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March 2006 - Posts

Open + XML + Developer = OpenXMLDeveloper.org

Posted Friday, March 31, 2006 1:26 PM by Somasegar
A few days ago, Microsoft led the creation of a new organization called OpenXMLDeveloper.org . The goal of this community is to exchange information about the usage of the ecma -developed Office Open XML file formats. Founding members include Apple, Intel, Read More...
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My alma mater

Posted Friday, March 24, 2006 10:37 AM by Somasegar
Recently, I got a chance to visit Anna University in India , my alma mater, where I got my undergraduate degree ages ago. I was returning to the campus after a long time and it was awesome to see the progress that has happened in the University. I was Read More...
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CTP for Visual Studio Tools for Office

Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:06 PM by Somasegar
Today, at the Office Developer Conference (ODC), we announced the availability of the first CTP of the next version of Visual Studio Tools for Office. This CTP introduces the VSTO support that will be made available for the breadth of Office 12, and includes Read More...
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User Experience matters!

Posted Monday, March 20, 2006 9:06 AM by Somasegar
Today User Experience matters more than ever before. In the past, there was more of a focus on building the right functionality and the right business logic, and user experience was an after-thought. Things are changing and the world is now evolving to Read More...
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"Made in Express"

Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 9:00 AM by Somasegar
This week we launched a new contest I wanted to tell you about – called the Made In Express Contest . The idea of the contest is to highlight cool people doing cool things using our Visual Studio Express and SQL Server Express products. As we spea k, Read More...
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Team Foundation Server is now here!

Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 7:40 PM by Somasegar
In case you haven’t heard the good news, Rick Laplante launched Team Foundation Server today at SDWest. The team is finishing up the final sign-off process and will be releasing the final bits to manufacturing tomorrow. It’s a proud moment for the whole Read More...
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Enabling a broad, vibrant VS ecosystem

Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 3:43 PM by Somasegar
When I think about Visual Studio, the first and foremost thing that comes to my mind is that we have a great tools platform – one that we build tools on as part of the Visual Studio family and the others a set of rich tools offerings that our partners Read More...
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Expression Tools Team Blog

Posted Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:13 PM by Somasegar
The Expression Tools team recently started a team blog site. If you are interested in hearing from the team members who are building the Expression family of tools (Graphic Designer, Interactive Designer and Web Designer) or want to interact with the Read More...
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