Soma posted earlier today that beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework is available! It's going to be a great release for us working with VSTS!

So, time to explore the new bits. Here's some links I've found useful exploring the beta so far:

• Brian Harry has a great overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010 here. And several other detailed 2010 posts as well
• The Visual Studio 2010 product page
• Visual Studio 2010 videos on Channel 9
• Charles Sterling has posted about the new forums for VSTS 2010 and .NET 4.0.

So, go get downloading! Beta 1 is now available on MSDN for subscribers.

dotNetForum, a new .NET-community in Gothenburg, will have its first meeting May 26. The ambition is to have quarterly meetings on current subjects given by local developers.

At this first meeting Microsoft, with Johan Lindfors and Nils Stadling, will be there to present the latest on the Microsoft development platform, including .NET Services, Windows Azure and Silverlight 3.

I'm going to give a talk on what's new in VS 2010 and it's going to be a challenge to do that in 30 minutes...

Read more about the event here.

Earlier this week Ekobit released the new version of our TFS-Outlook integration product - TeamCompanion 2.1.

This version comes with considerable amount of new features. Some of the feature highlights are support for reports including multiple saved parameter sets for each report, Query by example work item query editor (supporting full-text search) for online search and desktop search integration for offline search, deep Outlook integration features (e.g. drag-n-drop a mail on work item to attach it, work item reminders and To-Do bar support, easy opening of TFS artifacts referred to in a notification mail, grouping as an equally valuable part of the query definition, easy way to create work item from a mail and vice versa etc.) and scheduled work item queries.

For more information see: the product homepage (www.teamcompanion.com).

The VSTS Rangers just published a quick reference on Visual Studio Team Test. The guide covers the following:

At a first glance it looks really nice and contains lots of very practical content.

Just recently the VSTS Rangers shipped some important guidance packages for MOSS TFS development.

The two whitepapers are:

VSTS Rangers - SharePoint Server Custom Application Development: Document Workflow Management Project
VSTS Rangers - Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications

The first article is created during a real world customer engagement and answers dozens of frequently asked questions and how-tos in a real world context vs. theoretical discussions. The second package addresses very common questions around setting up and using TFS features for a MOSS development project.

There's also additional guidance from P&P here: patterns & practices: SharePoint Guidance

Visual Studio Team System 2010
Nästa version av Visual Studio är på gång och det kommer att vara mycket nytt i denna version. Så för att ligga bra i startblocken så tänkte vi ta en titt på nyheterna i VSTS och TFS 2010 redan nu. I Team System 2010 kommer många nyheter för arkitekten, utvecklaren, testaren och projektledaren.
 
Eftersom detta också är årets första aktivitet tänkte vi också ta tillfälle att diskutera upplägg och innehåll för årets SweNug-aktiviteter.
 
Presentationen hålls av Mathias Olausson från Callista Knowledgebase. Mathias arbetar med systemutveckling i .NET och är Team System MVP.
 
Tid:                      Torsdagen 26/2 17.00-19.00
Plats:                  Informator, Drakegatan 9, Göteborg
 
Informator bjuder på fika!
 
Anmälning denna gång skickas till: mathias.olausson at callista.se senast tisdag 24/2.

OBS: glöm inte av avanmäla om du inte kommer! Det är svårt att få sponsorer och de som hjälper oss ska inte behöva stå med massor av mat som bilr över!

Jim Lamb has posted a great summary about things you can do to improve build performance in TFS 2008.

Many of the things mentioned are described in the excellent book on MSBuild and Team Build "Inside The Microsoft Build Engine Using MSBuild And Team Foundation Build". If you haven't looked at it yet make sure you do!

And beware of the TargetNotLogged fix may not have been applied correctly as described in my previous post.