I’m looking forward to my upcoming trip to Italy next week, where I’ll have an opportunity to speak at Microsoft events, and spend time with customers and partners. I wanted to share my plans with you, in case we have an opportunity to connect...

I hope everyone had a great holiday season, and is off to a good new year. I enjoyed taking some time off to spend with my family. I wanted to share some of what’s been going on in the Visual Studio team since BUILD . In October we released...

Today in the BUILD keynote I had the opportunity to show some of the new functionality in Microsoft® Visual Studio® 11 Developer Preview and Microsoft® Team Foundation Server Preview. MSDN subscribers can download the previews today as well...

I am happy to say that as of 10:00am PDT today, Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is available! MSDN subscribers can download LightSwitch immediately and others can download the 90-day trial. General availability is on Thursday, July 28th. ...

A quick recap of what's been happening on the team. Unit Testing Windows Phone 7 applications - Amit Chatterjee continues his series of posts as he builds his Chronometer Windows Phone 7 application. TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 Available...

Today I am thrilled to announce that Erich Gamma will be joining the Visual Studio team as a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer! Erich’s contributions have had a huge impact on the software industry. Erich has a passion for shipping high quality,...

Last week was Teched North America in Atlanta, GA. It was a great event and continues to be one of my favorite conferences because we get the chance to engage with both developers and IT professionals. In addition to my announcement of our ALM Roadmap...

I get a lot of questions about the future of Visual Studio; while I can't talk about everything we're doing I am excited because today at Teched North America , I announced our vision for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in the next version of Visual...

It's been a while since I've done a look back on what's been happening on the team. I thought this time around I'd surface up the latest posts regarding our March release of the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) . Installing Visual Studio...

I’m happy to announce that as of 10:00 AM PDT today Microsoft® Visual Studio® LightSwitch™ Beta 2 is available for download! MSDN subscribers using Visual Studio 2010 can download the beta immediately with general availability on Thursday...

I’m happy to announce that as of 10:00 AM PST the final version of the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is available for download! MSDN subscribers can download the bits immediately with general availability on Thursday, March 10. Download...

We are getting very near to the final release of VS2010 SP1 (if we were landing a plane the wheels would be down right now with the runway in front of us). Thanks again for all your feedback and stay tuned for the imminent release of the product. We’ve...

Often times when I'm attending conferences I am asked if Visual Studio is hiring. Here are a few links regarding open positions within Visual Studio and some additional related links that I think are helpful for staying connected with the community. ...

Quick recap of what's been happening on the team. Rangers Highlights of 2010 - Learn more about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and the 11 Rangers solutions they shipped in 2010. To keep up-to-date, I recommend following their new Twitter feed twitter...

As I mentioned in my last post , I wanted to update my Tip Express application with dynamic tile notifications.  The basic idea is very simple: push the user data from the application to the pinned tile on the home page using the background theme...

I’m on holiday break right now which means it’s time to write some code; I tend to go into withdrawal if I go too long without coding.  I’m starting with Windows Phone and moving on to Azure for New Year’s. I had posted my Tip Calculator application...

One of the most common requests from the announcement of VS2010 SP1 was for the list of fixed issues in the release.  This is something we typically publish at the final RTM of the release and will do so again for this release.  But due to popular...

Quick recap on what's been happening on the team. Team Foundation Server and Project Server Integration - Learn more about this feature pack released to MSDN subscribers. This integration is a leap forward for organizations that have both Project...

I'm happy to announce that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download! MSDN subscribers may download the beta immediately with general availability on Thursday. Service Pack 1 Beta comes with a “ go live ” license...

An important part of our development process for Visual Studio is integrating your feedback. To that end, in October we released a survey collecting your feedback on Visual Studio 2010. We received constructive feedback from over 1,800 respondents. Thanks...

I’ve personally been enjoying using my Windows Phone 7 device, and it’s been a lot of fun seeing the phones come to market across the world. As a developer, it’s an intriguing opportunity to see so many people buying Windows Phone 7...

Quick recap of what's been happening around the team. Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1 Beta - Download this beta release that comes with a "go-live" license and is available to all Team Explorer Everywhere owners. Check out Brian Harry's announcement...

As Soma announced this morning , we’ve just released the Visual Studio Async CTP, a preview of the new language support coming in VB and C# to make it far easier to write responsive client apps and scalable server apps. You can find out more details...

The CLR has always been a great environment for dynamic languages and over the last several years we have built out additional dynamic language support for the .NET Framework through efforts like the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and language implementations...

Quick recap of what's been happening around the team. [UPDATE] Hotfix Available for Scrolling Context Menu - Download the latest patch for Visual Studio and Windows Presentation Foundation that fixes the scrolling context menu. You can also find...