Luke, a PM on the C# IDE team has started a blog... should be a good source of info, especially around the new Express Edition. Intro + C# Express ... The project that I’ve been working on for most of my time at Microsoft is the Visual C#...

The last few weeks have been the definition of busy for me. Getting beta 1 out the door hasn't exactly been a relaxed process and there's a bunch of other stuff going on at the same time. But the beta is finally out. Express SKUs are finally out. The...

Today, I was asked for performance data comparing between C++ and C#. The reason they ask is the same one I've seen people ask for before: they're trying to convince someone up their management chain that moving to managed code is the right thing to do...

This article provides a 20,000 foot view of the Web services features in the Beta 1 release .NET Framework 2.0. We'd love to hear your feedback on the features shipped in Beta 1 and the features you think should be in RTM.

One of the cool projects I’ve worked on as part of working on C# Express is the “starter kit” that we added to the C# Express product. Dan and Shaykat have both blogged about the starter kit, but I’ll try to go into some more detail...

The BCL team site graduated to MSDN recently and I see that Frank got a blurb about it on the .NET Framework DevCenter and his blog : /bcl - information on programming the Base Class Libraries (stuff in the System namespace). Especially check-out...

Kerry Hammil, a program manager with the Avalon team, discusses the goals and features of 3D support in Avalon and walks through writing your first Avalon 3D application in this 30 minute video segment ( 56K , 150K or 300K ). You will want to be sure...

I'm so excited that my friend Michael Erickson is going to start blogging next week (right, Michael?). He's a campus recruiter for Microsoft and focuses on technical recruiting (full-time and intern) for Office. I told him how much fun I am having blogging...

The official day 1 of the event started with exciting opening keynote where all of us attending were able to bang the drums in african style :-) The VS Express editions look prety cool. As you may already know they are targeting the non-professional...

We've been hearing a lot of reports from customers that they're having trouble installing the express skus under pretty normal system setups. The setup team is working very hard to fix these issues and to get updated setups to help alleviate these issues...

I just had a profound “well duh” moment a minute ago. I started watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon because: I love the movie I wanted to have something on in the background while i made dinner for myself Of course, what i didn...

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