Free TFS Trial

I am pleased to announce that SaaS Made Easy (www.saasmadeeasy.com) is offering 30 day free TFS Hosting trials. Visit their website to sign up today.

Steve Borg on DotNet Rocks

Just noticed that fellow Team System MVP Steve Borg was the guest on DotNet Rocks.

Steven Borg talks about his experiences delivering solutions with Microsoft Team System, with a special focus on automated builds.

Here is link to show #485

BizSpark Hosted TFS

I would like to announce that SaaS Made Easy, LLC is now a network partner in the Microsoft BizSpark Program. What does that mean? It means that if you are in the BizSpark program you are going to be able to use our Hosted TFS service at a substantial discount. Please visit us to get more information on this awesome offer.

Microsoft BizSpark is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of entrepreneurs and early stage startups. In addition to a very generous software offer, BizSpark also provides professional support from Microsoft technical experts, as well as visibility on the BizSparkDB website.

What are the Requirements?
In order to register for the BizSpark program, your company must:

Be privately held
Be in business for less than 3 years
Have less than $1 Million USD in revenue annually
Enrollment is free. Microsoft will assess each startup a USD $100 program offering fee due at end of participation in the Program.

-paul

New Hosted TFS Provider

SaaS Made Easy, LLC is pleased to announce their Hosted TFS offering. With the lowest cost in the industry, SaaS Made Easy is able to bring this product to you at a competitive and affordable cost.

Hosted Team Foundation Server provides you a source control repository, branching merging, shelving and much more. You also get detailed reports so you have real-time progress on your project and integration with SharePoint, Office Excel and Project. Track the progress of your projects with a robust work item tracking system that is completely customizable to meet the needs of your team.

Our customers take advantage of an industry leading SAS 70 compliant Tier 4 (highest level) Datacenter with redundant power, internet, and backup power.

SaaS Made Easy does not charge setup fees and there are no long term contracts. See why SaaS Made Easy is quickly becoming a leader in TFS hosting. Visit us on the web at www.saasmadeeasy.com or call 1-888-632-7095 and let us provide you with the tools that are sure to help make your next project successful.

Patterns and Pratices Summit Coming

The 2008 Patterns and Practices Summit  is coming to Redmond the week of  November 3rd 2008. register now! Gain tons of knowledge and great evenings with fantasic people.

VSTS 2008 Overview Webcast on October 23rd

I am pleased to announce a series of webcasts that are going to be provided by Polaris Solutions, LLC. The first one is going to be held on October 23rd 2008.

In this webcast, we expose you to many of the new features in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008. Join us for an understanding of how Visual Studio Team System 2008 can help your organization with full application lifecycle management (ALM). See how to enable your team to collaborate and communicate to ensure software quality and provide visibility into the development process.

Click here to register: https://www.clicktoattend.com/register.aspx?eventid=132384

Road to Rosario

Those of you that know me know that I am involved in doing a Radio show called RadioTFS. Well with the next version of TFS/VSTS appearing in the form of VPC images, we have decided to do a new Radio series called Road to Rosario. I encourage you to check it out. We were granted access to the Product Teams and have some fantastic interviews coming with each release. The first one out is an interview on the Developer tools. Check it out at http://www.radiotfs.com/2008/10/03/RoadToRosarioSpecialVSTS2010Development.aspx

-paul

Indy TFS this week

Well i am late in getting this out, but here goes. Hope you can show up. Thursday October 9th from 8-9 PM

MOSS and TFS 2008

Presented By

James Curtis, MCDBA

Senior Consultant

Ambassador Solutions

James is currently Microsoft Office SharePoint developer for Ambassador Solutions and have been working directly for one of the top SharePoint Architects in the region.  He has been in the technology industry for about ten years now, mainly concentrating in web and database development in Microsoft Technologies.  I’m the founder of nSpin.net which is “.NET – SharePoint Developers of Indiana”. 

In the TFS realm, I’m relatively a newcomer, but being a Microsoft program and that it’s built on other Microsoft Technologies I’m picking it up fast.  I will be talking about how to integrate TFS with Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and MOSS 2007.  I will have a live demonstration and slides (so we won’t have to “watch” it install for 2 hours).  I will welcome any questions regarding this, and any questions regarding MOSS 2007 or other technologies used.

Indy Tech Fest

Well we just wrapped up another IndyTechFest this weekend. It was a fantastic event. A special thanks to the organizers for all the hard work that went into it. I had two sessions this year VSTS 2010 and TDD in VS 2008.

My VSTS2010 talk had close to 20 people in attendance (first one of the day). There were many great questions from the audience and although my VPC locked up, it was well received.

My second talk TDD in VS 2008 was a full house around 40 people. It was really comforting to have a few people approach me afterwards  and stated what a great session it was. I was really nervous for this one(not my strongest talk).

Here are some links to some good info around the topics

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9!

VSTS 2010 on Microsoft

TDD: Test-Driven Development with Visual Studio 2008 Unit Tests

-paul

Team System User Group Virtual

Well we have our first meeting under our belt. I must say that it went off quite well. Daven Finesmith presented on an Overview of VSTS.

I was a bit concerned that there were going to be quite a few technical difficulties, but we actually had very few issues. It was good to see so many folks show up in SL. I do not think folks have truly embraced the technology yet and some still view it as a “game”. I was manning the Q&A queue while Daven was extolling praises on the VSTS stack.

I want to than the SL folks that helped out with the setup. These folks are great to work with.

Here is a screenshot from backstage.

Here is a screenshot from frontstage.

If you are interested in checking us out, please visit www.tsug-ve.com and register. We are going to send out newsletters and invites for the next event. As always we would love to hear your feedback and topic suggestions.

Hope to see you in SL.

-paul