Visual Studio 2012 Launch RoadShows around the World
Unless you have been living under a rock you might have noticed a little launch event recently. Well to complement the launch Microsoft is running a bunch of Visual Studio 2012 Launch RoadShows in the UK and USA. Well now its time to take that launch on the road.
Get a free Team Companion licence for Visual Studio 2012 Launch?
I recently posted on Requirement management in the modern application lifecycle and in that post I mentioned a product called Team Companion from Ekobit. Well, to celebrate its 5th anniversary and the launch of Visual Studio 2012 the awesome folks at Ekobit have decided to give away a whole bunch of licences for that fantastic […]
Visual Studio 2012 RTM available & installed
With the availability of Visual Studio 2012 RTM today on MSDN I wanted to let you know that Northwest Cadence just completed its first Production RTM installation for a customer. Do not fear this upgrade. If you are moving from TFS 2010 this is a simple upgrade although there are many new features and a […]
Deploy from Visual Studio 2012 to iOS, Windows Phone, Android and Windows
Today I saw a demonstration by ITR Mobility of their line of business application support for having one code base, written in C# that can be deployed to practically any platform you like. Does that should like it would be of use to you? Coz it sure as hell sounds like I could use it. […]
Green to Orange–Joining the VSIP team as a Technical Product Manager
No I am not leaving Northwest Cadence. No I am not going to work at Microsoft… well I am, kind of. I have just started an engagement that will see me working as a Technical Product Manager as part of the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program. Visual Studio Industry Partner Directory Visual Studio Industry Partner […]
Upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 with VSS Migration and Process Template consolidation
Back in Seattle and another awesome engagement, this time with a local company to upgrade their version of TFS from 2010 to 2012 and migrate all of their legacy VSS databases. Additional they want to take advantage of the new team features of TFS 2012 and need to consolidate all of their team projects
Installing TFS 2012 with Lab Management 2012
I have been onsite this week in California to deploy TFS 2012 and Lab Management for a company in the computer game industry. Because of limited time I am doing the full install in one day and thus will not be getting any of their builds or environments to work today. This is purely an […]
Presenting Visual Studio ALM and upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 in production – Done
I was actually a little surprised by one of my customers this week. I was there to help them finalise their deployment of TFS 2010 (that they were currently using only for Source Control) and to present the features to them and ended up upgrading them to TFS 2012 as well! The first thing that […]
Installing Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 8
As I have mentioned before I run all of my heavy weight software in a VM. That is one of the reasons that I love Windows 8… I can run Hyper-V. I want to be able to reinstall my local computer quickly, and to get back up and running fast.
Installing TFS 2012 on Server 2012 with SQL 2012
I need a TFS environment to use for demos and what better time to do a full upgrade than when we get some nice prizes from Microsoft. Today the Release Candidate for both Windows and for Visual Studio was released to the public. You can download it off the public sites or you can use you MSDN account to get all of the goodies.