James @ MS
Personal adventures in the world of technology...
Our good friend Pablo Galiano has just released StickyNotes Professional Edition for Visual Studio...
Date: 12/29/2008
OLED displays are already awesome enough. Here is a foldable one that would even be cooler....
Date: 11/25/2008
For the past several months, we have been constantly bombarded by bad economic news. The massive...
Date: 11/18/2008
I have finally decided to change the name of my blog after radio silence for many weeks. The reason...
Date: 11/07/2008
Several developers have asked me whether we provide localized versions of the VS Shell. The answer...
Date: 09/20/2008
Yesterday, we posted the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. The download links are...
Date: 08/12/2008
Since releasing the VS 2008 Shell (isolated), we have been working on service pack 1 with a number...
Date: 07/11/2008
We know deploying your VS package can be a pain and there are often a lot of pain with getting a...
Date: 06/23/2008
I was just going around and talking about the VS Gallery on our European Tour, and on last Friday,...
Date: 06/09/2008
On Thursday, we had our last VSX European Tour event at the Microsoft office in Budapest. It was...
Date: 06/08/2008
Our European Tour has brought us to Prague on Monday. This was the first time for me to visit Prague...
Date: 06/04/2008
With the help of Rolf and Susan who organized the event, Jean-Marc and I presented to a user group...
Date: 05/30/2008
We are in Deutschland now and we visited the Microsoft Technology Center at Munich yesterday. It was...
Date: 05/27/2008
You may have already seen my post about out session at Brussels. Sven Cipido from Ordina has just...
Date: 05/26/2008
Bikes, lots of bikes. And trams too. Then there are also motorcycles, scooters, and cars. You better...
Date: 05/23/2008
Yesterday in Brussels, we made our first of a series of presentations in our European tour. I met up...
Date: 05/21/2008
Earlier today, we shipped the matching VS 2008 SDK for VS 2008 Sp1 Beta. We are calling this VS 2008...
Date: 05/20/2008
Today, we release the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta. This service pack is particularly...
Date: 05/12/2008
I just finished with my Chalk Talk session, and the launch event is winding down. Folks are heading...
Date: 02/27/2008
If you missed Soma's blog post from this morning, we are launching the Visual Studio Gallery today....
Date: 02/27/2008
I am in L.A. today and tomorrow, to attend and speak at the Visual Studio, SQL Server and Windows...
Date: 02/27/2008
Not that this has anything to do with VSX directly, but I came across a news bit about Bill visiting...
Date: 02/22/2008
Since I made the last blog post on upgrading, I have received some good feedback that it was useful...
Date: 02/13/2008
I got pinged by Keyvan today. He and I have never met before, but he told me that he is in the...
Date: 02/05/2008
The popular Source Code Outliner PowerToy has been updated for VS2008. Get it now from MS Download...
Date: 01/27/2008
Today, I heard several developers in the community experiecncing some trouble upgrading the VS 2005...
Date: 01/21/2008
With the most recent release of the VS 2008 SDK, HelpStudio Lite is no longer included in the SDK...
Date: 12/17/2007
It's been a weird month for me. I counted that I have only been in the office for 5 days in...
Date: 11/29/2007
We are finally here! Following right on the heels of the VS 2008 release announcement yesterday, we...
Date: 11/21/2007
What a great week for the VSX community! This week, we made several major announcements that will...
Date: 11/07/2007
We put on a good show last week at the VSIP Summit & Developer Conference. We had lots of...
Date: 10/26/2007
We know that it is a little difficult to use the VS 2008 SDK Aug. CTP to create your first...
Date: 10/04/2007
I can't believe it's almost October, and our team is working on so many things right now. First, we...
Date: 09/29/2007
In case you didn't see our announcement on the team blog, we have just posted the VB Pack for VS...
Date: 09/17/2007
Our team just released the VS 2008 SDK August CTP late yesterday. This is very similar to the July...
Date: 08/09/2007
I said I would follow up with a post on how to build a VS Package that targets the VS Shell, so here...
Date: 08/04/2007
Following up on my last post about VS Shell workarounds with the current VS SDK, I wanted to make a...
Date: 08/04/2007
Since we shipped the VS SDK July CTP a couple of days ago, we have discovered a couple of issues...
Date: 08/03/2007
Yesterday, we released the VS 2008 SDK that targets the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio. You can...
Date: 08/02/2007
I can't believe it's been over a month since my last blog entry. Things have been pretty crazy here....
Date: 07/26/2007
Our good PM, Ken Levy, has just posted several video interviews taken right on the TechEd show...
Date: 06/07/2007
Several things happened over the last couple of days. Last Friday, we released VS Orcas SDK June...
Date: 06/05/2007
For those of you who don't know, I am a University of Waterloo alumus. Research In Motion's...
Date: 05/22/2007
Our team is happy to bring you the latest VS SDK that matches Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 that was...
Date: 04/27/2007
Don Demsak (MVP) will be doing a webcast on Visual Studio Extensibility on Thursday, May 3rd. Don is...
Date: 04/19/2007
A while back, we told you that Community is a big focus for our team these days. We were serious...
Date: 04/08/2007
When you start Visual Studio 2005 for the first time after installation, you will see the following...
Date: 04/08/2007
With the recent release of the VS SDK 4.0, we have partnered with Koders.com to index all the code...
Date: 03/12/2007
Right on the heels of last week's VS 2005 SDK 4.0 RTM release, our team is bringing you the first...
Date: 03/06/2007
We are really excited to announce that the VS SDK team has just taken the wraps off of the Visual...
Date: 03/01/2007