Rico Mariani's Performance Tidbits

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 :)...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

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...