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For anyone thinking of heading to TechEd 2008 in Sydney, Australia in September. The early bird offer (save $250) finishes at the end of next week. You can register (before 27th June for the discount) by visiting the TechEd Australia web site. This year I'll be busy at TechEd delivering a 2-day pre-conference...

TechEd Australia 2008 - Early bird offer ends next week →

Fellow Team System MVP, Mike Azocar, has decided to run a fantastic competition to see who can create the Coolest Team System Gadget ! Here's some information about the contest. Have you created a useful gadget for Team System? Do you have one in mind? I am looking for the coolest community built tool...

Coolest Team System Gadget Contest →

A while ago, a white paper entitled Key Benefits of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System was released. This document provided a great overview of many of the key benefits of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, as the name implies. There are now a full set of new white papers available that expand on...

New Visual Studio Team System 2008 Capabilities White Papers now available on MSDN →

Now that Microsoft has released the beta versions of Visual Studio 2008 SP1, TFS 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, how should you go about evaluating them? Remember - As beta products, you should NOT install these in production environments. (OK - so you're not silly enough to consider that anyway...

Evaluating the VSTS/TFS 2008 SP1 Beta - How to get started →

Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta was announced today after being kept as a secret for some time. Here is the list of available downloads as part of this release: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1 Beta - Full Installation Microsoft...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 & TFS Service Pack 1 Betas now available →

I've been running this blog on Community Server 2.1 for quite some time now and have never got around to upgrading to a more recent version. I notice that they have just released the Community Server 2008 RC which has some great new features. In terms of my blog this is a little overkill so I have decided...

Now running on Graffiti CMS →

The VSTS team have publicly released another three specifications for the next version of Visual Studio Team System. These are provided to the community to allow us the opportunity to provide feedback and thereby helping shape the next release. To have your say, check out the three new specs; Codename...

More specs available for "Rosario" - Feedback opportunity →

Last week the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here launch rolled into Perth. The trip over from Brisbane was around 5 hours including the 20 minutes we spent on the ground at Brisbane airport while the engineers repaired one of the hubcaps on our Boeing 767! (I didn't know there were hubcaps on 767's either...

Heroes Happen Launch - Perth & Brisbane →

Yesterday the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here launch arrived in Adelaide to be greeted with a scorching 39.7 Celsius. Fortunately I stayed in the same hotel that the event is running so I didn't need to go outside other than to walk to the Adelaide .NET Users Group meeting on Wednesday night. Steve Riley...

Heroes Happen Launch - Adelaide →

Yesterday the Microsoft Heroes Happen Here launch rolled into Melbourne for what is expected to be our biggest audience on the tour. The event was held at the Melbourne Convention Centre with the Dev track running in the Latrobe theatre. I definitely prefer the tiered style seating in Melbourne over...

{Heroes Happen Here} - Melbourne launch event →