JRoxe's WebLog

After 5 years in DevDiv marketing, I’ve recently made a change to the Windows Mobile group where I’ll be leading a team looking at product management and product planning for the developer space. It’s bittersweet – DevDiv has been a great place to work...

Are you passionate about helping to address the challenges that face professional developers? Do you have a technical background and innate marketing savvy? Then we need to talk. I'm building a team that will be responsible for marketing VS Standard...

Have you done some really cool development with Visual Basic 2005 that you've already rolled into production? I'm continuously excited when I talk to many of you about the great work that you're doing with VB 2005 and the great solutions that you've...

Almost five months ago, we launched VBRun: the Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center. Since then quite a few of you have visited the site and have sent me feedback about it. I'm pleased to announce that we've added a new section featuring content from some...

There have been a number of press articles recently about application compatibility between the .NET Framework 1.1 and the .NET Framework 2.0 (beta). You can see an article in eWeek and an article in Microsoft Watch . You can get the full story...

Are you going to be down at TechEd in Orlando in a couple of weeks? Are you interested in meeting with the Visual Basic team while you’re down there? Nine people from the VB team are going to be down at TechEd and we’re very interested in meeting...

I'm happy to announced that we launched a new subsite for the Visual Basic Developers Center today: VBRun: The Visual Basic 6.0 Resource center . This site highlights some of our best VB 6.0 content from the MSDN archive, has some new content on making...

Author's Note: Earlier today, I sent the attached note to each of the MVPs who signed the petition around VB6. Please let me know what you think. I noticed that you signed the petition at http://classicvb.org/petition . I'm mailing each of the MVPs who...

There have been a lot of questions raised about the “end” of support for Visual Basic 6.0 recently that are worthwhile addressing. Let’s just get the biggest question out of the way: Support is not ending. Let me say that again: Support is not ending...

We're running a survey (only takes about 3 minutes) to get some feedback on partially-trusted applications. How many of you are building them? What do you think? Here's your chance to let us know: http://host.ultimatesurvey.com/microsoft/surveys/takesurvey...

Richard Grimes posted his final column in Dr. Dobbs the other day. Dan Fernandez replied to part of it in his blog and I also found Scott Swigart's reply on some of the VB comments interesting. What do you think?

I recently did a chat with Graham Parker, George Gallagher, Richard Costall and Geoff Hirst with VBUG.NET in the UK. It was a pretty interesting IM conversation and they were nice enough to post the transcript here . We covered everything from the future...

I'm working to create a library of applications that we can use for testing compatibility between .NET Framework 2003 applications and Whidbey applications. We don't need source in order to do this, all we need is the binaries for the application, instructions...

Happy Chinese New Year! (well, a couple of days late). As a part of my Chinese New Year resolutions, I'm going to write more in this blog, so look for an entry at least weekly. I spent last week down at VSLive and had a chance to catch up with a bunch...

It's been a while since I've written in my blog, primarily because I finally went on vacation and then went straight from Jackson Hole to the Visual Basic User Group Tour in Asia. Matt Gertz and I visited Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in 6 days...

Jackie Goldstein, the Regional Director from Israel, did a migration tour through Europe last year where he gave some great information on bringing VB6 applications forward to .NET. It was a 10-stop, 1 day-per-stop seminar. I've seen Jackie's content...

So I'm very remiss in not having already blogged about the European User Group tour. In the two weeks after TechEd Europe at the end of June, the VB team visited 11 different user groups around Europe including Amsterdam, Munich, Milan, Vienna, Vic, Porto...

Have any of you checked out Soma's blog ? For those of you who don't know Soma, he's the VP who owns all of developer tools and sets direction for the development teams. I'm psyched that he's joined the blogosphere and started to tell us what he's thinking...

We're looking for a new writer/programmer to join the VB team. If you're passionate about helping people to understand how to create world-beating applications in VB, check out the description below. Developer Tools User Education is looking for...

If you haven't already checked it out, take a look at the Express blog You should also go download the bits at the Express download center . More later....

If you haven't already checked it out, take a look at the Express blog You should also go download the bits at the Express download center . More later....

This blog enty’s a little late because I’ve been running around like mad at TechEd Europe, but I just wanted to add to the chorus of good news around the launch of the Visual Studio Express line. We launched Express with a demo of VB Express...

From time to time, we host migration labs in Redmond where we invite some large customers to bring in their VB6 applications and we help them get started on the process of migrating these to VB.NET. Blair Stephenson, one of the recent attendees, was so...

We've got some photos from the UG Tour! The reverse user group tour in Boston. Steven during the presentation. Amanda takes a question Amanda, Chris Pels (Boston UG Leader), and Steven after the presentation. And I finally went out...

In talking to developers down at TechEd, I got the overwhelming feeling that those who had made the move to VB.NET didn't ever want to go back to VB6. Have you made the move? How do feel about it? What was the feature that convinced you that you wanted...