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New Meeting Location
After meeting monthly at Microsoft's office in Waterfront Place for over 12 years, we have moved. Actually, Microsoft have moved and have kindly agreed to allow user groups to continue meeting on their premises.
From May 2011, our meetings are held in their new office at
Level 28, 400 George St
(cnr Turbot St).
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Meeting Dates: Meetings are generally held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, apart from December where that's a bit late in the month. See below for details of our upcoming meetings.
Location and Time: Meetings are held at Microsoft's Brisbane Office, Level 28, 400 George St, Brisbane. Most arrive around 5:30pm for a 6pm start and we are normally finished around 7:30. It is important to arrive before the building lifts are locked at 6pm. Late arrival procedure: see Monthly Meetings.
All welcome; bring your friends and colleagues. Whenever possible, pizza and drinks are supplied.
November Meeting - CANCELLEDTuesday 15 Nov 2011
Due to unforseen curcumstances, I've been unable to organise this meeting. Apologies to all, especially Steven Nagy who was all prepped and ready to go. -- Mike
October MeetingTuesday 18 Oct 2011
An opportunity to catch up with Microsoft's revelations at last month's //Build Conference in Anaheim…
What's new in Visual Studio ALM vNext?
Anthony Borton, Enhance ALM
At the recent //Build Conference, Microsoft shared lots of news and information about what's coming up in the next version of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. Anthony Borton attended the conference and will be presenting a session covering as much of this information as we can fit into a meeting. He'll also be bringing his Samsung Series 7 slate along running Windows 8 Developer Preview that everyone attending //Build received.
Some of the things you’ll see in action at the meeting include:
- The StoryBoarding Add-in
- The new Feedback Manager
- TFS on Azure
- The new developer experience
- And much more
About Anthony Borton
Anthony is the lead ALM consultant for Enhance ALM Pty Ltd, an Australian consulting and training company specializing in Application Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Visual Studio. He has been working with Visual Studio Team System full-time since 2005 and has worked with a variety of companies ranging up to some of Australia's largest companies and financial institutions. Anthony is a sought after trainer and has delivered technical training and consulting in the United States and all across the Asia Pacific region. He is a Microsoft MVP (Visual Studio ALM), a Professional Scrum Developer Trainer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
| Date: | Tuesday 18 Oct 2011 |
| Time: | 17:30 for an 18:00 start, finishing approx 19:30. |
| Location: | Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 28, 400 George St, Brisbane |
RSVP:
All welcome. Bring your colleagues.
Registration via Eventbrite is essential.
Postscript:
All of the demo scripts used by Anthony are available in a Hyper-V virtual machine containing Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview ALM. Detailed instructions for downloading the VM as well as 6 hands-on-labs are available on Brian Keller's blog post Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts.
Videos of the //Build conference sessions are available from www.buildwindows.com.
Upcoming Meeting Dates
Future Meeting Dates… to be confirmed
| Tue 18 Oct 2011 | Anthony Borton, What’s new in Visual Studio ALM vNext |
| Tue 15 Nov 2011 | Steven Nagy, tbc, Azure SDK 1.5 ? |
| Tue 13 Dec 2011 | Adam Cogan, CRM 2011 |
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Previous Meetings
Many thanks to Bronwen Zande & John O'Brien for their September session, Kinecting The Dots – Developing with the Kinect SDK
John and Bronwen have a blog post listing links to their Favourite Kinect SDK resources. Channel9 has a video of their DEV202 session at Tech.Ed Australia 2011.
Thanks also to Patrick Klug for his brief showcase of some fun WPF animations.
Patrick has written a post containing resources from his presentation about WPF Animations, on his blog.
Many thanks to Leon Bambrick and Joseph Cooney for their June session
Asp.net MVC 3 -- "Third time's a charm".
Resources from all previous meetings, where available, are on the Previous Meetings page.
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