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My second webcast which was a part of the webcast series done by Visual Basic Team called "Live From Redmond" webcasts on Visual Studio "Orcas" was on building N-Tier application using Visual Studio "Orcas". I gave this webcast a couple of weeks ago and Read More...
Visual Basic team is hosting a series of "Live From Redmond" webcasts on Visual Studio "Orcas" and I gave one on LINQ to SQL and the O/R Designer a couple of days ago. Thanks to all who tuned in. I covered following topics in my webcast: Mapping database Read More...
Been 7 months since my latest post. Why? Orcas . It's been a great ride and I can't wait to tell you all the great features my team worked on. March CTP is finally out and Beta 1 is coming soon. My team is putting final touches to the last feature we Read More...
I certainly did not exepct to see our Corporate VP to be on video like this and even show silly side of him. Video itself is not that interesting. But outtakes at the end made me laugh out loud. Glad I had my door shut in my office. :) Ed Helms' on-scene Read More...
Today I am full of ideas around community and customer. Here's my top 10 list of how you as a software engineer should view customers as. Customers pay your salaries, not your CEO. Customers never complain. They demand. Customers are not stupid. They Read More...
BlakeHandler told me that he's keeping track of Microsoft Bloggers Directory List . Thanks Blake! Very useful and something we should definitely provide on our side. I often wonder how people find our team blog when I receive feedback from it. Update Read More...
Yag moves on . He used to be the Group Manager of Visual Studio Data team before the team got merged into Visual Basic product unit and became a part of Visual Studio Professional Data team. Although I only spent a couple of months in Visual Studio Data Read More...
So far, there were only two fonts suitable for IDEs such as Visual Studio, Courier New and Lucida Console. There's a third choice now. Go grab Consolas Font Pack for Visual Studio 2005 now. You can see differences between three fonts from Glen Gordon's Read More...
Thought it might be helpful to list out ways you can vent if you are mad about our products. :) Product Feedback Center : http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/ All bugs or suggestions you enter automatically get entered into our internal bug Read More...
No matter how hard you try, you cannot make every single customer happy with the product you ship. There will be bugs and someone will get seriously mad after fighting with your product for several days. I received an email from a very angry customer Read More...
Peter van Ooijen @ Codebetter.com talked about RAD experience in Visual Studio 2005 . He does a great job of highlighting useful features and also provide gotchas that developers should be aware of. By the way, if your job involves writing software and Read More...
Visual Studio 2005: The Difference is Obvious Expand your skill set and increase your value in the job market. Check out the new Visual Basic 2005 Webcasts and find out how to receive a complimentary Visual Studio 2005 Discovery Pack. Great chance to Read More...
When I told the team at my previous company that I was joining Microsoft, there were few who showed their disappointments. I was their Agile cheer-leader and they couldn't believe that I chose Microsoft. Why move all the way across the country (NY -> Read More...
Today, Microsoft announced its plan to make SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition available later this year. This one is targeted for what we call Occationally Connected Systems (OCS) such as mobile devices. Links: SQL Server 2005 Update from Paul Flessner Read More...
Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft and he's joining Google . Be sure to read his post. It's the best post he's ever done. Read More...
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