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Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:28:37 +0000

The CTP of Visual Studio 2010 was announced at PDC. One of the coolest features in Visual Studio 2010 is the Lab Management. Lab Management leverages virtualization to enable software development and test teams to build higher quality apps. Lab management accelerates setup/tear down time and eliminates no-repro bugs by creating better integration across dev and [...]

ALM UG – December Meeting Slides

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:48:03 +0000

The December meeting of the Israeli ALM user group in Microsoft focused with the fascinating subject of Agile Development and the steps that a software organization should implement to achieve the transition. You can download the slides here: Share:

Goodbye MVP – Hello DPE

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:02:33 +0000

Yes.. It was only two and a half months ago when I wrote about receiving my Microsoft MVP award. I was quite honored to receive this award. The reason that I have to give up my MVP award is that today I joined Microsoft Israel to the Developer & Platform Evangelism Group. My official job title [...]

ALM User Group-Special Guest In The Next Meeting

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:17:05 +0000

This is a special treat! The next ALM user group has a special guest: Shay Mandel, Principal Program Manager from Microsoft India. Attention – the meeting will be at Dec 24, 2008 Shay will be visiting Israel at the end of December and very happy to talk in the user group. Shay will talk about the [...]

TFS Check-In Validation Tool

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:49:57 +0000

New tool was released on CodePlex called TFS Check-in Validation Tool. This tool provides the ability to have a checkin validating by a build prior to being checked in. This is similar to a feature in TFS 2010 called Gated Checkin, which is integrated into VS and TFS (more info in this video). With both of [...]

How to set up TFS 2008 SP1 to use TSWA links in checkin notification emails

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:34:19 +0000

Buck Hodges has created a great post on this commonly issue here. Share:

Scrum for Team System - Version 2.2 released

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:04:17 +0000

Version 2.2 for TFS 2008 is out: Task Board for Team system has hit Gold Master and is coming out of Beta Task Board for Team System now supports SfTS 1.2 on TFS 2005 Version 2.2 of the free process template is now available for download: http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com/en/download.aspx?key=A23E296BA97DA7410F496F650C41AC26&site=UK&version=v2.2 Version 2.2 supports: TFS 2008 / TFS 2008 SP1 SQL Server 2005 / SQL Server [...]

Road to Rosario Special: VSTS 2010 Development

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:54:14 +0000

RadioTFS is going to be doing a series of shows on the new Features in Visual Studio Team System 2010 – In this edition they catch up with Habib and the developer features! Habib is a Lead Program manager on the VSTS Development group. His main responsibilities include the Visual Studio debugger, profiler, code coverage and [...]

MSBuild Extension Pack Brings 170 Build Tasks

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:40:54 +0000

When MSBuild was first released, it was seen as a stopgap measure. Prior to its introduction, building a non-trivial .NET project from the command line was a daunting challenge. Either command line options have to be carefully laid out or third-party libraries like NAnt have to be brought in. Recently MSBuild Extension Pack was released on [...]

Israeli ALM UG - November 2008 Meeting

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:43:51 +0000

The next meeting of the Israeli ALM UG will be focused on VSTS/TFS extensibility. Save as Outlook Appointment: VSTS is a great ALM platform. One of the main advantages of VSTS is it’s API which gives us the ability to write tools to make our daily work more productive. We will talk about what parts and how we [...]

Preview Of The Next TFS Power Tools Release

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:31:37 +0000

For a preview of the next TFS Power Tools release, please read Brian Harry’s blog. The next version is really amazing! From Brian’s post: There are 3 major new components to the October Power Tools release and the usual incremental improvements. Team Members - We’ve added a new node to the Team Explorer called "Team Members". It appears under [...]

I’m a Microsoft MVP!!!!

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:19:16 +0000

There are few emails that one will receive in his lifetime that will render him completely speechless. I am delighted to find out that I have been awarded with 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award. This is the email I received: Subject: Congratulations 2009 Microsoft MVP! Dear Maor David, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® [...]

Data Dude + Developer Edition = Team Developer

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:08:28 +0000

In today’s press release titled: “Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Overview” MS also announced the merge of the Developer Edition and Database Edition SKU’s. From Gert’s post: What does this mean? In the next release of Visual Studio Team System we will be merging the feature sets of the Development Edition and the Database Edition into [...]

Announcing Visual Studio Team System 2010

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:52:50 +0000

Microsoft has officially named the Visual Studio Team System Code-name ‘Rosario’ suite of tools to “Visual Studio Team System 2010” in an announcement on 29-Sep-2008. They have also posted information on MSDN and Channel 9. The 2010 release will be a huge step forward for the tools in the ALM space. The new architect tools look [...]

Data Dude:Deploy Action On CTP16 Does Not Deploy The Database To Target

Maor David-Pur [MVP] — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:28:02 +0000

A lot of users confused and don’t understand why the database does not appear on the target server when they do deploy. The reason is that in CTP 16, the default deploy mechanism is to deploy to script. If you want to deploy to database you have to change the ‘Deploy action’ on the project properties, [...]