ALM and Beyond
Application Lifecycle Management and Beyond.
Best Workplace in the World
Allow me for a moment to digress from technical jargon and “how to tutorials” so that I...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2011
Premier Support for Developers Offering
I’ve mentioned Premier Support for Developers (PSfD) before but when I saw this video I...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 10/25/2011
The Art of Vision
All too often company events are filled with endless meetings, bad food and “death by...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 10/24/2011
Exploring Windows 8
Now that the Developer Preview has been released I’m sure you’ve been on an exploration...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 10/21/2011
Building with VS11 and Team Foundation Service Preview
Now that a preview of the Team Foundation Service is available, let’s start talking about how...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 10/13/2011
Expression Studio Ultimate
Trying to convey to developers or other IT related staff a new concept or how to accomplish a...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 10/11/2011
Creating Custom Team Foundation Server Reports
If you’re currently using Team Foundation Server (TFS) then you already know about the...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 10/05/2011
Visual Studio 11
I’ve been using the Visual Studio (VS) Developer Preview a lot lately and while there is no...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 10/03/2011
Windows Phone – Mango Update
To quote the great and all-knowing Lionel Richie: “Well my friends the time has come; raise...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 09/28/2011
Build 2011 – ALM Wrap-up
Microsoft had an outstanding //Build conference for 2011. It was held from September 13 to September...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 09/22/2011
Windows 8 Developer Preview VM
There was certainly no shortage of information and demo’s from the Build event. I think the...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 09/21/2011
Team Foundation Server “in the cloud”
Remember when you were a kid and saw the beginnings of snow falling and you watched it cover each...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2011
Copying TFS Work Items
So you want to copy a work item (WI)? Well TFS does indeed have a copy command via the UI which will...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 09/07/2011
Reactive Extensions for .NET
Don’t know what Rx or Ix are? Well don’t worry as there is (as usual) plenty of content...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 08/25/2011
PFE’s to the Rescue
Sticking with my theme of team collaboration, I often rely on Premier Field Engineers (PFE's are...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 08/24/2011
ASP.NET MVC 4 Roadmap Announced
The ASP.NET MVC team recently announced their roadmap for v4. The roadmap contains a lot of topics...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 08/23/2011
It’s a Small World (after all)
To say that Microsoft is a huge company would clearly be an understatement. There are tens of...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 08/17/2011
Building Apps with HTML5: What You Need to Know
Brandon Satrom (a developer evangelist here at Microsoft) has a great article on HTML5. It's a very...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 08/16/2011
Building with Team Foundation Server
As mentioned previously I’ve been knee deep in Team Foundation Server (TFS) related work,...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 08/13/2011
Windows Server AppFabric
After a recent conversation with a few folks on the AppFabric (AF) team and them saying to me...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 08/09/2011
Scrumtastic
If you’ve been doing software development and haven’t heard of Scrum than shame on you...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 08/08/2011
Aspirin for Developers: Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework
Developers worldwide get All-In-One code relief Every day, developers scour the Internet to make...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 08/03/2011
SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Training Course
The Windows Phone 7 platform contains great out of the box integration with SharePoint under the...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 08/01/2011
Lync’d In
Today’s world is more connected than ever and team collaboration can easily be accomplished...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 07/13/2011
Build Customization Guide for TFS
Lately I’ve been spending a of time within Team Foundation Server (TFS), specifically around...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 07/09/2011
Creating an Architecture Review
Architecting even the simplest of systems nowadays can be a significant and complex undertaking and...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 07/07/2011
Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 SP1
A quick post to mention that the Office Sustained Engineering and Release team has released the...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2011
Importing Custom Work Item Types into TFS
Today a colleague of mine asked me for some help with a problem revolving around Team Foundation...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/27/2011
Exploring Project Estimation
If you ever have the pleasure of working here at Microsoft you’ll find that there is certainly...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/23/2011
Dreaming about ALM
If you’re like me then you probably dream about ALM and wake up running to get your laptop to...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/21/2011
Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide
This version of the quick reference guide (QRG) is a PDF file with a total of 241 articles (51 of...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/20/2011
Visual Studio Web Standards Update
Putting aside the debate on whether or not developers should use Silverlight or HTML5 with regards...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/17/2011
Making a Case for TFS
Successful software projects manifest themselves when teams work together. When a team has good...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/17/2011
Visual Studio Productivity Tools
If you’re coding with the Visual Studio 2010 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2011
Bridging the Gap with ALM
Our friends at TechNet Edge captured some great conversations on the ground at TechEd North America...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/13/2011
Deep Dive into TFS Reporting
If you haven’t used the reporting capabilities of Team Foundation Server (TFS) then...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/08/2011
Don’t Call it a PDC
Ahhh, I remember it just like yesterday; my first Professional Developers Conference (PDC). It was a...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/03/2011
Windows 8
Even though most people dread hearing the words “a new version of Windows is soon to be...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/02/2011
Visual Studio 2010 Events
Our friends “across the pond” seem to have the right idea as they’re conducting...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 06/02/2011
Premier Support for Developers
Good managers know 2 things – 1) surround yourself with knowledgeable personnel and 2) enact...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/29/2011
SharePoint 2010 Deployment Using Automated Processes
Ever wonder how Microsoft configures and deploys SharePoint? Well, Microsoft IT recently completed...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/27/2011
Getting Started with HTML5
Now that all of the major browsers support most of the HTML5 specification, it’s time to start...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/25/2011
SAP Process Extension using .NET
Recently at TechEd, Ted Kummert, Senior Vice President BPD, announced a partnership with SAP that...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/24/2011
WiX’in Up with XML
Creating installation packages is not something any developer likes to see on their task list...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/23/2011
“To the Cloud” with TFS
The more time I spend using Team Foundation Server (TFS), the more I believe it’s an integral...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/20/2011
Java SDK for TFS
So you don’t use Visual Studio as your main IDE and instead use Eclipse with Team Explorer...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/19/2011
SharePoint 2010 SP1
A quick post to mention that the SharePoint team has been hard at work putting together the first...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/18/2011
Enterprise Library - Silverlight Integration Pack
For years the Enterprise Library (EL) application blocks have helped developers address the typical...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/17/2011
Visual Studio vNext Application Lifecycle Management
Today kicked off TechEd 2011 and there’s no shortage of news coming out of the conference....
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/16/2011
Visual Studio LightSwitch
Full disclosure: I’m a big proponent of Visual Studio but when it comes to creating data...
Author: Bryan Group [MSFT] Date: 05/13/2011