joc's bLog
I was at TechEd2009 a few weeks ago and I was so sad we weren’t able to talk more about VS2010 there...
Date: 05/27/2009
Every so often my team likes to make me feel useful. I don't get to write code and fix bugs as much...
Date: 04/16/2009
One of the more interesting things about working at Microsoft is the close collaboration the...
Date: 03/30/2009
I'll be out at TechEd this year and delivering the next version of my Debugger Tips and Tricks talk,...
Date: 03/20/2009
A fix for a widely reported crash in the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is now available. This fixes a crash...
Date: 03/12/2009
Even when I switch to "Release builds"? We recently got a connect bug on this so I thought I'd share...
Date: 02/19/2009
This is an opinion piece, and my opinion at that, not of my employer. I was watching a debate on one...
Date: 02/18/2009
Last year's CTP of VSTS 2010 was one of the major milestones on the road to shipping what we think...
Date: 02/05/2009
For the last few weeks we have had reports of stepping issues caused by people installing VS 2008...
Date: 11/14/2008
The channel 9 rendering of my talk at PDC is now up for your general enjoyment/education/amusement....
Date: 11/07/2008
It's nice to at last be able to publicly discuss some of the features we've been working on...
Date: 09/29/2008
I was in a colleague's office the other day and ran into the now ubiquitous issue that people still...
Date: 07/28/2008
It's been a while, but the time has come again for a Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference....
Date: 06/02/2008
As promised it is time to follow up with the PM jobs from our debugger expansion (Test to follow...
Date: 04/07/2008
We've been working for a while now on a plan to re-invest in one of Visual Studio's core strengths -...
Date: 04/01/2008
I'll be at EclipseCon next week, but just the Wednesday and Thursday. If you read the blog and want...
Date: 03/11/2008
I've seen many folks in our ISV community use the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable to set the...
Date: 02/28/2008
Jackson on our team recently posted a sample on building a debug engine. In our architecture, the...
Date: 02/20/2008
Happy New Year! Thought I'd start the new year with some more off-road fun on how to interact with...
Date: 01/02/2008
A question that is common from folks in the field is "who's using the profiler at Microsoft"....
Date: 10/31/2007
ScottGu just posted info on something our team has been working on in conjunction with Shawn Burke...
Date: 10/04/2007
I thought I'd share a little bit of organizational info about the team I work in as a way to dust...
Date: 09/05/2007
I love Orcas. I would say that of course, but for me personally I've been involved in so much of the...
Date: 07/30/2007
For those of us that use ILDASM and Lutz's reflector tool often, "Friend of the VS Debugger" (I may...
Date: 06/09/2007
Whoa - didn't realize I had let this blog get so moldy! Apologies. Recently I've had a similar...
Date: 04/19/2006
When I was out talking to customers over the last couple of months I was surprised to hear so many...
Date: 12/04/2005
It's a tale of a wronged brother seeking vengance. A tale of intrigue, mystery and politics. Bolder...
Date: 11/28/2005
Team System “off-road” code coverage analysis and reporting experience John Cunningham, Developer...
Date: 11/22/2005
A bunch of folks have replied to my original offroad posting on using the code coverage...
Date: 11/14/2005
Today I got yet another request from inside Microsoft about when our code coverage utilities will...
Date: 10/04/2005
As a follow up to my last blog post, I thought I'd show COBOL coverage in all of its glory. See here...
Date: 09/27/2005
Another fun day at the office today, with a host of different customer issues and questions to work...
Date: 09/14/2005
It's great to think that PDC is just around the corner. It's been a while since I've been at one of...
Date: 09/09/2005
While visiting the Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games and Clan Gathering for the second time...
Date: 08/03/2005
Although Beta2 is not available as yet, I decided to publish this article anyway. You can read and...
Date: 04/08/2005
After a lot of feedback from users, we'll be producing a series of blog posts that talk about using...
Date: 04/07/2005
I felt the chats mentioned below were a great success. A wide range of issues were touched on that...
Date: 01/14/2005
I'll be participating in a VSTS Dev/Test tools team chat over the next couple of days. Please feel...
Date: 01/12/2005
Looks like my blog is a little green and moldy, time to scrape that off and freshen things up....
Date: 01/11/2005
Head on over to RickLa's blog to find out more about this release. J
Date: 08/27/2004
Since Matt is doing a great job of documenting the handy features I added in the debugger, I thought...
Date: 08/23/2004
I volunteered to work on a feature for other groups in VSTS that are responsible for integrating...
Date: 08/11/2004
Yeah, my blog has been a bit quiet lately. Simple reason is I'm a new dad. One of my colleagues,...
Date: 08/09/2004
Now that Beta1 is out, I'd like to draw attention to the little known new debugger feature called...
Date: 07/02/2004
Maoni Stephens, performance PM in the CLR, has started a blog. She discusses many of the deeper...
Date: 06/23/2004