The Visual Studio Team System team is holding their next open chat on November 8th @ 12PM CST. Plan on joining them to discuss your questions around Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architect, Developers, Testers and the new Database Pros edition.You’ll also have an opportunity to get your questions addressed that relate to some of the new featuresavailable in the latest CTP releases.

Join the chat on Wednesday, November 8^th, 2006 from 12:00am – 1:00pmCentral Time.

While taking a few years off of new development, the IE team suddenly realized that Browser Wars II was in full swing. Not one to be left behind, the IE7 team jumped into action to provide a cleaner, safer and tabbier environment for you to peruse around the wild-wild-web with. The fruits of their efforts have officially been released today for Windows XP. You Vista peeps (me being included in that admirable group) will have to wait a few more weeks for the Vista RTM to get our hands on IE7′s final bits. Just so you know, I’ve been toldby a little birdie that you won’t have to wait another 4+ years for the next release of IE.

The Downers Grove chapter of the Chicago .NET Users Group will be holding their October meeting tonight at 6PM in the Microsoft offices in Downers Grove. Tonight’s meeting will be jam packed with two fantastic talks.

First, Mike Culver, Amazon Evangelist (the eCommerce site, not the jungle), will be presenting a talk on Amazon Web Services and how .NET developers can build their own mini-Amazon.com’s utilizing these open services. Second, we have Tom Cole from Magenic presenting a talk on Microsoft Office Sharepoint 2007. So as you can see, we have some great content lined up for this evening.

Also, CNUG is in the midst of planning the next “Day of .NET” event. If you’d like to volunteer to help out with planning efforts, we’ll be meeting from 5:30 – 6:30 in the Microsoft offices in Downers Grove.

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Camron informs us that CTP6 of Visual Studio 2005 Team System Edition for Database Professionals (aka “Data Dude”) is available for download.

There have been a number of enhancements made between CTP5 and CTP6 including…

• Full SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 Object Support
• Inline Constraints
• Team Build Support
• Selective Database Project Imports
• Etc…

Not to mention the standard stability and performance enhancements. You can download CTP6 from here.

Speaking of Data Dude, don’t forget to check out the upcoming launch events coming to a city near you.

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Are you as excited about the new Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (whew!) as I am??? We are getting ready to host a number of launch events across the country starting November 30th. Come out and hear how VSTS-DB Pro (or “Data Dude”) can help you take control of your database throughout it’s lifecycle as well an introduction to the tools that will allow you to include testing methodoligies in at the database level.

You can catch me at the launch events taking place in Milwaukee on December 6th and Chicago on December 12th. To find a city launch nearest you, check out http://teams-deliver.com.