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• My new role and my new blog

  I have joined MCW Technologies as a senior consultant. Very exciting and quite an honor. This blog is moving to http://www.mcwtech.com/CS/blogs/rgreen/default.aspx See ya there! Read More... Posted Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:44 PM by rgreen_msft | 1 Comments

• Leaving Microsoft

  After 8 ½ years at Microsoft it is time to move on to the next phase of my career. April 15 is my last full day at Microsoft. I am going to pursue the life of the independent contractor and return to something that has been a passion of mine since before Read More... Posted Monday, April 11, 2005 3:08 PM by rgreen_msft | 5 Comments

• 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 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

• VB Dev Center Community page updates

  Check out the VB Dev Center Community page . Duncan and I have spend a lot of time lately talking about this page and what we can do to make it more of a community page. The ultimate goal is to make this page more of a community portal, a front door to Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:59 AM by rgreen_msft | 4 Comments Filed under: VB Community

• 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

• VB to VB .NET Upgrade Tour content

  Jackie Goldstein has posted the slides, demos and videos of the VB to VB .NET Upgrade Tour on the Microsoft Israel Web site. Way to go Jackie! And speaking of Jackie, he will be speaking at the VB Meeting of the .NET Developers Association this Monday Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 8:10 PM by rgreen_msft | 1 Comments Filed under: Visual Basic general

• More good music on the Web (or the radio if you live in Boston)

  WERS 88.9 FM Emerson College Radio in Boston, at www.wers.org I first heard this station when I was in Boston (out for a run in my home town of Marblehead). I recently found them on the Web. The weekday show Jazz Oasis is 10 AM to 2 PM EST, which is 7 Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 7:23 PM by rgreen_msft | 1 Comments Filed under: Personal stuff

• 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

• Previously on Robert Green's blog

  Robert blogged for awhile. Then he stopped. Then he sort of started again, but not so much. Then he stopped, or more accurately, stopped starting again. But now he is back, again. And is committed to regular blogging. You'll see. Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2004 7:06 PM by rgreen_msft | 2 Comments Filed under: Personal stuff