First of all, to all of you a happy, healthy, and productive (leasure and business) 2006! I hope to meet many of you somewhere on this planet.
For me, I hope to cope with all the great new stuff microsoft is bringing out this year, stuff like BizTalk Server 2006, Vista, WPF, WCF, WF, Office 12, Atlas and of course VSTS (and maybe C# 3.0, LINQ and Visual Basic 9???). Expect a bunch of articles from me this year on these subjects. And of course on the personal side of things, I hope to spend a lot of quality time with my wife and children (which I did the last week!). Sleep I'll do when I'm dead :)
VSTS stuff
For those of you who are using pre Visual Studio 2005 tools, The MSSCCI provider is available for download. (From Rob Caron's blog). Before you try it, read this blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2005/12/29/507993.aspx) because it doesn't work with everything (yet).
Sam Gentile has a very nice post on Agile development blogs (http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2005/12/30/32204.aspx).
And I have a question for you out there. Has anyone been able to deploy and run VSTS server side on Longhorn? If so, could you please let me know?
BizTalk stuff...
I am also happy to say that our Advanced BizTalk course has been tested by the nice people or Arcelor and been given a thumbs up (after surviving it :)) I will however need to update the agenda posted on our web site because of time constraints. Or we will have to make it into a bootcamp (9am-9pm).