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MVP Summit 2007

Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:39 AM by joemorel
It's that time again...the MVP Global Summit is happening this week in Seattle and Redmond. The first Summit was one of my favorite experiences so far working at Microsoft--I love talking to customers and hearing it "from the horse's mouth." It's not Read More...
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The Developer Solutions Team is in a Book!

Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:26 AM by joemorel
If you've been following my blog or the blogs of my teammates ( Josh , Sara , Jeremy , Bertan , or Kannan ), you might be interested in the very latest about Power Toys and tools for Windows development. Don't you just wish you could take more information Read More...
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Looking Back at 2006

Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:32 PM by joemorel
It's been nearly a year since I started this blog, and unfortunately as of late, I've been pretty bad at keeping it updated. I'll blame it on the craziness that was December 2006—between traveling for the holidays and Washington's recent string of weather-related Read More...
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TFS Administration Tool 1.2 Released

Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:52 PM by joemorel
I'm happy to announce yet another release of the TFS Administration Tool, incorporating another code gift from a great community member. This release of the tool adds the ability to administer TFS installations configured to use only SSL. Thank you Oren--your Read More...
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Idea: "Wiki" Code Snippets at the top of Forum Threads

Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:24 AM by joemorel
This is just a short, half-baked idea that I'd love some feedback about. It's pretty common in the forums for users to post a code snippet in their question, say "Hey! This isn't working!" and then having a conversation with the community about how they Read More...
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Microsoft Code Snippet Designer – Alpha Release

Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:31 PM by joemorel
Wow—looks like I'm going to keep going on the "lazy" theme that I've started over the past few weeks, when I blogged about the availability of my team's Power Toy Pack Installer and Resource Refactoring tools. Everyone wants to be able to write code more Read More...
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Another Power Toy...the Resource Refactoring Tool

Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:35 PM by joemorel
If you're like me, you're lazy. You'd rather order out than cook, rather buy a robot vacuum than vacuum yourself, and you don't like clicking around when you're writing code. You know that it's a good idea to put all of the strings in your program into Read More...
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Power Toys for Visual Studio Pack Installer

Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:22 PM by joemorel
Recently, I walked past our "Shared Source" poster hanging my team's hallway, and I saw it was covered in pastel Post-It notes. Sara , our "Queen of Shared Source", had hung a Post-It note for every one of the Power Toys that our team has been involved Read More...
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Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer 1.0 Released (w/ ASP.NET 2.0 configuration plug-in)

Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:42 PM by joemorel
I'm very happy to announce that today we released the 1.0 version of the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer to the web. The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer is a tool and framework that allows for the analysis of system elements against predefined "rules" Read More...
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ForumExplorer: A Better(?) Way to Moderate the MSDN Forums

Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 11:41 PM by joemorel
A couple of months ago I created a small tool that utilized some of the cool meta tag searching capabilities of MSN Search and published it out to GotDotNet. It was simple, but definitely helps overcome one of the biggest limitations in the forums--lousy Read More...
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Searching for Code Online

Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:10 PM by joemorel
While drinking my much improved coffee this morning and doing my rounds through my RSS feeds, I happened about a Slashdot post about Google offering a new " code search ". It's interesting stuff--especially how the FAQ mentions that they can't guarantee Read More...
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Preview Release of the Best Practices Analyzer Now Available from CodePlex

Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:54 PM by joemorel
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...
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TFS Administration Tool 1.1 RTW - A Community-Driven Release!

Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:37 PM by joemorel
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...
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Help Us Bug Bash the 1.1 Release of the TFS Admin Tool!

Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 11:11 PM by joemorel
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...
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What Would a Great Forum Moderator Toolbar Look Like?

Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:58 AM by joemorel
Moderating the MSDN Forums can be tough work. There are posts to be edited, questions to be moved, trouble users to deal with, and of course, questions to be answered. Internally, we've been using an application called "Answerme" to help ease the burden Read More...
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