Entries tagged with visual studio - Channel 9

Team Foundation Server 2010 Setup and Administration

briankel — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:47:00 GMT

Team Foundation Server 2010 will be getting some major overhauls to the setup and administration experience. In this interview, Ed Holloway, senior program manager for Team Foundation Server, talks about the changes his team is making. By the end of this interview, Ed will have completely deployed a 1-server Team Foundation Server 2010 instance.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

Update: This post was revised on 10/4 at 10:30 p.m. PST to fix a problem with the original video. If you downloaded the video prior to that you should re-download.

An early look at Team Foundation Build 2010 with Jim Lamb

briankel — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:47:00 GMT

In addition to being one of the nicest guys I know, Jim Lamb also knows a thing or two about build automation. Jim is the program manager responsible for the Team Build capability of Team Foundation Server. Team Build was one of the biggest areas of improvement for Team Foundation Server 2008, but that hasn't stopped the team from doing even more landmark improvments in Team Foundation Server 2010.

Jim shows off how Team Build 2010 will take advantage of Windows Workflow, build agent pooling, distributed asynchronized builds, and two new types of build called "buddy builds" and gated check-ins.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

Enterprise Team Foundation Server Management with Mario Rodriguez

briankel — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:47:00 GMT

A single Team Foundation Server 2008 instance can support thousands of developers working on hundreds of projects. But what if you need even more than that? How do you drive increased uptime and availability of your server to keep your developers productive? Team Foundation Server can already scale up with better hardware, but how do you scale out with additional machines? Mario Rodriguez is part of the team coming up with solutions to these problems.

Mario walks us through the new architecture for Team Foundation Server 2010 being delivered as an overall effort known as Enterprise Team Foundation Server Management.

Update on Team Foundation Server Migration and Synchronization

briankel — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:47:00 GMT

Unlike the other videos in today's series this one doesn't focus specifically on Team Foundation Server 2010. But since I was "in the neighborhood" I dropped by Doug Neumann's office to catch up on the latest tools and samples available for people wishing to migrate to or synchronize with Team Foundation Server. As the popularity of Team Foundation Server continues to rise, so does the demand for migration and synchronization solutions. Doug's team has been working hard to help people in this area.

The sites Doug mentions in this interview are:
TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit
Timely Migration
TFS to TFS Migration Tool
Migration and Integration Solutions

Branching and Merging Visualization with Team Foundation Server 2010

briankel — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:47:00 GMT

Is your source control branching out of control? How much time have you wasted trying to discover which branches your code changes have been merged into? What are the code-level differences between your main, test, and production branches? Branch visualizations to the rescue!

Matthew Mitrik, program manager for Team Foundation Server, demonstrated some of the awesome new branch visualization capabilities coming in Team Foundation Server 2010.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

Brian Harry: Team Foundation Server 2010

briankel — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:47:00 GMT

Brian Harry, technical fellow at Microsoft, has pretty much become synonymous with Team Foundation Server. He not only leads the Team Foundation Server team in Raleigh, North Carolina, he also has the most widely read blog about what's going on with Team Foundation Server. But even Brian hasn't been saying much about Team Foundation Server 2010 until this week. I sat down with Brian and let him finally spill the beans on what his team has been working on.

Brian remains fairly high-level for this interview because there's a lot to cover, but we have six other interviews going live today featuring his program management team going deep on everything he talks about.

I even got Brian to talk a bit about his farm which has been keeping him busy outside of work. :-)

Brian Harry teases next Team Foundation Server Power Tools release

briankel — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:05:00 GMT

It's been an exciting week on Channel 9 talking about what the product team is working on for Visual Studio Team System 2010. But here's something you won't have to wait that long for. In my opinion this is perhaps the most exciting TFS Power Tools release we've had yet.

Read more here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/10/01/preview-of-the-next-tfs-power-tools-release.aspx

Historical Debugger and Test Impact Analysis in Visual Studio Team System 2010

briankel — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:26:00 GMT

Are you tired of constantly setting breakpoints to hone in on a pesky bug? How would you like to be able to step "back in time" through your debugger? The Historical Debugger in Visual Studio Team System 2010 promises to revolutionize your debugging experience. Habib Heydarian takes us through a demonstration of just a few of its capabilities.

But wait... there's more! Habib also shows us the new Test Impact Analysis feature his team is working on. With Test Impact Analysis it's possible to determine which of your tests will be... well... impacted by the code changes you're making! Not only does this mean that your unit test suite can run more quickly, but it can also lead to better testing and fewer bugs in software projects.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

Manual Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2010

briankel — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:16:00 GMT

Naysawn Naderi takes us through manual testing in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Naysawn shows off how the manual testing capabilities allow not only for better authoring and execution of manual tests, but can also be a tool to help automate portions of manual tests as well. Finally, Naysawn shows how to turn a manual test into a coded test which can then be fully automated.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

Better Software Quality with Visual Studio Team System 2010

briankel — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:16:00 GMT

I sat down with James Whittaker, software testing pundit and principal architect for Visual Studio Team System's testing capabilities, to learn more about the software quality tools coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010.

The last time we saw James he wasn't allowed to say anything about this particular release, but now that marketing has let the cat out of the bag James is excited to start talking about bridging the developer-tester divide.

Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies

System — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:39:38 GMT

Join Scott Hanselman for this lots-of-code-minimal slides talk that walks through the sheer joy of building out a .NET Framework application with Visual Studio using many of the new advances in the .NET Framework 3.5SP1 and 4.0. We have a data layer with Entity Framework, use REST web services with WCF and ADO.NET Data Services, write an ASP.NET site for reporting using Dynamic Data and MVC. All the data will come from a WPF client application and a Silverlight application that the audience will run live! All this, plus it's an application that babies and toddlers will love!

Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in the Developer Division, aiming to spread good information about developing software, very often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. He's written a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on ASP.NET. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com and podcasts at http://www.hanselminutes.com.

WPF: Building Business Applications

System — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:34:47 GMT

Learn about patterns for common business problems such as N-tier development, data validation, UI flow and transitions, and more. Also see new features of Microsoft Visual Studio and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that make it much easier to build WPF applications.

Mark Wilson-Thomas
Mark is a Program Manager on the "Cider" team, which builds the WPF and Silverlight Designers in Visual Studio. He is responsible for the layout features of the designer. Prior to joining developer division Mark worked in Microsoft Services as a Development Lead, building large scale web-based UIs for the UK Government, the BBC and others.
Samantha Durante

Microsoft Visual Studio: Building Applications with MFC

System — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:33:23 GMT

Learn about the next release of Visual Studio and its update to the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). This release of MFC will support such features as multi-touch, Hi DPI, Hi Color, integrated search, restart manager, and much more.

Damien Watkins

Enterprise Project Management with Visual Studio Team System 2010

briankel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:42:00 GMT

Ameya Bhatawdekar, a program manager for Team Foundation Server, took a few minutes to take us through the end-to-end storyboards for how Team Foundation Server 2010 will integrate with Microsoft Project Server to enable true enterprise-wide collaboration. Note that this is not a demo of working software (yet), but it's the next best thing - a detailed storyboard walkthrough of mocked-up screenshots.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

PS: For people looking for integration between Team Foundation Server 2008 and Project Server today, check out the Connector on Codeplex.

Requirements Management and Traceability with Visual Studio Team System 2010

briankel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:41:00 GMT

How can you ensure that a requirement has been sufficiently tested? How do you track the work that goes into a specific feature? How much work is left to do before a feature is completed, and how does that feature relate to bigger scenarios or user stories?

Siddharth Bhatia, a senior group program manager for Visual Studio Team System, takes us through an end-to-end example of how Visual Studio Team System 2010 will help an organization manage their requirements throughout the lifecycle of a software project.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

Update: This video was re-encoded to fix some indexing issues at 2:30 p.m. PST. If you downloaded a version prior to that please download a new copy.

Agile Planning Templates in Visual Studio Team System 2010

briankel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:39:00 GMT

Stephanie Saad shows us a quick demonstration of how Visual Studio Team System 2010 will enable teams to be more agile. In this demonstration she shows the new Agile planning worksheet for Excel which can be used to easily balance resources, manage your backlog, and generate ad hoc reports.

Achieving Business Alignment with Visual Studio Team System 2010

briankel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:38:00 GMT

"Business Alignment" is one of the key themes for the upcoming Visual Studio Team System 2010 release. But what does that mean, exactly? We sat down with Lori Lamkin, product unit manager for Team Foundation Server, and Stephanie Saad, group program manager, to find out.

In this interview Lori and Stephanie outline the ways that Visual Studio Team System 2010 will empower teams to more effectively build software and to better integrate those development projects with the rest of the organization.

Cameron Skinner: Visual Studio Team System 2010 - Architecture

briankel — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:42:00 GMT

Cameron Skinner, Product Unit Manager, gives us an overview of the new architecture tools coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Cameron tells us what types of designers his team is building, about the decision to support UML, and how this relates to "Oslo" and their modeling strategy.

"Top-down" design with Visual Studio Team System 2010

briankel — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:41:00 GMT

"Top-down" design is an approach that the Visual Studio Architect team is enabling with their upcoming release, Visual Studio Team System 2010. In this "humanized screencast" we asked Mark Groves, senior program manager, to show us a demonstration of the new UML designers the team is building and how this can be applied to a "top-down" approach when building software.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

"Bottom-up" Design with Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architect

briankel — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:41:00 GMT

Suhail Dutta, a program manager on the Visual Studio Team System Architect team, gives us a demonstration of the "bottom-up" design approach which will be possible with the Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architect product.

With "bottom-up" design, you can quickly reverse engineer an existing code base to construct models and examine relationships between pieces of code. Suhail also shows off some of the new UML designers coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

Brian Harry - "We WILL be shipping an updated CTP [this fall]!"

briankel — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:18:00 GMT

Even more good news today - Brian Harry reports that we are in fact shipping another community technology preview soon. Nice! He has also blogged about a bunch of Visual Studio Team System 2010 features. Check it out...

"I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago that there was some uncertainty about whether or not we would be releasing another Rosario CTP this fall. I'm happy to report that the uncertainty has been cleared up. We WILL be shipping an updated CTP! There has been a tremendous amount of new work done since the last CTP (it seems so long ago). I think you are going to be really impressed with what you see."

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9!

briankel — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:17:00 GMT

Welcome to the new Visual Studio and .NET Framework topic area!

briankel — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:05:00 GMT

Welcome! We're pleased to announce this brand new Channel 9 topic area. The Microsoft technical evangelists on the left are proud to be your hosts and bring you the best of Channel 9 videos and other content we find interesting.

If you're interested in keeping up on Visual Studio and the .NET Framework then you'll want to bookmark this page: http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio/

Norman Guadagno: Announcing Visual Studio Team System 2010

Dan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:57:00 GMT

Norman Guadagno, the Director of Product Management for Visual Studio Team System shares the key enhancements coming in the next version of Visual Studio, officially named Visual Studio 2010. In this video, you'll hear Norman discuss new features in Team Architect including new visual designers and UML support, new software quality features including historical debugging, how the Database Edition is being rolled rolled into the Team Developer edition and lots more.

Want more? For more information on Visual Studio Team System 2010 including exclusive product team interviews pay attention to Channel 9 from September 30 - October 3rd. Every day we'll be bringing a brand new batch of Visual Studio Team System 2010 videos to you at http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio.

Microsoft Visual Studio: Web Development Futures

System — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:57:51 GMT

Get a first look at the next version of Visual Studio for web developers. See how the new deployment tools enable frictionless transfers of web projects from machine to machine. Learn about the new code generation aides and the next generation of JavaScript editing and navigation tools. Finally, see how the updated WYSIWYG design view enables standards-based development.

Jeff King