TL;DR; Microsoft’s Edinburgh event features Jason Zander presenting Visual Studio 2010 updates, including Windows, Web, Cloud, and ALM tools for developers and testers.

Microsoft are hosting a launch event for Visual Studio 2010 on Friday 16th April in Edinburgh. The have managed to convince one of the head honchos from the Visual Studio product team to come to Scotland. With
Scott Guthrie last week in Glasgow
and now
Jason Zander
, Global General Manager for Visual Studio will be arriving in Edinburgh for the Launch event.
There will be two speakers for the event, Jason will be up first and will be doing a session on Windows, Web, Cloud and Windows Phone 7 development with Visual Studio 2010.
Second up is Giles Davis the UK’s Technical Specialist for Visual Studio ALM (formally VSTS) who will be introducing the new Visual Studio 2010 Developer and tester collaboration features.
LAUNCH AGENDA:
9.30am – 10.00am
Arrival
10.00am - 11.30am
Keynote & Q&A - Jason Zander, Global GM for Visual Studio
11.30am - 12.00pm
Break
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Developer & Tester Collaboration with Visual Studio 2010 - Giles Davies, Technical Specialist
1.00pm - 1.30pm
Lunch
DATE: Friday, 16th April 2010
LOCATION: Microsoft Edinburgh, Waverley Gate, 2-4 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EG
I think Jason will be hanging out for the afternoon to answer questions and meet everyone.
f you would like to attend, please email Nathan Davies on a-ndavie@microsoft.com with your name, company and email address
Technorati Tags: TFS 2010 VS 2010 ALM Testing Developing WP7
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