September 2004 - Posts

• VB Suggestions Update Sept 16

  As of this afternoon the VB team has 232 suggestions entered through the MSDN Product Feedback Center . This is up from 186 the last time I reported, which was August 25. Over the past two weeks we have made a serious effort to reduce our backlog on these Read More... Posted Thursday, September 16, 2004 5:35 PM by rgreen_msft | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey

• Watch VSLive Keynotes

  The videos of the VSLive Keynotes are on the Fawcette web site. Soma announced VS 2005 Standard in his keynote and has the latest dev tools roadmap. There is also a seperate link to the reg-free COM demo in his keynote. Reg-free COM is coming in Whidbey Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 1:51 PM by rgreen_msft | 4 Comments Filed under: Conferences

• Visual Studio Standard announced

  Jay Roxe explains VS Standard in eWeek "With Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition we've recognized there is no one right tool for all developers and we've tried to target the line at the different types of developers," said Jay Roxe , product manager for Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:34 PM by rgreen_msft | 1 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey

• I ran a half marathon yesterday

  Dim whatAboutMe as ShamelessSelfPromotion = True Yesterday I ran the Super Jock 'n Jill Half Marathon. 13.1 miles in 1:43:20, or a pace of 7:53 per mile. I was shooting for a 1:45:00 (8:00 per mile) and I beat that, in spite of it being quite sunny and Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:28 PM by rgreen_msft | 8 Comments Filed under: Personal stuff

• VB used in Ferrari's F1 efforts

  Control software for the car is C and assembler. Analysis and simulation is mainly done with Matlab. Other projects are written in object-oriented languages (C++, Delphi and Visual Basic, depending on preference). This is from a very interesting article Read More... Posted Friday, September 03, 2004 7:42 PM by rgreen_msft | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• Interview with Soma

  Visual Studio magazine has an interview with S. Somasegar, aka "Soma", the corporate VP of the Developer Division. Soma will be keynoting at VSLive! in Orlando the week after next. Read More... Posted Friday, September 03, 2004 7:37 PM by rgreen_msft | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous