At the end of the month I will be speaking at a series of free Microsoft events in Belfast and Dublin. There going to be two session at each location

Managing application lifecycle “From requirements to retirement” with Team Foundation Server 2010

• Dublin - 31/03/2011 (AM): …

I am doing some work on VS2008 at present and I when I started my VS2008, which I had not used for a while, I was plagued by errors along the lines of "The operation could not be completed". These occurred when running major features such as:

• Loading LINQ to SQL Designer
• Running the SQL 2008 Project Wizard …

Today we have seen the release of the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and the TFS-Project Server Integration Feature Pack. Both are available on the MSDN download site.

As well was the new downloads they have announced a change to licensing over Load Test Agent. This gives Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN users the ability to …

The March 2011 version of the TFS Power Tools has been released. There are plenty of fixes and enhancements, especially to the TFS backup tool.

For more details have a look at Brian Harry’s blog.

Back in September I asked the question Does anyone need a VS2010 Custom Build Activity for StyleCop? and a good few people said yes and asked me when the activity would be released.

Well I had forgotten to say that the Codeplex TFS Build Extensions project, which the activity code got included into, has made it’s first …

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/> In case you haven’t seen it yet – we have had a Case Study published on the Microsoft Case Studies website, …

We’ve just put a video of the page templates and editing process up on the AvvisoSharePoint YouTube channel. Our plan is to add more videos over time to show the different things Avviso can do. Enjoy!

Update: It seems our Community Server install blocks the embedded youtube object so you’ll need to follow the link to …