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Moving to the XNA team...

I wanted to share some news about a fairly major decision I've made. I'm going to be joining the XNA team starting Monday, August 9.

I'm incredibly proud of the C# team and the C# product. During the last five years I’ve held every PM position on the C# team so I know how special every part of this product is and I’ve also had the privilege of repeatedly randomizing many of the people on the team :-). It’s been a fantastic experience to be part of the C# team - it’s not often you get to be part of a team creating a world class programming language and development environment.

One of the benefits that a PM has is meeting lots of customers. Over the last 5 years I have met a LOT of customers and it's always interesting, fun and challenging. C# customers are very smart people and it's a great challenge to build a tool that gets out of their way and allows them to build great software. So thanks for being such great customers!

Obviously this means that I won't be blogging about C# as much but there are lots of great C# blogs to get your C# fix from - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/team/blogs/default.aspx.

Oh and Luke and Anson are now looking after the C# Keybindings :-)!

Posted: Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:05 PM by JoeN
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Dan Fernandez's Blog said:

# August 12, 2004 10:22 PM

Marc LaFleur said:

XNA? Very cool.

What are you doing with the XNA team? Any specific area?
# August 13, 2004 7:53 AM

Deep Thoughts... said:

# August 13, 2004 2:09 PM

Zach Baker said:

Best wishes for your new position.

This is the first truly relevant hit I've gotten while monitoring the MSDN weblogs for XNA information (such as when and how it is evolving beyond the press release stage.)

I was initially skeptical about blogs.msdn.com. However, I have recently found some very relevant information through these weblogs when I was curious about improvements to the build process in the next version of VS.NET. So now that I've begun to appreciate this initiative, I'm wondering -- is there a strategy to foster a similar relationship with Xenon developers about things like XNA?
# August 17, 2004 4:01 PM
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