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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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Kudos to MSDN for making support options clearer

Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:56 AM by jledgard
Check out: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718682.aspx A little late on my part, but great work on the new MSDN support page Katie & the MSDN team! It's a great step in the right direction for helping customers navigate their support options. Read More...
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What do you think about CTPs?

Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:28 AM by jledgard
Brian Harry wants to know. We've always had a concern about the quality of the CTPs we release, but are torn between increasing the quality, but reducing the frequency. What we found with the monthly frequency of CTPs as opposed to the classic "wait for 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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Learn the History of VS Express

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 11:32 PM by jledgard
This is a great bit of transparency where Dan Fernandez tells you, in his own words, the history and reasoning behind the VS Express. Fast forward to RTM, and we’ve now had over six million downloads in eight months . That’s a huge number and is a phenomena 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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See cool tools on Channel9; Meet the people you could be working with!

Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:32 AM by jledgard
A great deal of job satisfaction comes from ones like of the folks they work with. Check out the sprint retrospective we shot 6 weeks ago for Channel9 . If the job content sounds like an interest match and you'd like to subject yourself to working with Read More...
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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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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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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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Feedback Center Request for Multi-Monitor VS Features

Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:22 PM by jledgard
Sara , from the VSCore team, is looking for people to report and vote on feature suggestions via the product feedback center that would improve Visual Studio for developers with multiple monitors. If Sara lists the suggestions people submit its a pretty Read More...
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For Testers: Nihit Kaul Talks Up Model Based Testing

Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:00 AM by jledgard
It was my belief as a test lead and is still my belief. To test a product with any amount of interesting complexity you need to find good ways to reduce a reliance on manual processes. If you test manually you need automation. If you are writing a test Read More...
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Show Sara your Support for Multi-Monitor Development

Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:38 PM by jledgard
I've personally heard a bunch of conflicting statements regarding how popular Multi-Monitor development is. I couldn't live without it. Tell us how you feel on Sara's blog . I want to get a sense of how many people use Visual Studio with a mulit-monitor Read More...
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Lost Post - We want your picture!

Posted Monday, May 17, 2004 11:55 AM by jledgard
Seems that this never got posted after it was written. Anyway I wrote it again... Send Chad your picture . We do a lot of promotion of .Net built apps in our hallways, but less about the customers who build these apps. This is your chance to have your Read More...
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