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MVP Learnings: User Groups, Web Sites, and Feedback

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 5:21 PM by jledgard
User Groups We do great at participating in our conferences, but we don’t focus on the breadth of developer user groups like we should. One of the better ideas was that we provide “presentation kits” to user groups. We create a topic and a talk with additional Read More...
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Nobody Reads Your Internal Site

Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:10 PM by jledgard
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it's probably true. You know that slick site you put together on the intranet? The one you spent time brainstorming about so that every bit of information conveys what you want your teams to know. The one you Read More...
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Browse and discover MSDN and Technet Blogs by Tags!

Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:50 PM by jledgard
Unfortunately it's not listed on the home page, but you can now navigate around our blogs by the tags being used by the bloggers. The new pages are located here: http://blogs.msdn.com/tags/ http://blogs.technet.com/tags/ You can also subscribe to feeds Read More...
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Orcas September CTP available for download

Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 1:46 PM by jledgard
I don't generally advertise each CTP release from our division, but there are some things that are cool about this one that I wanted to point out. 1. Thanks to customer feedback we've decided to release this as a VPC image. Simply download and run in Read More...
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Good hire by Sandy & Crew... Yag goes to work on Communities

Posted Friday, May 05, 2006 9:32 AM by jledgard
Yag, a fixture in the foxpro/data community, has decided to take on the challenge of architecting community platform infrastructure at Microsoft. This means that he’ll get to hear at lot more of my griping and brain farts than he did when he was 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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Personas don't review specs... People do

Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 9:43 AM by jledgard
I've spent a lot of time bloviating on the Mort vs. Elvis thing. I got confused once, and thought I was an Elvis. Not really understanding what an Elvis is, I accidentally identified with the Elvis persona and championed the Elvis cause. I feel dirty. 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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Developer Support Myth #1: PSS is Cheaper than Prod-Dev Time

Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:16 AM by jledgard
On this edition of "Developer Support myth-busters" I’d like to tackle a popular belief held by several folks that work in product development groups. The belief is that PSS labor is cheaper than dev/test/pm labor. Cost is often used as an argument by 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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What’s been driving the Developer Division culture change?

Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:04 AM by jledgard
A lot of other teams at Microsoft have been asking our team variations of this same question. They see our (Developer Division) transparency and willingness to connect with customers (blogs, feedback centers, forums, CTPs, etc.) and want to know how we Read More...
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Good Feedback on VS 2005 Documentation

Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:51 AM by jledgard
[ Via Mickey ] If you have installed Visual Studio 2005, and have not checked out the documentation included with it, then you need to. Go to: Start->All Programs->Microsoft Visual Studio 2005->Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Documentation This Read More...
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Any Downside to VPC Based CTP Releases?

Posted Monday, July 25, 2005 4:15 PM by jledgard
There are several positive comments in response to the VPC release of VSTS . http://www.tlmii.net/cs/blogs/iis_musings/archive/2005/07/22/43.aspx “Now this has got to be one of the most brilliant beta testing concepts i've seen in a while.” http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2005/07/22/31858.aspx Read More...
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Visual Studio CTP Owner Blogging - Hi Keen

Posted Saturday, July 09, 2005 9:23 PM by jledgard
Keen recently joined the customer connection team. One of his main responsibilities is defining the CTP process and end user experience. I hope he'll be posting his thoughts and ideas regarding CTPs on a regular basis. Check out his intro post and say Read More...
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Actively Listening @ Tech-Ed to Customers on Community

Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:28 PM by jledgard
I attended Tech-Ed for the first time this year. My mission was to talk to as many people as possible in person about the community tools Developer Division has been leveraging to converse with customers. I just finished posting the quotes and notes I Read More...
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