Microsoft Australia have now confirmed the revised date for the official launch of Visual Studio 2010 and as a result we’re now able to announce that the inaugural Australian ALM Conference has also been rescheduled and registration are now open. The Australian ALM Conference 13th & 14th April 2010...

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Earlier this week, the VSTS Rangers, a group made up of Microsoft Product Group people and MVPs, shipped the Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide . This guide is available on Codeplex for download and comprises a single 27 page XPS file inside a 1.32Mb ZIP file. I have a special interest in this document...

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On a newly configured TFS 2010 build server that I have been creating for a demo, I experienced an error that has been an old friend for all of the previous versions of Team Foundation Server. The error that was shown in the Summary screen was; C:\Builds\1\BuildTest\Corp\Sources\Projects\Corp\Corp\Corp...

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Over the past few years, my New Year has included regularly checking my Inbox to see if I get to keep my Microsoft MVP status. The start to 2010 has been no different and fortunately the much anticipated email was there again. For me the MVP award is a yardstick by which I measure the amount of time...

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Adam Cogan from SSW in Sydney is running a roadshow around Australia during the Summer to showcase some of the great features in TFS2010 and SharePoint 2010. The list of sessions he will deliver are; Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) for Successful Project Management Visual Studio 2010 Team System -...

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Follow this morning's announcement by S. Somasegar (Senior Vice President, Developer Division, Microsoft Corporation) that the official launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 is being pushed back "a few weeks", we have decided to temporarily halt our conference registrations until the impact...

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Over the past few months, fellow MVP Peter Ward & I have been busy planning and preparing for the inaugural Australian ALM Conference. The conference is due to kick off on the 23 rd & 24 th March 2010 and will showcase both local and internationally renowned speakers talking about Application...

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The Call for Speakers for the inaugural Australian ALM Conference in Sydney in March has been out for a little over a week now and is due to close on the 27th November. If you are interested in speaking on topics ranging from Application Lifecycle Management to Visual Studio 2010, act now! How to Submit...

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Since the 2008 release of Visual Studio, we're grown accustomed to using the term "Team System" or “Visual Studio Team System” (VSTS) to refer to the various SKU's above Visual Studio Professional including Team Foundation Server. With the recent release of Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, Microsoft...

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