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Visual Studio 2010 Survey Results
An important part of our development process for Visual Studio is integrating your feedback. To that...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 12/05/2010
Announcing: Visual Basic Windows Phone 7 Support RTW
I’ve personally been enjoying using my Windows Phone 7 device, and it’s been a lot of...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 11/29/2010
November 5th What's Happening Around Visual Studio
Quick recap of what's been happening around the team. Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 Beta -...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 11/05/2010
Tutorial: Pic Viewer Revisited on the Async CTP
As Soma announced this morning, we’ve just released the Visual Studio Async CTP, a preview of...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 10/28/2010
New Components and Contributors for IronPython and IronRuby
The CLR has always been a great environment for dynamic languages and over the last several years we...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 10/21/2010
October 14th What's Happening Around Visual Studio
Quick recap of what's been happening around the team. [UPDATE] Hotfix Available for Scrolling...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 10/14/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Survey
It's been just over 6 months since we launched Visual Studio 2010 in April. I hope you've been busy...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 10/07/2010
Sample: WPF Picture Viewer for VS2010
A while back I wrote a tutorial that showed how to write a beginning WPF application using VS2010. I...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 10/01/2010
September 29th What's Happening Around Visual Studio
Quick recap of what's been happening around the team lately. ALM Summit in Redmond (November 16-18)...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 09/29/2010
Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools Tutorial
Today we announced availability of the Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windows Phone Developer Tools....
Author: Jason Zander Date: 09/23/2010
LightSwitch Beta1 Now Available, Building Your First App
Introduction When we introduced LightSwitch earlier this month we promised a broadly available beta...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 08/23/2010
LightSwitch Architectural Overviews
Last week we announced LightSwitch, a new tool for developers to make it easier to build line of...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 08/11/2010
Sample Update: Windows Phone 7 Example Application for Beta Tools
In May I wrote a sample Windows Phone 7 application using the CTP tools. I’ve just updated the...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 08/06/2010
Introducing Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™
Today during the VSLive! keynote here in Redmond I announced a new product called Microsoft®...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 08/03/2010
Updated Productivity Power Tools Now Available
Last month we announced the Productivity Power Tools at TechEd in New Orleans. The next...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 07/20/2010
Tutorial: Updating your Windows Phone Splash Screen with Transparent Images
With the new beta of the Windows Phone 7 tools out (and the delivery a cool new developer device to...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 07/17/2010
Patch for Cut / Copy ‘Insufficient Memory’ issue for VS2010
We’ve received several reports of an issue when trying to do a Cut or Copy which gave you the...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 06/26/2010
Announcing: VS2010 Productivity Power Tools and Modeling Feature Packs
I just completed the Developer Foundational Session (mouthful) at TechEd New Orleans where we...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 06/07/2010
Links to New Platform Bits
This morning at TechEd New Orleans I had the opportunity to announce several new releases. Here are...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 06/06/2010
Project “Hilo”, A Complete C++ / Windows 7 Sample Application
The C++ team has introduced a new sample series designed to demonstrate building a rich Windows 7...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 06/06/2010
Sample: Windows Phone 7 Example Application with Landscape Layout
I’ve had a lot of fun writing Windows Phone 7 applications and for this post I wanted to share some...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 05/25/2010
Ship It!! Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 Now Available
Launch day is here and I’m pleased to announce the product is final and available now! I can easily...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 04/12/2010
VS2010 Launch is Monday April 12!
I have a backlog of blog posts I need to get out there; I’ve been busy getting the product over the...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 04/09/2010
Favorite VS2010 Features: Layer Validation
In my previous favorite features post I talked about doing architectural discovery with the new...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 02/17/2010
Patch for Touch Screen / Intellisense Issue for VS2010 RC
Many of you have seen crashing issues when using a Tablet, Multi-touch, Screen Readers, etc with the...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 02/15/2010
Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 RC Ready for General Download
[I’ve started using Twitter as well for quick updates; frankly I’m still a neophyte when it comes to...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 02/10/2010
Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC)
Today I’m pleased to announce we have shipped the RC for Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 02/08/2010
Favorite VS2010 Features: Dependency Graphs and DGML
As we get closer to the launch of VS2010 I’m covering some of my favorite new feature areas for...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 02/02/2010
Sample: Get Calendar Data Using Exchange Web Services (C#)
When someone asked my former manager David Treadwell what he did on a daily basis his answer was “Go...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 11/23/2009
Announced at TechEd Europe, Teamprise Client Suite Acquisition
This afternoon in Berlin I gave the Developer General Session (keynote) around Visual Studio...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 11/09/2009
VS2010 Beta 2 Feedback Survey
Last week we shipped Beta 2 for broad distribution. Many of you have already sent us comments...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 10/29/2009
Tutorial: Getting Started with TFS in VS2010
Earlier this month we announced the new Basic configuration for TFS. This configuration gives you an...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 10/21/2009
Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework Beta 2!
I’m happy to announce that Beta 2 is now ready for download! MSDN subscribers may download the beta...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 10/19/2009
Announcing TFS Basic!
If you are a SourceSafe user you know VSS is an easy to install and easy to use source control...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 10/01/2009
Staff Meeting Bingo (aka Geo Distributed Engineering Challenges)
Like many of you my engineering organization is spread out around the globe. With some recent...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 09/04/2009
Sample: Parsing Content in C# Using IFilter
I’m working on a 3 (or 4) part tutorial right now that requires parsing of PDF files. The code...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 08/31/2009
Popfly Game Engine Source Code Released
Ben Anderson just released the source code for the Popfly Game Engine on codeplex. You can...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 08/26/2009
Announcing the XP2Win7 Reference Application
If you are like me you’ve been using Windows 7 for a while now and it’s a great release! There...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 07/14/2009
Distinguished T-Shirt Engineer Best Hits
One of the fun things I used to do while running the CLR team was help pick out the final design for...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 06/17/2009
MVC 1.1 for VS2010 Beta 1 Released
The MVC framework for ASP.NET allows you to create applications that follow the...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 06/12/2009
VS2010 Tutorial: Building VS Extensions with the Beta 1 SDK
The SDK is used to create extensions to Visual Studio itself like those you can find on VS...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 06/01/2009
Azure: New Support for the Cloud, New Skills Not Required
Last October at PDC, the Windows Azure team released the first CTP of Windows Azure along with the...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 05/28/2009
VS2010 Tutorial: Build a WPF App (Step 1)
For this post I’m going to build a WPF application from scratch using VS2010 Beta 1. Along the...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 05/22/2009
General Download of VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1
On Monday I posted a detailed walk through of Beta 1 here. Beta 1 has been available to MSDN...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 05/19/2009
Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1!
I’ve mentioned a couple of times that Beta 1 was imminent and now it is ready for download for all...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 05/18/2009
VS2010: On Triangles and Performance
In February I blogged about the new look for VS2010. You gave us a huge amount of feedback...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 05/12/2009
New Name for Test and Lab Tools
At the Professional Developers’ Conference (PDC) in October last year, we disclosed information on a...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 05/12/2009