We had 6 people attend this month's meeting, it’s summer time and we had a lot of cancellations this month so six isn’t too bad.  Hope to see everyone back at next month’s meeting. 
 
This month’s meeting was a discussion about Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server.  Originally this meeting was going to be presented by Jeff Patterson and myself, unfortunately Jeff was unable to make it to the meeting so I flew solo and had a demo filled discussion about Team System.  Abram Devonshire was also going to talk to us about CruiseControl.NET but he wasn’t able to make it to the meeting either.  So it was just me…and the meeting went very well, there was a lot of interaction with group this time…it was fun.  Just to give you an idea of how much we all enjoyed the topic, I spoke until 8:15PM!!  Then we talked for a bit more while we were packing up!  This is probably one of those meetings that we might do again later in the year.
 
I'd like to thank Vision Solutions (Illya Williams) for supplying our group with pizza (Turoni’s) and drinks!  I know everyone really enjoyed it.  For our next meeting I need someone to volunteer to provide the food, I don’t yet have a company to sponsor our meeting…if your company is interested please contact me.
 
As usual we gave away all kinds of free stuff at this meeting…since there were only six of us we all took something home!  Thanks to Microsoft, Culminis, SAMS Publishing, and others.
 
Here are some links about Team System that I've found useful:

http://www.codeplex.com/VSTSGuidance/ - patterns and practices guidance documentation for team system
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/default.aspx - team system home page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms364081(vs.80).aspx - work item tracking in team system
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404859(VS.80).aspx - use team build to create a visual studio setup project
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/Msdnvsts.aspx - team system webcasts and virtual labs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc31bk2e(vs.80).aspx - team foundation source control command line reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718351.aspx - team foundation power tools (must have)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms364045(VS.80).aspx - continuous integration with team foundation build
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d60655e-814c-40a8-9762-53a40d8e7b37&DisplayLang=en – team system virtual hard drive (thanks Kim!)

Upcoming Meetings:

Next month, Illya will present on DotNetNuke and show us the application what it can do and even show us how to create custom modules!!  You don’t want to miss this one.
 
Aug 19th 5:30 – 7:30 PM [DotNetNuke (DNN) – presented by Illya Williams]
Sept 16th 5:30 – 7:30 PM [TDD and the MVC Framework – presented by Alan Stevens (Knoxville, TN)]
 
Upcoming Topics:
 
Team Foundation Build
SharePoint
Google APIs, hacks, tips, etc.
LINQ project
WCF (3.5)
 
If there is something that you'd like to hear about that we don't already have listed, please send it to me and we'll see about working it into an upcoming meeting.
 
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me anytime.
 
Thanks.
 
Bart A. Robinson
http://www.evansvillednug.org