Team Foundation Server (TFS) is an enterprise tool for managing your application lifecycle from requirements through code design, implementation, testing and deployment. The ability to trace requirements, tasks, defects, and test cases to checked-in code improves tracking to more quickly and reliably deliver projects. The next version of TFS improves upon the experience of creating a product backlog, planning iterations, and tracking the progress of a Sprint. This session will walk through a lifecycle using the Agile methodology to demonstrate many of the features available in the next version of Visual Studio and TFS. This includes the new Team Explorer, Capacity Planning, Boards, Storyboards, Source Control, and an overview of testing using the Microsoft Test Manager tool.

Brian Minisi has been developing software for 15 years. Brian moved into .NET as part of the early adopters program and has delivered a wide variety of web sites and applications since. Other areas of concentration include Business Intelligence, SQL Server, and ALM solutions using Team Foundation Server. Brian is a Software Architect for CEI America (www.ceiamerica.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner. As a current Microsoft ALM Ranger, Brian participates in delivering out-of-band solutions for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.

Rich will show how to use LINQ (linq to objects) to do a group join on 2 SharePoint lists that have a common field, but that field is not a lookup to other list. Although the tip was based on a need in SharePoint, it is valuable to all .net developers since it uses LINQ.

This session will provide you with an overview of SVG and the new HTML5 Canvas. We will cover the history of each, their advantages and what you should pick for your own game. We will then cover the fundamentals of games programs such as the game loop as well as exposure to some frameworks. Particular focus will be spent on the open source Canvas/JS framework EaselJS. Plenty of demos and code will be provided.

Dave Isbitski is a Sr. Developer Evangelist with Microsoft covering Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox. He enjoys talking about technology and has taught full-day courses on numerous Microsoft topics as well as being a presenter at VSLive!,ReMix, XAMLFest, CodeCamps and other community events. Dave can be found on Twitter at @TheDaveDev and his blog http://blogs.msdn.com/davedev.