C# Express

2004-07-03T08:23:00Z

This week we released the C# Express Beta1. Being a tester I can't help but be a bit paranoid, I always worry that I may have missed an obvious problem in a mainline scenario. So far so good. We've been getting some feedback and it's always cool to see what people think about what we've done.

I've been a bit over 5 years at Microsoft; I've always been in the developer division. First in C++ and now in C#. In this time I had never seen so many people sending me links to articles about our product. There've been several articles on the express skus and a lot of people around here are pretty excited about them. Not only because it's nice to meet a goal but because for many of us is the first chance to impact a very big audience. Many of us joined Microsoft in part to have an impact in this world, with the Express skus, the number of potential users is greater than ever.

I've been thinking that if I were in school I would have downloaded all of them, although with the modem I had back then, it would have taken the better part of a school term.

I'm finishing up a bunch of work items before the week is over. I'll be in Mexico next week, in search of blue ski and no rain.

Getting started...

2004-06-24T03:23:00Z

I'm trying to figure out what blogging is all about, I was looking for inspiration by checking out blogs from people that I work with and I ran across Jay Bazuzi's; in his first post he mentions that most people end up posting only once, I think I started even worse than that, I opened the blog a couple of months ago and so far I hadn't posted anything yet.

I'm a test tech lead for the C# IDE team. What does a test tech lead do? I'm not sure yet myself, I'm trying to figure it out and so is my division at Microsoft. This position was recently created for those people who are solving technical problems for test teams and who are not in management roles. I guess I'll talk more about being a test tech lead in the future.

My team works on the C# language services in the Visual Studio shell. We test that all the shell services (editor, designers, etc.) work with C# projects as well as the C# intellisense features (autocomplete, refactoring, snippets, etc.). I personally test the Extract Method and Extract Interface refactorings as well as a few small intellisense features.

Some of the things I'm interested in talking about are:

Testing software, after all this is what I do most of the days.
C# IDE features, the product that we are working on.
Software or computers
Mexico, where I'm from.

...as I was reading other people's blogs, I noticed that most of them have interesting names. I didn't want to postpone starting a weblog any longer so for a moment I decided to name it after what my devs call me but then thanks to dictionary.com I found out that it has several not pleasant meanings. I wonder what the devs actually meant...

Gabriel

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C# Express

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