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As part of my series of blog posts talking about VS 2010 and .NET FX 4, I want to focus on the work we are doing for the native developer as part of Visual C++. In an earlier post , I mentioned how the Visual C++ team is investing heavily in enabling
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As a part of the conversation on the VS2010 and .NET FX 4 pillars, I thought I would focus today on the .NET platform. With .NET FX 4, we are focusing on empowering innovative user experiences in applications, allowing for re-invigorating large ISV applications,
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I have talked in the past few weeks about the various pillars and features of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Fx 4. Today, I want to drill into one of the pillars a little bit more. We want to make sure that Visual Studio is your favorite application to use
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Startups have dramatically changed the industry over the past 30 years. Microsoft was a startup 33 years ago – started off with a vision, some ideas and a couple of great people and has grown to the company it is today. One challenge that these fledgling
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I have blogged over time about various guidance material that we have released out of our Patterns and Practices team for customers. It is something that our customers ask us for and I like how it draws upon Microsoft's internal experience in application
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PDC 2008 is incredibly exciting this year for the development community. If you are not attending the PDC, I encourage you to go check out the keynotes and sessions that are being made publicly available to watch online. Ray Ozzie’s keynote is one I would
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I have blogged in the past on my views around innovation , and the effort that needs to go into such efforts. Some innovations take a very long time to get just right before we know that they will truly cause a shift in software development. Today we
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It has been about 10 months since we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5. The team has been working on a couple of things since then – we shipped SP1 for both VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 earlier this Summer. In parallel, we have been planning for the
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I believe strongly in our partner strategy. In other words, I think we are in the business of building a great developer tools platform and a set of tools. I fully expect our partners to build additional tools on our platform so that between what our
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Last October, I blogged about our increased investment in the F# programming language . Functional programming has been an increasingly important trend in programming languages over the recent years. F#, a functional programming language for the .NET
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I like to take the chance to talk directly to the development community as often as I can. I commonly use outlets such as this blog, but sometimes I get the opportunity to speak out loud instead of through my keyboard via sites like Channel9 or .NET Rocks!
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We released Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 last November. The feedback has been tremendously positive, but developers always have new ideas and suggestions for how we can improve the development experience for them. Building on the base
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It seems like only recently, but is has been two years since we launched CodePlex . We launched this in Summer 2006 as Microsoft’s open source project hosting site. Our goal was, and continues to be, to provide developers with the ability to collaborate
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Team Foundation Server (TFS) has become widely popular both within our Visual Studio suite of tools and in integrating from both client and server side scenarios. Given that most of the world lives and runs an heterogeneous environment, we know that developers
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In a June 2007 report , the U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) described cybercrime as “having significant economic impacts and a threat to U.S. national security interests” and referenced a 2005 FBI survey estimating that U.S. businesses lost
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