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Service Pack 1 for VS2008 SP1 and .NET FX 3.5 Now Live
You can now download the SP1 for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework here .  Like any service pack this release contains bug fixes for issues you have reported.  What's probably most exciting to me though is all the new functionality that has Read More...
Melbourne Videos Live
In March I did the keynote for our Heroes Happen Here launch in Melbourne.  While at the launch event I did a series of videos with builder au which are now live on the site: On managing the developer team for Visual Studio: http://www.builderau.com.au/video/soa/Tips-for-managing-smart-people/0,2000064338,22450377p,00.htm Read More...
Posted 13 May 08 04:10 by Jasonz | 1 Comments   
Announcing Popfly Game Creator
My boys (11 and 13) *love* playing video games.  I've also spent time trying to get them interested in authoring their own game software using Visual Studio.  I once started writing a game with my son, showing him how to create a project, importing Read More...
Posted 03 May 08 12:18 by Jasonz | 2 Comments   
VC++ 2008 Feature Pack Released Today
The VC++ 2008 Feature Pack, with a new version of MFC and an implementation of TRE1, has officially been released today!  The download is free for for any VS2008 Standard or above customer and is a fully supported product.  You can find the Read More...
Posted 08 April 08 06:17 by Jasonz | 1 Comments   
Silverlight 2 Map / DataGrid Demo (Part 2)
In Part 1 we created a n-tier Silverlight application which used LINQ and Silverlight 2 including the new controls.  That version takes a simple text box parameter for the state we want to look for.  Now let's spruce it up a bit with a map component.  Read More...
Silverlight 2 Map / DataGrid Demo (Part 1)
I did the keynote speech for VS Live in San Francisco on 3/31 and included a demo of how to use the new Silverlight 2 features including the DataGrid.  I wanted to write up the steps required to reproduce my demo for anyone that wants to build it Read More...
Lang.NET Videos Back Online
I had posted a pointer to our Lang.NET videos here , but unfortunately the site they were hosted on was overwhelmed by the interest. The videos have been re-posted to a more robust network and are ready for viewing again. Please accept our apologies for Read More...
Posted 14 March 08 04:44 by Jasonz | 3 Comments   
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Announcing Silverlight Support for Nokia Devices Including S60
Part of my role as GM for Visual Studio is driving our Mobility efforts in the Developer Division (including Windows Mobile, .NET Compact Framework, and Silverlight).  Today I'm happy to announce an agreement between Microsoft and Nokia to take Silverlight Read More...
Posted 04 March 08 05:23 by Jasonz | 3 Comments   
Recommended Book: ADVANCED WINDOWS DEBUGGING
  I just got this new book on advanced debugging in Windows by Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat.  This book is right up my alley and gives an advanced tutorial on debugging in Windows using the Windows debugger (windbg, ntsd, and cdb).  Read More...
Posted 02 March 08 01:41 by Jasonz | 1 Comments   
Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event in LA
Today we are formally launching Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 here in Los Angeles. The opening keynote featured Tom Brokaw (of NBC Nightly News fame) and Steve Ballmer. The event is very well attended, to the point where Read More...
Posted 27 February 08 10:15 by Jasonz | 1 Comments   
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Lang.Net 2008 Videos Available
We held our second Lang.Net Symposium on campus at the end of January and the videos from the event are now online here .  John Lam has a great summary of the event here . I gave the opening keynote in the morning (sorry for the microphone issues, Read More...
Download Install Challenges with VS2008
I've seen several folks having problems since we RTM'd VS2008.  These usually manifest themselves as as things like "Download Manager - Error" when trying to access the bits (one example post ). Our release team and the MSDN team have been Read More...
Couple of Historical Facts
At first when I started to see things I've worked on talked about in articles I thought it was pretty cool.  And then I started to realize how much is taken down incorrectly.  I'm sure it is hard to piece things together after the fact.  Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 RTM!
Today we released to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5!  I want to congratulate the division on this major accomplishment.  I've been building applications all along with VS 2008 and there are some very cool features.  Read More...
Tulsa Techfest 2007 Keynote Slides
This morning I gave the opening keynote for the Tulsa TECHFEST 2007 event. There is great attendance at the event and 16 tracks! As promised, I have made the slides available online for you to download: Slides are here I've blogged information on getting Read More...
Posted 19 October 07 10:46 by Jasonz | 3 Comments   
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