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About anthonyborton

Anthony Borton is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio ALM. He is the principle ALM Consultant/Trainer at Enhance ALM, based in Brisbane, Australia.

Installing TFS2010 with SharePoint Foundation 2010

When you install TFS 2010, you can have the setup automatically install and configure Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 (WSS) for you. Unfortunately you can’t have it use SharePoint Foundation 2010 instead so you are faced with manually installing this if … Continue reading

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Enhance ALM joins forces with QuickLearn

Enhance ALM is pleased to announce we have joined forces with QuickLearn to make our Visual Studio ALM courses available in the United States and Europe. Through this partnership the following courses are now available in these overseas markets. Configuring … Continue reading

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Lunch Bytes with Anthony Borton: Streamlining your Development Process with Visual Studio

Most organizations fall into the trap of optimizing a part of their development process while failing to look at the end-to-end development process. Although this low-hanging fruit approach can sometimes result in positive change, it very often misses the big … Continue reading

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New VS2010/TFS2010 Evaluation VHDs coming soon

If you’re currently using the evaluation VHDs from Microsoft to try out Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010, you will know that the VM’s are due to expire in the next two weeks on or around the 15th December 2010. … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 now available

Microsoft has just released Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 for MSDN Subscribers. This new feature pack has delivered a number of much anticipated features aimed at the testing area of Visual Studio 2010. In summary the keywords for this … Continue reading

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Coded UI Testing – Support for Silverlight 4 coming very soon

One of the most frequent questions I get asked when I present on the testing features in Visual Studio 2010 is “Does this work on Silverlight applications?”  My usual response has been to say “Not yet, but it’s in the … Continue reading

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Using Microsoft Test Manager? Get this Hotfix

Microsoft has released a hotfix rollup for Microsoft Test Manger to address a number of issues that users may be experiencing. I have experienced a number of the issues addressed in this hotfix rollup including a few while doing presentations … Continue reading

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Wellington VSTS UG presentation–Scrum and TFS2010

Next Tuesday night (26th Oct 2010) I have the pleasure of presenting a session for the Wellington VSTS Users group in New Zealand. For anyone in Wellington, here are the details of the meeting. When is the User Group session … Continue reading

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New Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management course released

Over the past few months, I have been busy working on a new course focusing on the Lab Management features of Visual Studio 2010. During it’s Beta-2 release, I worked with a number of customers to help them install and … Continue reading

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Free 1/2 day seminar–Driving Business Value with VS2010

Next month I have the pleasure of heading across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand to present a free half day seminar on behalf of Microsoft NZ. The seminar is entitled “Driving Business Value with Visual Studio 2010” and will … Continue reading

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