Last week we officially launched VS2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 . I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in launch activities in London, Seattle, Atlanta, and New York, sharing details on the new versions and doing whatever I can to help people...

This morning we kicked off the VS 2012 launch with an event in Seattle. You can tune in to the online coverage at http://www.visualstudiolaunch.com/ for live interviews and session recordings. In this blog post, I’ll share some of the info I presented...

I’m thrilled to announce that this morning we released Visual Studio 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012, and .NET Framework 4.5 to the web. It’s time to start your engines, and begin downloading today! MSDN Subscribers can download immediately...

The final build of Visual Studio 2012 is now complete! The engineering team is finished and is now preparing the build for our numerous distribution channels. I’d also like to congratulate the Windows 8 team for completing their important release...

It’s an exciting time for Entity Framework! Last Thursday, the team announced an open source release, which is now available on the Entity Framework CodePlex Site . I’ve been using Entity Framework quite a bit in my personal development, and...

Yesterday was a very exciting day for Office and SharePoint! The team unveiled plans for the new Office at a press conference, and released a public preview of Office and SharePoint 2013. You can find the press release available on the Microsoft News...

This morning I presented the keynote at TechEd Europe 2012 in Amsterdam, and shared some updates on our tools. If you’re not attending the event in person, you can still tune in online. The keynote video recording is available on-demand on Channel9 ....

You’ve probably heard about the new Windows on ARM PCs that will be coming to market with Windows 8. If you’ve been following the TechEd North America coverage, then you’ve also seen these devices in the keynote. In this post, we’re going to cover what...

We’re here in Orlando this week at TechEd North America 2012 , with thousands of developers and IT professionals. If you’re not attending the event in person, you can still tune into the live stream at http://northamerica.msteched.com/ . This morning...

Gartner recently issued its 2012 Magic Quadrant report for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Gartner, one of the world’s top IT research and advising companies, positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in the ALM space. You can read more about...

TechEd is our premier conference for developers and IT professionals, and our North America 2012 event starts next week.  The event is sold out, and I’m looking forward to joining 10,000 others in Orlando, Florida. :-)  I’ll be presenting as...

I’m excited to announce the release of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET – June 2012, which is available for immediate download here . The SDK provides tools for both Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Studio 2012 RC. Visual Studio 2012 support...

I’m happy to announce a new Microsoft “Roslyn” CTP release, which is available for immediate download here ! Roslyn is our long-lead project to rebuild the entire C# and Visual Basic language compilers and Visual Studio language services from the ground...

It’s been a busy week since the RC announcements for Visual Studio 2012, .NET Framework 4.5, and Team Foundation Server 2012. RC Announcements In my last post I provided an overview of the latest enhancements across the product. Here’s a rollup of the...

I’m happy to announce the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012, Team Foundation Server 2012, and .NET Framework 4.5. You can find these releases available for download on our Visual Studio product website . In conjunction with today’s Visual Studio...

Redesigning our blogs reminded me of painting the walls at home. It’s one of those things you never have the time to get around to, but are happy when you finally do! (source) Here’s a picture of my old blog theme, as a reminder: ...

In my earlier post on Continuous Value Delivery , I talked about the role that features like the backlog, sprint planning, and taskboard play in tracking requirements and managing the development process. In this post, I’ll dive deeper into what...

In my last post on Continuous Value Delivery , I talked the importance of communication between the customer and the engineering team to arrive at a clear project definition. How many times have you built exactly what was asked for, but not what was wanted...

In the next couple of posts, I’m going to dive into some of my favorite ALM features coming in Visual Studio 11. In this post, I’d like to first provide some framing on the larger context for the release, so you can see how these features...

I’ve been writing a set of posts on some of my favorite Visual Studio 11 features that I’m using in my personal development. In my last post , I talked about JavaScript tooling enhancements. In this post, I’d like to talk about the new...

I’ve been working on some coding projects lately, and spending a lot of time in Visual Studio 11. I wanted to start a series to share some of my favorite features that I’ve enjoyed using in the product. One feature that I ended up using a...

After announcing the Visual Studio 11 Beta developer experience, we received considerable feedback on the UI. I want to thank you for all the comments you provided on this topic, and for taking the time to evaluate the beta release. At this point in the...

Here’s a quick recap of what’s happening around the team. The “Await” is Over: Async Targeting Pack for Visual Studio 11 now available with .NET Framework 4.0 and Silverlight 5 support One of the requests we received after...

This week, we’re celebrating the launch of System Center 2012 at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas. As part of the launch wave, we released a final version of the System Center Management Pack for TFS Work Item Synchronization,...

Here’s a quick recap of what’s happening around the team. Releases: We’ve released some updates for the Visual Studio 11 and TFS 11 betas: - Visual Studio 11 Beta: VS Update Service - Team Foundation Server 11...