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Correspondents have asked how we determine the order of listings for our monthly updates. The answer, as always, is cookies. Here are the updates for May: Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, SQL Server Building the Application Team Explorer Everywhere Team Foundation Server and Project Server Integration Feature Pack You ...

The right side of our blog now features Facebook and LinkedIn communities that focus on VS ALM and Team Foundation Server where you can find news, discussion, and other useful content. I also added other resources and a list of blogs about VS ALM and Team Foundation Server.

Lots of exciting stuff, so check out the session videos on Channel 9:    

These short YouTube videos show how to visualize: How to visualize software architecture on a layer diagram: [View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf__skaJIdI] For more information about layer diagrams, see the following topics on MSDN: How to visualize users' needs on a use case diagram: [View:https://ww...

The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have updated this guide, which includes automated guidance, hands-on-labs, and videos that show how you can use the Visual Studio architecture and modeling tools to help you understand an existing software system or create a new system.

Normally, I use this space to discuss the important stuff: me, and the weather in the Pacific Northwest. But not this time. This time it's all about the writers. They are all fine people. Even though, except for one glorious day last Saturday, it has only been above 55 degrees twice since Febuary 1, and no one seems to understand the ef...

Howie Hilliker, who writes about how to test applications with Visual Studio, created some samples to show how to verify Web application links by using Web performance tests:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/howie_hillikers_blog/archive/2011/03/24/verifying-the-links-in-your-web-application-using-a-web-performance-test.aspx

The Developer & Platform Evangelism group recently published the following ALM hands-on labs as part of the Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 training course (click to download) on MSDN:                     

Chris Lovett, an architect on the Visual Studio Ultimate team, wrote an interesting article about developing his first Windows Phone 7 app. He shows how he used dependency graphs in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate to help him visualize and understand the organization of his code during the development process: http://bit.l...

This month's continuous publishing release of the MSDN Library includes content for the release of VS 2010 SP1.VS2010 SP1Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 has been released. In this release we addressed some of the most requested features and top voted issues from our customers. Library UpdatesWe've also continued to work on VSALM content that ...