2011 March » ALM Rocks!

Wow! I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be speaking at Tech Ed 2011 – North America this year. The past couple of years I’ve spoken on Web Testing with ~~Visual Studio Team System~~ Visual Studio 2008. Now, I’m moving into the 2010 world. This year, I’ll be speaking on Intellitrace with Visual Studio 2010:

Here is the abstract for the session:

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides a wealth of functionality for figuring out what is happening with your application or even being able to debug what happened up to that point with IntelliTrace. But for most developers pressing F5, adding the odd breakpoint and stepping through the application is about as far as they get when debugging. Come to this session if you want to learn more about how to use the debugger and also IntelliTrace to track down those hard to spot errors fast, leaving you more time to write the code you want to be writing.

This is going to be a really cool session and I’m very excited about it. I’m starting to ramp up development of the session now, so, as I do on most topics that I speak on, I want to solicit from the community what they would be interested in hearing about, based on the session abstract.

Do you use Intellitrace at all? Do you have any horror stories, or success stories, about Intellitrace? Any examples that you want to share?

Ultimately, the success of my session will depend on delivering the content that you, the attendee, find both intelligent and helpful. So help me do that. Email me at mickey underscore gousset at yahoo dot com with any suggestions you might have around what you think would be interesting on the Intellitrace talk.

As I start to put the talk together, I’ll post what I can to my blog, so ya’ll can see how things are going, and can provide feedback.

Finally, I’m going to have some good giveaways at Tech Ed, either at my session, if they’ll let me, or afterwards at the booths. Some items I’ll be giving away include:

A copy of Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010, signed by all four authors.
T-Shirts! Everyone loves T-shirts.
Still working on some other ideas…

I’d love to have a packed session, so spread the word! And don’t forget to send me your thoughts on Intellitrace. I’d love to have a slide that presents the community’s thoughts and feelings.

VSTS Links – 03/30/2011

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Mar 302011

Team Explorer 2010 SP1 Bug viewing build summary

Discount ASP.NET offers Urban Turtle add-on

Visual Studio setup projects (vdproj) will not ship with future versions of VS

Managing TFS 2010: How to clean up test attachment data

Attend Nebraska Code Camp on April 9th, 2011

Speaking at TechEd North America 2011 – TFS and Project Server ALM Integration

TFS 2008 – New Area Path values are not available in work items

Silver Global Impact Award 2010

Only Running Impacted Tests in a CI Build

The Team Explorer Everywhere Tour 2011

MMS 2011–Day One Wrapup

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Mar 222011

So the first day of MMS 2011 is now behind us. It went really well. It focused mostly on Instructor Led Labs, with some break-out sessions. I attended the session on SCOM MP Design, as well as using Data Protection Manager to bring back your Datacenter. Both sessions were delivered very well, and I learned some cool content in both.

Last night was also the opening expo. Infront has a booth (#346) at the show, and all of us were out in force to talk to customers and let them know all the ways that Infront could help them. Believe it or not, even though you are on your feet for hours, this is probably the most fun part of the show. I love getting to talk to old and potential new customers. There is nothing like seeing the light go on in their eyes as you begin explaining some of the things Infront has done with System Center, and how we might be able to help them.

I also had several former students from the classes I teach come up and talk with me. It gives you quite a good feeling to realize that you made a strong enough impression that they remember you a year later, and have made a special effort to come by the booth and say hello.

After the expo, it was back to the “Infront Crib” to plan for Day 2, and get a little work done. Unfortunately, work life (or life in general) doesn’t completely stop for any conference.

For Day 2 my plan is:

Work our Infront Booth from 12:30 PM to 2 PM. Come by and talk with me! Tell me you read this on the blog! Come tell me your System Center woes, and let me see what we can do to help you turn those into successes.
Attend BRK BG01 – Using Service Manager for Incident, Change, and Problem Management – Starts at 10:15
Attend BRK BB03 – Operations Manager 2012 Overview – Starts at 2:15
Attend BRK BB04 – Operations Manager 2012 Setup and Configuration – Starts at 4

I LOVE this opportunity to network with people, so come by the booth and say hi. Or send me at email (mickey underscore gousset at hotmail dot com) and let’s set something up. Or following me on twitter mickey_gousset and DM me there. I’d love the chance to talk with you, see how you are using System Center, and see how we might be able to help you take that to the next level.

Day 2 here I come!