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• Smart Client Bug Reporting Challenge is now open

  The Windows Forms team is having a contest to see who can enter the most bugs related to Windows Forms, Windows Forms controls or ClickOnce deployment. Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/challenge/default.aspx for official rules. To get credit Read More... Posted Monday, November 22, 2004 7:08 PM by rgreen_msft | 1 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• 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

• Top 10 Worst Software

  Check out John Dvorak's list of the 10 worst software packages of all time: 10. Microsoft Bob 9. Combined Category: Dead Programming Languages 8. MicroPro Easy 7. Windows 1.0 6. Access (the telecom program, not the database) 5. TopView 4. Lotus Symphony Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 7:15 PM by rgreen_msft | 9 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• I'm Back

  After what wound up being quite a hiatus, I have returned to my blog. Just in case you were wondering if I had given up on it. No way! Just wound up going way too long between postings. Read More... Posted Friday, June 11, 2004 4:38 PM by rgreen_msft | 0 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• Wrox lives

  I met with Joe Wikert, the publisher of Wrox yesterday. Wiley purchased the Wrox name and some of the Wrox titles last year. Wrox is relaunching in June. They have new versions of some existing books coming out and they are planning a series of Whidbey Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 8:17 PM by rgreen_msft | 9 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous

• Blog rules

  This morning, I posted What's in a name? where I discussed the new announced name for Visual Studio. I mentioned that we had been asked what to call ASP.NET “Whidbey“. I said I would ask the ASP team and report back. 10 minutes later I got Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:25 PM by rgreen_msft | 11 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous