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Stop 5: Prague, Czech Republic
04 June 08 12:34 PM | jameslau-MS | 2 Comments   
Our European Tour has brought us to Prague on Monday. This was the first time for me to visit Prague and I was completely blown away by the beauty of this city. I thought Paris was beautiful; Prague is even more beautiful (to me anyway)! In the afternoon, Read More...
Stop 4: Zurich, Switzerland
30 May 08 02:13 AM | jameslau-MS | 3 Comments   
With the help of Rolf and Susan who organized the event, Jean-Marc and I presented to a user group in Zurich yesterday evening in a 3 hour session. We were somewhat disappointed at the low attendance - we only had about 20 people. But the audience was Read More...
Stop 3: Munich, Germany
27 May 08 03:16 PM | jameslau-MS | 3 Comments   
We are in Deutschland now and we visited the Microsoft Technology Center at Munich yesterday. It was a very nice set of buildings, and the meeting rooms are much more impressive than building 41 back in Redmond. They have multiple projectors and multiple Read More...
Update from Brussels
26 May 08 02:48 PM | jameslau-MS | 1 Comments   
You may have already seen my post about out session at Brussels. Sven Cipido from Ordina has just sent me some more pictures taken during our Brussels section, so I wanted to post them here. Jean-Marc and I in Ordina's office for Vsug.be.   See his Read More...
Stop 2: Amsterdam, Netherlands
23 May 08 03:58 PM | jameslau-MS | 6 Comments   
Bikes, lots of bikes. And trams too. Then there are also motorcycles, scooters, and cars. You better watch where you are walking while you are in Amsterdam! That was my first impression of this spectacularly amazing and energetic city! Jean-Marc and I Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and Updates
12 May 08 07:08 PM | jameslau-MS | 1 Comments   
Today, we release the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta. This service pack is particularly important for Visual Studio extenders because they can test it and report any compatibility problems with their extensions. You can find the downloads are Read More...
Launch event wrapping up
27 February 08 05:41 PM | jameslau-MS | 1 Comments   
I just finished with my Chalk Talk session , and the launch event is winding down. Folks are heading over to the Launch party at 7 pm, but I will be flying home tonight. My session went well. Typically, chalk talks don't get much attendance, and I was Read More...
HEROES happen {here}
26 February 08 10:35 PM | jameslau-MS | 2 Comments   
I am in L.A. today and tomorrow, to attend and speak at the Visual Studio, SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 launch event. I feel very lucky to be able to participate in this historical event. This launch wave is the largest one ever for any developer Read More...
DevTeach in Vancouver, BC this week
29 November 07 10:38 AM | jameslau-MS | 1 Comments   
It's been a weird month for me. I counted that I have only been in the office for 5 days in November! I have spent 1 week in Barcelona for TechEd, 1 week of vacation, short Thanksgiving week and 1 week in Vancouver for DevTeach. We are at DevTeach in Read More...
VS 2008 SDK and VS Shell runtimes available!
21 November 07 12:48 AM | jameslau-MS | 1 Comments   
We are finally here! Following right on the heels of the VS 2008 release announcement yesterday, we are now announcing the availability of the VS 2008 SDK 1.0 release and the VS Shell (integrated mode) and the VS Shell (isolated mode) runtimes. It's really Read More...
Barcelona, here we come!
26 October 07 12:18 AM | jameslau-MS | 3 Comments   
We put on a good show last week at the VSIP Summit & Developer Conference. We had lots of attendees, lots of sessions, and lots of good food :) We are wrapping up both the VS 2008 SDK on our team, and working with the rest of the Division to wrap Read More...
Help with creating your first environment based on VS 2008 Shell (isolated mode)
04 October 07 10:54 AM | jameslau-MS | 1 Comments   
We know that it is a little difficult to use the VS 2008 SDK Aug. CTP to create your first environment based on the Shell. We are working to improve the development experience right now before we ship the final product before the end of this year. Right Read More...
Upcoming VSX Events
29 September 07 10:20 AM | jameslau-MS | 1 Comments   
I can't believe it's almost October, and our team is working on so many things right now. First, we are trying to wrap up the platform components that we own in the VS 2008 product, including the VS Shell redistributable pack pieces. It's actually a very Read More...
VS 2008 SDK August CTP released!
09 August 07 10:17 AM | jameslau-MS | 3 Comments   
Our team just released the VS 2008 SDK August CTP late yesterday. This is very similar to the July CTP that we posted a week ago, but with some very small, targeted bug fixes that address two of the three key issues I brought up in my previous post in Read More...
VS Shell Customization Points
04 August 07 03:03 PM | jameslau-MS | 2 Comments   
Following up on my last post about VS Shell workarounds with the current VS SDK, I wanted to make a post about the customizations that you can do with the VS Shell. Most of these are done through the <projectname>.pkdef file that gets generated Read More...
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