Scott Wiltamuth's Visual Studio blog

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F# fans will want to check out Don Syme's post regarding source code releases of F# compiler and libraries. The release we just did matches the code that shipped with VS 2010. We hope these kind of releases will be valuable for education, research, and...

People interested in dynamic languages and Silverlight will definitely want to install Silverlight 4 and check out some new information and samples about using dynamic languages with Silverlight . Cool stuff! --Scott

Everywhere I go on this launch your, I'm having a great time connecting with enthusiastic .NET developers. I had fun last night speaking at the Capital Area .NET User Group . My favorite moment in last night's talk was where I asked how many people...

I had a great time last night at the Phillly .NET as part of our launch tour activities. I did a whirlwind one-hour tour of VS 2010 followed by an hour of Q&A. It was a packed house! Dave Isbitski has a great post with some pictures of the event....

We're excited to announce availability of VS 2010 for Japanese, German, and French locales! Check out this blog post for images of the Japanese version. --Scott

Here are some additional launch-related links. These are for on-demand versions of the launch talks: Bob Muglia's keynote - Bob Muglia and friends Windows Development - Paul Yuknewicz SharePoint and Office Development - Sam Gazitt Dev &...

Product launches are a lot of fun for us. We've been busy at work on VS 2010 since we released VS 2008 in late 2008. We and our early adopters are extremely familiar with the feature set, so it's fun to see a fresh set of reactions and feedback from press...

As we are approaching the release of VS 2010, I have seen a number of questions from customers about our language strategy for VB and C#. We made a shift in strategy at the beginning of this release cycle and have been talking about it publicly for some...

We're super-excited to have our VS 2010 Release Candidate out. Thanks to everyone who gave us great feedback in Beta 1, Beta 2, and the recent CTP's leading up to this RC release. We think that everyone will be pleased with the deep work we have been...

Check out this new VS 2010 and .NET Fx 4.0 videos page on channel9. We're rolling out a set of videos for this week, including Jason Zander's keynote at Tech Ed in Barcelona , Anders doing q&a on C# 4.0 , Lucian on VB 10 , and others! If you're curious...

For those of you who are not at PDC in LA this week, watching the videos is a great substitute. I watched the Day 1 and Day 2 keynotes yesterday, which are at http://microsoftpdc.com . I enjoyed seeing the parts that I wasn't already familiar with, especially...

With PDC going on in LA this week, we have a number of new C# videos available: Anders' PDC talk on The Future of C# , where he describes the work we plan to deliver as part of C# 4.0 in Visual Studio 2010 . There are six demos: Silverlight...

Anders gave a great talk at JAOO last week that I'm watching now, "Where are programming languages going" . It provide a good overview of where we see programming languages going, and puts some of our current work in context. Check it out, and feel free...

Alex Turner's story about how he took $202 from Anders Hejlsberg is very amusing. And true! I remember that week before PDC 2005. There was a lot going on, including a last-minute name change. We had to change all of the PDC materials from "Clarity...

Re: my earlier post on the future of JavaScript, there is another interesting item today on Ajaxian: ECMAScript Edition 4: Brendan Speaks Out . --Scott

Gabriele Renzi has a good post on the future of JavaScript: " ECMAScript 4, the fourth system syndrome ". The concept of a "fourth system syndrome" is a good one, particularly so for programming languages. For mature programming languages, thoughtful...

Soma blogged earlier announcing our intent to productize F#, and we are seeing some press coverage of this: Ars Technica: Microsoft to push functional programming into the mainstream with F# by Ryan Paul BetaNews: Experimental 'Functional...

Funny thing. As soon as I blogged about Second Life at OOPSLA , I happened across the Second Life .NET User Group ! Saturday at noon is a difficult time for me, but I'll have to give this a try at some point. --Scott

There was an interesting session at OOPSLA yesterday called " Second Life: The World's Biggest Programming Environment " by Jim Purbrick and Mark Lentczner , that covered two main topics. The first part of the talk was mainly about the popularity of...

I've been traveling for the last week or so, first to Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England and then to OOPSLA in Montreal . We have top-notch languages researchers in MSR Cambridge, and this was a good trip to build a deeper relationship with them...

In sync with the release of unified communications products , Bill Gates published a well-written piece today on Software-Powered Communications . The primary focus of this software is Information Workers , it is also interesting to think about the trends...

I recently switched from managing a large group (VB, VC#, VC++, and Phoenix product units) to working in a staff role for Jason Zander , who is managing a larger group that includes the product units I previously mentioned plus a number of others that...

I got a nice email on Friday from Tudor Vlad , who was very happy to receive a copy of C# Programming Language signed by both Anders and me. Check out his post on the same topic, including a picture of the title page! We have signed a lot of copies...

Bill Gates is featured in a new Channel9 video . He talks about compatibility, Atlas , Mix , Office 12, his personal Interet usage, philanthropy, future change and more. --Scott