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I might have to include the "Wilhelm scream" in some of my Windows 8 and Windows Phones apps

Ha! I love it. You totally should. In fact, I'm proposing that apps submitted to the marketplace will fail certification unless they implement the Wilhelm Scream.

13 hours ago, antao wrote

How come you guys still have old and ugly laptops? Where are the slim and shiny Surface Pros? A ThinkPad?

Ha! Well, all Microsoft employees were granted a hardware refresh when Windows 8 came out and we have a couple of months left in our fiscal year to decide which machines we want to get. I think many of us are procrastinating and waiting to see what new machines become available from our IT department - there are a lot of great options, including the Surface Pro which is a sweet machine. Unfortunately I think for myself I'm going to need a workhorse machine for running all of the virtual machines I use - so I'm looking at an "ugly" but wonderful Lenovo W530 (I have a W510 today and love it) since I need something which can support 16GB of RAM and dual hard disks.

Thanks, guys! It's been a fun ride. I'm bummed Dan couldn't be there to mark the moment, but had a blast co-hosting with Rick.

11 minutes ago, wkempf wrote

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If I've read the linked pages correctly, no. You can create just a local Git repository when creating a project, and you can clone a project from GitHub or anywhere else.

You are correct; Visual Studio Tools for Git is designed to work with any Git repository; local, Team Foundation Service, GitHub, BitBucket, etc.

@ClarkKentX,

Sorry I'm not aware of a single resource to get everything you're asking for in an end-to-end fashion. I've written a couple of books and have some others listed on the right side of my blog which might help: http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel

But again these are really focused at each individual tool and less on one comprehensive process. The problem with trying to write and maintain the latter is that many different shops have their own unique way of doing things so trying to invest in writing about one specific pattern would be of narrow interest and possibly discouraging to others who look at it and realize it doesn't match with the way they want to use the tools. Instead in my speeches and books I try to focus more on how the tools work and how they can be adapted based on the needs of the team/person/situation.

It knows the direct from which the voice commands are coming from (and whom to ignore... cough... like all "Brian's".. . cough

LOL!

Seriously, thanks for all of the info Greg. I kind of assumed that the Kinect would be smart enough to filter out any noise coming from the Xbox itself, but I wasn't 100% sure. Good to know.

@Duncanma:Thanks!

13 hours ago, jacob_suibo​wen wrote

Hello Brian, 

Any plans of updating the Visual Studio 2012 ALM virtual machine from RTM to Release version?

 

RTM is the released version.

The PowerPoint deck is available at the link above which says "Slides"

Aug 22, 2012 at 11:10 PM, AndyDent wrote

Please make it clear when features are available in Premium. Until prompted, I wouldn't have bothered watching this video because our team is only licensed for Premium and the title talks about Visual Studio Ultimate. 

I agree. Good feedback. I have delivered it to the team posting these videos.