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• 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

• 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

• VB suggestions update

  As of 8/24, the VB team has 186 suggestions entered through the MSDN Product Feedback Center (up from 169 the week before), 168 of which have been entered since Beta 1. Of the 186 total suggestions, 104 have been resolved (up from 93 the week before). Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:10 PM by rgreen_msft | 6 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey

• Community Tech Preview for MSDN Subscribers

  Word on the street (or at least in the hallways) is that MSDN subscribers should have access to the Tech Preview for download sometime this week. Look for it. Pass it on. Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:15 PM by rgreen_msft | 2 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey

• VS 2005 Community Tech Preview

  At VSLive this week we handed out the first VS 2005 Community Tech Preview. This is our first updated bits since the PDC Tech Preview and represents more than 6 months of coding. The Community Tech Preview is not the same quality as a Beta. It is more Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:51 PM by rgreen_msft | 12 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey

• Naming update

  Visual Studio 2005 .NET Framework 2.0 ASP.NET 2.0 For context, see the post below. Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:16 PM by rgreen_msft | 0 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey

• What's in a name?

  You probably already know this, but Visual Studio “Whidbey” is not going to be the official name of the next version of Visual Studio. Turns out it will be Visual Studio Whidbey, same name just no quotes. Isn't that funny? I just made that Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:02 PM by rgreen_msft | 12 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey

• Whidbey at the .NETDA Part 2

  Previously on my blog I wrote about showing VB Whidbey to the .NET Developers Association General Meeting in Redmond. I covered IDE enhancements aimed at increasing productivity. Here I'll cover Data. I showed the Data Sources Window. You can use it to Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:37 PM by rgreen_msft | 5 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey, User groups

• Clarification on My

  Previously on my blog I said ”The My namespace is really just wrappers around existing Framework classes.” Jay Schmelzer of the VB team writes It’s not a set of wrappers for the framework, it is a speed-dial into the framework that helps Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:30 AM by rgreen_msft | 6 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey

• Whidbey at the .NETDA Part 1

  Last night I presented VB Whidbey at the .NET Developer Association General Meeting here in Redmond. I was on after Dave Winer and Robert Scoble spoke on blogs and RSS, etc. It is no coincidence that my blog debuts the very next day. Thanks to Dave and Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 9:14 PM by rgreen_msft | 7 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic Whidbey, User groups