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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? The answer is that products such as Biztalk and SQL Business Intelligence use older versions of the Visual Studio Shell e.g. so for SQL 2008 BI you are using in effect VS/Team Explorer 2008. Though it must be said this issue is getting better currently a BI developer still ends up having to use VS 2008 (until SSDT arrives with SQL 2012) ...

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.blackmarble.com/events.aspx?event=Visual Studio Team Foundation for Everyone (Online)) sessions on the same subject ...

I will be speaking at the NE Bytes user group next Wednesday (the 15th of Feb) on ‘TFS for Everyone’. This a session based on the guest blog post on the UK Visual Studio blog I did on how TFS is not just for .NET developers. It can be used from a whole range of development platforms and operating systems. I will be including demos using Eclipse and Ubuntu. Hope to see you there. ...

I will be giving a free webinar presentation on the morning of Monday the 20th February on ‘Why migrate from Visual SourceSafe to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server’. [To register for this event please check out the Black Marble site](http://blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=Why migrate from Visual SourceSafe to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (Online))

Just published documentation of the VB6 activity on the Community TFS Build extensions site

BI development is not something I do that often, but from time to time you need to develop a custom report in TFS. I recently had to battle a MDX problem that someone who does more BI development I am sure why have had no issue with; but as with most of these blog posts (or my long term memory as I think of it) I thought it worth a post in case it helps anyone else ...

If you enjoyed Black Marble’s SDL event last week there is more info on the subject of SDL on this weeks .NET Rocks podcast