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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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Popfly Game Creator

Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 11:03 AM by Somasegar
Watching Microsoft Popfly evolve has been incredibly exciting for me. With its Silverlight-based drag-and-drop capabilities, Popfly has been a fun and easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly has won the hearts 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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DreamSpark - an inspirational example

Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:27 AM by Somasegar
A few weeks ago we announced the DreamSpark program which allows students free access to many Microsoft developer technologies. I wanted to share with you something related to this program that I was impressed with this week. A young developer, Nathan Read More...
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Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack shipped

Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 11:50 AM by Somasegar
In early January, we delivered a Beta of the Visual C++ 2008 Feature pack. I am pleased to announce that the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack has shipped! The Feature Pack provides several exciting features for C++ developers, such as a major update to MFC Read More...
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Software Factory refresh for VS 2008

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:17 PM by Somasegar
About a year ago I blogged about Software Factories and the great response from people who were using them. Software Factories have continued to be a useful resource for the community and we are invested on updating them based on your feedback. A few Read More...
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Giving VS Express website a new life with Silverlight

Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 8:26 PM by Somasegar
We recently revamped the website for the Visual Studio Express Editions and made it Silverlight enabled. The approach was to add Silverlight without making it look like we just dropped something new into our existing site without any thought. I loved 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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MIX '08 - The Next Web Now

Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:48 AM by Somasegar
Last year at MIX, I decided to sit in the audience and watch Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie deliver the keynote among all the other conference attendees. Even though I knew what we were going to present, it was still fabulous to sit in the audience and watch Read More...
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A New Era of Expression

Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:58 AM by Somasegar
I was very excited last year when we released the first version of Expression Studio to help bring the professional designer into the software development process for client and standards-based web applications. This suite of designer tools opened up Read More...
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Launch videos

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:05 PM by Somasegar
Earlier today I blogged about the world wide launch of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008. As just a quick update, I’d like to share with you a few links to some videos that will give you more insight into today’s activities. Read More...
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Heroes Happen Here

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:52 AM by Somasegar
Today Steve Ballmer officially kicked off more than 225 events in the world wide launch of the next generation of infrastructure and application platform products including Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server Read More...
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