Hosted by the Dallas .NET Users Group, the first of a series 30-minute of Entity Framework Webcasts will take place Friday July 17th, at 12:15 PM Central Time. Use the following link to register: http://www.clicktoattend.co... ......

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Recent events directly related to the Dallas Tech Fest led me to discover that there is not one place to find out about all the developer communities in the Dallas Fort Worth area, that prompted me to create this post, which I intend to update as I get additional information. Dallas .NET Users Group D. Omar Villarreal http://TeamSystemRocks.com/... ......

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This is apparently a known issue and I seem to remember I saw this issue a long time ago. I was installing VSTS 2010 Beta 1 on a VPC (yes, VPC, not Hyper-V) and I mounted the VSTS image (.iso) file on the Virtual PC for it to appear as if the actual disc was inserted, then as you can see on the screenshot below, I got Error 1330 a couple of minutes ......

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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 was made available to MSDN subscribers to download yesterday and will be available to the non-subscribers (general public) tomorrow. There are many cool new features in the different team editions of Visual Studio. If you are looking at the tools and have any questions (or answers) be sure to visit the Visual Studio 2010 forums ......

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There is a bug in the TFS 2010 Beta 1 installation, it is described in section 1.3.4 of the Readme file but since a lot of us go read that file after installation is complete I figured the more blog posts exist about the issue the more people will know about it and avoid it. But I will not get into details or reinvent the wheel, the information is in ......

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… off to create a new VPC for it and prepare to do some demos at the Dallas VSTS UG this Wednesday evening:

http://www.DallasVsts.com

http://dallasvstsug.ning.com

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I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to my participation in the Bike MS event, a 2-day/150-mile fundraising bicycle ride, I want to thank those who made me aware of the event, those who have contributed with my fundraising for the National MS Society, and John Burns for being my training partner and for waiting for me at the training rides ......

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I hope it takes off. I really want a way to use my phone to scan items barcodes (in today's lingo). Woohoo!! It worked! The above tag points to my TSRocks blog. I just scanned it with my phone after I pasted it in this article using Live Writer and my mobile IE went to my blog. Check out MS Tag ......

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Thanks to Giovanni Gallucci for taking and posting the pictures: http://flickr.com/photos/th... ......

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Several people were asking me at the end of my session how they could start evaluating VSTS 2010 and I promised to post the information here, so here it is... I created a couple of tinyurl.com links for the people that wanted to write it down while they were there: http://tinyurl.com/MDCVsts2... (http://www.microsoft.com/d... ......

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