Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Cheat Sheet
May 20, 2009
Hey folks, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available for the world to download and here’s your cheat sheet of links you’ll want to know about **Download: **Visual Studio Team System Beta 1, Web installer, VSTS Beta 1 ISO, .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 Readme: VSTS Readme **Installation Tips & Tricks: **Be sure to watch Brian Keller’s 10-4 episode on how to download & install VSTS Beta 1 ** **…more
TwitterDrive - Tweets are the next evolution in message protocols
Apr 01, 2009
Today we announced TwitterDrive, a free, open source application that will revolutionize cloud storage and cloud applications as we know it. Here is an interview with the TweetDrive creator, Brian Peek with the full details. What is it? TweetDrive is a .NET application that enables you to use Twitter as a cloud storage backend to share files, musics, photos, anything **How does it work? **TweetDrive serializes your file into BASE64, splits the file 140 characters at a time and uploads each file chunk to Twitter.…more
Coding4Fun Book: The people and the projects
Dec 10, 2008
Available now on Amazon.com for $26 (34% off!) Our Coding4Fun book, _Coding4Fun 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, World of Warcraft, YouTube, and More _officially released to the world last week. Unlike your typical .NET development book, Coding4Fun is about learning how to use your developer skills to do fun, cool projects (see below for the full list). All of the .NET projects are in VB and C#, with the exception of the XNA chapter as XNA only supports C# at this time.…more
PDC Recap
Nov 10, 2008
With PDC just about a week over, it’s about time I finally got around to blogging about it. Here’s the random list Windows Azure: Ray Ozzie launched Windows Azure and Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy (video here). Charles on Channel 9 did a bunch of videos on our Cloud services. If you want a no nonsense explanation of Windows Azure, check out the interview with Manuvir. Manuvir Das: Introducing Windows Azure For a great recap on the Windows Azure, check out Dare Obasanjo’s blog.…more
CodePlex Community Meetup at PDC
Oct 20, 2008
As Sara mentioned in the CodePlex blog, we’re having a CodePlex meetup at PDC on Wednesday from 1:30 - 2:30pm where volunteers will be able to show off their Codeplex projects and you’ll be able to check out demos of new CodePlex features and give the CodePlex team feedback on what they’re delivering. Full details on the CodePlex blog: Want to showcase your CodePlex project or your favorite CodePlex project at PDC?…more
Announcing Visual Studio 2010
Sep 29, 2008
Since I’m a Visual Studio fanboy, I love hearing about the future of Visual Studio, now officially named Visual Studio 2010. While the team is taking a measured approach to disclosure, something they haven’t done in VS 2005/2008, I did get the scoop on the future of Visual Studio Team System with Norman Guadagno, the Director of Product Management on what the key themes are for this release. Norman Guadagno: Announcing Visual Studio Team System 2010…more
Opening the kimono on Windows 7
Sep 24, 2008
Today we officially announced that PDC is the first time Microsoft will be discussing Windows 7 in-depth. The big announcements are that: Steve Sinofsky will keynote on Tuesday at PDC * There are 21 sessions on Windows 7 at PDC on everything from kernel, audio, graphics, networking, and more. * All PDC attendees get a pre-beta build of Windows 7 on a custom 160GB external USB drive Nice!
Popfly Game Creator Goes Beta
Sep 02, 2008
Congrats to the Popfly team for moving Popfly Game Creator from alpha to Beta and adding a bunch of handy features. For the full rundown, check out the Popfly Team Blog. Here’s a few of **my **favorite features Inserting images into a game * Alpha (before): You had to manually build XAML and manually upload images for an actor and make sure the URL is * Beta (after): Native support for adding images to an actor…more
The Unofficial Microsoft Overworked Advisory System
Aug 08, 2008
Scott Hanselman recently blogged about “Ninjas on fire” as a way to describe being overwhelmed at work, here’s a snippet from his post on the origin: [_Jesse_](http://silverlight.net/blogs/jesseliberty/)_ asked me how I was doing yesterday and I replied "Ninjas on fire, man." Four years ago when Halo 2 was coming out it was described like this._ “Halo 2 is alot like Halo 1, except it’s Halo 1 on fire going 120 miles per hour through a hospital zone chased by helicopters and ninjas.…more
AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft v2 Beta now available
Jul 30, 2008
For World of Warcraft developers looking to build AddOns, a BETA version of AddOn Studio is now available! Here’s an interview and demo with Attila Kisko and Gabor Ratky on AddOn Studio. Gabor Ratky and Attila Kisko: AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft There are some bugs and some content that still isn’t available, but we’re working on it :) All of it is made possible of course by the power of the Visual Studio Shell