Background Whilst at the Microsoft MVP summit there are a number of MVP2MVP sessions, these are similar to DDD style sessions with MVPs presenting as opposed to Microsoft staff. One I found really interesting was one by Richard Banks based on his post on using GIT with TFS. Now this was a usage of source control tools I had not considered, a mixture of Git and TFS (or could be Git to SVN, similar tools are available)...

Today, as well as the new VS11 Beta bits from Microsoft, the ALM Rangers also shipped best practice guidance to get you started with the beta. This is a project I am very proud to have been involved with. The full details of the supporting guidance shipped can be found here

The big news today is is that Microsoft released the VS11 Beta, part of which is Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE). (Oh they also release something called Windows 8 too – whatever that is) Whilst upgrading my TEE instance in Eclipse (Indigo) I hit the same gotcha as I had when I originally installed TEE (in Eclipse is in your ‘c:programs files’). On Windows, if UAC is enabled you have to run Eclipse as administrator to do the plug-in else you get the error message....

I have an unlocked Hauwei E585 MIFI that I use around europe, avoiding roaming charges for my UK mobile contract. I buy a local pay as you go SIM for the appropriate country and off I go. I thought I would try the same here in the USA, where I am for the MVP Summit. I bought a T-Mobile data SIM, but it did not work so well. Basically the issue is one of aerials it seems....

There is a good discussion of the new TFS 11 announcements in the new Radio TFS podcast

Microsoft have made a few announcements today On Brian Harry’s Blog In the TFS 11 range there will be a new download of TFS, called Team Foundation Server Express, that includes core developer features: Source Code Control Work Item Tracking Build Automation Agile Taskboard and is free for 5 users (you buy CALs to add more) Visual Studio Express will support TFS On Jason Zander’s Blog A sneak peak of details of the upcoming VS11 and TFS 11 beta For more details read the full posts I have linked to, and look out for the beta that will out on the 29th

Next Wednesday (the 22nd of February) Typemock are running a free webinar ‘Isolator V7 Preview: A New Perspective on Unit Testing’. It will be showcasing Immediate feedback of newly introduced bugs with a new autorunner. Pinpoint identification of the bug’s location with the failed-test analyzer. Visual coverage of which part of your code is covered Powerful mocking, guaranteeing that you can write tests for any code, whether new code or legacy code Industry integration with major development tools All attendees get a free beta license for the new V7 product....

Steve did a nice post on the fun we had at the event for Universities and Colleges in the North East of England to help them to develop their ideas for their Imagine Cup entries. I won’t bother to just repeat what he wrote, other than it was very nice to see students so engaged with our industry. I hope some of the attendees will be able to make it to other community events....

I have recently spoken to a number of people who were under the impression that older versions of Visual Studio could not connect to TFS2010. This is not the case. So for example you do not need to keep a TFS2005 running for your VS2005 clients. Why you might ask does this question even come up? VS2010 can build any .NET 2.0 –> 4.0 project so why not upgrade all your projects to VS2010?...

Thanks to everyone who attended my session at NEBytes last night, sorry I had to rush away. As my session was demo based I don’t have much in the way of slides to upload, but if you want to find out more have a look at my guest blog post on the UK Visual Studio blog on ‘TFS for Everyone’. Also keep an eye on the [Black Marble site for upcoming free webinar](http://www....