The Irish Microsoft Technology Conference will be held in Dublin on June 7th and will host a wide range of speakers including Tim Sneath from Microsoft. The sessions will cover topics such as:
- Building Silverlight Applications using .NET
- Visual Studio “Orcas” and AJAX
- Microsoft Expression Studio
- SDLC the Team System way
and lots more. Here is the full agenda.
The conference is organised by MTUG (Microsoft Technology User Groups of Ireland) and IrishDev.com in association with Microsoft Ireland.
The price of the conference is only EUR50 including lunch. You can’t really beat that!
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I attended the Agile with Team System and DB Pro event hosted by MTUG Cork on Monday night. The evening was broken into two sessions, Brendan Lawlor firstly presented “Can Microsoft Development be Agile?†which was an excellent presentation. Brendan began by describing what he meant by Agile by drawing an unexpected but excellent analogy to Zara (an agile company in the clothing industry). He then proceeded to show how his company (Decare) has implemented the agile methodology using Microsoft Team System taking advantage of continuous integration, unit testing and refactoring capabilities built in. I really enjoyed the talk especially since I am an ethusiastic CruiseControl.Net /Nant / NUnit user for the past two years.
The second session was entitled “Introducing your Database Objects to the Agile Process Using Microsoft Visual Team System†presented by Alan Crowley. Alan explained how with the emergence of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals that the database has really been integrated into the software development process. Database scripts and schemas are now treated as a standard artifact and can be subject to the same processes as regular code, including source control, refactoring and unit testing. It really showed that Microsoft have put some thought into how to bring in the work of the DBA or SQL Developer into the software development process.
Overall time well spent with two very interesting sessions. Looking forward to more MTUG Cork sessions in the near future. Thanks to Joe Gill as ever for organising everything.
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I am working on moving a .NET 1.1 App (Visual Studio.NET 2003) from Visual SourceSafe to Perforce Source Control. In Visual Studio.NET 2005 it is easy to change the source control provider by going to Tools -> Options -> Source Control -> Plug-in Selection. Unforunately in Visual Studio.NET 2003 it is not quite so straightforward and it isn’t possible to change the source control provider directly from the IDE. You need to modify the registry to actually change the source control provider in Visual Studio.NET 2003. I found a nice little application (Source Control Provider (SCP) Selector) that sits in your system tray that allows you to change the source control provider just by selecting the appropriate one from a list. It worked a charm for me!
Source Control Provider (SCP) Selector
http://www.kilic.net/weblog/archives/000183.html
Update: You will need to restart Visual Studio once you change your source control provider, it isn’t sufficient to just close and open the new solution.
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