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VS ALM Library Updates on MSDN for April 2011

Normally, I use this space to discuss the important stuff: me, and the weather in the Pacific Northwest. But not this time. This time it's all about the writers. They are all fine people. Even though, except for one glorious day last Saturday, it has only been above 55 degrees twice since Febuary 1, and no one seems to understand ...

Visual Studio ALM Hands-On Labs

The Developer & Platform Evangelism group recently published the following ALM hands-on labs as part of the Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 training course (click to download) on MSDN:                     ...

VS ALM Library Updates on MSDN for December 2010

Snow, turkeys, Win 7 phones, floods, Kinects, and cold: It's been an interesting month here in the Northwest. In other news, VSALMDC released documentation for Visual Studio Feature Pack 2 and created additional content for the MSDN Library. And for those of you are having holidays this month and are planning on enjoying them: Happy Holidays...

Enabling new Application Lifecycle Management Features for Visual Studio 2010 in Upgraded Team Projects

First, a caveat: VS 2010 SP1 Beta recently shipped with a go-live license. This post is not about that. If you have VS 2010, and you install VS 2010 SP1 Beta, you'll get all the new bells and whistles in SP1. Rather, this post is for those of you who have upgraded, or are about to upgrade, to VS Utlimate 2010 from VS 2008 (back when we called ...

Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 expands test capabilities and includes code visualization + modeling tools from previous feature pack

This feature pack has just been released and includes the following capabilities:Testing features: Code visualization and modeling features (requires Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate): For more information and to download the feature pack, visit the Visual Studio Feature Packs page on MSDN...

VS ALM Library Updates on MSDN for October 2010

October has been spectacular here in the Pacific Northwest, which has nothing to do with the reduced output in this month's MSDN Library updates for VS ALM. There is a lot of work being done to reorganize and refocus our content to make it even more useful to you in acccomplishing your goals. We are also working on feature packs and preparing ...

VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for September 2010

A couple of exciting additions to the Application Lifecycle Management documentation this month: The complete guide to the Best Practices Analyzer Tool for Team Foundation Server (BPA) is now in the MSDN Library. BPA is a Team Foundation Server Power Tool that diagnoses a large number of issues with your Team Foundation Server configuration ...

VSALM Library Updates on MSDN for July 2010

The Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management Developer Content team, aka the doc writers, prowl the blogs and forums looking for ideas that we can use to clarify our explanations of VS ALM. We also respond to community comments from the MSDN Library wiki and feedback. Once a month, we publish new and updated topics to the MSDN Library. ...