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.NET 4.5 Improvements for Cloud and Server Applications

I’ve had multiple meetings recently with customers and press where the topic of .NET development has come up, particularly as it relates to the cloud and server.  They’ve heard about ...

DevLabs: C++, Cloud Services, and You

I’m excited today to announce a new DevLabs project: Microsoft Codename “Casablanca”.  You can learn more about the project and download the bits from the DevLabs site. I&r...

Meeting Developers Where They Are

In my recent post on the “The Road to Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5,” I shared my thoughts on some key industry trends that have influenced our most recent wave of development tools.&...

Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta Available Now!

I am very happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta releases are now available for download. I previously blogged about some of the innovation that went into the Visual Studi...

The Road to Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta

Today, I’m excited to announce that Visual Studio 11 Beta and .NET 4.5 Beta will be available in just a few days, on February 29th, 2012.  These releases will be “go live,” mean...

C++ AMP Open Specification

As an industry trend, advancement in heterogeneous hardware has progressed at a rapid pace.  This in turn has fueled developer desire to target such hardware for accelerated computation, necessit...

Visual Studio 11 ALM Advances

Happy new year. Over the last several months since //BUILD/, I’ve published multiple blog posts outlining advancements made in Visual Studio 11, from languages to the .NET Framework to IDE produ...

Visual Studio 11 Platform Tooling Advances

Through my last several blog posts, I’ve highlighted some of the new features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview released in September.  All of these posts have concentrated on various a...

Visual Studio 11 IDE Advances

Over my last few posts, I’ve blogged about some of the advances we’ve made for the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview - improvements to programming languages that enable developers to bett...

Visual Studio 11 .NET Advances

In my first post of this Visual Studio 11 series, I discussed some of the language-level innovation in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview.  In this second post, I’ll take a look at some...

Roslyn CTP Now Available

In my last few blog posts, I’ve highlighted significant advancements our teams have made as part of the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview released at //BUILD/, and I’ll continue that seri...

Visual Studio 11 Programming Language Advances

At the BUILD conference in September, we unveiled developer previews of Visual Studio 11, Expression Blend 5, Team Foundation Server 11, and the .NET Framework 4.5. We’ve been working on th...

Expression Blend for HTML

In my previous post, I highlighted how Windows Metro style apps can be developed utilizing the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills you already have. If your world is code, Visual Studio offers a great en...

BUILDing the Future with Visual Studio

From students participating in the Imagine Cup, to the next hot start-up in Silicon Valley, to enterprises delivering modern efficiencies into mature businesses, developers today all have three things...

Python Tools for Visual Studio

Today, I’m excited to announce the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS), which is now available for download from CodePlex. The Python ecosystem has been enjoying tremendous gro...

Visual Studio LightSwitch availability

Today, Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 is available for download for MSDN subscribers. Non-MSDN subscribers can get LightSwitch starting Thursday, July 28th, or download a free trial today. L...

Imagine Cup People's Choice

The Imagine Cup brings together students from all walks of life from around the world and tasks them with a big challenge: solve the world’s toughest problems through technology.   I ...

Targeting Heterogeneity with C++ AMP and PPL

Previously, I blogged about key trends in software development starting with concurrency/parallelism, and indeed today multi-core systems are everywhere. You can target multi-core systems from many ma...

Debugger Canvas on DevLabs

Today, we’re releasing Debugger Canvas on DevLabs. Debugger Canvas is a new user experience for stepping through code in the debugger in Visual Studio Ultimate. It displays the code of each of t...

BUILDing a bright future

Today, Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green announced that we’ll be starting a dialog with developers about the next generation of Windows, internally codenamed “Windows 8".  We&rs...

Outercurve Foundation: Partnering with the open source community

More than 18 months ago, Microsoft helped sponsor the creation of the Outercurve Foundation (previously known as the Codeplex Foundation) to contribute ideas and projects to the open source community...

Solver Foundation on DevLabs

Today we're adding Solver Foundation to DevLabs. Solver Foundation is a .NET library for mathematical programming, modeling, and optimization. Mathematical programming is all about decision making, a...

Happy 1st Birthday, Visual Studio 2010!

Today marks the one year birthday of Visual Studio 2010! It seems not long ago that we had the world-wide launch celebrating the largest developer tool release from Microsoft in many years.  I ...

Building Better HTML5

With IE9's recent release, I wanted to share with you a little about some of our development tools that support HTML5, ECMAScript 5, and CSS3 development. Throughout its release cycle, IE9 has blogge...

Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 available today!

Last week at TechEd Middle East in Dubai, I announced that LightSwitch beta 2 would be available in the coming weeks.   I'm happy to report that today, we have made LightSwitch beta 2 availa...

Visual Studio 2010 enhancements

Today, I have the privilege of keynoting TechEd Middle East in Dubai for the second year in a row. TechEd Middle East debuted last year, and this year the event has grown significantly.  TechEd p...

Scale-out computing on DevLabs

Today we're launching several new Technical Computing (TC) projects on DevLabs.  These projects give you a chance to learn about some of the technologies being developed as part of the Technical ...

A Year of Excitement

As the year comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on the progress we've made at Microsoft and how it's made an impact on my life. I'm always impressed with the work we do here at Microsoft (you ...

Visual Studio 2010 momentum

Since we launched Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 on April 12th of this year, it has been exciting to see the extremely positive response to the product.  Within six months of the launch date, Vis...

Imagine Cup "Solve This"

I have been a part of the Imagine Cup since 2003 and every year, am delighted and surprised at how it gets better and better.  This world-wide competition brings together students from all over...

Supercomputing 2010

This week at the Supercomputing 2010 conference in New Orleans, we announced Service Pack 1 for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, which integrates Windows Azure compute cycles with HPC Server. Often, HPC cu...

BizSpark Graduation Offer for Startups

In November 2008, we launched Microsoft BizSpark, a three-year program that helps world-wide early-stage startups succeed by providing them the technical resources they need to build successful busi...

Silverlight: Lighting up the client

At PDC last week, Scott Guthrie showed some of the great apps developers have already built for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight, as well as the rich set of development tools we have just ...

Making Asynchronous Programming Easy

Writing applications that effectively handle long latencies can be a daunting challenge.  As software applications grow more complex, more developers are building software that accesses remote r...

Windows Phone + VB developers = Great Mobile Apps

Many of you have asked if Visual Basic can be used to write Windows Phone applications.  As of today, the answer is "yes!" Starting today, you can download Microsoft Visual Basic CTP for Windo...

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2: The next step in High Performance Computing

Today we released an important component of our Technical Computing initiative: Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite.  Windows HPC Server provides an end-to-end HPC solution that is tightly integrat...

Announcing Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools

Today, we are announcing the availability of Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools enable you to design and test your Windows Phone 7 applications in Visual Studio. These ...

Script Junkie

Earlier this year in February, I blogged about key software development trends.  The second trend, The Web as a Platform, continues to grow at an astounding rate.  Browser-based application...

Visual Studio Lab Management

Managing the needs of a quality assurance lab can be quite challenging.  A dizzying number of machines need to be set up, torn down, or restored to a particular snapshot so the software tea...

Introducing Visual Studio LightSwitch

I am pleased to announce a new product in the Visual Studio family - Visual Studio LightSwitch.  LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the cloud and the desktop. Tod...

Visual Studio Scrum 1.0

Yesterday we announced the release of Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0, a new process template for Team Foundation Server 2010.  The template can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Gallery or ...

Windows Server AppFabric: Better, Faster, Cheaper

Earlier this week in our Worldwide Partner Conference, we outlined our vision for the cloud and underscored Microsoft's commitment to providing a platform that enables our customers to embrace cloud c...

Hilo: Windows 7 development walk-throughs

Windows 7 introduced a number of new end-user features that make using applications easier, and since then, developers have asked us for more prescriptive guidance on "How do I use those in my applic...

Dream Big...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to participate in the Finals of the Imagine Cup 2010 in Warsaw, Poland. Imagine Cup is a worldwide programming contest where students from around the globe get a ...

VS 2010 Productivity Improvements, Part IV

My previous posts on the productivity improvements in Visual Studio 2010 highlighted features of Visual Studio that you can use right out of the box.  Today, I'm going to focus on extensions to V...

VS 2010 Productivity Improvements, Part III

In my previous posts on the productivity improvements in Visual Studio 2010, I've focused on features that all VS developers can take advantage of.  Sometimes, though, the most useful features a...

Modeling Websites and Native Code

I've blogged previously about the Architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010. These tools offer a fantastic way to understand an existing application, design some new functionality, and validate an imp...

My favorite Expression 4 features

Today at Internet Week in New York, we launched Expression Studio 4. Expression 4 is a suite of professional design tools for building immersive user experiences for the desktop, mobile devices and t...

Peering into the cloud with IntelliTrace

In April, we introduced Visual Studio 2010 to the world. One of the breakthrough features we delivered in VS 2010 is IntelliTrace - a tool that enables you to do historical debugging and is a key par...

VS 2010 productivity improvements, Part II

You could say the code editor is the most important feature of any development experience.  After all, that's what lets you create, see, and change your code.  Without a code editor, no othe...

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