software - Colin Bird Driving Quality …

The Build Customisation project was not the only ALM Rangers release over the weekend. The Lab Management Guide was also shipped. This provides scenario based and hands-on guidance for the planning, setup, configuration and usage of Visual Studio Lab Management, backed by custom VM Template automation for reference …

For those of you have have not spotted it the TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 is now available. This is a roll up of all the fixes that have be released since TFS 2010 SP1. This form of cumulative release is going to be the way forward for TFS, so it will be easier to know what to install on a server without reading …