The Patterns&Design team released some new eBooks.  This time it are 6 pocket guides.

1. Agile Architecture Method Pocket Guide
2. Web Application Architecture Pocket Guide
3. Mobile Application Architecture Pocket Guide
4. RIA Architecture Pocket Guide
5. Rich Client Application Architecture Pocket Guide
6. Service Architecture Pocket Guide

So happy reading for the end of this year.

Finally a new weekly links list.  The previous one was more then a month ago :-(.  One of the reasons is that I hadn't much time and I'm also having troubles with my knee.  In about 4 weeks I'm going to have an operation and then I'm out for at least 3-4 weeks.

Agile:

Applying agile practices in still-waterfall processes : http://blogs.msdn.com/architectsrule/archive/2008/04/08/applying-agile-practices-in-still-waterfall-processes.aspx

Office:

Outlook SMS Officer :/http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/04/07/introducing-smsofficer.aspx

TFS:

CTP Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 - What's new : http://blogs.msdn.com/hakane/archive/2008/04/09/what-s-new-in-tswa-2008-sp1.aspx
CTP Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 - Download : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A06ED577-DE38-426F-9341-3F78E46DA09A&displaylang=en
CTP Work Item Web Access 2008 - What's WIWA : http://blogs.msdn.com/hakane/archive/2008/04/09/what-is-work-item-web-access-wiwa.aspx
CTP Work Item Web Access 2008 - Download : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FAED8359-F54D-480E-8A86-F154D3DEA07E&displaylang=en
Richt text in work items : http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools/archive/2008/04/09/rich-text-in-work-items.aspx
March TFS Times newsletter : http://www.tfstimes.com/news/
March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released : http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/04/21/march-08-team-foundation-server-power-tools-released.aspxv
TFS Sticky Buddy from Martin Hinshelwood : http://www.codeplex.com/TFSStickyBuddy

Visual Studio:

A new place for the Visual Studio hotfixes : http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/

Code quality

• http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2008/03/01/microsoft-fxcop-1-35-for-download.aspx

VSTS

• TFS Admin tool : http://www.codeplex.com/TFSAdmin
• TFS Times Newsletter March 08 : http://myvstsblog.com/archive/2008/03/03/March-TFS-Times-newsletter-now-online.aspx
• Take work items offline in outlook : http://www.ekobit.com/ProductsDetailView.aspx?id=1
• Project Server or Team Foundation Server? Project Server AND Team Foundation Server! A good article about this issue. http://blogs.msdn.com/ameyab/archive/2008/03/06/project-server-or-team-foundation-server-project-server-and-team-foundation-server.aspx

unittesting

• Typemock 4.2 released : http://www.typemock.com/Downloads.php
• Typemock Webcast on 12 march : https://meetings.webex.com/mw0305l/mywebex/default.do?service=1&siteurl=meetings&nomenu=true&main_url=%2Fmc0800l%2Fe.do%3Fsiteurl%3Dmeetings%26AT%3DMI%26EventID%3D5169772%26UID%3D0%26Host%3D0cac0d4278564247%26FrameSet%3D2%26PW%3D4ded65183d3a345e5d2627

.Net components

• Perpetuum Software Reporting, Charting, OLAP, Gauuge and Instrumentation Components : http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/.
• Perpetuum Software Report Sharp Shooter Express (Free Reporting component) : http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/Product.aspx?lang=en&pid=21&tid=express

Mix08

• Download the MIX08 sessions : http://sessions.visitmix.com/

I know, for almost a month I didn't post my weekly link list :-(.  But here's a fresh one :

VSTS/TFS

• Team foundation Server 2008 Admin and Setup FAQ
• VSTS Resource Center
• Project party for TFS - Project Server integration
• Demo - tutorial: Building a TFS report using Report Designer
• Demo - tutorial 2: Building TSF reports using Excel and Excel Services

Visual Studio

• New resource centre for Visual Studio extensions

eScrum

• eScrum and TFS 2008

Web Development

• ASP.Net Developer Wiki
• VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available
• ASP.Net MVC Roadmap update

Vista

• SP1 available to MSDN and Technet Subscribers

GAT/GAX

• The new versions (Februari 2008) is released

Unittesting

• Project White for Winform testing
• Template for Quick TypeMock Testing

Extra

Watch a Bill Gates backstage interview courtesy of Channel 9. During the Office Developers Conference, the Channel 9 team got Bill to share his thoughts on the history of Office as a developer platform. He also shares hints on the future of Access, how he personally uses Office 2007, if he still writes code, and his view on whether Office has hit the productivity plateau.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=382189

A new weekly link list.  This time not big, as I didn’t have that much time to read all my blogroll items.

TFS

• Gabriel Lozano-Moran did a lot of posts about TFS problems.  Read them on his blog
• Attrice released two nice sidekick add-ons for TFS.
• Personify Design releases Teamspec V 1.0.  More can be found here

TechDays 2008 Belgium

• Gill Cleeren has a nice post about some of the speakers who are coming to the TechDays.

Yep, here it is my second link list of the week .

VSTS and TFS links :

• Overall list of Visual Studio Team System add-ins, add-ons, widgets, and extensibility solutions.
• Brian Harry has a few interresting posts about TFS like upgrade to TFS 2008 rules, TFS version detector tool,...

 .Net

• Updated .NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster
• Visual Studio 2008 productivity - print your keyboard shortcuts sheet for C# and Visual Basic
• .Net Framework Libaray source code now available

LINQ

• Some good starter examples about LINQ to SQL

The idea of my colleague Gill is great.  As I'm reading a lot of blogs it would be interresting to have a weekly list of links which are usefull, funny, handy.  Gill txs for the idea .

News links :

• First impression on Windows Mobile 7
• Version 2 of the great book Framework Design Guidelines comes at the end of this year.  You can add suggestions here.

VSTS

• Recording of "Introducing Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System 2008" MSDN Evening

LINQ

• Essential LINQ to Objects Video in 20 Minutes by Bart De Smet
• LINQ to Active Directory

Funny links :

• Bill Gates last day @ Microsoft.  Read the everything on Snowball .
• Windows 2003 to Windows 2008.