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Team System 2008 : the sum is greater than the parts (alt: Use Code Metrics in VS 2008!)
There's a ton of great new features in VS 2008, for Web development, OBAs, data access, devices and...
Author: ronang Date: 08/31/2007
Adjust the Network Mix for your Load Tests with Visual Studio Test Edition
This is an interesting feature I came across as a result of a question in a meeting last week : the...
Author: ronang Date: 08/30/2007
Windows Vista SP1
Want to know what's going to be in Vista SP1? Have a read of the Windows Vista SP1 White Paper...The...
Author: ronang Date: 08/29/2007
Want to learn LINQ? Learn some of the new language features first - it will pay off.
As you can probably tell from the title of my last few posts I've been doing some work with LINQ...
Author: ronang Date: 08/28/2007
Mashup Camp / Mashup University in Dublin postponed
Mashup Camp and Mashup University were due to take place in a few weeks at Trinity College from...
Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 08/27/2007
Another cool Silverlight site: The Podium '08
I came across this website today and thought it was great. It's called The Podium '08, and it uses...
Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 08/27/2007
Why Popfly?
Have you seen Popfly yet? It's a cool tool for designing and creating mashup and webpages, and it's...
Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 08/27/2007
Debugging LINQ
I recently recorded a screencast on Javascript debugging (haven't put it up yet, watch this space)...
Author: ronang Date: 08/27/2007
The Final Imagine Cup Results!
Wow - Ireland really cleaned house at the Imagine Cup finals! Team Red Dawn (Mohammed Al-Tahs and...
Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 08/27/2007
Instrument your AJAX apps using AJAXView to profile performance in the browser
I just came across AJAXView which is a dev tool from Microsoft Research aimed at giving developers...
Author: ronang Date: 08/27/2007
LINQ to SQL - compiled queries (with working example for beta 2)
I've been meaning to dig into LINQ performance for some time (actually since it came up during one...
Author: ronang Date: 08/24/2007
Virtual Labs (you play, we clean up)
Yesterday I wrote about why I tend to use VPCs at the moment for demos. In a similar vein, Microsoft...
Author: ronang Date: 08/24/2007
Infragistics controls with VS 2008
Recently I was asked how Infragistics controls would play with VS 2008 - the answer is very well, as...
Author: ronang Date: 08/23/2007
Class Libraries on Application Diagrams and System Diagrams with VSTS Architecture Edition Power Tools
I'm doing a lot of demos at the moment and most of the time I'm using VPCs since I can tee things up...
Author: ronang Date: 08/23/2007
Live Search Images
In my last post I blogged about Tafiti, a Silverlight interface to Live Search. Meanwhile,...
Author: ronang Date: 08/23/2007
Open Source at Microsoft
Microsoft has announced a new Open Source At Microsoft site to put the spotlight on its strategy for...
Author: ronang Date: 08/17/2007
Visual Studio Team System Case Studies
Just a link post really, but there are lots of VSTS case studies available at...
Author: ronang Date: 08/14/2007
Take 5 - 5 time-saving features in VS 2008
Ok, in no particular order, here are 5 features in VS 2008 which are going to save me some time:...
Author: ronang Date: 08/14/2007
DB Pro Power Tools - including T-SQL Analysis, dependency viewing and more refactoring options
In a previous post I covered Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. As of 11th...
Author: ronang Date: 08/13/2007
Imagine Cup Update!!
This just in from Seoul, courtesy of Liam Cronin: "InGest from NUI Maynooth have made it into the...
Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 08/09/2007
Final TFS 2008 Feature List
Brian Harry has posted what he believes to be the final feature list for TFS 2008. A few interesting...
Author: ronang Date: 08/09/2007
Team Development with Team Foundation Server Guide Released
Previously I highlighted the beta 1 of this guide, well now the final version has been released and...
Author: ronang Date: 08/06/2007
Go Imagine Cup Ireland!!
I just watched a great practice presentation of Ireland's Imagine Cup team, who are headed to Korea...
Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 08/02/2007
Cool Tech Jobs Available Now!
Today I discovered a great blog which is published by Declan Fitzgerald and his recruiting team here...
Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 08/01/2007
Team Edition for Database Professionals Walkthrough
Team Edition for Database Professionals (or DB Pro for short) has two main goals: Manage changes to...
Author: ronang Date: 08/01/2007
VSTS Webcast Series
Check out Adam Gallant's weblog for a list of upcoming Team System webcasts starting on August...
Author: ronang Date: 08/01/2007
5 reasons to check out Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
Its all about Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Quite an old video :-), but the gist...
Author: ronang Date: 07/26/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
You can download VS 2008 beta 2 and the .NET framework 3.5 beta 2 from here (you can also grab VS...
Author: ronang Date: 07/26/2007
Wire in your design with VS Team System and WF
I've produced my fair share of class diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams and package...
Author: ronang Date: 07/24/2007
5 Features I'm glad to see in Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server
Apart from CI support which I wrote about in a previous post there's a whole bunch of new features...
Author: ronang Date: 07/13/2007
Silverlight Streaming
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Author: ronang Date: 07/10/2007
TFS Migration / Integration / Extensibility
In my experience, people tend to like TFS when they see it and a typical next question is "How can I...
Author: ronang Date: 06/26/2007
Continuous Integration with Visual Studio 2008 (“Orcas”) Team Foundation Server
(Cross posted from ronang's blog) I first started using Continuous Integration (CI) in 2002 when my...
Author: ronang Date: 06/25/2007
MSDN FLASH IRELAND - INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES - 25 June 2007
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Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 06/25/2007
VSTO
I went to the VSTO: Roadmap to the Future talk by Mike Hernandez last night organised by the MTUG in...
Author: ronang Date: 06/21/2007
IMTC Pictures posted!
I posted a few pictures from IMTC here:...
Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 06/19/2007
Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Guide - Beta 1
My first post on this blog! Hope that cross posting to http://blogs.msdn.com/ireland works :-) Take...
Author: ronang Date: 06/19/2007
Ireland's Call on Guitar Hero X-Plorer for the PC and XBox 360
Hiya! Rob here, just popping in on the team's new blog for a quick sec before I head off to Canada....
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/16/2007
CTP of SQL Server 2008 available for download
From http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6955765 Figure the below are going to be pretty handy ;-)...
Author: ronang Date: 06/13/2007
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Project Server 2007 Connector
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Project Server 2007 Connector is now available at...
Author: ronang Date: 06/11/2007
IMTC 2007!
For those of you who were not at IMTC yesterday at Cineworld Dublin, you missed a fantastic event!!...
Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 06/08/2007
MSDN FLASH IRELAND - INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES - 11 June 2007
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Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 06/05/2007
MSDN FLASH IRELAND - INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES - 5 June 2007
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Author: Martha Rotter - MSFT Date: 06/01/2007