April, 2005

Aaron Stebner's WebLog provides a fix for those of us with beta one and other builds of Whidbey who get package load errors when trying to install beta two. Nick found this out this morning and passed on to test to confirm. From Aaron's site we see: ...

Well, it's been a month since the MSCOM team rolled out the MSDN Forums and with it our sub-forum Visual Studio Extensibility . You might remember I blogged about the benefits earlier this month. While we haven't had much traffic yet, we are working to...

Visual Studio 2005 introduces a rich new environment for developing database applications against third-party data sources. While Visual Studio has always offered design-time support for SQL Server development, other data sources have posed more of a...

I'm gonna let you know something a little earlier than the general public. MSDN Forums is available at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ . And, there is a new folder there called Visual Studio Extensibility. Now, to be clear, we are not abandoning the...

I am the newest programmer writer for the Visual Studio Automation team. This is my first blog, one that I think you will find interesting. This is new material that you normally wouldn't see until the next release of Visual Studio 2005. Let me know if...

The VS Core team is going to test the scrum waters starting 1 May and lasting 30 days. We plan a couple of iterations to see if this methodology works for us. I plan to provide you with some feedback about the experience. If you are not familiar with...