I was lamenting that we haven't really done terribly much to make multi-threaded debugging easier in say the last decade and I was fortunate enough to be able to have a conversation with Brain Crawford about it. Brian is a long-time friend an colleague...

It’s been a long time since I included my “this discussion is only approximately correct” disclaimer so I’ll just preface it here. In the interest of space and clarity, this discussion is only approximately correct. OK, now we can move on… I love micro...

Visual Studio 2010 Launched on Monday . Wow! It’s HUGE. A major round of congratulations are in order for everyone involved, not just on the Visual Studio team but also on the Frameworks team and the supporting teams and of course the customers whose...

I’m not especially a great fan of micro-benchmarks, they’re handy as a compliment to the larger tests but I often find that they lead to confusion because they are interpreted as reflecting reality when nothing could be farther from the truth. The fact...

I try to keep the content on this blog strictly professional (although sometimes it's like an editorial but at least it's topical) About once a year I break down and write something that's basically just some personal thing I felt like sharing. This is...

I like processes that simply drop-dead fail when they have an unrecoverable fault. Trying to continue is often dangerous and unlikely to actually help anyone. This policy is all fine and well but in all cases it is vital that the “death” stack of a process...

Just a quick plug, if you missed the VSX conference you can see it all online on Channel 9. Some great talks including my keynote speech on VS Futures.

Just a few words of encouragement today: I can't emphasize enough how valueable your feedback is to us at this point; no matter how hard we try we simply cannot duplicate the diversity that is the real world. We need to know what's really working out...

After my keynote speech yesterday at the Development Tools Ecosystem Summit Charles Torre caught up with me and we made this video. Hot off the presses: Rico Mariani: Inside Visual Studio Beta 2 - Performance and Reliability It's super-exciting :) If...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] [Visit the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta web site for the latest info] Visual Studio 2008 Winds Down, Visual Studio 2010 Begins Just as things were starting to wind down on VS2008...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] In the last posting I talked about the “Whidbey” release, VS2005, but I feel like I left out two really important aspects so I’d like to start this part by rewinding a bit for those two topics. I had mentioned...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] I can’t really talk about what was going on in the IDE without covering what was happening in the runtime because their fates are so intertwined, so even though it’s off topic a little bit, allow me to...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] [I know I promised to talk about “Whidbey” in this installment but I realized I needed a bridge to get there or else I’d totally skip over “Everett” – so this is that bridge.] In MSN the arrival of the...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] The years 1998 to 2002 were very busy ones in the Developer Division. I’ve previously written about “Dolphin” and I tried to give a sense of exactly how much changed during the Dolphin release and the sheer...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] We’re still on the part of the story where I was off working in MSN which means all I can give you are the first- and second-hand stories that I’ve heard over the years. So I guess that makes them second...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] I didn’t really intend to write one of these per day but here it is day 4 and we’re still going strong. I’d like to take a moment to thank the many people who commented on this series either here, or on...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] I was going to go forward again in this installment but I got some requests to talk about some older things again before I did that. You might be getting bored of the distant past so I’ll try to keep that...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] Visual C++ 2.0, “Dolphin” was a very ambitious release. We were really happy with VC1 but there were quite a few things that were entirely unsatisfactory. One of them, maybe the most important, was the...

[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] I wrote in the teaser that there is no one “History of Visual Studio”, there are as many histories as there were people involved. If I may repurpose a famous quote, “There are eight million stories in the...

This is just great fun! And, of course, The Documentary is all wrong because they left out many of my favorite parts *grin*. OK, seriously, there is no one history of Visual Studio because of course there is a history for every person that was involved...

I'm happy to announce that I just agreed to give the keynote for the Development Tools Ecosystem Summit next month here in Redmond. The Development Tools Ecosystem Summit, from October 19 th – 23 rd , is our annual conference open to all developers for...

A friend of mine pointed out that, in hex, I'm under 30 :) How wonderful!

If I have any readers left out there, they might be interested to know what it is I’m up to this month. It’s a very important something. It’s... my vacation! Ok, seriously, I am in fact on vacation and I’ll be out for the next few weeks mostly because...

Vance Morrison posted an interesting opportunity for you to give feedback directly to the CLR perf team on your managed code performance issues. I encourage you to participate: If you use managed code, and you care about performance, then we want to hear...

Disclaimer: This is yet another of my trademarked "approximately correct" discussions From time to time customers or partners ask me about our plans to create a 64 bit version of Visual Studio. When is it coming? Why aren’t we making it a priority? Haven...