Category Archives: VS2010

ALM Briefing at Microsoft Singapore

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Last week I was invited to speak at Microsoft Singapore’s ALM briefing event. I covered some interesting areas around software development life cycle and software testing. The main focus was on highlighting development + QA + project management eco-system offered by Microsoft’s ALM offering.
Some of the interesting discussions were around ‘Non repro’ problem and the power of lab center and test center. I think audience loved the fact that now developers and testers can think collaboration rather than being at ‘war’ all the time because they are using the same tools!

Update:

To download the slide deck and demo videos click here

Software Design Principles at Riyadh Online Community Summit

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I presented Software Design Complexity and VS 2010 Ultimate at the first Riyadh Online Community Summit last week. It was kind of fun doing an online talk, much like a podcast recording. There were technical challenges in terms of bandwidth issues for some speakers, but otherwise it a nice experience overall. I am told there were about 60+ online users at any given time so I would like to think of it as a good start. Big thanks to the guys who organized it ( Mohammad Halabi , Jerry Yasir and co.)

Combating software entropy 2-roc1-

Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tools

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I will be presneting a talk on Visual Studio Architecture tools at Microsoft Singapore’s ALM Workshop on 22nd September, 2010. I believe this is not a public event so unfortunately I cant request you to join me for it.

I will be covering tools and features available in Visual Studio 2010 Utlimate eidition that allow developers and architects to

1- gain better understanding of existing code (and hence helping with improvements/enhancements),

2- design up front (for those who are lucky enough to work on green field projects) :)

3- and to check and validate continuously if the design == code

I am super excited as this topic is very close to my heart! I am hoping the audience will like it and I will be able to share the slides + demoes with you all.

Office Development with VS 2010

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Get up to date with office development on .net platform with Somasegar’s post here

My personal favourite is simplification of .net’s integration with COM’s OM.

As per the example posted in Somasegar’s blog.

Instead of doing the following

object fileName = “Test.docx”;

object missing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;

doc.SaveAs(ref fileName,

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,

ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);

You can do with VS 2010

object fileName = “Test.docx”;

doc.SaveAs(fileName);