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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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What I learned at the MVP Summit: DPE, MSDN Links, and Attention

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 2:53 PM by jledgard
I spent a lot of time at the MVP summit this past year. My team doesn’t have any MVPs, but our work is obviously valuable to customers. I’ll thank the C# team for graciously inviting us to spend some time talking with their MVPs. I took a whole lot of 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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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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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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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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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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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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Download hotfixes without contacting support!

Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:06 PM by jledgard
I'm thrilled to say that today we've launched the Devdiv hotfix Public Availibility Pilot Program . This pilot program will allow you to download the most frequently requested Visual Studio 2005 hotfixes without having to contact Microsoft Developer Support 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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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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How hard is it to get a hot fix from Microsoft? It's not easy online.

Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 3:31 PM by jledgard
Update #4: You may now download your hotfixes without contacting support! ... this was the biggest issue that most customers seemed to have. Fixes for the other issues will also be coming online shortly. Thanks for all your feedback. Update: To be very 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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