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Huddled Masses - FYI: Visual Studio 2010 Technical Readiness Training

“I got an email about this earlier, and figured I’d share it. There’s a four-part technical readiness Live Meeting series for Visual Studio 2010 coming up in a couple of weeks.

Visual Studio 2010 became available on April 12. To help you get started and get the most value from this release, Microsoft has picked the four technical sessions below to allow you to attend any or all sessions that apply to you. You can read more details by following the links below:

…Everyone who attends a session will entered to win a Microsoft Visual Studio logo Fun Prize Pack (ERV $60)!!”

Visual Studio 2010 Live Meeting: Session 1 - Visual Studio 2010 Tips & Tricks
Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Visual Studio 2010 Live Meeting: Session 2 - Visual Studio 2010 Architectural Tools
Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Visual Studio 2010 Live Meeting: Session 3 - Improving Development Practices with Visual Studio 2010
Thursday, June 03, 2010 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Visual Studio 2010 Live Meeting: Session 4 - Streamlining Testing with Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools
Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

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SESSION 1: Visual Studio 2010 Tips & Tricks

In this demo heavy tour, you will learn about out-of-the-box productivity features in Visual Studio 2010. Whether you're trying to come up to speed with an unfamiliar code base, navigate your way through a large solution, write in new pieces of business logic, or test your application, these tips and tricks will help you get your job done better and faster. Most demos will be in C# but we’ll also introduce some F# capability. If you are a developer using Visual Studio, this is the session to sit back, watch and enjoy!

SESSION 2: Visual Studio 2010 Architectural Tools

This is an overview of the new Architecture capabilities available in Visual Studio 2010.  This new version of Visual Studio completely changes the architecture capabilities.  In addition to UML 2.0 compliant models, this session will demonstrate visualizing existing assets with architecture tools.  Tracing between other work items such as requirements and models will be shown as well as enforcement of layered architectures as part of the build process.

SESSION 3: Improving Development Practices with Visual Studio 2010

This is an overview of the new development in Visual Studio 2010. New capabilities of historical debugging, code analysis, profiling and the new test impact analysis will be demonstrated. Working with Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010, gated-checkin will be discussed as well as the tester/developer collaboration experience. The new architect tools will be demonstrated to facilitate a better understanding of how modeling is a part of the development experience.

SESSION 4: Streamlining Testing with Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools

This Visual Studio 2010 overview features Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 testing tools including using the new Microsoft Test and Lab Manager to manage and automate your UI testing. The use of Test Lab will be discussed as a means of automating the creation of virtual environments for testing purposes. Deploying to VM environments during build will be demonstrated and facilitate a robust developer/tester lifecycle. For a taste of real-world use, the test plans and test process used to perform multi-platform testing of Notion Tools for Team System will be shown.

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I know one of the presenters, Dave McKinstry (cough… name drop… cough) and like his presentation style. Plus I’m reminded every day how much there is to learn, so I try to take every opportunity I can to catch up (that’s cheap and convenient at least ;)

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