so yesterday I received some great news, I have been awarded an MVP for Team System..... how do I feel? awesome..... but I got this through meeting and learning from the most amazing individuals both in my company and inside Microsoft, working with these people has been the most amazing ride... so I'm going to give thanks to my colleagues and friends, ......

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So I'm off to Redmond on Saturday to go to the Rosario TAP kickoff being held next week, packing for the trip is now down to a fine art, however my dilemma is what to buy when I'm out there... with the exchange rate working in my favor just exactly what should I get (by the way I'm going from GBP to USD) So on the list of possible's Zune or iPod Touch ......

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So the guys over at the Smart Client Contrib site have just published a sample application and a demo script, now that is awesome. For me this is going to be of great help as although I'm known as the factory guy in my org, I don't always have time to keep my own personal factory samples as up to date as I'd like.... and if truth be told sometimes I'm ......

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On Wednesday you may want to take a little stroll over to here Here's an overview The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is source code and guidance for developers describing how to use Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies together in business applications and Internet Web sites. SharePoint applications that use ......

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My buddy ET the rockstar.... way to go man :)

Launch 2008, the Toronto press event

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Web Client Software Factory - February 2008 is now available for download... here

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THEY'RE HERE..... Service Factory Modeling Edition - February 2008 has landed.... download the source from here, binary from here Happy days :) .... not much to say I'm off to download and install into my VHD's ......

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Web Client Software Factory - Feb 2008 release is almost with us, the wiki has been updated.... just gotta keep hitting refresh on the releases page :) With all the chatter on the discussion forums for people wanting to get their hands on both this and the Service Factory, it feels more like the launch of a must have gadget ;) All I can say is that ......

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spend all of your day in Visual Studio? Want to make the most of your experience with new products and extensions for VS? you might want to go check out Visual Studio Gallery for a ton and I mean a ton of extensions

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I go away for a weekend thinking meh what could happen between now and Monday, well I'm really pleased to say that GAX 1.4 is with us!!! or as per this screen grab GAX 1.0 ???? :) Yeah Baby GAT/GAX (sorry guys, I really can't get used to saying GAX/GAT :) February 2008 Final Release is here. (hmm exactly what does Final Release mean?) So what are the ......

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It's late (well for my timezone).... so I'll just point you to Mike's blog 

more on this tomorrow :)

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Mark has just posted the link to a survey on Team System Architecture Edition / Team Suite, please take the time to go do this survey...... Software Factory tooling needs you :) See Mark's post here for more details and the link ......

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The VSX team have posted a bunch of gotcha's and the associated workarounds for the 2008 VS SDK here.... thx guys.... I've now added that to my favorites :)

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Is it just me or are we all back up to full speed now that Christmas and New Year are finally over? an example of this is that it feels like the firehose has been opened wide today :) Anyway Snippets, samples, resources, oh my!! The MSDN Code Gallery has just been launched, and it promises to bring tons of goodies for us developer types, see Soma's ......

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Hat tip again to Gareth for the link to the excellent work being done by Jean-Marc Prieur, so if you need your model and your code to stay in sync, it looks like we have some tooling to help automate this. I've not had chance to have a play with this yet, but its now high on my task list for this week :) .... I'll post more on this once I've had a chance ......

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