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I’ve written on my blog before about the Microsoft Enterprise Library . Enterprise Library has a long and accomplished history of providing architectural guidance, recommended practices, and reusable components to help developers, architects, and IT professionals efficiently build line-of-business...

We finished the RTM release of Visual Studio 2012 in August 2012 and launched it in September. At that time, we committed to releasing new value into Visual Studio via a regular cadence of Visual Studio Updates, and in November 2012 we released our first, Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (VS2012.1), which...

As I’ve written about previously , we’ve been developing tools for building the next-generation of apps for Office and SharePoint . These tools manifest both as an online experience known as “Napa”, which we’ve been updating on a weekly basis, as well as a complete set of...

A little over four years ago, we created the DevLabs portal on MSDN. The idea behind this site was to provide a hub for Microsoft teams to publicly share prototypes of innovative tools for developers, showcasing and gathering feedback on technologies that were in their early stages. In the time since...

This week in Redmond, Microsoft is hosting the 3rd annual ALM Summit , a gathering of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practitioners interested in learning more about the craft and sharing their own experiences with others. Over the course of three packed days and across four tracks of discussions...

Our developer customer base for Visual Studio is truly global. A significant portion of the Visual Studio user base is international, and as a result, we spend a lot of time and energy making sure that Visual Studio yields a great experience, regardless of locale, and we continually strive to improve...

“Firsts” excite me. This excitement isn’t about competition with others, but rather about competition with ourselves and our past, about constantly working to better what we do and how we do it, and about the value we provide to developers and teams who use our tools. At our Visual...

Several months ago, I shared the news of our new set of development tools for Office and SharePoint, including the in-browser “Napa” tools and the rich client Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012. Today at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, we shared significant updates to...

It’s a very exciting time for developers! Last week, we launched Windows 8 and Surface . On Monday, we launched Windows Phone 8 and introduced some awesome new smartphone devices . Today, we’re kicking off the Build conference, where we’ll join with thousands of developers in person...

In addition to supporting industry-standard programming languages, such as C++, Python, and JavaScript, Microsoft has always been at the forefront of creating great programming languages – Visual Basic, C#, and F# being the most recent examples. We create programming languages to solve problems...

Today is the formal launch event for Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5, a state-of-the-art development solution for building modern applications that span connected devices and continuous services, from the client to the cloud. This morning’s launch keynote covers how Visual Studio 2012 takes...

In my previous post , I started building a Windows Store app using Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 , and along the way integrated a few Windows features like live tiles and search. These days, however, many applications benefit from consuming and integrating with a variety of backend services...

In previous posts , I’ve alluded to one of our key focus areas for Visual Studio 2012 being the theme of connected devices and continuous services. This includes creating a top-notch set of tools in Visual Studio 2012 to both design and build amazing Windows apps and the services that back them...

Two weeks ago, I shared that final builds of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 had been created, and that they’d be available for MSDN Subscribers on August 15th. Well, today is August 15th, and I’m excited to announce that the bits are live and ready to go. How can you get them? ...

Today, the Windows and Windows Server teams announced that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have been released to manufacturing. In keeping with our goal of delivering great tools on the same cadence as our platforms, I’m thrilled to announce that we have completed final builds of Visual Studio...

A few weeks back, I highlighted our release of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET , an updated version of the SDK with full support for Visual Studio 2012. This release was in line with our continued goal of having tools available for platforms on the same cadence as those platforms. Today, I’m excited...

One of our primary goals with developer tools is to ensure we enable developers to be very productive while targeting Microsoft platforms. This includes delivering the relevant tools on the same cadence as the platforms, meaning that the tools should ship along with or in the same general timeframe as...

I’m excited to announce that the Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Release Candidates are now available for download . These releases ship with “Go Live” licenses, so you can get started today building and deploying production applications using Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5....

I’ve had multiple meetings recently with customers and press where the topic of .NET development has come up, particularly as it relates to the cloud and server. They’ve heard about the extensive work we’ve done with Visual Studio 11 to enable the client-side development of Metro style...

I’m excited today to announce a new DevLabs project: Microsoft Codename “Casablanca” . You can learn more about the project and download the bits from the DevLabs site . I’ve previously discussed some of the major trends that have influenced the direction we’ve taken...

I am very happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta releases are now available for download . I previously blogged about some of the innovation that went into the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview releases at //BUILD/: Visual Studio 11 Programming Language Advances...

Today, I’m excited to announce that Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta will be available in just a few days, on February 29th, 2012. These releases will be “go live,” meaning they will enable usage in production environments. Industry Trends There are a number of industry...

As an industry trend, advancement in heterogeneous hardware has progressed at a rapid pace. This in turn has fueled developer desire to target such hardware for accelerated computation, necessitating a significant step forward in programming models to enable such practices. C++ Accelerated Massive...

Happy new year. Over the last several months since //BUILD/, I’ve published multiple blog posts outlining advancements made in Visual Studio 11, from languages to the .NET Framework to IDE productivity to platform-specific tooling . I’m concluding this five-post series with a look at some...

Through my last several blog posts, I’ve highlighted some of the new features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview released in September. All of these posts have concentrated on various advancements that span multiple application types: whether you’re building apps for the client or cloud...