25.4.13

Free: E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies

"Download content for ASP.NET, Office, SQL Server, Windows Azure, SharePoint Server and other Microsoft technologies in e-book formats. Reference, guide, and step-by-step information are all available. All the e-books are free. New books will be posted as they become available." (link below)

17.4.13

TFS 2012 update 2 - my favorite features


Although there is a lot of new features you may find in update 2 (you can find full list here),

These are my favorite features from the current update.

  • New Blue Theme for Visual Studio IDE - good bye gray boring style.
  • TFS 2012 update 2 has a backward compatibility with build machines from 2010, which means you don't need to upgrade the build infrastructure while upgrading to TFS 2012.
  • Work item tagging - which is a new way of filtering work item query's results.
  • While upgrading to 2012 you'll have as default your old version parameters, which means you don't need to remember all old configuration.
  • New TFS connection dialog.

Microsoft currently working on update 3 (mainly for bug fix)...

4.4.13

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 - Available for Download

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 is available for download here.
Read more about it at Somasegar's blog (the corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft).