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Programming Practices: Part 1 – Watching from a distance

I figured I’d start the series with a more abstract post about what watching me code looks like.  It was interesting to observe myself doing it because I didn’t really realize the degree to which I do some things.  If I were to summarize my overall approach to coding with a simple description, I’d call it “...

Series on Programming Practices

This is the first post in a series I’ve decided to write on my Programming Practices.  I’m not trying to say everyone has to do it the way I do it but I figured it might be interesting to talk about how I do it and have some fun, if sometimes controversial, discussions about it. A little before Christmas, when I decided that I...

Series on Programming Practices

This is the first post in a series I’ve decided to write on my Programming Practices.  I’m not trying to say everyone has to do it the way I do it but I figured it might be interesting to talk about how I do it and have some fun, if sometimes controversial, discussions about it. A little before Christmas, when I decided that I...

VS 2010 RC Patch available for the # 1 Connect bug

The most commonly reported/voted for Connect bugs in the Release candidate had to do with the ASP.NET designer not auto generating controls properly - it would sometimes just omit them.  Very frustrating if you are trying to use it.  We've just release a patch (the 3rd RC patch in total) to address this set of issues.  You can ...

Next Generation Testing with Visual Studio 2010 – Additional Events

A few days ago I posted a schedule of upcoming events in the Midwest focusing on Visual Studio 2010. That list represented only a small subset of the events planned for VS2010. There have been events all over North America and I suspect around the world. As these events are managed by the individual regions in which they are located I do not ...

Second Intellisense patch for the 2010 RC

We had a number of reports about Intellisense crashes soon after the RC was released.  After much investigation, the vast majority of reports have boiled down to two issues.  We released a patch for the more common of the two a week or so ago.  We've just released a patch for the second and customers who have tried the two ...

VS 2005 support for TFS 2010 coming soon

I know many of you have been waiting patiently for our update to Team Explorer 2005 that will enable it to interact with TFS 2010.  In the past I've said it would be available by the 2010 launch.  I just wanted to give you a status update and let you know that we are still hard at work on it and are almost done.  We are just ...

MSDN Forum for TFS + Eclipse and other platforms

As of today, we now have a new MSDN forum dedicated to discussion of heterogeneous development using Visual Studio ALM products.  If you've got questions or want to learn more please check it out.  Our good friend Martin Woodward will be your host and make sure you get answers to your questions.Brian...

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 codename “Eaglestone”

This morning, we are announcing the beta release of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 codename “Eaglestone”, the Eclipse plugin and cross-platform command line assets that were acquired from Teamprise back in November. You can download the bits here, and participate in the associated Microsoft Connect community here. I want to use...