When: Wednesday 19th September 2007, doors open 6:00pm, meeting starts 6:30pm
Where: BAWA, Filton, Bristol (see FAQ for directions and a map) - Ground floor, room 4
What: Team Foundation Server - the answer to all project management problems ?
Who: Richard Fennell, Founding Director of Black Marble, a Microsoft Gold partner based in Yorkshire
Why: Because Team Foundation Server is Microsoft's flagship source repository and work and bug tracking software and because Richard Fennell is a real developer whose honest and direct speaking style is a breath of fresh air for anyone jaded with marketing speeches.
How do I sign up for this meeting: Send an email to meetings at dotnetdevnet.com and quote your user name and the September meeting
Abstract: (Richard is using both sessions to present Team Foundation Server)
Team Foundation Server - the answer to all project management problems?
Sick of SourceSafe? Is Microsoft's Team Foundation Server the answer to all your problems? In this seminar I will cover the key components and usage of TFS, installation issues, the range of third party tools available and how to write your own tools using the API.
The seminar will include demos of cool addins and tips drawn from bitter experience as well as a discussion as to how best to create a continuous integration environment with TFS via the API. I will also look at the changes to TFS in the upcoming ORCAS release.
About Richard:
Richard Fennell is a founding Director of Black Marble, a Microsoft Gold partner based in Yorkshire. He is a regular speaker at community events, speaking at DDD3 on Testing, DDD4 on Continuous Integration, as well as variety of user groups and free events run by his company. He has a degree in Computer Science, is a Member of the BCS, a Chartered IT professional and Chartered Engineer as well as holding MCSD.NET and MCAD accreditations.
Richard has over 20 years experience in the IT industry as both an IT administrator and a software developer and so is able to address a wide variety of software related issues.