Windows Azure Tools for VS 2010 RC

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Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the application development for Windows Azure platform.

The Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.1 (February 2010) support the Visual Studio 2010 RC and Visual Studio 2008 SP1.

What's New in version 1.1:

Windows Azure Drive: Enable a Windows Azure application to use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive. This allows the Windows Azure application to mount a page blob as a drive letter, such as X:, and enables easy migration of existing NTFS applications to the cloud.

OS Version Support: Allows a Windows Azure application to choose the appropriate Guest OS to run on in the cloud.

Bug Fixes

1. StorageClient: Expose account key from storage credentials, expose continuation tokens for pagination, and reduce maximum buffer size for parallel uploads.
2. Windows Azure Diagnostics: Fix path corruption for crash dumps, OnDemandTransfer now respects LogLevelFilter.
3. VS 2010: Improved packaging performance.
4. VS 2010: Support for linked files in Web projects.
5. VS 2010: Support for ASP.NET web project web.config transformations.
6. Certificate selection lists certificates from LocalMachine\My instead of CurrentUser\My.
7. Right click on Role under Roles folder to select whether to launch the browser against HTTP, HTTPS or not at all.

Note: To use the Windows Azure Tools with VS 2010 Beta 2, please use the November 2009 release.

VS 2010/.NET 4 Release Candidate (RC) is Available for MSDN subscribers

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Today Microsoft announced the RC for Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.  MSDN subscribers can can download it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

this will be made available to the public on Wednesday February 10.

You can report your feedback through  survey site and you can file any issues you find on the VS Connect site.

VS 2010 Beta 2 and TFS 2010 Beta 2 VPC image for download

Posted by Mahesh Mitkari / at 12:03 AM / / 0 comments

 

Links to download Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 and Team Foundation Server® 2010 Beta 2 -

virtual image for Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1

virtual image for Windows Virtual PC format

virtual image for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

The virtual machine image in this download contains both Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta2 and the requisite trial software.

along with this you can also download Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - January Release

Rangers shipped Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide

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Team System Rangers ( or now Visual studio ALM rangers) deliver out of band solutions for missing features and guidance in the Team System suite of products.

This time rangers came up with Visual Studio 2010 TFS upgrade guide on CodePlex. This guide covers scenarios which may be encountered during and after the upgrade process. It provides examples of most common and potential issues. It covers scenarios related to general Upgrade Process, Work Item Templates, Reports, and Enterprise TFS Management (ETM). Although this guide refers to TFS 2008 scenarios, almost all the concepts apply also to TFS 2005.

This content was created with support from Microsoft Product Group, Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) and technical specialists from technology communities around the globe.

What is in the package?
A single document with the following contents:
1 Introduction
2 Upgrade Process
3 Scenarios
3.1 Upgrading Projects from Multiple TFS 2008 servers into one TFS 2010 server
3.2 Upgrading severs when SQL Mirroring is enabled
3.3 Recovering system if upgrade fails midway
3.4 Updating Team Project Portal for an existing Team project
3.5 Splitting Team Project Collection into Multiple Collections
3.6 When I move a Team Project Collection, how do I move the reports?
3.7 Bringing Workgroup Machine inside Domain
4 Frequently Asked Questions
4.1 Can I use a TFS2008 Process Template to create team projects in TFS 2010
4.2 How can I enable Agile Workbooks in upgraded Projects
4.2.1 Enabling the Product Backlog Workbook
4.2.2 Enabling the Iteration Backlog Workbook
4.3 How can I enable Test Case Management in upgraded project
4.4 How can I enable Branch Visualization in upgrade projects
4.5 How can I enable Lab Management in upgrade projects
4.6 What is WIT Admin Tool
4.7 What happens to my custom reports created in TFS2008 post upgrade?
4.8 Will my old TFS2008 reports work post upgrade?
4.9 Can I add a new Database to my existing TFS 2010 farm?
4.10 Error bringing cloned Team Project Collection online
4.11 Move Team Project Collection Database from one Database server to another Database Server
4.12 How to enable the TFS reports if the WSS server is upgraded to MOSS server?
4.13 How to Move Team Projects from one Team Project Collection to another
5 References

 

you can download this guide from http://vs2010upgradeguide.codeplex.com/

Read more about Rangers at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/ee358786.aspx

PUG Developer Summit 2010

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PUG Developer Summit 2010 is an event for developers to gain and share knowledge on the cutting edge technologies. Along with the interesting interactive sessions, this time we are presenting some out of the box topics like Concept Visualization. You will get a chance to meet the industry gurus and explore the intricacies of working on Mobile Devices with SharePoint 2010. You will experience some of the coolest features of upcoming release of Silverlight 4 and WCF. . You will see how Visual Studio 2010 can give you a whole new development experience. So be there to feel the technology on…

16th January, 2010 9:00 am...

Agenda:

9:00 to 9:30	Registration
9:30 to 10:45	Session I	Concept Visualization	Sanjay Vyas
10:45 to 11:00	Tea Break
11:00 to 12:15	Session II	Visual Studio 2010	Farzin Faramarzi & Maheshkumar N
12:15 to 1:30	Session III	MOSS 2010	Amol Vaidya
1:30 to 2:30	Lunch Break
2:30 to 3:45	Session IV	Silverlight 4	Vikram Pendse
3:45 to 5:00	Session V	WCF 4	Farzin Faramarzi

Venue:
Dewang Mehta Auditorium
Persistent Systems Limited
Bhageerath, 402,
Senapati Bapat Road
Pune 411016

Registration and Fees: This event is FREE for all to attend. Register here

for more details log on to http://www.puneusergroup.org/events/developer-summit2010/default.html