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27 May 2008
Tips from My Technical Presentations
My role involves spending a good deal of time with technical audiences. Recently, I've been getting reactions like this - "I enjoyed your presentation! I have an odd question - how did you zoom in like that?" or "How did you set those colors in Visual Read More...
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14 March 2008
Summary of MIX '08 Highlights
It's been a busy week (getting ready for the 2008 Launch event in Boston next week), but I have a moment to share details from my trip to MIX '08 last week. It was my first MIX, and incredibly, my first visit to Las Vegas! Not a lot of free time to absorb Read More...
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25 January 2008
Icons and Images for Your Apps in VS 2008
[File this under Cool Tips That Are News to Me] Thanks to Julie Lerman for pointing out a nifty little feature of the Visual Studio 2008 distribution that includes a library of image and icon files that you can use when creating your own applications. Read More...
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16 January 2008
.NET Framework Source Now Available
Scott Guthrie has just posted the excellent news that everything is now in place for people to access the source code for the .NET Framework! You can now configure Visual Studio 2008 to step through your code and directly into the source for classes in Read More...
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08 January 2008
Speaking on VS2008 with Western MA .NET - 1/8/08
For those of you in the Springfield, MA area tonight (Jan 8th), I'll be visiting with the Western Mass .NET Users Group to speak on "What's New in Visual Studio 2008?" . Now that Visual Studio 2008 is released and available, it's important to understand Read More...
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20 December 2007
World of Warcraft Meets Visual Studio 2008
In an bit of good timing for some holiday season downtime, Dan Fernandez has announced the first release of AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft on CodePlex. World of Wacraft supports user-generated utilities and interfaces, called AddOns. Now we can use Read More...
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07 December 2007
Save the Dates - Northeast 2008 Launch Events Announced
We've just announced the schedule for the 2008 Launch Events across the country, following the kickoff event in Los Angeles on February 27th! T hese events are a great way to learn about what's new with three major products, Visual Studio 2008, Windows Read More...
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02 December 2007
Waltham InstallFest Registration Open
The gates are open for you to register for the December 12th combined Boston .NET User Group holiday social and Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest in Waltham, MA! Just head over to the Boston .NET User Group site for more information! -Chris Technorati tags: Read More...
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30 November 2007
Visual Studio 2008 InstallFests in the Northeast!
Visual Studio 2008 has now been released to manufacturing, and as a "thank you" to the community, we're collaborating with area user groups to host a series of Visual Studio InstallFests. I'm happy to announce that we'll have four InstallFests in the Read More...
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19 November 2007
Visual Studio 2008 and Training Kit Released!
Visual Studio 2008 & .NET 3.5 We've just announced the RTM (release to manufacturing) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5! MSDN subscribers can download the English versions now, plus there are trial editions and the Express editions available Read More...
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05 November 2007
Major Visual Studio 2008 Announcements Today
We've taken the wraps off some big announcements related to Visual Studio 2008. As Soma mentions on his blog , he made the announcements at TechEd Developer Europe today. The highlights: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are expected to ship before the Read More...
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30 October 2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPCs Reissued
If you previously downloaded the Beta 2 VPC for Visual Studio 2008, the OS used for that instance has an expiration of November 1, 2007. (Note that this only affects the VPCs, not the setup packages, so if you installed VS2008 on your own OS partition, Read More...
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12 October 2007
Want Multiple Monitor Support in Visual Studio 10? Speak Up!
My friend and Team System coauthor Noah Coad has just posted a great article about the issues and opportunities around supporting multiple monitors with the version of Visual Studio after 2008. Noah's on the VS team and is asking for your feedback, so Read More...
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30 September 2007
Code Camp 8 - My Session Materials
Thanks to everyone who attended Code Camp 8 this weekend! I received feedback from many people that the quality of the sessions at this camp was one of the best. I'll post a more detailed summary later, but I wanted to give a link to the materials from Read More...
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22 August 2007
Bob & Chris' MSDN Roadshow - September Edition!
We're at it again! My colleague Bob and I are heading out for round three of our Roadshow. It (and we) will run from September 10th through the 20th, sweeping through the following cities, leaving a wake of toppled water glasses and technical enlightenment Read More...
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