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No one is biting on templates or starter kits yet.... There has to be something more people need. A few exist here on MSDN, but let's dream.
Link to Visual Studio 2005 Starter Kits
Does anyone have ideas of what would be useful? Are any of these almost there, but need some new features? What are those features? What technologies would be good to take advantage of?
Interesting news on the VSTS front....
Microsoft Acquires devBiz, Makers of TeamPlain Web Access
Microsoft is excited to announce the acquisition of devBiz Business Solutions, makers of TeamPlain Web Access, a Web interface for Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server that enables users to manage Team Foundation work items, version control, documents and reports. TeamPlain is available as a free download for existing Team Foundation Server users, and will be incorporated into a future release of Visual Studio Team System.
Now Available: Visual Studio Team System Roadmap of Future Releases
The Visual Studio Team System roadmap provides insight into future releases of Visual Studio Team System, including major product releases, out-of-band power tools releases, and service releases.
Source: Visual Studio Team System
One of our guests here today is the professer of the kid that created the beer launch fridge at Duke...
We had a interesting conversation this morning at breakfast about that project and other interesting devices the young engineer has created. I would love to play with his tennis ball cannon that generate muzzle velocities of 500 mph. Return that serve.....
I don't know how many folks are familiar with Microsoft Technology Summit. We are in our 3rd year, once again I find myself sitting in the conference center in Redmond. Interesting crowd once again.
The basic premise is this. We (the Microsoft Developer field) research and seek out influential IT folk in the world, with a focus on those that may not deal with us or even like us. And we invite them to campus in Redmond, and spend 3 days have a conversation. Some of lead lead architects, lead researchers, scientists, come in, and have a conversation about what Microsoft is doing and planning on doing in the future. And not just the what, but the why. And I feel the why is often more important than the what.
This year we have 50 people from all over the world, a mixture of corporate and community folk. No NDA is signed. They can talk about, blog about, and report on anything they hear. Go seek out the blogs. There is usually a significant number of people blogging during the event.
We are in our first talk right now, Bill Hilf. More later on the audience...