Archives for posts with tag: team

Clemri Steyn: Team Foundation Server for Everyone

April 13, 10 //

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Are you still using Visual SourceSafe? Is your source code in Subversion? Have you hobbled together a set of open source tools that just “get the job done”? Team Foundation Server 2010 is the best next-step from Visual SourceSafe and other version control systems.

In this session we will dispel the myths for why you aren’t already using Team Foundation Server, show you how get started including migrating your existing code from Visual SourceSafe and introduce you to some of the additional capabilities of Team Foundation Server that will enable you to set up continuous integration builds with quality gates and document and track items from your backlog. If you’ve been thinking about trying Team Foundation Server, now is the time to check it out.

Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch

April 12, 10 //

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Today the Microsoft Surface team announced the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta. This toolkit includes controls, APIs, templates, documentation, and sample code for WPF on Windows Touch applications and a way for developers to prepare for the next version of Microsoft Surface.

Luis Cabrera-Cordon from the Microsoft Surface team joined me to show us some of these controls including a building a Hello World app with ScatterView. More information including where to download the toolkit can be found at www.Surface.com.

Office Add-in For Moodle Now Available

April 6, 10 //

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The Education Labs team have today released a free add-in for Office 2003 and 2007 that allows educators to open and save Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents directly to and from Moodle websites.

What’s a Moodle you ask? Moodle (or Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is a free, open source software package for producing internet-based e-learning courses and web sites.

Download the Add-in here: http://www.educationlabs.com/

Also released today from the Education Labs team is a white paper outlining the steps required to utilize Sharepoint as the file system for Moodle: Go here for more info

Samuel McAravey: Using Rx in the Real World

April 6, 10 //

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Most C9ers will probably have watched a video or two of Erik and/or his team members talking about Rx. In these videos, we can see some great samples of how to use Rx. But how does Rx play out when used in a real world scenario?

In this video, Jeff talks to Samuel McAravey from SoftSource Consulting. Samuel developed a project time tracking system using Silverlight 3, WCF RIA Services, and Rx. Watch this video to see how Samuel used Rx in his development. Afterwards, visit codeplex to see his code in action.

Add items to a SharePoint list using form code

April 1, 10 //

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In this video demo, Phil Newman, a program manager on the InfoPath team shows how you can write managed code in an InfoPath form to add items to a SharePoint list, and then publish this form as a sandboxed solution to SharePoint.

In InfoPath 2010, forms with code can now be published directly to SharePoint without requiring the farm administrator to approve and upload them! These forms run in a sandboxed environment which protects other resources on the SharePoint server from malicious code.

For more information and the sample code that was used in this demo, go to the InfoPath Team Blog.

Ping 53: Stories from MIX, FourSquare, Xbox Game Room, Coachella

March 30, 10 //

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The dream team is back. Well, nobody really calls them the “Dream Team” but they do – anyway, they’ve rustled up the top stories at Microsoft this week and here they are:

What happens in Vegas, happened at MIX!
Laura’s Keynote Demo
FourSquare & Bing, a natural fit
Seinfeld & Gates ads explained
Microsoft goes to Coachella???

…the furry coat (pre-Laura’s capture of it)

Package and Re-use a SharePoint List

March 25, 10 //

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In this InfoPath and SharePoint 2010 video demo, Roberto Taboada from the InfoPath product team shows how you can quickly and easily re-use your customized SharePoint lists by packaging them as SharePoint list templates. This is a really powerful feature as it allows you to build and customize your SharePoint solutions once and re-use them as many times as you want.

To learn more about customizing your SharePoint list forms in InfoPath 2010, check out our earlier posts on the InfoPath Team Blog.

Henry Sowizral on Refacing C++ with WPF in Expression Design

March 14, 10 //

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While on campus for the MVP Summit in February, I had a chance to visit Henry Sowizral over in building 41. Henry Sowizral is a Principal Architect in Microsoft Expression, and he and his team did something really cool: they converted an existing C/C++/MFC application to have a WPF front-end, while still leveraging all that existing code.

If you have legacy code and are considering porting the UI to .NET, pick up some pointers from Henry.

Once you’ve finished, check out Henry’s presentation deck on how the team converted the Expression Design UI to WPF.

See more WPF at Pete’s site and blog http://10rem.net
Follow Pete on twitter at @pete_brown

The Access Show: How the Microsoft Legal Department Uses Access 2010 Web Databases

March 8, 10 //

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Meet Malori! Malori is a paralegal in Microsoft’s legal department. She manages patent applications and assigns them out to attorneys and portfolio managers as well as other paralegals. Malori was looking for a way to make her team more efficient by presenting all of the information they needed in a single web page or application. Our team jumped in and made an Access Services solution, which allows her to manage all the data and provide custom views to her teammates. Today this web database is used by over 80 attorneys working on different cases at Microsoft.

In today’s episode, Malori shares her experience with Access Services and how it has helped her be more efficient.

Learn more about Access 2010 on the team blog.

Brother to Brother: The Sampsons – From Rocky’s Boots to the Cloud Frontier

February 23, 10 //

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Mike Sampson (aka Sampy) is a lead developer who has worked on two iterations of Channel 9 and several other websites that sprung from our team. Before joining us, Sampy was a developer on the Visual Basic team. As you’ll learn here, he started programming at a young age. Sampy’s got mad skillz.

Adam Sampson (aka Sampy’s younger brother) is a developer on the Windows Azure SDK team. He’s done some very interesting experiments in/on Azure, as you’ll see (in fact, he’s known as the “guy who gets crazy stuff to run on Azure”). Apparently, MadSkillz are genetic constructs..

This is the first (and potentially last) episode in a series of brother-to-brother interviews on C9. Here, Sampy interviews Adam about what Adam is working on (Azure dev platform samples) and the brothers reveal the secret to their success in software development and more. Tune in.

Enjoy.

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