January 17, 2010

TFS 2010 Work Item Management Links

Here is short list of intro links explaining how to work and manage Work Items in Team Foundation Server 2010 via Team Explorer (with screenshots).

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Introduction

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Work Item Link Types

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create And Use Queries

TFS 2010 Work Items Basic User Guide – Create New Work Items Out Of An Existing Work Items

Silverlight Eco contest from SilverlightShow.net

<repost from Emil Stoychev’s blog>

I’m very excited to announce the availability of SilverlightShow EcoContest -

Considering the alarming consequences of climate changes, and the actions taken to promote and carry out environmental-saving activities worldwide, we would like to give our share and show the power that web applications have to convince, persuade, and spread the word!

We invite you to use your Silverlight skills and imagination to design attractive, educative and informative Silverlight-based applications that help support and promote any kind of environment-friendly activities. We, on our end, will make sure the best of your masterpieces reached as larger audience as possible!

Prizes? You won’t believe it!

Our Grand Prize winner will receive a trip to MIX10 event in Las Vegas (MIX10 pass, 3-night hotel stay at Mandalay Bay Hotel and 1,000 USD for travel expenses included), and Telerik Premium Collection for .NET!
Two more MIX10 passes and more awards from Telerik await the first runner-up, and the Community Choice winner! Read more on the prizes.

WOW!

Hurry up to submit your entry – the deadline is February 15th, 2010!

See you at MIX10!

January 14, 2010

VS2010 Launch Date announced (again)

New dates for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RTM are announced today. The official RTM date is 12th April 2010. As I wrote before, in February there will be released also Release Candidate version.

Microsoft will be supporting upgrade from Beta 2 to RC, Beta 2 to RTM and RC to RTM so there is no reason why you should not upgrade today or at least start planning it. A full TFS upgrade can take a lot of time so you better plan it. I will write a follow up post on common pitfalls during TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 upgrade process.

If you have any problems upgrading TFS 2008/2005 to TFS 2010, please feel free to contact me.

(through Microsoft Bulgaria - Developer and Platform Evangelism Blog)