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VS2010 Beta2 performance and other issues
28 October 09 01:08 PM | ricom | 36 Comments   
Just a few words of encouragement today: I can't emphasize enough how valueable your feedback is to us at this point; no matter how hard we try we simply cannot duplicate the diversity that is the real world. We need to know what's really working out Read More...
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Inside Visual Studio Beta 2 - Performance and Reliability
20 October 09 12:13 PM | ricom | 8 Comments   
After my keynote speech yesterday at the Development Tools Ecosystem Summit Charles Torre caught up with me and we made this video. Hot off the presses: Rico Mariani: Inside Visual Studio Beta 2 - Performance and Reliability It's super-exciting :) If Read More...
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My History of Visual Studio (Part 10, final)
19 October 09 02:00 PM | ricom | 23 Comments   
[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] [Visit the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta web site for the latest info] Visual Studio 2008 Winds Down, Visual Studio 2010 Begins Just as things were starting to wind down on VS2008, Read More...
My History of Visual Studio (Part 9)
16 October 09 05:35 PM | ricom | 1 Comments   
[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] In the last posting I talked about the “Whidbey” release, VS2005, but I feel like I left out two really important aspects so I’d like to start this part by rewinding a bit for those two topics. I had mentioned Read More...
My History of Visual Studio (Part 8)
14 October 09 07:32 PM | ricom | 2 Comments   
[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] I can’t really talk about what was going on in the IDE without covering what was happening in the runtime because their fates are so intertwined, so even though it’s off topic a little bit, allow me to Read More...
My History of Visual Studio (Part 7)
13 October 09 07:43 PM | ricom | 2 Comments   
[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] [I know I promised to talk about “Whidbey” in this installment but I realized I needed a bridge to get there or else I’d totally skip over “Everett” – so this is that bridge.] In MSN the arrival of the Read More...
My History of Visual Studio (Part 6)
12 October 09 04:42 PM | ricom | 11 Comments   
[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] The years 1998 to 2002 were very busy ones in the Developer Division. I’ve previously written about “Dolphin” and I tried to give a sense of exactly how much changed during the Dolphin release and the sheer Read More...
My History of Visual Studio (Part 5)
10 October 09 08:50 AM | ricom | 5 Comments   
[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] We’re still on the part of the story where I was off working in MSN which means all I can give you are the first- and second-hand stories that I’ve heard over the years. So I guess that makes them second- Read More...
My History of Visual Studio (Part 4)
08 October 09 02:04 PM | ricom | 6 Comments   
[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] I didn’t really intend to write one of these per day but here it is day 4 and we’re still going strong. I’d like to take a moment to thank the many people who commented on this series either here, or on Read More...
My History of Visual Studio (Part 3)
07 October 09 04:01 PM | ricom | 9 Comments   
[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] I was going to go forward again in this installment but I got some requests to talk about some older things again before I did that. You might be getting bored of the distant past so I’ll try to keep that Read More...
My History of Visual Studio (Part 2)
06 October 09 10:20 PM | ricom | 4 Comments   
[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] Visual C++ 2.0, “Dolphin” was a very ambitious release. We were really happy with VC1 but there were quite a few things that were entirely unsatisfactory. One of them, maybe the most important, was the Read More...
My History of Visual Studio (Part 1)
05 October 09 04:33 PM | ricom | 30 Comments   
[All the other Parts: History of Visual Studio ] I wrote in the teaser that there is no one “History of Visual Studio”, there are as many histories as there were people involved. If I may repurpose a famous quote, “There are eight million stories in the Read More...
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 2010 Performance Part 3: A Technical Update
19 August 09 10:14 AM | ricom | 11 Comments   
If I have any readers left out there, they might be interested to know what it is I’m up to this month. It’s a very important something. It’s... my vacation! Ok, seriously, I am in fact on vacation and I’ll be out for the next few weeks mostly because Read More...
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