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Feedback Request: Whidbey Help Toolbar and Screen Resolution

Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:17 PM by jledgard
After helping Scott fix his images I can now point you to his requests for feedback on the Whidbey Help Toolbar and Screen Resolution . It's funny that the toolbar doesn't even have Dynamic Help listed but the user hatred lingers. If my vote counts, and Read More...
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Meet me @ the MVP Summit

Posted Monday, March 29, 2004 8:55 PM by jledgard
I'm planning on spending as much time at the MVP summit next week as time will allow. I won't presume to have a fan base rushing to meet me as if I were Don Box or even my wife , who will also be attending several of the events. But I will be there chatting Read More...
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Will Longhorn People and Groups solve my Problems?

Posted Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:28 PM by jledgard
Dan has a great post that points to information explaining how people and contact lists will be 1st class objects in Longhorn. These API's could be used by ISVs who want to party on your one list. Of course, the number of people that actually take advantage Read More...
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100th Post and a Tablet PC Update

Posted Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:22 PM by jledgard
It you have a Table PC I strongly encourage you to download sp2 RC1 for windows XP. It actually installs the Tablet 2004 version of XP and I was actually able to write this post with it. I may actually use my Toshiba in Tablet mode again! The floating Read More...
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PowerToys 2.0 Site Priorities Draft

Posted Saturday, March 27, 2004 1:12 PM by jledgard
Today I took a stab at creating a prioritized feature list for the 2.0 version of the site. If I missed something or you think I have the ranking wrong let me know. Note: It is not a goal of ours to provide a tool upload mechanism. Tool downloads will Read More...
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Help Shape the VS PowerToys 2.0 Site

Posted Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:02 PM by jledgard
I've formed a virtual team inside Microsoft whose mission is to shape the future of the Visual Studio PowerToys site. Since this site was created for customers we figured we might as well involve customers in the design of the PowerToys 2.0 site. Consider Read More...
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Describing the SDE Role

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:21 PM by jledgard
Over at jobsblog they took their first stab at describing the different job roles at Microsoft. They started with the SDE . Here is my .03 on their post. They missed the career choice that involved simply continuing to focus on code over time without Read More...
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Red Sox On-line Community Outreach

Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:14 AM by jledgard
It seems the tech industry is not the only one starting to bypass traditional media for marketing. Here are some examples from the Boston Red Sox. All Star pitcher Curt Shilling seems to have a huge on-line presence described here . You can also read Read More...
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More Information on VS 2005 Community Tech Previews

Posted Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:42 AM by jledgard
Dan seems to have started the information flow and now I’ve received IMs from at least four people asking me some questions on the subject. So, in the interest of heading some questions off I decided it would be better for me to ask for forgiveness Read More...
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What should be on your Start Page?

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 9:29 PM by jledgard
In the grand Microsoft tradition of “if you complain about or suggest something you own it” I’ve been asked to organize actual updates to the VS 2002 and 2003 start page. We have the ability to prop new content to the “What’s Read More...
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NUNIT and Code Coverage Usage

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 10:02 AM by jledgard
Two topics I’d been asked to cover were tackled today. Gunnar explains “How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot With Code Coverage ”. Some choice quotes that I have also found to be truisms: To efficiently use any of this a time needs to be Read More...
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Truth in Advertising (The Good and the Bad)

Posted Sunday, March 21, 2004 5:37 PM by jledgard
I believe most people have a love/hate relationship with the ads that they are barraged with. Having an Ultimate TV device means I’m not always up on the latest in advertising. For the most part I now live my life in blissful ad free ignorance. Read More...
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Software that Fixes my Contact List Problem?

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 12:33 PM by jledgard
At last count I have at least 12 separate contact lists. There is one list each for Outlook, AIM, MSN Messenger, private Exchange IM, Orkut, Hotmail, MSN Groups, GotDotNet Workspaces, my blogroll, Outlook Express, my banks billpay services, and even my Read More...
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Scott and the "Help Experience"

Posted Saturday, March 20, 2004 11:37 AM by jledgard
Scott Swanson just started a blog. He is the PM who is orchestrating the “Help Experience” for Whidbey. Having been partially involved as the SDET lead on the project I can confirm that Scott does not have an easy job. I'm sure he'd be happy Read More...
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Happy Birthday "Shout out" to Sara at CSUN

Posted Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:56 PM by jledgard
Sara has been missing out on our full test pass to participate in the CSUN conference down in LA and hang out with famous people. She has allready posted some good content on the conference and should be posting some more soon. Stop by her blogspace and Read More...
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Translating the Microsoft TLAs

Posted Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:10 PM by jledgard
Sven pointed out in my last post that while he enjoyed my postings he had problems with all of the TLAs that I have been taking for granted. Thankfully, .TEXT has the perfect solution for this. I created “keywords” that will automatically Read More...
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Rebuilding Customer Connections One Person at a Time

Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:54 PM by jledgard
Having recently joined a team focused on Developer Division community participation and product integration I thought it would be a good exercise for me to look at recent history and in-roads made in this space over the last four years since I joined. Read More...
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Mandatory Reading for People Reporting Bugs (Even in Newsgroups!)

Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 9:52 AM by jledgard
Having spent the last two years in my previous role of Test Lead in a LOT of triage meetings I found this post to be both hilarious and educational for people opening bugs. If everyone would do the opposite of the recommendations listed there when opening Read More...
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Newsgroups, Web Forums, and ???

Posted Saturday, March 13, 2004 3:13 PM by jledgard
I recently attended a recent Microsoft Research talk on the subject of the Microsoft public newsgroups. This was put on by the people behind Netscan . I must admit I’ve never liked NNTP newsgroups. I don’t like the anonymity , posting rich Read More...
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Talent Scouts Blogging!

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 11:41 PM by jledgard
Scoble is so fast I can’t even beat him to a post when I have advance warning from a family member. My wife Gretchen , who works as a recruiter, has recently been working on several cool projects designed to “increase the talent pool” Read More...
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Joining the Dark Side of Program Management

Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 11:10 PM by jledgard
I’ve “joined the Dark Side”, as my more technical friends would say, and decided to become a Program Manager . After spending four years as an SDET and then SDET Lead working on Visual Studio IDE features, I’ve decided it was time Read More...
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The Egg Hasn’t Hatched Yet???

Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:44 PM by jledgard
From AT , in my comments , came another interesting look at the project language numbers on sourceforge… Using filters on SF.NET (it allow to select projects based on multiple criteria) I've what: Stage...... Java C# Java/C# Ratio Planning... 3459 Read More...
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Another VS.NET Help Dev Blogging

Posted Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:14 PM by jledgard
I was already linking to Tim's blog, but now Saurabh is blogging as well. For starters he'll show you how to get “ Relief from CE Documentation ”. It's a race to see who will post next. I'm sure Saurabh would also love to hear any feedback Read More...
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The Chicken or the Egg?

Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:38 PM by jledgard
Alex left a good comment in my post that responded to his original assertion that .Net coders code for money more so than they code for “the love”. His points have made me a bit curious. So I did some digging. First I looked at Sourceforge Read More...
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Software Testing: The GUI Part 1

Posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:21 PM by jledgard
I've been asked to talk a bit about UI testing. Keep in mind that none of my testing posts are meant to be a complete comprehensive guide on the subject at hand. My goal is simply that everyone reading walks away with a useful idea. You want to test your Read More...
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Exciting Times

Posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:15 PM by jledgard
The KDE Quality Team was covered on Slashdot today. Maybe working in a test org makes me biased, but this is a great concept for the open source world, and one of the missing links for OSS IMO. Some of the tasks, like writing documentation, may fall out Read More...
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Some Great VS 2003 Tips

Posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:17 AM by jledgard
If you haven’t already been reading them you should subscribe to Shaykatc’s series of useful tips for VS 2003 . I would suggest everyone with a large project in VS leverage this option. Read More...
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