Yesterday I gave a talk at the local Swedish DOTNET user-group, SweNug, about how to improve software quality using Visual Studio Team System. This presentation covers both client-side tools, like unit-testing, code coverage and profiling, as well as the server-side features of Team Foundation Server.

The presentation can be downloaded here: Quality Software using VSTS.ppt (1.67 MB)

Last week I started off a series of seminars together with Microsoft Sweden on the topic "Effective Software Development using Visual Studio Team System". The focus in these presentations is to talk about why it is so hard to build software today and how tools like Visual Studio Team System can help that situation. The presentation covers: 

• The situation today
• The VSTS concept and how it addresses important issues in today's project
• Agile software development
• Team foundation server and how it helps to make collaboration in teams better.

The presentation can be downloaded here: Effective VSTS.ppt (2.84 MB)

For the list of events, look at the Swedish MSDN site: http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/msdn/

The next upcoming event is on april 24 in Stockholm and you can register for it here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032334913&culture=sv-SE

Today Microsoft announced the aquisition of TeamPlain, the brilliant web-frontend for Team Foundation Server, from the company DevBiz. The full press-release can be found here.

TeamPlain solves some of the most common issues people have with Team Foundation Server and its web-frontend (or, rather, lack of it). TeamPlain has a really neat UI that will appeal to the entire team, not only to users outside of Visual Studio (like project managers, business analysts and end-users).

All users with valid client access licenses of Team Foundation Server can download the product here and start using it right away.