Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2.0 is now in beta ! Of course VSTO 1.0 has been out for some time now and is available here . What's great about VSTO is that it allows developers a way to extend Office applications with managed code...

Anthony Moore , Dev Lead for the BCL team posted a great comment on Rico’s latest quiz … It was so good I could not let it be buried there, so I thought I’d re-post it here… I am sure it will generate some comments ;-) I...

The Information Bridge Framework (IBF) "provides a framework for connecting disparate sources of enterprise information from back-end systems like ERP and CRM to Office 2003 Professional applications via web services and WinForms." It just RTM'ed...

Last one for the day, then I go home. You’ve read Test Methods are neither Methods nor Tests . You’ve dried off & are fully recovered. This is the practical reason why NUnit should remove the ‘public’ requirements...

Annie Wang (PM on the VS Setup Team) and the rest of the setup team have worked extremely hard to fix up the problems reported during the initial download attempts of the express sku. She posted this update : “We have published the new web setup...

In addition to being a history buff and architecture expert, Pat likes to sing - typically parody songs of his own creation. He's written many, but we actually broke down and got a license for Don McLean's classic " American Pie ". Pat performed his version...

Ever heard the term “drinking from a power hose”? That’s how these first two weeks have been. We’ve been bombarded with a whole bunch of information and now I have all these different bits and pieces floating about my head, demanding...

In the feedback section of one of my blogs, Aaron Junod wrote : “In writing this, I just realized something. I think someone should draw a line between writing tests, and actual program code, and then offer different options based on that. They...

It's great to visit TechEd Bloggers and discover new bloggers who are writing interesting articles about the event. As an organiser, there's no better way to get the vibe of the event from the floor than to read what others have been up to and the good...

This past week I have been shadowing MSBuild Program Manager Kieran Mockford and MSBuild Software Design Engineer Rajeev Goel. Here's some interesting stuff we did: w/ Kieran Mockford: I sat in on a couple of meetings. Kieran does code liberally...

Have you tried the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer ? How many shapes do you think is reasonable to have in one diagram? R.Ramesh is seeking your input to drive how the Class Designer team will optimize performance. After all, if most people never use...

Coincidently, the same day that Kerry Hammil's talk which featured the 3D Blood Sugar Tracker demo aired Joe Beda managed to get the source hosted at MSDN .