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Vancouver TechFest 2009 – Presentation

My presentation at the Vancouver TechFest this weekend went fairly well, all things considered. I’d hoped I would have more time for an in-depth demo of the various ways to integrate business data into SharePoint 2007, but sadly I was limited to a demonstration of the Business Data Catalog consuming data from a Microsoft Dynamics [...]

Posted on November 23, 2009 at 10:35 pm by Graham Sibley · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta2 Experience

My experiences with Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta2 have been exellent for the most part, but I just spent the last few days trying to troubleshoot a client installation that just wasn’t working. Everything installed fine (as usual), but then something really bizarre happened … I couldn’t create team projects! [...]

Posted on November 9, 2009 at 11:14 pm by Graham Sibley · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Vancouver TechFest 2009

If you are in Vancouver on November 21, 2009, and are a techno-geek like myself, don’t forget to attend the Vancouver TechFest 2009. Vancouver TechFest is a free, single-day, community-driven conference covering a bunch of Microsoft technology areas specifically targeted to developers and IT professionals.
Burntsand is a Platinum Sponsor for the event, and I’ll be presenting Business [...]

Posted on November 5, 2009 at 10:19 pm by Graham Sibley · Permalink · One Comment
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What's new with Visual Studio Team System 2010 and MSDN?

I’ll be jointly presenting with Microsoft at an upcoming Vancouver event about the new features of Visual Studio Team System 2010, and the changes in VSTS and MSDN licensing. If you are in the area and interested in learning more about this, register for the event and come learn about some of these exciting changes:
What’s [...]

SharePoint 2010 Development Workstation

With the upcoming release of SharePoint 2010 I have been working with my team at Burntsand to determine what the optimal development workstation (laptop) should look like. The key planning point, of course, is that SharePoint 2010 only supports 64bit instances.
We’ve tried a number of combinations of hardware and software, and we have finally solidified [...]

Posted on August 30, 2009 at 8:42 pm by Graham Sibley · Permalink · 2 Comments
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