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Good Comments on Source Code Release Best Practices

Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 9:48 AM by jledgard
I asked for feedback on keys to successful source releases and it’s started to trickle in. I figured I’d post what we’ve heard so far. Will says that communication is key : “Along the lines of your "Experts" point - it might be Read More...
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What makes for successful source code releases?

Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 7:55 PM by jledgard
We’re preparing to release the source code to the latest Power Toys for Visual Studio and the question has come up a few times. What makes for successful source code releases? Specifically… what makes for successful releases if you’d like to encourage Read More...
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Mickey Gousset on why you should join the Developer Solutions team

Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 3:36 PM by jledgard
Previously on scooblog…. I asked why somone should work on the Developer Solutions team (we’re hiring for dev and pm). Mickey from www.teamsystemrocks.com provided a great answer… Now remember, this is all from my perspective, but for me, I would push Read More...
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Why would you choose the Developer Solutions team?

Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:27 AM by jledgard
Why would you choose to work for the Developer Solutions? See, we're currently hiring Devs, a Dev lead, and PMs and I'm sometimes put into situations where I have to sell our team to great canidates over other positions. Here's a video that gives you 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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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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Google Code & Microsoft Shared Source Offerings

Posted Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:40 PM by jledgard
I heard about http://code.google.com from Dare . Seems like an interesting "olive branch" offered to the OSS world after they took heat for "taking everything and not giving anything back". The top claims "Welcome to Google Code, Google's place for Open Read More...
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New VBCommenter Release (1.2.5 RC1) by the Community

Posted Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:52 PM by jledgard
Background: The VBCommenter is an addin for VS 2003 that gives you the ability to automatically generate XML comment headers in the VB .NET editor similar to what the C# editor automatically generates. It will also generate the XML comment file to go Read More...
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VBCommenter v1.2 Released with Many Fixes

Posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 3:09 PM by jledgard
Background : The VBCommenter is an addin for VS 2003 that gives you the ability to automatically generate XML comment headers in the VB .NET editor similar to what the C# editor automatically generates. It will also generate the XML comment file to go Read More...
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VSCmdShell Makes an "Ultimate VS AddIns" List and VBCommentor News

Posted Monday, November 15, 2004 10:48 AM by jledgard
Scott Hanselman created his list of " Ultimate Visual Studio .Net AddIns ". I was flattered to see the VSCmdShell project make the list even in its current unfinished state. " VSCmdShell - Open a Command Prompt within a Visual Studio.NET 2003 Docked Toolbox Read More...
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Embarrassed it has come to this... Help me help you with VBCommenter

Posted Friday, November 12, 2004 3:38 PM by jledgard
I apparently don't have any machines fit to access the source control for my gotdotnet workspaces. Not even pure virtual machines I've tried work. This means I can't grab the latest code, make some change for a 1.2 release, and fix some of the bugs you Read More...
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Tips for Using Macros in Visual Studio

Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:13 AM by jledgard
Over @ the Powertoys blog I posted an article with tips for using Macros inside Visual Studio . I really just wanted it to be a simple list of instructions that walked people through how they could use the macro code posted to the blog. I ended up walking Read More...
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Write an Add-In; Win Cool Prizes

Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:19 AM by jledgard
What great timing. Just after we started the PowerToys Blog Roy announced he was organizing a Add-in/Macro coding contest ! You may have noticed the added decoraction on the side of my blog if you read it in Web form. I love it when stars align. I'm hoping Read More...
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Check out the Powertoys Weblog! (You can never have enough tools)

Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:06 AM by jledgard
Almost a year ago we launched a static Powertoys page on gotdotnet. Today that page is no longer static! We're now feeding http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/ide with live content from the new Powertoys weblog . Overtime this site will become a categorized 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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