Last Wednesday, I downloaded and installed NUnit on my laptop computer. I'm about to use it here for the first time. My classmates think I'm a show-off. What can I say?

No, we did not just drop off the surface of the earth... neither did we have to be 'neutralized' cuz we'd stumbled on some wonderful technical secrets at MS... Actually, we successfully completed our project; spent the last few days preparing for the...

Just in case you were wondering if I shut up for so long cuz my last post was too long... you're right! I did! Work has been good... I first worked on the color logger with Charley up until last Wednesday, when we “thought” it was done - but...

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Last Tuesday, the MSBuild Explorer team began working full-time on the powertoys for MSBuild. These powertoys will be released online sometime in the next few weeks, along with their sources. Thus far, we've done the following: Color Logger: As...

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So last week Eyiwunmi and I came up with a plan for the Color Logger, which will be a downloadable Powertoy for the Beta1 of Whidbey. It is created, according to the specifications that we wrote, to “redefine the appearance of the console output”...

Ever heard the term “drinking from a power hose”? That’s how these first two weeks have been. We’ve been bombarded with a whole bunch of information and now I have all these different bits and pieces floating about my head, demanding...

This past week I have been shadowing MSBuild Program Manager Kieran Mockford and MSBuild Software Design Engineer Rajeev Goel. Here's some interesting stuff we did: w/ Kieran Mockford: I sat in on a couple of meetings. Kieran does code liberally...

We've yet to give a comprehensive description of MSBuild, and I realize that many people reading this blog haven't heard of it, so here's a very good overview that I found on MSDN: Historically, developers have struggled when trying to map a complicated...

Explore Microsoft is a program for students who have completed their Freshman or Sophomore years in college and are interested in pursuing a career in software development. For the first two weeks, from June 22nd to July 2nd, we, along with the other...

So let's see, what's happened since Thursday? We've had a lot more programming classes, which are starting to be pretty useful, because I definitely did not learn this much about pointers and such in high school. We've also been doing a lot more...

Here is a summary of what happened on Friday: After taking C++ classes in the morning, I shadowed Jeff Callahan, a Software Test Engineer on the MSBuild team. I also shadowed Jeff during Thursday afternoon. He has been catching some bugs and teaching...

Hi this is Eyiwunmi (aye-ee-wun-me) again and we're halfway through another day... the programming class this morning was good, and this afternoon I get to shadow Keiran Mockford again, like I did yesterday, and I'm looking forward to it! He's a program...

Welcome to the blog of the Explore Microsoft team working with the Visual Studio group! My name is Byron Grogan, and I am a Computer Science Engineering major at the University of Michigan. I'm part of the first year of a program designed for freshman...

Hello everyone! I'm Roshni and I'm also here as a Microsoft Explorer. I'm working along with Charley, Eyiwunmi, and Byron with the MSBuild team. Right now we're taking programming classes in the morning, and shadowing other Microsoft employees. Later...

Okay... this is the first time that I'll be blogging... hi world! This is Eyiwunmi, one part of the coolest quattro of the first ever Explore Microsoft Program!

Let me introduce myself quickly. My name is Charley and I am a rising Sophomore at the University of Washington. I am an Explore Microsoft student here part of the Visual Studio sector. Specifically, we are part of the MSBuild group. I started at Microsoft...