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WebCasts of VSTS and other new technologies

Here are the collections of great videos and Webcasts on latest technologies from Microsoft, check it out when you have time.

Webcasts for Visual studio team system[VSTS] 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/community/webcasts/default.aspx

Tech2005 Webcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/teched2005.mspx#Architecture%20Webcasts

Patterns and Practice webcasts
http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/Webcasts/

SQL Server 2005 Business intelligence webcast
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/sqlserverbi.mspx

PDC Videos
http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/

Wiki on ASP.NET 2.0 Security FAQs

Channel9 has published a wiki on ASP.NET 2.0 Security FAQs. Lots of useful FAQs with answers, check it out.

WebChat on Visual Studio Team System : Team Edition

Today (30/11/05), i am hosting a webchat on Visual Studio Team System: Team edition in MSDN India Expert Chat. More details about this chat are here,

Introduction to Visual Studio Team System: Team Test
Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Edition introduces a suite of new test tools. Team Edition for Testers lets you create, manage, edit, and run tests, and also obtain and store test results. Several test types, including unit, Web, load, and manual tests, in addition to the measurement of code coverage, are integrated into Visual Studio.

Join this webchat, to discuss about these new Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition test tools.

Time : November 30, 2005 - 5.00 pm  to 6.00 pm IST

If you are free during this time, come and join the chat. To join this chat, click this url

Here are the few resources which will be useful for you to start with Team Edition of VSTS.

Default homepage for VSTS:Team Edition
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/tester/default.aspx

Unit test
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/utfwvs05tmsys.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vstsunittesting.asp

Web test
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vs05tmsyswebtst.asp 

Web test and load test
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/reference/develop_test/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vsteamtest.asp

Extensibility Kit
http://www.vsipdev.com/downloads/

Virtual Web Application - Sample ASP.NET 2.0 Application

Microsoft India conducted a contest for developers - Microsoft Technology Adaptor Challenge. To participate in this contest, you need to create a application that demonstrates the capability of Visual Studio 2005/.NET Framework 2.0 [Whidbey]. I have created an application "Virtual Web Application" for this contest.

Highlights of this application are,

1. This is a virtual web application. There won’t be any web pages for this application in the application folder. Template pages and Generic Page like LoginPage, MasterPage are stored in a database and other pages are dynamically generated.
2. This is a dynamic web application. Most of the web pages for this application are created dynamically. Web pages are created from template pages.
3. It is fully configurable, i.e. Web pages that are available for this site and the contents for each web page can be configured in an xml file. 

To download the source code of this application and to know more about this application, check out this article.

P.S. With this blog entry, I am breaking my long silence. Here afterwards, you can expect frequent blog entries from me.