Patrick’s Bytes

VST S ‘Rosario’ CTP - Next version of VSTS after VSTS 2008 - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb725993.aspx

Team System Rocks website - Lots of freeware and forum - http://teamsystemrocks.com/default.aspx

Personify TeamSpec - VSTS for Business Analyst, still in beta and FREE! - http://www.personifydesign.com/products/teamspec/

stpSoft - A story board tool for creating screens shots using Visio and integration with TFS - http://www.stpsoft.co.uk/

A x’mas carol from Don Box, Amanda Silver and Chris Anderson

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=367997#367997

Here is the lyrics

Module VB
Dim myvar As Integer?() = {3 * 3}
Sub Main()
For Each i In myvar
            Console.Write(”Hello VB”)
With i
                Console.Write(.Value)
End With REM a language so true
If i IsNot Nothing Then
               Console.WriteLine()
End If REM
            Console.Write(<some>xml</some>)
Next
End Sub
End Module

With the acquisition of MapInfo, finally we might have detailed Malaysia’s map in Virtual Earth with APIs and web services exposed to developers! So the first thing I did was to click on MapInfo and try to locate places I used to stay, studied or worked. To my dismay what I found out that Sek Tinggi Chung Ling (my high school) is misspelled as Chueng Ling, no wonder I can’t locate my school via the search box la!!

It is still a preview site now but quite user friendly

http://preview.microsoft.com/downloads/

Joel Oleson posted a blog on details of the long waited SharePoint 3.0 SP1 which includes new capabilities such as:

1. Support for ASP.NET AJAX v1.0
2. Support for Windows Server 2008
3. New stsadm commands

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/11/29/preview-into-wss-3-0-sp1-and-sharepoint-server-2007-sp1.aspx