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September 2006 - Posts

Walking down the memory lane

Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 9:24 AM by Somasegar
I had the opportunity to visit Louisiana State University this past week. Having graduated from there back in 1988, I am visiting that town after a span of 18 years. The campus itself hasn't changed a whole lot - more people, more cars and more traffic Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta and Visual Studio support for Vista

Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:12 AM by Somasegar
Today, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the beta of Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. Based on your feedback, Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customer reports, MSDN Product Feedback Read More...
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Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs

Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 6:53 PM by Somasegar
Earlier this week, we released the first set of Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs. Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs are controls, components, tools and add-ins that give the Visual Basic developer more power and productivity to create great business applications. Read More...
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Jim Allchin's letter to developers

Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 4:55 PM by Somasegar
Being a platform company at heart, the developer audience is super important to us at Microsoft. As you know, I enjoy highlighting new technologies from across the company that are relevant to developers and showing how we’re providing tools that enable Read More...
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VSTO 2005 Second Edition Beta

Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 12:40 PM by Somasegar
Those of you who have worked with Microsoft Office 2003 or the 2007 Microsoft Office system know that they provide developers with a wide array of features upon which they can build robust business applications. This story improves dramatically between Read More...
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New Team Foundation Server (TFS) Power Toys

Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 9:02 AM by Somasegar
Yesterday, the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server team released a series of new Power Toys . While versions of the Power Toys have been released previously, this is the first time they have included functionality that integrates seamlessly into the Read More...
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IronPython 1.0

Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:09 PM by Somasegar
I blogged earlier about us delivering a release candidate of IronPython. Today, we released IronPython 1.0. You can download it from CodePlex . This is a great milestone not just for IronPython but for the .NET platform as a great platform for dynamic Read More...
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Expression Web

Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2006 5:37 PM by Somasegar
Earlier today, the team signed off on Beta1 for Expression Web (formerly known as Expression Web Designer) which provides you with a rich set of tools to build high quality, standards-based web sites. You can download this beta from Expression Web and Read More...
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Translation Wiki

Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2006 8:09 AM by Somasegar
One of our goals is to expand the availability of relevant technical content to a wider, global audience of developers. The MSDN Wiki team ( I blogged about their beta release in June) recently added a section to their site that provides a huge amount Read More...
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