Robert Burke's MSDN Weblog

Today, at Tech Ed Australia, Microsoft announced that Valve, makers of the exquisite game Half Life 2, have declared Visual Studio 2005 C++ Express Edition to be their preferred platform for developers to use when writing "mods," or modifications, to...

I have nothing but head-nodding agreement to add to Clemens Vasters' article on Visual Studio overload, the Capacity challenge, the subsequent specialization gamble, the importance of Indigo and particularly Avalon, the unwillingness to refer to those...

...And I'm actually pining for the fjords , would you believe ! Meanwhile, as I'll mention in the next MSDN Flash Ireland issue, we’re less than 100 days away from the launch of Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006. And judging...