Events

Microsoft are celebrating a number of product launches and innovations during TechDays: a week of technology and social events. Black Marble is joining in with a Northern event exploring how you can get the most from the latest technology releases including Visual Studio 2010 and SilverLight4 and explore how Microsoft’s platform and tools bring together the clients, servers and services needed to build rich engaging applications.

This event is marking the launch of Visual Studio 2010 with a focus on Best Practices. It opens with a session by Black Marble covering Best Practices and ALM with Visual Studio 2010, and is followed up by Matt Nunn, Visual Studio Product Manager, speaking on “Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 for Everyone”.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 for Everyone

Are you still using Visual SourceSafe? Is your source code in Subversion? Have you hobbled together a set of open source tools that just “get the job done”? Team Foundation Server 2010 is the best next-step from Visual SourceSafe and other version control systems. In this session we will dispel the myths for why you aren’t already using Team Foundation Server, show you how get started—including migrating your existing code from Visual SourceSafe—and introduce you to some of the additional capabilities of Team Foundation Server that will enable you to set up continuous integration builds—with quality gates – and document and track items from your backlog. If you’ve been thinking about trying Team Foundation Server, now is the time to check it out.

Speaker Bio

Matt Nunn is a Sr. Product Manager with Visual Studio where he has led technical product management efforts for the last 4+ years focused on the ALM products and the business of Application Lifecycle Management with Microsoft tools.

Prior to joining the Visual Studio team Matt spent 3 ½ years working on the SQL Server team where he helped to launch SQL Server 2005 and 1 ½ years with the Microsoft Office team helping define and promote Office as a development platform.

For 10 years prior to joining Microsoft, Matt worked as a technical consultant and project manager designing and building software systems with various consulting companies both in the US and the UK.

Matt has numerous magazine articles and conference talks to his name including sessions at Tech Ed and PDC over the last 12 years.

You can contact Matt - mattnunn [at] microsoft.com

Stick around after this morning session as there is another: “Mix in the North” Fresh from Mix10 in Las Vegas, Black Marble is bringing all the key news and highlights from the Microsoft Web Conference. Along with Black Marble, Microsoft’s own SilverLight Guru, Jesse Liberty, will be speaking!