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Microsoft Developer Tools, Tricks, Thoughts, Practices, Events and other pondering...

Time reporting with TFS

One area that some people dislike about TFS is also an area that others vehemently defend – that of...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 06/03/2014

Not going to //BUILD? There are other options…

Microsoft’s primary forward looking developer conference (//BUILD/) is happening this week. ...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 03/31/2014

DENVER: Are you Agile? Do you Scrum?

Scrum is the #1 framework chosen by Agile software development teams. Visual Studio is a leader in...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 03/21/2014

Las Vegas developers… mark your calendar!

If you’re a developer in the Las Vegas area and you’re interested in the latest development tools...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 01/27/2014

2014 Development Events for the US Desert Mountain Region

I hope everyone had a great holiday season.  This year is starting off fast with a variety of...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 01/08/2014

More Visual Studio 2013 Launch events and ALM Webcasts

In addition to the Visual Studio Launch Events I wrote about in my previous blog entry, I wanted to...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 11/07/2013

Windows Azure Learning Opportunities

In the past when asked about Windows Azure and the cloud in general, I would reply that it was a...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 09/23/2013

LightSwitch and the Enterprise

Recently, one of our customers asked some interesting questions regarding the use of LightSwitch...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 07/09/2013

Any Plans for June?

It’s a time of year that many people are looking forward to Summer vacations.  But as you sit...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 05/23/2013

Are you running an obsolete Visual Studio 2012?

Yes, you read that correctly… “an obsolete Visual Studio 2012!” Now that is a...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 05/13/2013

About this blog…

This is my first blog posting on MSDN but not my first blog overall.  In fact I started...

Author: Dave McKinstry (Microsoft) Date: 05/10/2013