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    May 19

    Free EBook on ASP.NET MVC

    The ASP.NET MVC book written by Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, Phil Haack and Scott Gu is available at http://aspnetmvcbook.s3.amazonaws.com/aspnetmvc-nerdinner_v1.pdf
     
     

    Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

    VSTS 2010 Team Suite Beta 1,.NET Framework 4 Beta 1, TFS 2010 Beta 1 are now available for download from MSDN Subscribers area.

    You can download both 32-bit and 64-bit version of TFS.

    November 26

    Architect Center

    This year at SAF 2008 Microsoft annouced a new community place for Software architects - Architect Center.
    Once registered you will be able to get access to all the presentation from the event.
     
    Join the International Software Architect Commuinty
    April 10

    CSAF 08

    This year's Canadian Strategic Architect forum has an impressive agenda. The level of the presentations and speakers is by far above average.
    The presentation about Agile Development which I delivered yesterday attracted a lot of interest, but also many recommendations to put it more in Enterprise Architecture perspective - so you might see a new one from me on this topic.
    This is for sure a must attend event for SW & Infrastructure architects.
    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 …

     
    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

    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.

    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.
    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.
    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.
     
    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