Amit Chatterjee's Blog
Visual Studio, Development and Testing, Virtualization, and other topics
It’s been a long while since my last blog post. With some additional responsibilities at work,...
Date: 06/26/2011
I am very excited – we just announced the vision for Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) in the...
Date: 05/18/2011
Microsoft Expression Blend is a great tool for designing user interfaces. Expression Blend 4 for...
Date: 05/11/2011
Extending the Chronometer Windows Phone 7 app – introducing NuGet, Pivot, and the TimeSpanPicker control!
I am back to coding this weekend, and would like to add a second feature to the Chronometer...
Date: 05/01/2011
The Chronometer application I have been building for Windows Phone 7 is coming along nicely! This...
Date: 04/23/2011
The IPLT20 cricket championship is currently in progress – this means there is a lot of cricket on...
Date: 04/16/2011
This one is a short update to the Windows 7 Phone application that I have been building and blogging...
Date: 04/07/2011
It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, and was the perfect time for me to do something that I have been...
Date: 03/26/2011
As you know, it has now been a couple of weeks since we released the Visual Studio Service...
Date: 03/24/2011
Recently I had the opportunity to keynote at the Intel Tech Days conference, and I chose to talk...
Date: 12/18/2010
I enjoyed my visit to Eurostar last year, and this year’s conference in Copenhagen was a very...
Date: 12/10/2010
The Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download! General availability as well...
Date: 12/09/2010
Eurostar – Europe’s largest conference for testers – is being hosted in...
Date: 11/26/2010
I am very happy to announce that we have just released Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 –...
Date: 11/16/2010
August has been a emotional roller coaster of a month for me. It started on an extremely happy note....
Date: 08/28/2010
As I had written in my last post, on August 4th we announced the final release of Lab Management in...
Date: 08/06/2010
Just a short while ago at the VS Live event in Seattle, Dave Mendlen – Senior Director of...
Date: 08/04/2010
No – I don’t quite know how to pronounce the name of this now-famous mountain, but it sure has...
Date: 04/18/2010
The Visual Studio 2010 RC release is now available for general download! You can download the bits...
Date: 02/11/2010
In my last post I talked about how the Visual Studio Test and Lab Management teams are dogfooding...
Date: 02/07/2010
Dogfooding is a rich tradition at Microsoft. It essentially stands for “eating your own dogfood”....
Date: 02/04/2010
I just got back from a week's trip to Stockholm, Sweden. This was my first trip to the city, and I...
Date: 12/07/2009
Have you tried out the Lab Management product that is part of the Visual Studio 21010 Beta 2...
Date: 11/28/2009
I am travelling to Stockholm and will spend the week there meeting customers and talking about the...
Date: 11/28/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now live, and we have updated the Beta2 landing page to point to the...
Date: 10/23/2009
I am very excited that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available to our customers for testing and...
Date: 10/20/2009
Next week I am on the road to meet a few customers and discuss with them the Test offerings that my...
Date: 09/20/2009
Greetings! It has been a while since the last post – I and my team have been preoccupied with work...
Date: 06/13/2009
A lot is going on. The VSTS 2010 Beta 1 bits are out (as I had noted in my last post) and with that...
Date: 05/24/2009
The VS 2010 Beta 1, the VSTS 2010 Beta1, and the .NET Framework Beta 1 is now available for all to...
Date: 05/21/2009
The Beta 1 download of VSTS 2010, along with Beta 1 bits for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0, are...
Date: 05/19/2009
You have been following along the innovative set of features and capabilities that we are providing...
Date: 05/18/2009
This is an exciting day for me and my team. We have just announced the official names for the 2010...
Date: 05/14/2009
So I have been incommunicado for a while, though for a specific reason. I was out for a week, at...
Date: 05/09/2009
Diagnostic Data Adapters: Changing how Developers and Testers work together (Part 2 of 2 - The Diagnostic Trace Collector)
This post finishes up the two part topic on Diagnostic Data Adapters in VS 2010, and how they help...
Date: 04/21/2009
Diagnostic Data Adapters: Changing how Developers and Testers work together (Part 1 of 2 - The Test Impact Collector)
Last time I talked about remote execution and introduced the concept of Diagnostic Data Adapters in...
Date: 04/11/2009
As promised, I will spend a few posts talking to you about remote execution and data collection. So...
Date: 03/28/2009
I started the series on “Rethinking Software Testing” in December 2008, and in the past few months...
Date: 03/25/2009
In the previous post, you saw how the Manual Testing has been made really easy with Camano. As I had...
Date: 03/14/2009
It’s a very busy phase for us at work. The entire team is busy stabilizing our products for the...
Date: 02/28/2009
The concept of a test plan Just like architects plan and document the design and requirements of...
Date: 02/17/2009
In the last several weeks I have been sharing with you details about the exciting test products we...
Date: 02/14/2009
In my last post I had talked in details about the Load Testing feature of Visual Studio Team System,...
Date: 02/07/2009
Continuing the series on Testing with Visual Studio Team System, I devote this blog to our Web and...
Date: 01/29/2009
Greetings! Hope you have had a great start to the New Year! I am happy to continue the series on...
Date: 01/15/2009
In my last post, I had mentioned that I would pick a specific area of testers challenges and share...
Date: 12/31/2008