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It has only been a few days ago, when I gave some talks at the Visual Studio 2008 Launch event here in the Netherlands.(b.t.w you can download the slide deck of the presentations over here) Now the product is launched customers can start using the product and our integrated version of the Endeavour software factory. Where the adoption cycle for ...

Thursday I will be doing two sessions on Team system at the Visual studio 2008 launch event. One "Chalk & Talk" session and one session on "what is new in visual Studio Team System 2008".While the launch event is not even over, I just got the confirmation from the devdays organization that I will be doing two sessions this ...

The past few days I have been quite busy with presenting 3 sessions at the MCT summit in Berlin.I must say that at first I was a little bit scared to do presentations for a group of Certified Trainers, since they are known for being a tough crowd to present to.But I must say I really enjoyed myself there. I never in my live started a presentation ...

Today I gave a session at SDC about Practical windows workflow foundation and a session on advanced activity development where I explained the way I build te WCF activities I published at codeplex. I promised to put up my slides and code samples on my blog, so here they are:slides for the Practical Workflow Foundation Session: heredemos:01- ...

The past few weeks have been pretty busy for me. Not only was I working with some colleagues on a Robot challenge (where we finished third J, see here a movie with Woody in action  , and the post of my coleague Erik) , I also had to prepare for 3 sessions for the DevDays here in the Netherlands.At my session on "Practical Team ...

A few months ago I got an Email from Jack Greenfield who asked me to work with him on writing a whitepaper on software factories and how to enable this using visual studio team system.It took a lot of time and many conference calls with Jack and Erik Gundvaldson, but I can now announce that the whitepaper got published on MSDN!I am very pleased ...

Last week I gave five presentations at the Microsoft Developer days.   It took Microsoft some time to make them available for download, but I guess I understand why. It appears they removed everything from the slide deck that made you know I am a speaker from Info Support . They did add a sponsor slide for all platinum sponsors?!?. They ...

One of the questions I received during one of my classes is if it is possible to bind the FindText property to a configured datasource. While this is not possible in a recorded webtest there is a way to make this work when you convert the test to a coded test. The only thing you need to know is that the Context that is available in your test ...

Last week I lectured a class on Team System. One of the labs we worked on involves setting up permissions for your team foundation project. During the lab one of my students did not find the just assigned users in the dropdown box to assign work item to. That triggered me to get into more details on what kind of permissions I would exactly need to ...

At this moment I am teaching a class on team system. This is a three day training where we touch all the aspects of team system. During the course we use a web application that calls a web service to get a list of information. Perhaps you have heard of the sample application I am using, it is called Camino. I am running this on a single ...