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• Nice Video on Standard Dependency Graphs in VS 2010 Ultimate

  Chris Lovett posted a video on using the Dependency Graphs feature of VS 2010 on his blog: http://www.lovettsoftware.com/blogengine.net/ . Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:57 AM by AllenD | 0 Comments

• VS 2010 Beta2 has been launched

  Check out the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 page on MSDN . I added a countdown control which links to the "Ultimate Offer" - check it out. Read More... Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 10:02 AM by AllenD | 0 Comments

• What is 'Progression'?

  I've been working on Progression for the past 2 years, but there's not a very good definition that's been made public about it. Let me attempt to describe the feature here. It's been talked about in a few different ways by Cameron Skinner in his blog Read More... Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 2:48 PM by AllenD | 0 Comments

• Beta2 of VS2010 is almost ready

  The Progression team has been hard at work getting the final touches on the Beta2 release of VS 2010. It'll be out in a couple of months. If you have Beta1, Beta2 will be a significant improvement in performance and reliability. Great stuff coming online. Read More... Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:52 AM by AllenD | 1 Comments

• Aloha Oahu

  In late January I boarded a plane with my family and one-way ticket to Seattle. Yes, the family and I are moving back to Seattle. We spent almost 2 years in Honolulu and loved almost every minute of it. Great experiences, nice weather, fabulous beaches, Read More... Posted Friday, February 27, 2009 5:12 AM by AllenD | 1 Comments

• Architecture Explorer and Directed Graph Document video

  Check out Suhail Dutta's Channel 9 video/demo of the Architecture Explorer and DGML documents . He starts with Directed Graph via the Architecture Explorer then goes into the Sequence Designer (generating UML sequences from code) and Layer Designer (validating Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 1:32 PM by AllenD | 1 Comments

• The VS 2010 cat is peeking it's head out the bag - so to speak

  Check out the article on VS 2010. The screen shot there is my feature! The new Architecture Explorer and features related to it have been my main focus for the last 18 months. It's great to see it getting more light of day. A longer article contains a Read More... Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 4:22 PM by AllenD | 2 Comments

• Back on Oahu

  After a nice week in Redmond (weather was great through Wed, but turned nasty Thu - Sat) I'm back home in Honolulu. The company meeting was a great experience once again. I always get a charge out of seeing how big Microsoft is in terms of financial success, Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:32 AM by AllenD | 1 Comments

• What's up with Allen

  I can't believe it's been a year without blogging. That's got to change... starting today. If you've read my blog in the past you know that I moved to Hawai'i in May of 2007. While still with Microsoft I helped to get a small office opened up in Honolulu, Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:27 PM by AllenD | 1 Comments

• Orcas first, then Rosario

  In case you are unaware, we're close to shipping Visual Studio 2008 (aka "Orcas"). I hope that's not really a suprise. A bit of trivia on the code name "Orcas". When when VS 2003 came out the code name was "Everett". Everett is the name of a town just Read More... Posted Monday, October 01, 2007 10:02 PM by AllenD | 2 Comments

• Aloha VS SDK

  I've been working in the VS Extensibility area for quite a few years now. But the time is right for me to venture forth into a new area of responsibility for Microsoft. I'll be helping to form a new team based in Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA. Microsoft is opening Read More... Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 8:25 AM by AllenD | 1 Comments

• Check out the VS SDK for VS "Orcas" Beta1

  Last week we released the VS SDK for VS "Orcas" Beta1. You can use this lastest version of the SDK to build VS Integration packages and DSL Tools-based packages that target VS "Orcas" Beta1. To get this version of the VS SDK requires access to the http://www.vsipmembers.com Read More... Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 10:36 AM by AllenD | 0 Comments

• RDT changes in VS Orcas

  The Running Document Table is used in VS to control the state of opened documents. This is only accessible via interfaces exposed in the VSSDK and the VS Automation Model. End-users only see the effects of the RDT in places like the dialog that pops up Read More... Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 9:15 AM by AllenD | 1 Comments Filed under: VS SDK

• MPPG/MPLEX runtime DLL not needed

  I was recently alerted to an email sent to Soma (Vice President leading the Microsoft Developer Division) about a problem with the VS SDK's MPPG/MPLEX tools. Here's the question: After installing VS SDK (feb 2007) and trying to play with the managed parser Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:39 PM by AllenD | 1 Comments

• VS SDK 4.0 is available for download

  On behalf of the VS Tools Ecosystem team, I am pleased to announce that after months of hard work, VS SDK 4.0 has been released! This is the last SDK release planned for Visual Studio 2005. The team has done a ton of work to make this release friendly Read More... Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:58 AM by AllenD | 0 Comments Filed under: VS SDK