If you are working with the Team System test tools and would like to ask questions to the product team, here is your opportunity! The chat is happening at 10AM PST/1PM EST. Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developer & Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers When: Wednesday, November...

On November 7th, Microsoft will be launching Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006 in Toronto! It promises to be a huge event with two tracks (IT Pro and Developer), Cabanas, the works. If that wasn't enough, Microsoft will be giving everyone fully functional "non-evaluation" software...

Cross posted with my Team System blog : I've got two great opportunities if you would like to interact with the VSTS team and help shape V2 of the product. The first opportunity is a chat this Wednesday with the Dev & Test tools team. The chat starts at 10:00 AM PST (1:00 PM EST) - bring your questions...

I just got word last night that: 1) My MVP status has been renewed for a third year, and 2) I am now officially a Team System MVP ! Thanks to Noah Coad , everyone on the product team and everyone in the MVP program for your support! Interestingly enough, Etienne Tremblay and I appear to be the only Team...

I'm finally back from the MVP Summit. I had a great time but it was exhausting - kind of a "sleep-deprivation experiment gone wrong" and jetlag. I'll blog some more about the trip but first I thought I would share some of the pictures from the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jldavid/ Rob Caron has...

As reported by Mark Relph (and as a follow up to my previous blog post here ), you can now sign up for the official Canadian product launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006. Here are the primary sites to visit for more information: Canadian Launch Tour Blog http://blogs...

The Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Release Candidate is now available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads . I'm sure this will be one of the many downloads I'll be doing in the next couple of days, including BillG's keynote tomorrow morning (11:30 AM Toronto time). To view a more candid, relaxed Bill Gates,...

Wow...this is a milestone. My 100th post! :-) While navigating through the MSDN blogs for interesting PDC posts, I found the official blog for the Canadian Launch Tour 2005 . The blog was started up by Mark Relph and is accessible at the following link: http://blogs.msdn.com/canadian_launch_tour_2005...

On October 24th, I'll be appearing on BlaBla DotNet , a French radio show on the topic of software development. I'll be chatting with Mario Cardinal about Team System, and more specifically the features of MSF Agile and CMMI (I wrote the MSF chapter in the upcoming book Professional Visual Studio 2005...

Rob Caron recently reported a very cool series of Team System webcasts for the month of April. I'll definitely be there. Speaking of Team System, I've been closely following the controversy around the MSDN pricing of VSTS . My take on it: Microsoft's pricing of Team System is bang on - for Enterprise...