David Anderson of Microsoft will be hosting a Webcast and Chat on August 18th. The Webcast will run from 11 AM to 12 PM Pacific Time (GMT -8), with the chat starting at 12 PM and running to 1 PM Pacific Time. Bring your MSF/CMMI questions and be there.

Thanks to Rob Caron for the original posting ...

Since I have nothing else going on in my life (ya - right), I thought I would start installing the July CTP of TFS and VSTS. This CTP requires a dual-installation, because you have to use the June CTP of SQL Server 2005 which uses a different build of the .NET Framework than VSTS July CTP. Anyway, I've run into some problems, which I will share with you ...

• You can install SQL 2005 June CTP on the same VPC as the DC, because of this problem.
• So, I had to create a separate VPC for the DC (at least it runs with < 200mb of memory allocated).

More to come, I'm sure ...

If anyone is planning on attending the PDC, be sure to come a day early and check out the great pre-conferences. I'll be presenting a full day on Team System development, Sunday the 11th.

See you in LA!

Thanks for attending Steve and/or my talks (if you did). Here are links to the presentations on SQL Server 2005 and Team System.

• Introducing Visual Studio 2005 Team System
• SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence (BI)
• SQL Server 2005 for Developers
  

Thank you for attending my talks in Amsterdam this week. As promised, here are the presentation materials and sample code from my talks:

• DEV300 - Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (TFS) Extensibility (PPT) - 2.6 mb
• DEV300 - Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (TFS) Extensibility (Samples) - 2.4 mb
• SEC385 - Practical Security for Internet and Extranet Solutions (PPT and screenshots) - 4.3 mb
• SEC385 - Practical Security for Internet and Extranet Solutions (Samples) - 1 mb

I hope you enjoyed the talks. I know I did. Please email me with any questions!

-Rich

From Zig Ziglar (via Jim McKeeth) ... "The only thing worse than training good employees and losing them is NOT training your employees and keeping them."

Server was down for a few days, due to a freak power outage (human error) at our hosting company. Long story short, the server was waiting patiently for several days for someone to press the F1 key ... I hate hardware!

A bit later than I'd hoped!  Here's are the presentation for Security Summit at TechEd 2005!

Enjoy!

Security For Developers - TechEd 2005 - Threat Modeling.ppt (1.15 MB)

Security For Developers - TechEd 2005 - Web Applications.ppt (767.5 KB)

Security For Developers - TechEd 2005 - Protecting Data.ppt (621.5 KB)

Security For Developers - TechEd 2005 - Code Access Security.ppt (1.01 MB)

For those who missed last week's "Learning Visual Studio Team System" chat, and can't wait for Microsoft to publish the transcript. Here it is, in its full and unedited form.

Wanted to post a few photos of the book and my buddies.