Abhishek Kumar pulled together a great trip report for our team from TechEd. Lots of great resources below, that are available for on-demand viewing. Keynote: Keynote address was given by Robert Wahbe, Corporate Vice President, Server and Tools Marketing, and Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President...

I’ve presented a couple of times to the LinkedIn .NET User Group (LIDNUG) . You can find my latest presentation available on the Archives . Click here to download the recording. Excerpt is below. Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks by Lisa Feigenbaum Join us for a demo-packed Visual Studio 2010 session...

    Overview Last November (28-30), I presented at TechEd Israel 2010 . TechEd Israel is a good-sized event, with 3000 people in attendance this year (which is a huge number given the size of the country). There was a lot of focus on the Cloud at the conference. Israeli developers are taking...

I was asked to write a few book forewords this year. I’ve included the contents below. I hope you will read the forewords and check out the books! I’ve also written past excerpts for Microsoft Visual Studio Tips by Sara Ford and Visual Basic 2008 - Neue Technologien – Crashkurs by Klaus Löffelmann ....

I often get asked for good VS 2010 book recommendations on the topics my team (VS Pro) is working on: C#, VB.NET, F#, VS IDE, VS Extensibility. Here are some recent titles to check out. You can also find a growing list on our MSDN developer centers: C# Books VB Books F# Books Visual Studio Books  ...

After a busy month of travel, I finally made my way back to Seattle. As promised, here are the materials from all the talks and events. BASTA! in Mainz, Germany BASTA! is a third party conference, led by Software & Support Media GmbH. Software & Support Media publishes magazines, hosts conferences...

I recently completed an interview with Michael Desmond, Editor in Chief of Visual Studio Magazine at 1105 Media. Visual Studio Magazine had released a .NET Insight newsletter featuring in-depth coverage of the C# programming language, and wanted to follow it up with an interview with the product team...

I recently presented a “Lap Around VS 2010 for C# & VB Developers” presentation at Microsoft TechReady. TechReady is a semi-annual internal technical conference for Microsoft employees. (More info here: http://www.facebook.com/TechReady#!/TechReady .) Most TechReady session materials are Microsoft...

Thanks for all the feedback on the Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters . We’ve released new versions to take into account your requested changes: - Create 8.5”x11” Letter-sized print-ready documents - Create 210x297mm A4-sized print-ready documents - Remove the people images and keep the space...

For those of you who enjoyed the 1st Productivity Power Tools release , be sure to download the latest version released this week! There are a number of changes, including requests from your comments on this blog. :) The most popular request was the ability to have more granular control of which features...

One of the great aspects of the Visual Studio 2010 release is the extensibility support. The VS 2010 Editor is re-written in WPF, providing rich IDE experiences in the box, as well as new extensibility APIs that enable the creation of more powerful extensions out of the box. To support these extensions...

Visual Basic XML Comments were first introduced in Visual Studio 2005. They can be used to create documentation for your project, and to provide a rich IDE experience for others using your code. For more information on XML Comments, please read my full article in MSDN Magazine here . This blog post focuses...

Earlier this year Octavio Hernandez visited Microsoft campus and interviewed Group Program Manager Raj Pai about managed languages in Visual Studio 2010. Octavio is a Technical Editor for Spanish magazine DotNetMania and a C# MVP. The Spanish version of the interview was published in the DotNetMania...

I just released a new version of my Twitter Analyzer application on Code Gallery: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/twitter There are both VB and C# solution versions available on the download page: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=twitter&ReleaseId=4362 Please...

I had the pleasure to keynote the Orlando Launch Event last week. This was one of 15 full-day Launch events , in addition to 30 half-day events, being organized by the U.S. Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) team. DPE members Bill Zentmayer , Joe Healy , G. Andrew Duthie and Jim Blizzard led an...

The Visual Studio keyboard shortcut posters are always very popular and are now available for Visual Studio 2010 ! Please choose the one that corresponds to your choice of Visual Studio Development Settings . Print out a poster to place on the wall, or a quick reference card to keep on your desk. Download...

This was an exciting week, with the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 and lots of great content on MSDN! Las Vegas Launch The Launch took place on April 12th in 5 different cities. For information on these events, please visit http://vs2010launch.com . The video from Bob Muglia’s VS 2010 Launch...

Please find the slides for my PDC 09 chalk talk attached . The solution is posted here on Code Gallery. For more info on the Professional Developers Conference, please visit http://microsoftpdc.com . I also stayed in town after the event to present again at the SoCal Code Camp . The event took place...

Please find the video below for my Lap Around VS 2010 session at TechEd EMEA 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Other session materials are included in my earlier post here .  

I’ve included my session materials here from TechEd Europe 2009 in Berlin. Powerpoint Presentation “Twitter Analyzer” Demo Solution (Note: This application was built using Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 , IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 2 and Office 2007.) DEV314 - A Lap around Microsoft...

Here’s a great video with Stephen Toub and Jason Olson that gives a 15min overview of what’s new for managed developers doing parallel programming with .NET 4.0. Video: Using the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework Welcome back to another Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week video...

There are a lot of Microsoft announcements that happened today! Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and compatible versions of IronRuby / IronPython Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint ( Keynote , Dev Center ) New Visual Studio logo and brand (blue & purple infinity sign) Visual Studio 2010...

This past summer I was interviewed by C# MVP Octavio Hernandez and VB MVP Pep Lluis Bano for an article that was published in the Spanish magazine DotNetMania . The Spanish text is available as an attachment at the end of this post, as well as in summary form on the DotNetMania site . I've included the...

After a series of team blogs, I’ve decided to finally start my own. Here’s where you can find my previous posts. IDE VS2010 Beta1 Extensibility News Walkthrough: Quick Search for Files and Symbols in Visual Studio 2010 Walkthrough: TDD Support with the Generate From Usage Feature in VS 2010...