In this podcast Hassan Fadili speaks with Neno Loje (VS ALM MVP) about some of the new features in Visual Studio ALM & Visual Studio Team Foundation Service 2012. Of course, Neno also talks about some of the success stories and other areas that might be interesting to anyone who has a passion for application life cycle management. Links: Neno TFS blog: www.tfsblog.com The WHY book on TFS: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous...

Back in 2010, I wrote a course for Pluralsight on OData which covers the protocol in general and introduces the viewer to the client and server programming model. This year, Microsoft released updates to the ASP.NET Web API which includes support for OData in the controllers.  Since this latest release, I’ve received several questions about the differences between these two toolsets for building services that support OData and some guidance on which to use.  This is my attempt to answer...

My wife does a lot of work volunteering at our school.  No, check that, she does a metric ton of work. The school was planning a silent auction to raise money for various programs. As part of this, the group decided to hold an online auction allowing people to bid on various activities offered by the teachers. The only technology available to the group was a CMS for creating web pages and HTML forms that would send email messages.  My wife was planning to respond to email and update the...

BizTalk Server 2013 (the 8th release!) has released to manufacturing, and is available NOW for download at MSDN for MSDN subscribers. You can read the team blog post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2013/03/21/biztalk-server-2013-is-now-rtm.aspx A list of enhancements can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/biztalk_server_team_blog/archive/2012/11/06/announcing-biztalk-server-2013-beta.aspx Enjoy! Blog Post by: Brian Loesgen

For a change an English language podcast :-)   In this podcast Maurice de Beijer speaks with Mads Kristensen about web tooling in Visual Studio 2012. Besides the standard build in tooling for web developer they also talk about Web Essentials 2012, the plugin Mads develops in his spare time to give web developers even more features and capabilities. Links: Blog: http://madskristensen.net/ Web Essentials 2012: http://vswebessentials.com/ Web Developer Checklist: http://webdevchecklist.com/asp...