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The Australian ALM Conference is happening in Sydney on the 8th & 9th November.  This unique event will explore how Visual Studio and Application Lifecycle Management can reduce costs, reduce development time, increase quality, and improve project manageability. Two full days, 18 sessions and industry leading speakers will arm you with ess...

Windows 8 introduces metro style apps that can be built using Visual Studio 11 tools.  Along with development tools, Visual Studio 11 family also includes rich testing tools for the metro style apps. After building a Metro Style Application using Visual Studio, you can now install this application on a Windows 8 Device and start manual testing it. ...

 Tim Star one of our ALM MVPs will be presenting at MN Visual Studio User Group on Coded UI testing with Multiple UI MapsPresentation Description:This presentation will be very demo heavy as we walk through how to create a coded UI test with Multiple UI maps.  We will touch on some of the simpler techniques, but will be primarily focused ...

This post provides an overview of most (but I don't promise ALL!) of the new tools, features, and enhancements available in the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview: For a tutorial that illustrates several of these new features by following a fictitious team as they incrementally adopt Visual Studio as its solution ...

How often have you built the software that your users asked for, but not necessarily what they wanted? One of the determining factors between success and failure of software projects is getting the right feedback, at the right time, from the right individuals. In Microsoft Visual Studio 11, we have enabled feedback deeply throughout the product (re...

You have all seen the exciting announcements being made at //BUILD/, presenting Visual Studio 11, Team Foundation Server 11, Windows 8 and a new era of targeting platforms across devices, services and the cloud. Visual Studio 11 Readiness The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have been working on their latest conspiracy for a while and now that the cat i...

Brian Keller announced this morning that you can now get a Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview ALM Virtual Machine with 6 hands-on-labs and demo scripts. For full details and instructions, please see Brian Keller's post.

With the release of the CTP of Visual Studio vNext we are including the ability to collect IntelliTrace logs from web applications running in IIS 7.0 and 7.5 without requiring Visual Studio installed on the web server. Several demos exist of the stand-alone Intellitrace data collector including one by Cameron Skinner and Brian Keller at TechEd ear...

I am posting walkthroughs of the the various TFS install wizards for the upcoming version of TFS previewed at the BUILD Conference in Anaheim this week. Installation of TFS 11 is very similar to installation of TFS 2010. You can use the install guide for TFS 2010 to review the current guidelines for install. And you can find the late breaking infor...

I wanted to do a few posts on how to run through the various TFS install wizards of TFS 11 released at the BUILD Conference in Anaheim this week. Installation of TFS 11 is very similar to installation of TFS 2010. You can use the install guide for TFS 2010 to review the current guidelines for install. And you can find the late breaking information ...