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The Visual Studio Documentary on Channel 9
02 October 09 06:02 PM | ricom | 2 Comments   
This is just great fun! And, of course, The Documentary is all wrong because they left out many of my favorite parts *grin*. OK, seriously, there is no one history of Visual Studio because of course there is a history for every person that was involved, Read More...
Development Tools Ecosystem Summit
17 September 09 05:59 PM | ricom | 4 Comments   
I'm happy to announce that I just agreed to give the keynote for the Development Tools Ecosystem Summit next month here in Redmond. The Development Tools Ecosystem Summit, from October 19 th – 23 rd , is our annual conference open to all developers for Read More...
Visual Studio Today, Tomorrow and Beyond
02 December 08 12:44 PM | ricom | 2 Comments   
Looks like it's interview season for me just now.  Here's another piece on Visual Studio directions, based on questions from Channel 9 readers. Visual Studio Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Thanks to Charles for having me on, it's always fun :) Read More...
Performance Advice, Southern Style
28 November 08 01:29 PM | ricom | 1 Comments   
While I was at PDC2008 I was introduced to Keith and Woody -- pretty soon there was a microphone in front of me and we were doing a podcast. Now I already liked these guys but when they used a picture of me from about 1998 I really liked them a lot more. Read More...
Visual Studio Futures -- Extensibility Video
25 November 08 01:19 PM | ricom | 2 Comments   
This is a brief interview from our most recent VSX conference . Paramesh Vaidyanathan, Principal Product Unit Manager, and Rico Mariani, Architect for the Visual Studio Platform team shares their ideas and long term goals for Visual Studio. You'll hear Read More...
Performance by Design at PDC2008!
12 September 08 12:48 PM | ricom | 6 Comments   
I'm happy to announce that I will be at PDC2008 (and I will work the booths until I can't speak) but in particular I'll be kicking off this precon event with my longtime colleagues Mark, Joe, and Vance. Come on out, I'd love to meet some of my readers! Read More...
Rebecca Norlander on Behind the Code
14 August 08 10:39 AM | ricom | 3 Comments   
Rebecca is a lovely person and she interviews very well here on the latest Behind the Code episode.  And I don't just like her because she can do good performance work, she's actually makes a great friend and even says yes when I ask her to dance Read More...
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Visual Studio Extenders Conference
09 August 08 07:35 AM | ricom | 1 Comments   
If you ever wanted to see Redmond and meet some of the folks on the Visual Studio team this might be just the ticket for you. I'll be speaking about the future of Visual Studio there, especially from the perspective of those that make extensions for it Read More...
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Just another day in the perf lab
18 June 08 02:55 PM | ricom | 0 Comments   
Even though I've been doing general architecture work on Visual Studio for nearly a year now, my friends in DDPERF are still plugging away on performance problems and finding some interesting results. This most recent thread is very interesting because Read More...
Sara Ford goes retro
29 February 08 05:51 AM | ricom | 0 Comments   
In honor of the leap year, she's posted a couple of articles I wrote back around 1993 describing things you could do in VC++ 2.0. Oddly enough most of them are still applicable. Cheers Sara Read More...
Computer Measurement Group offers past papers to the public!
12 February 08 09:44 AM | ricom | 1 Comments   
As you know I presented my performance signatures paper at the Computer Measurement Group's (CMG) conference a little over a year ago and I am happy to announce that CMG is now offering previous proceedings from 2005 and older to the public .  I Read More...
Linq to SQL Compiled Queries are thread-safe
29 November 07 05:00 PM | ricom | 6 Comments   
JD Conley wrote an interesting article showing the benefits you can get by using compiled queries on his blog .  He wrote me today saying: "I enjoyed your postings on linq to sql performance and compiled query optimization. I recently published Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 ship today
19 November 07 02:48 PM | ricom | 5 Comments   
Well you can read all about it on Soma's blog -- today is the day! I'm really proud of the work we did in this release and I'm especially proud of that performance work -- great results in many areas with Linq and VB taking top honors from me on really Read More...
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Performance Threat Models
13 November 07 12:37 PM | ricom | 1 Comments   
I've been meaning to post this for ages and somehow I kept forgetting. J.D. and I have long thought that many of the techniques used to do a security threat model are actually directly applicable to doing performance analysis as well. The idea of threats Read More...
Some things to visit
27 October 07 07:11 AM | ricom | 1 Comments   
My sometimes cohort J.D. Meier in Patterns and Practices has been busy: Now on MSDN: patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications Performance Testing Videos posted to CodePlex My other cohorts in the Technical Community Network Read More...
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