Scott Wiltamuth's Visual Studio blog

Approximately three years ago, we shipped the first version of C# along with VS 2002 and .NET Framework 1.0. Early on, there was a lot of concern about how quickly we could get broad distribution of the framework so that application developers could reduce...

I received an interesting customer question last week, and thought it would be valuable to share the answer here. Here's the question: <question> On the subject of try/catch scope in C#, it would be useful if the scope of variables created in try...

We announced the pricing and SKU plan for Visual Studio 2005 today: Q&A with Soma " The Shape (and Cost) of Visual Studio to Come " on internetnews.com I had a chance to do some Seattle-area customer visits with Soma last week. There was a lot of...

This week, C# was approved as a standard in Japan, and there was a joint press release from Microsoft Japan and JIS . Thanks to everyone who has helped C# 1.0 through the standardization process, including ECMA, ISO and now JIS! There's not an official...

A recent Computerworld article contains some interesting data on language and platform usage. The lead of the story is "Microsoft's C# beat out Java as the preferred programming language in a recent developer survey conducted by Computerworld . " The...

The Februrary 2005 Community Technical Preview (CTP) has been released. This CTP includes VS Pro and all of the Express SKU's (VC#, VB, VC++, VJ#, Visual Web Developer). The CTP releases have less quality assurance than betas, so for people who are more...

The March 2005 Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Avalon and Indigo is now available to MSDN Subscribers. See the Longhorn Dev Center for details. This CTP enables C# developers to build rich UI with Avalon and secure, reliable and transactional web...

As previously mentioned , I participated in a chat today with Eric Rudder and 200+ customers. The transcript has been posted on Channel9 . Besides the fact that I accidentally posted my bio in response to a question (rather than standalone, as an introduction...

C# has a number of job openings that people might be interested in. In particular, there are openings for both Software Design Engineer (aka "developer") and Software Development Engineer Test (aka "tester") spread fairly evenly across the compiler, debugger...

I'll be participating in a chat on Friday 3/18 that includes Eric Rudder, who is the Senior VP for Server and Tools. The title in the chat is "What's New in Whidbey". Here is the description: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Code-Named "Whidbey", will radically...

I'm a big fan of the public radio show " This American Life ", and was pleasantly surprised to hear a software-based story this past weekend. Here's the teaser: Act Two. Not Far From The Tree. Amy O'Leary tells the story of a software writer at Apple...

Peter Golde is one of the original designers of the C# language. He left Microsoft awhile back and has been spending some time working on Power Collections Library , a generics-based collections library. This Channel9 interview of Peter and Krzysztof...

.NET Developer's Journal has an interview with Anders Hejlsberg. It's in text, not multi-media like my last few posts. Anders talks about a wide variety of topics, including some high-level comments about post-Whidbey work we are exploring. --Scott