Well, there's still a ton of people here at the San Diego Convention Center even though it's down to the last session slot of TechEd 2004. It's a little sad though. Weeks like this are great with tons of learning and great interaction. You hate to...

Last night's TechEd SeaWorld event was great. We saw the Shamu show first and it was great. Amazing stuff. Then we went to the dolphin show and it was even better. Laughed so hard it hurt. Lots of great TechEd sessions this week. Customers applauded...

First, the background: The Feature Cook-off was Wed at 8:30AM. Tue morning I was in a panic because I couldn't find some critical information in order to use the Whidbey Manaed Package Framework's Language Service. The wireless (& wired) network...

Steve Ballmer is speaking now... There's a bunch of stuff he's saying about VSIP and integrating into Visual Studio. He mentioned 3 new partners during the keynote. He also plugged extensibility features of Visual Studio. And during the part about...

In the Whidbey Managed Package Framework in VSIP there's a few different base classes that hold an IServiceProvider interface pointer. This is usually stuffed into a ServiceProvider class and exposed via a protected GetService method on the class. ...

I left Redmond, WA on Friday night with my family. Traveled for about 5.5 hours. Stayed in Salem, OR overnight and got back on the road at 6:30 AM. Arrived Paso Robles, CA around 8:00 PM. Traveled for about 13.5 hours. This morning I'm leaving for...

I'm heading out tonight to OR, CA on Sat, and finally San Diego on Sun. If you're going to Tech Ed 2004, please drop by the VSIP booth in the pavillion and say hello.

At TechEd, some of the Extensibility team members will be holding a Cabana session where we will present a menu of possible tools for VS (Add-ins, macros, VSIP packages, etc.) and the audience will be given the choice of what tools should be built during...

Check out some of the team members in Visual Studio along with my BIO here .