Last night I was watching the fireworks over Lake Sammamish, less than two miles from the Microsoft corporate campus. My thoughts were of of the many things that the U.S. has done around the globe to make this world a better place. As a retired soldier...

Gene Webb's Blog talks about some interesting training: Introduction to Visual Studio Team System 3 day course This course provides students with a strong overview of the features of Visual Studio Team System. The course will cover the major topics...

Here is a new walkthrough that won't get into the release for a month or two. Let me know what you think: This walkthrough guides you through the steps of creating a tool window that responds to Running Document Table (RDT) events. The tool window...

This is an interesting view of Visual Studio .Net looking at where we are now and where we want to go in the future. The Microsoft Developer Tools Roadmap is just that. Like a good AAA roadmap, it will give you lots of option about which road to take...

This demonstration shows you how to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System Help. The demo is five minutes long and can be viewed at Demo 12--How to Use VSTO 2005 Help . Note that the file size is about 3.2 MB.

A couple of VSIP PMs and the new test manager is at TechEd 2005 in Orlando this week. These events are total emersion experiences for everyone that goes. It’s like a meet and greet event for any organization and the numbers of people you meet can be staggering...

A customer asks "What can we do in Visual Studio with VSIP? We would appreciate a set of bullet points about what we can do inside VS with VSIP." The answer is "Just about anything" but that's not really helpful. So I asked Phil Taylor, the VSIP PM to...

[Note from Jim: This was too good not to pass on. For those interested in blogging, the Personal Tech Pipeline is a good resource.] The Blog Herald reported an estimate this week of 62 million blogs published worldwide . Some would say that's about...

From Rob Caron's blog we find the Windows Mobile team describing how to code in a very nice video. If you want VSIP to do this kind of presentation let us hear from you. Windows Mobile eHow-tos Learn more about application development for Windows...

The Visual Studio general automation model provides the Properties collection that can be used to access the Properties collections of any Visual Studio project type. Among other things, project properties enable you to control security settings, the...