Microsoft has announced the final product lineup and specifications you can expect to see for the next release of Visual studio. Click Here for more details on the Visual Studio Team Blog. You should also visit the Visual Studio 11 website for other...

Thank you all who attend the VS11 ALM Roadshows! They were a blast and very interactive. Many of you asked for the the content so as promised, I posted the slide decks I used on a SkyDrive here . Here are the direct links to the individual sessions: Continuous...

You’ve just downloaded and installed the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Visual Studio 11 , you’ve watched the Channel 9 videos , and read all the articles, but you still want more! Then get ready for the upcoming series of Windows 8 Developer Camps !...

With the availability of Windows 8 Consumer Preview comes a new edition of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. February 29 also became the day that Visual Studio 11 Beta, Team Foundation Server 11 Beta, and .NET Framework 4.5 Beta was released. You...

February 29th marked the day we announced that Windows 8 Consumer Preview at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Within the first 24 hours, it was downloaded over a million times . The Consumer Preview represents is significant change...

The first major release to Windows Phone 7, code-named “Mango, ” is almost here. This update gives developers the power to write a whole new class of applications on the Windows Phone platform. What’s a Windows Phone Camp? It’s a free, full day event...

Today at TechEd North America 2011 , Jason Zander (CVP of Visual Studio) talked about Visual Studio vNext. Specific features of the framework and tool itself were not mentioned, but features expanding our vision of how Visual Studio expands our Application...

Microsoft is pleased to announce the release and general availability of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 . This toolkit is designed to make it easier for phone developers to leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure.  The toolkit...

Earlier this month, we released Beta 2 for Visual Studio LightSwitch . This tool can be used as a standalone development tool or as a companion to Visual Studio or higher. You can download the Beta 2 of LightSwitch from here: http://www.microsoft.com...

Today, the Ides of March, we released the March 2011 version of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit and Training Course . The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course includes videos and hands-on-labs designed to help...

My teammate, Kirk Evans , has a good blog about SharePoint development. Not just your typical stuff about using SharePoint Designer to create master pages and portals. His blog really covers it from a developers perspective because he’s really a .NET...

As a developer, I never really spent a lot of time focusing on SharePoint. In the past, I would rather code it myself rather than try wrench my code to work with another platform. But as SharePoint has matured, I see a lot of possibilities of SharePoint...

The next SoCal Code Camp is set to take place at Cal State University, Fullerton. It’s been a while since I’ve attended one but looking at the agenda, there’s are pretty good set of diverse topics from Android Development to Windows Phone 7 to Business...

When when the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) SDK first shipped, the only .NET language you could write your applications in was C#, regardless of using Visual Studio 2010 Express or above. Earlier this week, we released to web (RTW) VB for Windows Phone Dev Tools...

It’s here! It’s finally here! This is the second feature pack update for Visual Studio which includes new testing features and code visualization & modeling features. But more importantly, CODE UI TESTING FOR SILVERLIGHT 4 APPLICATION! Let’s hear...

There was a lot of great things showcased during the first day of the Microsoft PDC 2010 on Oct 28, from development on Windows Phone 7 to new features available to Windows Azure. What was really neat to watch was Brian Harry up on stage during the keynote...

Today, we announced that Office for Mac 2011 Home and Business and Communicator for Mac 2011 will be included in all Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate with Subscription Levels. This is the first time since I’ve worked with MSDN subscriptions (which dates...

Yesterday, Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 1 was made available to all MSDN subscribers. LightSwitch as announced at VSLive! earlier this month and is a new edition of Visual Studio. With LightSwitch, is a rapid application development tool that allows...

Most of the time, I’m working on either a notebook or a desktop. So the whole multi-monitor thing is not something as fluent with me like it is with some of my friends. One my notebook, I’ve started to use a second monitor because I’m constantly working...

Earlier this week, we posted ASP.NET MVC 3 (Preview 1). You can download it here . ScottGu did a great write up on his blog and I would do this release a disservice if I tried to explain what this Preview contains so please check out his write up. What...

Today, Microsoft released the Microsoft® Visual Studio® Scrum 1.0 to the web, a Team Foundation Server process template to support Scrum software development. This release complements the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement and MSF for Agile Software Development...

Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 is an integrated toolset for development and testing teams that enables them to setup/tear down and restore virtual environments to known states for build automation and test execution. You might be saying to yourself...

As a recovering software development manager, one of the things that always drove me crazy was the inability to provide the Project Management Office (PMO) with timely updates or getting my team updates on their upcoming tasks without doing a lot of cutting...

A feature pack and power tool are now available for Visual Studio 2010. The first is the VS 2010 Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack while the other is the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools. Jason Zander has blogged about these features packs in great...

Head on over to our download center to download free hands-on labs for Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0. These labs were built by developers for developers, and they cover all application blocks and advanced configuration scenarios. The...