The last several weeks have been quite busy at work. However, I finally found the time to publish my application to the market place and it now now live there, with a few downloads reported too! In this post I will walk you through the steps involved...

It’s been a long while since my last blog post. With some additional responsibilities at work, and a long trip to the US, I just did not find the time to update the blog with the latest developments. But I am happy to find time this weekend to bring...

I am very excited – we just announced the vision for Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) in the next version of Visual Studio, at TechEd 2011 North America, at Atlanta. In his key note address on May 16, Jason Zander shared the vision and the roadmap...

Microsoft Expression Blend is a great tool for designing user interfaces. Expression Blend 4 for Windows Phone provides a streamlined development workflow for Windows Phone 7 applications that was previously available for Silverlight and .NET applications...

I am back to coding this weekend, and would like to add a second feature to the Chronometer application – a countdown timer. You will remember that I started building the application a few weekends back, and you will find the opening post here . I have...

The Chronometer application I have been building for Windows Phone 7 is coming along nicely! This has mostly been a weekend project, as I don’t find time to get to it during the working days. The Stopwatch functionality is almost complete. In the last...

The IPLT20 cricket championship is currently in progress – this means there is a lot of cricket on Television. Usually a couple of games from 4pm to almost midnight! If you don’t have any other plans, these games are a great option to while away your...

This one is a short update to the Windows 7 Phone application that I have been building and blogging about – you can find the starting of the series here . The application that we have built, so far, does not respond to flipping the phone on to it’s side...

I have been waiting to get back to the Windows Phone 7 Chronometer app that I have started to build and blogged about last week. Today’s World Cup Cricket final provides the perfect setting to sit in front of the television to watch the game and get some...

It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, and was the perfect time for me to do something that I have been meaning to get to for a while now. That is, to develop a Windows Phone 7 application. No, I don’t have a brilliant application idea in mind (I will get to...

  As you know, it has now been a couple of weeks since we released the Visual Studio Service Pack 1 product. You can find out all about this release, including a very detailed list of all the changes included in this release at http://support.microsoft...

Recently I had the opportunity to keynote at the Intel Tech Days conference, and I chose to talk about the trends in Parallelism. I thought I’d share the “presentation” with you, and in the end I will certainly weave in the topic of...

I enjoyed my visit to Eurostar last year , and this year’s conference in Copenhagen was a very good experience too! It is always great to witness the passion around testing and quality in Europe, and the Copenhagen show was pretty cool! There were...

The Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download! General availability as well as download for MSDN subscribers is now ready and you can access them via the links below. Service Pack 1 Beta of course comes with a “ go live ” license...

Eurostar – Europe’s largest conference for testers – is being hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark this year. You can find out full details about the conference here . I am really looking forward to this conference, and hope to meet with...

I am very happy to announce that we have just released Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 – which extends the Visual Studio 2010 product with a great set of capabilities – this time in the area of Testing. As you know, we have adopted a concept...

August has been a emotional roller coaster of a month for me. It started on an extremely happy note. We announced the Lab Management capability of VS 2010 on August 4 at VS Live, and we released the feature on August 19. The capability is now available...

As I had written in my last post, on August 4th we announced the final release of Lab Management in the Visual Studio 2010 release. You can now watch the video of the announcement at VS Live in Seattle. Watch Voke’s Theresa Lanowitz talk about the...

Just a short while ago at the VS Live event in Seattle, Dave Mendlen – Senior Director of Developer Marketing at Microsoft, announced the final release of Lab Management in the Visual Studio 2010 release. We are announcing the general availability...

No – I don’t quite know how to pronounce the name of this now-famous mountain, but it sure has caused a lot of grief the world over. If all was well I would have been on a flight right now, heading to the Netherlands for the Visual Studio 2010 launch...

April 12 was of course a big day for us. VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 was launched with great fanfare – in 5 cities around the world (Las Vegas, Bangalore, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, and London) on that day. In all, the launch event will be held in 30 countries...

The Visual Studio 2010 RC release is now available for general download! You can download the bits from here . You can read Jason Zander’s blog for more details about this release. Like Beta 2, the RC release is a fully supported go-live release that...

In my last post I talked about how the Visual Studio Test and Lab Management teams are dogfooding those products – that is, as we enter the home stretch of the VS 2010 release, we are using the very same tools we are building, to test and sign off on...

Dogfooding is a rich tradition at Microsoft. It essentially stands for “eating your own dogfood”. That is, product development teams are expected to use the product that they are building in their day to day work life, to ensure that the product is really...

I just got back from a week's trip to Stockholm, Sweden. This was my first trip to the city, and I really enjoyed my time there. Here’s a nice photograph of Stockholm Central that I took from my hotel. I was there attending Eurostar 2009, meeting with...