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January 13

VS 2008/ SQL 2008 Launch

The Visual Studio 2008 Launch events are already scheduled across Canada. You should hurry to register if you wish to be there …

http://www.microsoft.com/canada/heroeshappenhere/register/default.mspx

December 03

Using Visual Studio Team System 2005 to Measure Software Code Stability at Microsoft

Today I found an interesting new tool that has been released by Microsoft on November 30th - LOCCounter.

The tool can be used to count the lines of code stored in TFS, VSS or in the Windows File System. There are 2 versions in the download:

VS 2005 Add-in
standalone application

Have fun Wink

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December 02

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Yesterday Scott Guthrie announced on his blog the availability of and update of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, a free download containing more than 40 additional AJAX controls and components and a new Visual Studio Web Deployment Projects packager.

Both of these updates are designed to work with VS 2008 and .NET 3.5.

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Expression Blend SP1

On November 29th was release a SP1 of the Expression Blend. With this SP you blend projects created with Blend will work in Visual Studio 2008

You can get it from here.

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November 21

VS 2008 & .Net Framework 3.5 presentation available online

An interesting presentation (58 min) of Visual Studio 2008 and the new .Net Framework 3.5 recorded in September 2007 is now available at Channel 9

Although done with Pre-RTM build, the session is really good for all having little experience with the new tools.

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November 20

TFS License changed - Work Item Entry & Tracking

Good news for all of us using TFS 2005 - With the license change announced today we can easily extend the bugtracking, requirements management, etc to our end users without buying CALs for them.

The actual change is as follows: You do not need a CAL to access work item tracking functionality, to create new work items or view and update work items you opened.

Full article at: http://blogs.msdn.com/adamga/archive/2007/11/20/tfs-for-defect-tracking-licensing-change.aspx

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November 18

Creating my space on the web ...

It has been more than a year and a half since I stopped blogging (still working for Microsoft at that time - blogs.msdn.com/plamenh).

Having some free time today I decided to learn a little bit about Windows Live and create my own space here. The plan is to include some photo albums and start blogging on Agile Project Management and architecturing Microsoft-based software solutions