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"VS 2008 SP1 Doesn't Patch VS Express"

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:56 AM by johnmont
A customer noted yesterday that the patch for "big VS" (that is, Visual Studio 2008 Standard, Professional, and Visual Studio Team Suite) doesn't patch Visual Studio Express . We did this because of the patch size: in the past Express customers Read More...
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VS 2008 Beta 2 Express Editions

Posted Friday, July 27, 2007 3:50 PM by johnmont
Available now along with the Coding4Fun Developer Kit . We've upgraded the Popfly team to using VSTS 2008 beta 2 as well. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio , Express Read More...
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Welcome to Popfly

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 8:47 AM by johnmont
Today (that'd be Friday) we're announcing Microsoft Popfly(tm) , which is the project my team has been working on. It's a simple, web-based tool that makes it easy to create mashups, web pages, and so on. We also have a Visual Studio 2005 package that Read More...
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WPF Patches for VC# and VB Express Orcas Ready

Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:03 PM by johnmont
Updated Thanks for waiting: the patch that will enable VB Express and VC# Express April CTP to create WPF applications is available. VC# Express: http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/2/6/8267fa5a-e725-4bb8-850a-2f5fee4702db/OrcasVCSAprilCTPWPFPatch.EXE Read More...
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Visual Studio Express Orcas Available

Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:48 AM by johnmont
The first Community Technology Preview of all four Visual Studio Express "Orcas" products are available for download now. You can go to Channel 9 to see Soma's video , or just go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/future to download and install. Read More...
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RTB Finished

Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:09 PM by johnmont
One of the meetings that our division inflicts regularly schedules is called "running the business" (formerly they were called "rhythm of the business" but I think someone noticed that we don't got rhythm). Our team had its RTB meeting today. It went Read More...
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US Imagine Cup: Not Just Algorithms

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:42 AM by johnmont
One of the largest challenges facing CS students is the transition from being a CS student to writing production code in a work environment for a living. Historically programming challenges have focused more on CS-student-oriented work, but this year Read More...
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Job Descriptions

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 8:03 AM by johnmont
I’ve found that writing job descriptions is harder than I thought. In particular, it’s harder because I’m writing for so many audiences: for the internal developers and PMs who might be interested, the external folks, for other managers, and so on. Here’s Read More...
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NPT Team Charter

Posted Thursday, June 29, 2006 8:31 AM by johnmont
After about four months of working through some hard problems, I’ve begun to center our team on a few core work areas. Based a lot on the feedback you gave me through this blog, I narrowed it to three work areas: We’re going to start by building on the Read More...
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Non-Pro Tools Team PUM

Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:03 AM by johnmont
We have a PUM. Paramesh Vaidyanathan who ran the India Developer Center for Developer Division – a team of something like 100 people – has decided he wants to come back to the US to run the Non-Professional Tools Team (NPT – our team). I’m incredibly Read More...
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What We’re Doing: Cool Tools

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 1:32 PM by johnmont
While I’ve been running around creating PPTs and sending email, Adam has been working on a prototype development experience that’s designed to take someone with no knowledge of code through to creating simple Web sites with HTML and Javascript or VBscript, Read More...
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Adam Nathan Joins Non-Pro Tools Team

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:59 AM by johnmont
We have our first developer. Adam Nathan has joined us. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the soul behind Pinvoke.net , a community site dedicated to getting good coverage of .NET’s Pinvoke functionality (which he largely wrote). I knew Read More...
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We Have a Name: NPT

Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 6:36 AM by johnmont
We still need a name for the team. Since none of the ideas we came up with previously seemed to pass the internal sniff test (go figure), I decided that I’d opt for naming it descriptively: the Non-Professional Tools Team, or NPT for short. We’re still Read More...
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After HTML and Javascript, C++

Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:58 PM by johnmont
Surprising factoid: after HTML and Javascript, C++ is the language most used by non-professional developers (including students, hobbyists, etc.). This based on some of our internal research over the past 4 years (statistically significant sample, but Read More...
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An Express Web Page Editor?

Posted Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:03 AM by johnmont
Do we need a complement to Visual Web Developer Express (i.e. a free, simplified Web page editor) that is aimed at the HTML jockey? If so, what features should it have? The big question for me on this one is where a sitebuilder (the Web-based configuration Read More...
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