I have spent my last few posts on the CloudShare blog focusing on how to develop specific SharePoint artifacts to both SharePoint Online and On-Premise using Visual Studio 11 Beta (Note: You can review prior articles by accessing my profile page).
In part 1 of this series I wrote about how straightforward it is to develop and deploy SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint Online artifacts through Visual Studio 11 Beta. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you played with Visual Studio 2011 yet?! If not, I’ve got something for you. Read the rest of this entry »
Developing SharePoint solutions in CloudShare is really straightforward not only because you have a powerful environment for a testing and development them really fast, but also because it simplifies the process to deploy them to a real production environment. Read the rest of this entry »
In September 2011, the Team Foundation Service Preview (TFS-P) became available on an invitation-only basis. In a nutshell, it’s the beta version of Team Foundation Server (TFS) 11, but hosted in Azure (Microsoft’s cloud-based storage, computing and networking infrastructure services). While popularity for TFS has grown over the years as an on-premise server technology, the idea of a hosted version of TFS has taken a little longer to materialize. Read the rest of this entry »
One common requirement when you are working with a virtualized environment like any of those provided by CloudShare Pro Plus offering is the ability of increasing hardware (like disk capacity or available RAM) capacity on demand. For instance, imagine you want to test Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview in one of your virtual machines so that you will need some free GBs in order to install and start running it. If you don’t fulfill this installation requirement, the installation wizard will show you a warning message telling you need to clean your drive or try to install Visual Studio 11 in another one.
We are continually improving our lists of available permalinks and updated VM Templates. Below is a description of the new templates, and permalinks, and updates to existing ones released on 8/21/2011. Read the rest of this entry »