We > Me: Joe Morel's Blog

Over here in Developer Solutions land, we're working hard on delivering the community power toys, solutions (and great Developer Forums!) that focus mainly on Visual Studio 2005, but the rest of the division has been hard at work on both VS2005 SP1 and Read More...

I recently had a thread with one of our MVPs who's been very active in the forums in the past, and he brought up something that I hadn't really realized--the MSDN Forums have no "chat" area. The forums, up until this point, have been purely technical Read More...

Following hot the heels of the 1.1 release of the TFS Administration Tool, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the preview release of the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer. This preview release includes an automatic updater that will update your Read More...

I'm happy to announce that the very first community-driven release of any of the Power Toys for Visual Studio , the TFS Administration Tool 1.1, was just published on CodePlex and is available for download ! Not only am I excited because I'm seeing a Read More...

We've had quite a few community contributions to the tool over the past few months, and we're almost ready to release version 1.1 of the TFS Admin Tool, but we need your help! Go ahead, download the newest build, and let us know what you think! http://www.codeplex.com/Project/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=TFSAdmin&DownloadId=2052 Read More...

Recently, my team has gotten quite a few requests for guidance on how teams should be engaging with their fledging forum communities that are popping up all over the Microsoft Forums. From our experiences with what has and has not worked with the MSDN Read More...

If you follow my blog, you know about my experiences migrating from iTunes/iPod to the Windows Media Player/PlaysForSure world. I was impressed with some of the ideas and functionality of the first beta of Windows Media Player 11, but still felt that Read More...