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February 2006 - Posts

Feedback Request on Visual Studio 2005 Look & Feel

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:44 PM by jledgard
Aaron is responsible for a lot about how Visual Studio looks, feels, and behaves as an application. He's looking for some feedback about Visual Studio 2005 and has some specific questions. Feel free to leave your comments/suggestions here: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronbrethorst/archive/2006/02/15/532814.aspx Read More...
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Brief glimpse at celebrity... Being part of a "blogging power couple"

Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 2:33 PM by jledgard
Yes, the rumors are true. "Dog Lady" is wed to Scooblog . :-) This was a slight scary bit of investigative reporting that made me realize how impossible it is to maintain oversight of your online identity... especially if you end up going to blogger events. Read More...
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NDoc Just Playing Possum; Kevin confirms 2.0 version in the works

Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 1:34 PM by jledgard
Kevin Downs paid my blog a visit yesterday to let everyone know that a new version of NDoc is in the works. Apparently he has also been receiving help from MS employees who deserve kudos for giving him some much needed information. This makes me think Read More...
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Did you know - Cheaper no call option for Developer Support

Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:45 AM by jledgard
Did you know you could submit your request for product support to Microsoft online? And, if you do this and you have allready used your included suppor tickets... it's $150 cheaper? http://support.microsoft.com/gp/assistsupport - Pick a product, in my Read More...
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A little Buzz about the Power Toys we Released

Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:53 AM by jledgard
Yesterday I talked about the 1st batch of Power Toys released by the Developer Solutions team. I also did some searching for feedback. Here's the news I've found so far. I'm hoping we'll get some more after we put up the Channel9 video and get real homepages Read More...
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Developer Solutions Beta Power Toys for Visual Studio Shipped!

Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:55 AM by jledgard
The Developer Solutions team completed our first sprint last friday and quietly shipped our first beta's. We're going to have some fancier MSDN pages and a Channel9 Video up soon as well. (We actually filmed our Scrum Sprint review Meeting!) This is hopefully Read More...
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What would you want to know about Developer Support?

Posted Monday, February 13, 2006 7:57 AM by jledgard
I'll be spending this whole week in Issiquah at our Developer Support center. They are going to give me the tour, show the the bussiness, and let me sit in with some of the support folks. I have my own set of questions, but what questions can I ask on Read More...
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Don't cut & paste replies to customers... you won't look human

Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 5:06 PM by jledgard
Today a customer forwarded me this link about " canned responses from MS PMs ". The end boils down to "I hope MS' idea of openness doesn't mean reading off a checklist of prefab answers." Me too. My team has been pushing teams not to leverage canned respnses Read More...
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Posted Jobs to Expo and Craigslist Today

Posted Tuesday, February 07, 2006 2:21 PM by jledgard
My hunt for Program Managers continues. Today I posted my open jobs to Craigslist and Windows Live Expo . The Expo listing will be interesting since it's essentially MS only at this point. I mentioned before that I had posted these jobs to the pmjobs Read More...
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Outlook Tip: Using Message Options to "Hand Off" a Reply

Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 3:32 PM by jledgard
No, I do not work on the outlook team despite what my blog seems to indicate of late... A reader sent me a workaround for the problem I brought up last week . How can you "hand off" an e-mail thread? Click reply to the thread you want off of. Add the Read More...
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IOD: Bury the Reply All Button

Posted Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:05 AM by jledgard
Does everyone really need to get the mail you are about to send? Do you really intend to "big-R" as opposed to "little-r" or maybe even "slightly-less-big-r"? I removed the "Reply All" button from the toolbar and the right click menu on one of my machines. Read More...
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IOD: The "hand-off" Reply in Outlook

Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:14 PM by jledgard
Someone sends you mail, you don't own the reply, but you know who does. Today you reply and include the actual owner... then your inbox is flooded with the back and forth from the connection you just forged with a discussion that doesn't apply to you. Read More...
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How to lend a hand to NDoc and other non-MS Developer Tools

Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:21 PM by jledgard
I was forwarded an interesting suggestion today from the Product Feedback Center. Here it is: Put some developers on the open source nDoc project We have used the XML documentation system with our C# code. Full integration with VS 2005 and .NET 2.0 is Read More...
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Developer Servicing Web Site/Road map Released

Posted Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:29 AM by jledgard
After the release of Visual Studio 2005 there were a few developer questions around our servicing plans. Today a new developer center launched where people can find up to date information on our servicing plans, terminology, and existing updates. Check Read More...
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