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Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:58 AM

Updated: Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison (v1.04)

Okay, another update (v1.04) to the Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison is now available. In this revision, I updated the Code Quality Tools section to better reflect the testing features that are now available in Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition,
Posted by Rob Caron | 2 Comments
Friday, February 01, 2008 12:58 AM

Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Update...Again

I just published v1.03 of the Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison with a minor update. I overlooked the Database Publishing Wizard in Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition and above. In Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, it's accessed by right-clicking
Posted by Rob Caron | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 31, 2008 2:34 AM

Updated: Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Guide

The first major revision of the Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison Guide is live. Here's where you can find it: Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison . Here are some downloadable versions (DOCX/XPS/PDF): Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison downloads
Posted by Rob Caron | 2 Comments
Sunday, January 27, 2008 6:47 PM

A Comprehensive Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison

See: Updated: Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison I just finished working on a very comprehensive product comparison of the Visual Studio 2008 product line. It only covers the IDE products, which means it doesn't include stuff like Team Foundation Server
Posted by Rob Caron | 13 Comments
Monday, November 12, 2007 7:16 PM

ISVs: Get Help Managing Licensing and Protection of Your Software

If you're an ISV (independent software vendor), you may be interested in learning more about Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLP Services): Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLP Services) provides enforcement
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Monday, October 22, 2007 9:39 AM

New Web Site: Microsoft Tester Center

Today, we launched a new site on MSDN - the Microsoft Tester Center ! The Microsoft Tester Center showcases the test discipline as an integral part of the application lifecycle, describes test roles and responsibilities, and promotes the test investments
Posted by Rob Caron | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:46 AM

Visual Studio Content: Love it or Hate it?

Some of the most laborious writing that happens in creating Visual Studio doesn't happen in code. I'm talking about the millions (literally) of words that go into the product documentation and other content to support the product. As with most aspects
Posted by Rob Caron | 3 Comments
Monday, September 17, 2007 10:40 PM

New Developer Center Look and Feel

When you get a chance, go check out the new look and feel of the Visual Basic and Visual C# developer centers. We'd love to get your feedback on the new design. One thing you should notice right away is a reduction in fluff graphics. 1334
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Monday, July 02, 2007 11:54 PM

Reorganizing for Productivity

Seth Godin has a post ( Reorganizing for profit ) that makes an interesting point about how retailers organize merchandise in ways that seemingly work better for the retailer than they do for the customer. When you go to Home Depot to get what you need
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:53 AM

The Greatest Story Never Told

While reading the comments on Sam Gentile 's post, What's Great about Being a Microsoft Developer , I followed a link to a post by Martin Plante that ended with: So for me, the "Microsoft Way" is only a street name , as there is no Microsoft Way, no real
Posted by Rob Caron | 1 Comments
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:33 AM

Managing Complexity

As noted in posts I made back in March ( Groundhog Day at MSDN ) and in April ( Déjà Vu All Over Again ), I'm trying to tackle the unenviable task of addressing the growing complexity of content on MSDN. To get a glimpse of what MSDN used to be like when
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Monday, April 16, 2007 10:15 AM

Déjà Vu All Over Again

About a month ago I wrote a post titled, Groundhog Day at MSDN . In that post I talked about cleaning up the content mess on MSDN and I likened it to organizing things at home. This weekend I started reading The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda . In Law
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Friday, March 30, 2007 9:45 PM

Visual Studio Decennial, Redux

I created a page on the Visual Studio site with the customer & partner quotes: Happy Anniversary, Visual Studio! March 2007 (March 19th to be exact) is the Visual Studio Decennial since it marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Visual Studio
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Monday, March 19, 2007 9:25 AM

New Team System Articles on MSDN

There are two new Team System articles on MSDN: Team System: Work Item Tracking by Brian A. Randell Database Unit Testing with Team Edition for Database Professionals by Sachin Rekhi 1266
Posted by Rob Caron | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:06 PM

Groundhog Day at MSDN

Last month, my wife and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary. It's not romantic, but one of the topics of conversation this time of year is our constant struggle with clutter at home, and how much we've accumulated over the years. Eighteen years
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