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by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 12/16/2011 12:45:00 AM
Through my last several blog posts, I’ve highlighted some of the new features in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview released in September. All of these posts have concentrated on various advancements that span multiple application types: whether you’re building apps for the client or cloud, such language, framework, and IDE productivity improvements are all applicable. There is a class of improvements we’ve made to Visual Studio, however, that are specific to particular ...
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by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 11/17/2011 10:05:00 PM
Over my last few posts, I’ve blogged about some of the advances we’ve made for the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview - improvements to programming languages that enable developers to better express their intents while building efficient solutions, and improvements to the .NET Framework that yield faster, more connected, and more integrated apps. In this post, I’ll switch gears and take a look at some of the advances we’ve made for developer productivity right within the ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 10/26/2011 10:00:00 PM
In my first post of this Visual Studio 11 series, I discussed some of the language-level innovation in the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview. In this second post, I’ll take a look at some of the improvements that have gone into the .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview. Languages enable developers to express their intentions for the behavior of their programs. To be as productive as possible, however, developers rely on runtimes and libraries to encapsulate commonly needed fun ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/30/2011 4:00:00 PM
At the BUILD conference in September, we unveiled developer previews of Visual Studio 11, Expression Blend 5, Team Foundation Server 11, and the .NET Framework 4.5. We’ve been working on these technologies in earnest since we shipped the previous wave of these development tools last year, and we've had the opportunity to make significant enhancements, across the IDE, frameworks, libraries, languages, and services. Over my next several blog posts, I’ll be sharing with you ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/13/2011 6:20:00 PM
From students participating in the Imagine Cup, to the next hot start-up in Silicon Valley, to enterprises delivering modern efficiencies into mature businesses, developers today all have three things in common: they are transforming and improving society through the software they envision, they have invested in themselves by obtaining deep knowledge and skill sets, and they require great tools to accomplish their goals. At Microsoft, we’re passionate about delivering the best tools to he ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 6/20/2011 7:50:00 AM
The Imagine Cup brings together students from all walks of life from around the world and tasks them with a big challenge: solve the world’s toughest problems through technology. I have been involved in the competition for all of its nine years, and each year, I am astounded by the caliber of the projects. The creators aren’t just innovators, but busy students. And yet, they manage to develop projects that could make a difference in the lives of many. As I l ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 4/7/2011 9:21:00 PM
With IE9's recent release, I wanted to share with you a little about some of our development tools that support HTML5, ECMAScript 5, and CSS3 development. Throughout its release cycle, IE9 has blogged about ongoing improvement around standards support, particularly around support for the HTML5, CSS3, DOM, and JavaScript standards. From a developer perspective, we wanted to ensure that developers had the tools to work with IE9's new capabilities. F12 Tools A web client developer's first line o ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 1/26/2011 6:30:00 PM
Today we're launching several new Technical Computing (TC) projects on DevLabs. These projects give you a chance to learn about some of the technologies being developed as part of the Technical Computing initiative, to gain early access to code, and to provide feedback for several TC-related innovative projects. Last May, I blogged about the Technical Computing initiative at Microsoft, an initiative that's leading to technologies which will empower the world's most important problem solve ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 12/17/2010 1:00:00 AM
As the year comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on the progress we've made at Microsoft and how it's made an impact on my life. I'm always impressed with the work we do here at Microsoft (you can see how unbiased I am :)), but this year I'm especially proud to see some of the work having a real impact in my house and with my family members. Windows Phone 7 Several weeks ago, my family became Windows Phone 7 users. We got Samsung Focuses (Foci?) for my wife ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 12/7/2010 9:55:00 PM
Since we launched Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 on April 12th of this year, it has been exciting to see the extremely positive response to the product. Within six months of the launch date, Visual Studio 2010 usage surpassed all other previous versions of Visual Studio based on usage data collected from customers who opted into sharing their usage data with us. This is the fastest adoption of a new release of Visual Studio ever, and we are seeing continued strength in the adoption o ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 11/4/2010 3:11:00 PM
In November 2008, we launched Microsoft BizSpark, a three-year program that helps world-wide early-stage startups succeed by providing them the technical resources they need to build successful businesses. After two years, BizSpark has enrolled over 35,000 startups and 2,000 Network Partners, and the response to the program has been extremely positive. These startups are often early adopters of our technology, so helping them also helps us understand what these innovators really need fr ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 10/28/2010 6:30:00 PM
Writing applications that effectively handle long latencies can be a daunting challenge. As software applications grow more complex, more developers are building software that accesses remote resources, performs longer computations, and processes large data sets. Tasks we used to think of as being quick now may take orders of magnitude longer to complete or may never complete. Without special care taken to manage conditions that may arise from these latencies, applications can ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/23/2010 1:00:00 PM
11/29/2010 Update: Today we are announcing the final release of Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools. This release enables you to submit your VB applications to the Windows Phone Marketplace. Since the CTP, we’ve also added support for French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Like the CTP, the final release requires Visual Studio Professional, Premium, or Ultimate, and the Windows Phone Developer Tools. If you don’t have Visual Studio 2010, you ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/16/2010 6:20:00 PM
Today, we are announcing the availability of Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools. Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools enable you to design and test your Windows Phone 7 applications in Visual Studio. These free tools provide everything you need to build rich applications with Silverlight and XNA and deploy them to the Windows Phone Marketplace. The Windows Phone Developer Tools include the following: Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone Windows Phone Emulator Microsoft Express Blend for Wi ...
by S.Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 6/23/2010 10:00:00 PM
In my previous posts on the productivity improvements in Visual Studio 2010, I've focused on features that all VS developers can take advantage of. Sometimes, though, the most useful features are those that are specific to the development language you're using or platform you're developing for. After all, C++ developers often need different features than C# developers, and web developers have different requirements from Windows developers. Today's post focuses on a few enhancements ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 4/12/2010 4:01:00 AM
I am very excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 on April 12th. This represents the biggest tools release from Microsoft in many years. To celebrate this with our customers and partners, we are holding 5 major launch events on April 12th in Beijing, China; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bangalore, India; London, UK; Las Vegas, USA; and in over 150 local events around the world. The new release of Visual Studio 2 ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 3/22/2010 11:17:00 PM
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) in .NET 4 is designed to make it easier for new developers to learn, addresses a wider range of customer scenarios, and is more efficient. WF is a programming model for composing application logic and coordinating execution, allowing developers to abstract complicated code while leveraging a set of runtime services. Activities are the building blocks that are composed together to build workflows. The runtime provides the ability to save the st ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 3/15/2010 4:33:00 PM
Today at MIX10, we are introducing the Windows Phone 7 Series development story. At the heart of Windows Phone 7 Series development is Silverlight. This enables you to bring your existing development skills in building Windows Phone 7 applications. Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP, Microsoft’s developer toolset for Windows Phone 7 Series, is now available for download. The Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP contains what you need to get started with Windows Phone 7 development. ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 1/12/2010 5:26:00 AM
The Entity Framework in .NET 4 has a lot of new features and enhancements. We got a lot of great feedback from you on the initial release of the Entity Framework (EF). Let’s take a look at some of the things coming in new with Entity Framework 4. Foreign Keys Entity Framework now includes support for foreign keys. Foreign key associations allow you to include foreign key properties on your entities, simplifying a number of key scenarios including data binding and n-tier devel ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 12/18/2009 12:14:00 AM
In October, we shipped Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. Since then, we have received a lot of helpful, constructive feedback from you all. Thank you. A lot of you have given us very positive feedback on the new capabilities of VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4 and are very happy with the breadth of value that we are poised to deliver in this release. At the same time, you have also given us feedback around performance issues, specifically in a few ke ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 11/17/2009 7:30:00 PM
Building your application or service for the cloud lets you focus on building the right software using the skills you already have while someone else handles the details of infrastructure, hardware, and service management. Windows Azure, Microsoft's platform for cloud-based applications, has been available in CTP form for the past year, and Visual Studio has supported the development of Windows Azure applications since the very first CTP release through an add-in known as Windows Azure Too ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 11/4/2009 6:50:00 AM
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 are packed with new features and enhancements designed to improve developer productivity. Some are small changes and others are more significant. Altogether they deliver a significant gain in productivity. More and more developers look to the web to be able to build and deliver applications that take advantage of the reach and friction-free capabilities of the web. With Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4, there are a number of new features to help yo ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 8/20/2009 8:54:00 AM
Choosing a programming language is a personal choice that each programmer gets to make. It is akin to choosing a flavor of ice cream - there are many great options out there, but your favorite flavor is a matter of personal preference. In Visual Studio 2010, we’ve made several enhancements to our two most popular languages, Visual Basic and C#, to give programmers all the tools they need to build great software no matter which language they prefer. Visual Basic The Vis ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 2/23/2009 10:11:00 PM
In October of last year, I blogged about Dev Labs - a site dedicated to software innovations for the developer community. Today, Dev Labs released a new innovation that our Microsoft Research organization has been working on: Code Contracts for .NET. Design-by-contract is an idea that was pioneered by Eiffel. Today’s release, Code Contracts for .NET, is a general design-by-contract mechanism that all .NET programmers can now take advantage of. Using it, programmers provi ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 12/20/2008 4:34:00 AM
In a blog post in November, I mentioned a feature called “Quick Search” - one of the code focused features of Visual Studio 2010. We have been lagging behind some in this area in the past and we wanted to focus on this as a key pillar for Visual Studio 2010. Today, I’d like to share some more details of our code focused development investments and features. Highlight References Highlight References is a simple but easy way to quickly understand a scoped piece ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 10/27/2008 7:09:00 PM
PDC 2008 is incredibly exciting this year for the development community. If you are not attending the PDC, I encourage you to go check out the keynotes and sessions that are being made publicly available to watch online. Ray Ozzie’s keynote is one I would especially recommend. Today he announced the Windows Azure Services Platform as Microsoft’s new cloud computing and services platform, hosted in Microsoft’s data centers. Until now, when you built an application ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 10/17/2007 7:29:00 AM
One of the important themes in programming languages over recent years has been a move to embrace ideas from functional programming. Language features such as lambda expressions in C# and generics in .NET 2.0 have roots in functional languages, and LINQ is directly based on functional programming techniques. Through LINQ and Parallel FX, ideas from functional languages are helping us address some of the biggest challenges facing the industry today, from the impedance mismatch betwee ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 10/4/2007 11:48:00 PM
In Visual Studio 2005, we integrated a couple of internal static analysis tools - FxCop and PREfast into the product under the names Managed Code Analysis and C/C++ Code Analysis. This helped customers write secure and quality code for managed and native platforms using the same tools that we had been using internally for years. This is part of our philosophy of "ship what we use and use what we ship". For Visual Studio 2008, the Code Analysis team has added some new featur ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 4/18/2007 9:57:00 PM
The patterns & practices team has recently released an impressive set of guidance that you can use to get more out of Visual Studio Team System. One of the things that I continuously hear from you is a strong need for more guidance on how to best use our tools in the real world. We at Microsoft are big believers of self-hosting (aka dog-fooding) our products and technologies well before we ask our customers to use our products. In Visual Studio tools, I have a simpl ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 2/27/2007 1:02:55 AM
Here is another WPF real world application that I wanted to share with you – this is an enterprise, albeit customer facing application. Plus, it’s a secure, mission-critical app. The scenario is an ATM scenario and the customer is Wells Fargo. And the platform is Windows Presentation Foundation as part of Windows. Wells Fargo NextGen ATM Client Wells Fargo needed a next gen ATM machine that matched the cutting-edge experiences offered by the best e-commerce Web sites.&nb ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 1/20/2007 2:35:00 AM
Last month, I announced the release of Visual Studio 2005 SP1. One of the pieces of feedback that I got from a lot of you is a list of which bugs have been fixed in SP1. In response to that feedback, we have now published a list of all of the 398 customer-reported Connect bugs that were fixed in SP1. In addition to the fixes for these customer-reported issues, Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 also includes fixes for the majority of Watson automatic error reporting issues ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 12/15/2006 6:46:00 AM
We released Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 earlier today. This Service Pack addresses a range of issues that were found through customer and partner feedback as well as our own internal testing. Many of these issues were reported by you and I thank you for taking the time to report them to us. The release also adds a number of customer requested functionality and enhancements to some of the most common development scenarios to Visual Studio that I think you’ll find i ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 10/5/2006 6:42:00 AM
A couple of weeks ago, we delivered the Visual Studio 2005 SDK v3.0 on the Microsoft Download Center. This is a good milestone for our VSIP partners as well as the broad community, as it contains many exciting features that allow people to extend Visual Studio. Here are a few things that I wanted to highlight: · Integrated IronPython language sample (including both Windows and Web project support) · New documentation and samples ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/26/2006 11:12:00 AM
Today, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the beta of Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. Based on your feedback, Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customer reports, MSDN Product Feedback Center and internal testing. I know that this Service Pack is a little late in coming. While I regret that it took longer, we wanted to be as thorough as possible about taking your feedback and decided to take the extra time. Y ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/15/2006 8:55:00 PM
Being a platform company at heart, the developer audience is super important to us at Microsoft. As you know, I enjoy highlighting new technologies from across the company that are relevant to developers and showing how we’re providing tools that enable developers to be productive with those technologies. Jim Allchin, the Co-President for Platforms and Services Division at Microsoft, has written an open letter to developers, which you can see at the Windows Vista Developer Center. &nb ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/14/2006 4:40:00 PM
Those of you who have worked with Microsoft Office 2003 or the 2007 Microsoft Office system know that they provide developers with a wide array of features upon which they can build robust business applications. This story improves dramatically between Office 2003 and the 2007 Office System: New UI elements, the new XML file format, and SharePoint services are just some of the features that developers can leverage in 2007 Microsoft Office system to create feature-rich, highly collaborative ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/8/2006 1:02:00 PM
Yesterday, the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server team released a series of new Power Toys. While versions of the Power Toys have been released previously, this is the first time they have included functionality that integrates seamlessly into the VS2005 IDE. There are now a dozen features altogether and some of the new functionality includes Annotate and Tree Diff for source control which many customers have been asking for. In addition, they’ve separated them from the VS SD ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/6/2006 3:09:00 AM
I blogged earlier about us delivering a release candidate of IronPython. Today, we released IronPython 1.0. You can download it from CodePlex. This is a great milestone not just for IronPython but for the .NET platform as a great platform for dynamic languages. Namaste! ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/5/2006 9:37:00 PM
Earlier today, the team signed off on Beta1 for Expression Web (formerly known as Expression Web Designer) which provides you with a rich set of tools to build high quality, standards-based web sites. You can download this beta from Expression Web and send us any feedback that you have on this. Namaste! ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 9/5/2006 12:09:00 PM
One of our goals is to expand the availability of relevant technical content to a wider, global audience of developers. The MSDN Wiki team (I blogged about their beta release in June) recently added a section to their site that provides a huge amount of new content for Brazilian developers. The Brazilian Portuguese Translation Wiki is pre-populated with machine-translated Brazilian Portuguese versions of the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 documentation.&nbs ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 8/30/2006 3:30:00 AM
By providing extensions to your application functionality and in turn allowing 3rd party developers to consume your public API's, you create an ecosystem that developers love and more importantly creates value to the customer/consumer. As a platform company at heart, this has definitely been a core part of our strategy at Microsoft. In the Developer Division, we offer extensibility in Visual Studio, through the Visual Studio Industr ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 8/23/2006 11:37:00 PM
As I promised a few blog entries ago, I’m going to be blogging regularly on new developer technologies that are coming as a part of Windows Vista. Today, I want to start off by answering one question that I often get asked by developers - how can they make their applications take advantage of the new features of the operating system?. Windows Vista is the most visual operating system that we’ve ever released and, as a part of that, we’ve put together a set of guidelines to show dev ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 8/16/2006 3:00:00 PM
Today I’m pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 (VS .NET 2003 SP1). For those of you unaware of the Service Pack process, the goal is to make sure that we capture and address issues with the released product and make these fixes available to you in a single deliverable. To ensure the continued stability of the product, we publish “hotfixes” and critical security updates as they become available. We also work on additional fixes discovere ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 8/11/2006 10:03:00 AM
At the end of the Imagine Cup 2006 Finals today, we announced that the next year's Imagine Cup Finals will be held in Korea. The theme for the next year's Imagine Cup event is "Imagine a world where technology enables education for all". It sounds like a great opportunity for students to do innovative solutions and I am looking forward to seeing great work from students around the world next year. Namaste! ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 6/27/2006 9:56:00 AM
Last month, we launched CodePlex - an extension of our Shared Source Initiative that provides a community portal for developers to actively participate in collaborative development projects. CodePlex is the first web-based instance of Team Foundation Server, our recently launched collaboration tool that provides an environment where members of a software development team can work together to develop and share source code with each other. Even though the site is still in be ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 6/21/2006 2:53:00 PM
Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is a breakthrough technology that eliminates the impedance mismatch among different data domains. With LINQ, developers do not need to learn separate query syntaxes when querying over diverse data domains such as XML, Relational and Objects. LINQ has been very well received both last year at its announcement at the PDC, and more recently at Tech-Ed in Boston. Orcas, the next version of Visual Studio, includes LINQ infrastructure that enable ...
by Somasegar via Somasegar's WebLog on 6/9/2006 5:59:00 PM
When speaking to developers about WinFX one question that repeatedly comes up is, “WinFX sounds great, but what happens to .NET?” .NET Framework has becomes the most successful developer platform in the world. Developers know and love .NET. The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn’t convey this. The WinFX brand helped us introduce the incredible innovations in terms of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WC ...
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