This tailored 3-day course provides students with the understanding and skills to effectively use Visual Studio 2005 Team System and Share Point in order to manage the software development lifecycle in a team-based environment. The course focuses on teaching system administrators and configuration managers the various features and capabilities of Team System and Share Point. This course dives deep into areas of customization and source control. It provides students with best practice knowledge and skills to effectively customize process templates and understand advanced concepts and check-in policies in an Agile development environment.

For information:  info@incyclesoftware.com

    Come join us for the first Montreal Visual Studio Team System user group meeting! - April 29, 2008

If you are going to be in the Montreal downtown area on April 29, 2008 then why not stop over at the Microsoft office on Avenue McGill College and come join us for the first Visual Studio User Group (VSTS UG) meeting?

As part of the Montreal .NET Community, we aim at bringing developers of all levels together to share, learn from experts, and grow their skills on VSTS. VSTS UG meetings will feature excellent user presentations, industry-specific breakout sessions, topical panel discussions, hands-on demonstrations and networking opportunities to interact with fellow users and VSTS experts.

The user group is run by Étienne Tremblay and Claude Remillard – both Team System MVP’s and well known experts in Microsoft technologies. They will be opening the first meeting with the following topic: ‘Visual Studio Team System Overview and Product Roadmap’.

‘VSTS Overview and Product Roadmap’ by Étienne Tremblay and Claude Remillard

04/29/2008 6:00 pm – Microsoft Office, 2000 Avenue McGill College, Montreal

Join us each month for new topics to learn more about Team System and dive into the many features included in the powerful and robust Team Foundation Server:

5/27/2008: Source Control, Build and Packaging with VSTS

6/10/2008: Testing Story with VSTS

16/09/2008: Advanced Developer features

14/10/2008: VSTS Tailoring

11/11/2008: Project/work management with Work items

9/12/2008: Process improvement with VSTS .

    TechEd U.S. 2008 IT Professionals Jun 10 -Jun 13, 2008

Tech·Ed IT Professionals will target 10,500 IT Professionals who are focused on architecting, building, deploying, managing, and/or securing a connected enterprise. This is the conference for IT administrators, which includes those managing systems, networks, databases, messaging, applications, file/storage systems, security, and desktop configurations.

    Heroes Happen Here (Montreal) - April 8, 2008

A product release from Microsoft always brings some pretty exciting features but it also introduces change in your environment that needs to be managed.

Attend the event in Montreal to take part in the launch of three new Microsoft products: Windows Server® 2008 Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 With demonstrations and face-to-face Q&A sessions with software experts and development teams, you’ll learn how the new products can help you virtualize your environment, run a more secure IO, and meet your daily challenges more efficiently. Plus, you get to bring home a promotional kit with versions of all three products.

The Technology Partner Briefing Tour ’07 is a full-day event that will give technology partners the opportunity to dive deep into new and yet-to-be released products and solutions.

Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 provide a trusted platform for creating and running the most demanding applications. Combined, the products provide a solid foundation for next-generation web applications, broad support for virtualization technology, and the ability to deliver the right information to all users to simplify decision making through a robust business intelligence platform. .

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the upcoming Orcas CTP.

  Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference July 10 - 12, 2007

While you are at the Microsoft World Wide Conference in Colorado, stop by InCycle's booth 651 to meet our personel and learn about the various VSTS services we provide. 

    Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System product group - July 3rd

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the upcoming Orcas CTP.

The noise, the lights, the people: it's the perfect learning environment.
Tech·Ed is the premier annual conference from Microsoft. Whether you're a developer seeking the latest tools or an IT pro seeking increased productivity, Tech·Ed 2007 will change the way you do your job.