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What's next for Visual Studio and .NET FX?

Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 8:40 AM by Somasegar
It has been about 10 months since we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5. The team has been working on a couple of things since then – we shipped SP1 for both VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 earlier this Summer. In parallel, we have been planning for the Read More...
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F# September 2008 CTP Released

Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 2:07 PM by Somasegar
Last October, I blogged about our increased investment in the F# programming language . Functional programming has been an increasingly important trend in programming languages over the recent years. F#, a functional programming language for the .NET Read More...
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.NET Rocks!

Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 3:10 PM by Somasegar
I like to take the chance to talk directly to the development community as often as I can. I commonly use outlets such as this blog, but sometimes I get the opportunity to speak out loud instead of through my keyboard via sites like Channel9 or .NET Rocks! Read More...
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Service Pack 1 for VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 released!

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 10:12 AM by Somasegar
We released Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 last November. The feedback has been tremendously positive, but developers always have new ideas and suggestions for how we can improve the development experience for them. Building on the base Read More...
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CodePlex celebrates its 2nd birthday!

Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:31 PM by Somasegar
It seems like only recently, but is has been two years since we launched CodePlex . We launched this in Summer 2006 as Microsoft’s open source project hosting site. Our goal was, and continues to be, to provide developers with the ability to collaborate Read More...
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How vulnerable are software applications?

Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:56 PM by Somasegar
In a June 2007 report , the U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) described cybercrime as “having significant economic impacts and a threat to U.S. national security interests” and referenced a 2005 FBI survey estimating that U.S. businesses lost Read More...
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On stage at the TechEd 2008 keynote

Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008 7:35 AM by Somasegar
It has been a fun experience for me this morning. I am at TechEd in Orlando, Florida and was able to join Bill Gates on stage during his keynote to talk to the audience about the paradigm shift in client application development and the user experience. Read More...
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June 2008 CTP - Parallel Extensions to the .NET FX

Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 2:18 PM by Somasegar
This week we released an update to the community technology preview (CTP) of Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. Parallel Extensions simplifies development of concurrent applications by providing library-based support for introducing concurrency Read More...
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Open and Extensible

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:42 PM by Somasegar
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced a set of broad-reaching changes to Microsoft’s technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice. As much as some of us dream of Read More...
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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 9:02 AM by Somasegar
Today we released a Beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Traditionally our service packs address a range of issues found both through customer and partner feedback as well as our own internal testing. While this service pack Read More...
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Expression Studio 2 RTMs today!

Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:01 AM by Somasegar
Last year the Microsoft Expression team shipped a new suite of tools for creative professionals. This first release of Expression Studio marked a significant milestone in the history of development tools at Microsoft, delivering superior designer-developer Read More...
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Hotfix access on Code Gallery

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:41 PM by Somasegar
About a year ago we decided to host selected popularly requested Hotfixes on the Connect site . The feedback on this has been positive, however as with any new program, there were some things we discovered we could do better. We are making updates to Read More...
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Helping you develop world-ready applications

Posted Friday, April 18, 2008 7:18 PM by Somasegar
More and more developers around the world want to create world-ready applications and this requires various types of support from the .NET Framework and Base Class Libraries such as the ability to support culture and language-specific conversions or interact Read More...
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Community Localization: Brazilian version of VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5

Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 8:35 AM by Somasegar
We aspire to reach customers from around the world with our products. People speak and work in different languages depending on where you are in the world. To make it easy for people to be able to use our products in a language of their choice, we localize Read More...
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Launch experience in India

Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 2:04 AM by Somasegar
Last week I was in India as part of the world wide launch of Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server. It was a lot of fun – being in India, being able to talk to developers and IT Pros, celebrating the great work that Read More...
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