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Google makes your code prettier

Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 9:21 AM by jledgard
Something I'd love to see Microsoft do more of is small, simple, solutions to annoying problems that would delight customers. Here is a perfect example. Google Gode Prettifier A simple Javascript and CSS file, the Google Code Prettifier makes syntax highlighting Read More...
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Something you don't see everyday at Microsoft

Posted Friday, March 09, 2007 1:27 PM by jledgard
Source: Sara Ford's WebLog : Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time The thing I love most about my job is being creative in how I’m trying to get an idea or message across, especially when it comes down to challenging Read More...
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Strong free one two combination for creating localized applications

Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:21 PM by jledgard
So you started your application and now realize you've hardcoded strings and you need to start offering localized version. There are two freely available tools you can use to help with this transition. Step One: Remove hardcoded strings and put them in Read More...
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Testing Community Based Open Source projects for corporations

Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 5:41 PM by jledgard
John's blog postings on testing open source projects where recently picked up by Mary Jo . Not bad PR for the work our team has been doing and good lessons to read if your team is looking at taking components open. Our team has learned many lessons about Read More...
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2006 Microsoft Developer Out of Box Releases

Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 5:24 PM by jledgard
So Visual Studio 2005 shipped last year. We shipped a service pack in 2006, but in addition to working onthe service pack and the next version of Visual Studio team's in Developer Division have also shipped a lot of cool stuff "out of box". Here is a Read More...
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Refactor String Resources to Resx Files in Vb.Net and C#

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 10:43 AM by jledgard
Last week our team released the 1.0 beta of a new refactoring menu option for Visual Studio 2005. Bertan, the developer, has the details on his blog . The Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the Read More...
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Creating a simple multi-install package for your customers

Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:46 PM by jledgard
If you've downloaded something like the "Google Pack" in the past and wanted something like that for your companies products. Something that, with a small footprint, lets users pick and choose a suite of components to install, downloads the requested Read More...
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Office Prank Video: Developer + Igloo = Productivity

Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 2:19 PM by jledgard
In the middle of August Bertan took a 4 week vacation to get married. Well, as is a grand Microsoft tradition, we had to do something to his office. It took us two weeks to come up with the idea. In the end we went on a hunch and decide to build an igloo. Read More...
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Latest Video from Developer Solutions on "Going Open"

Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:23 AM by jledgard
Sara recently attended OSCON and wanted to give our team a recap of what she learned there. We figured it would be good education for softies and non-softies if we filmed it and published the video to the Internet. Check out her presentation on Port 25 Read More...
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Demo night to motivate teams?

Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:18 PM by jledgard
During our team's sprints we've started striving for "Demo Fridays" where our Friday scrum meeting is extended for team members to show off new functionality/prototypes they've implemented during the week. Recently they started this for the division to Read More...
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Help us find VSCmdShell Bugs

Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 10:56 AM by jledgard
Our team is going to release a 1.1 update of the VSCmdShell tool window for Visual Studio and we are spending the day looking for bugs. Because the project is public you can participate as well. Head on over to the codeplex site http://www.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx?ProjectName=VSCmdShell Read More...
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Developer Solutions Sprint 6: BPA Tool, 1.1 Releases, & The Developer Power Pack

Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:44 PM by jledgard
Today the Developer Solutions team has begun its 6 th five week sprint. Sprint 5 saw the release of the VSCmdShell tool & an Alpha of our Best Practices Analyzer for ASP.Net 2.0 . There was buy-off to begin working with CSS on a detailed plan for Read More...
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Throw Away Your 5 Year Plans

Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 1:14 PM by jledgard
I don't want any part of them. They result in over-engineering, wasted documentation, never-ending discussion as everyone takes the opportunity to put their chef hat on, employees that get stuck going down a path while the world changes around them, and Read More...
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Next Prototype Tool: Resource Refactoring

Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 11:28 AM by jledgard
Bertan recently blogged about his next project. Feel free to leave him feedback. I saw the demo and it's a slick feature. Unfortunately not much dev work is going to get done in the meantime... he's out for four weeks on vacation to get married and enjoy Read More...
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Know & love your big picture

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:00 PM by jledgard
This is a question that just about every PM at Microsoft has to answer frequently. "What's your big picture?" or "How does this fit into the big picture?" Our culture is one of visualization and we love our grand views. (Hidden pun most certainly intended... Read More...
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