What do we do with your feedback

We have been getting feedback from MSDN Web site for a fews weeks now. So what are we doing with it?

Code defects and suggestions get automatically filed in our bug tracking database as bugs and suggestions respectively. We are looking at new issues as a part of our normal bug triage process. Real bugs get assigned to developers. Sometimes issues are filed as bugs while they are actually feature requests. We then reclassify them as suggestions.The important part of the feedback is number of votes, which means how many people have seen the issue or filed the same suggestion. We also getting average score assigned by users to each item.

Here are some bugs I personally fixed recently:

• Incorrect error: '2px 5px' is not a valid value for the 'border-spacing' property.
• Unrecognized styles when editing CSS files.

The latter one was not actually a bug. We defaulted to CSS 1.0 in the CSS editor validation but quite a few people expected CSS 2.1. It is possible to change the target in using dropdown on CSS editor toolbar, but apparently quite a few users didn't find it. I changed default validation target to be CSS 2.1 instead.

Couple of issues still active on my team's plate waiting to be fixed:

• ASP unrecognized Tag Prefix
• "No Events" for server controls if no tag present

Suggestions will either get postponed to the next release or filed as a design change request (DCR). I believe even if suggestion does not get implemented in Whidbey it is still very important for us to have them filed since when we begin planning features for the next release your suggestions will be definitely taken into account.

Total filed for the Visual Web Developer is slightly above 100, out of which about 55 are filed as unique, reproducible bugs (i.e. code defects). In my area, which is Source view features and CSS editing, I am seeing about 30 items. Fortunately, mostly suggestions :-)

Here are most popular items in VWD:

Keep sending us feedback :-)