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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:44 PM

Visual Studio Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

Looks like it's interview season for me just now.  Here's another piece on Visual Studio directions, based on questions from Channel 9 readers. Visual Studio Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Thanks to Charles for having me on, it's always fun :)
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Friday, November 28, 2008 1:29 PM

Performance Advice, Southern Style

While I was at PDC2008 I was introduced to Keith and Woody -- pretty soon there was a microphone in front of me and we were doing a podcast. Now I already liked these guys but when they used a picture of me from about 1998 I really liked them a lot more.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:19 PM

Visual Studio Futures -- Extensibility Video

This is a brief interview from our most recent VSX conference . Paramesh Vaidyanathan, Principal Product Unit Manager, and Rico Mariani, Architect for the Visual Studio Platform team shares their ideas and long term goals for Visual Studio. You'll hear
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Friday, September 12, 2008 12:48 PM

Performance by Design at PDC2008!

I'm happy to announce that I will be at PDC2008 (and I will work the booths until I can't speak) but in particular I'll be kicking off this precon event with my longtime colleagues Mark, Joe, and Vance. Come on out, I'd love to meet some of my readers!
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:39 AM

Rebecca Norlander on Behind the Code

Rebecca is a lovely person and she interviews very well here on the latest Behind the Code episode.  And I don't just like her because she can do good performance work, she's actually makes a great friend and even says yes when I ask her to dance
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Saturday, August 09, 2008 7:35 AM

Visual Studio Extenders Conference

If you ever wanted to see Redmond and meet some of the folks on the Visual Studio team this might be just the ticket for you. I'll be speaking about the future of Visual Studio there, especially from the perspective of those that make extensions for it
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:55 PM

Just another day in the perf lab

Even though I've been doing general architecture work on Visual Studio for nearly a year now, my friends in DDPERF are still plugging away on performance problems and finding some interesting results. This most recent thread is very interesting because
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Friday, February 29, 2008 5:51 AM

Sara Ford goes retro

In honor of the leap year, she's posted a couple of articles I wrote back around 1993 describing things you could do in VC++ 2.0. Oddly enough most of them are still applicable. Cheers Sara
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:44 AM

Computer Measurement Group offers past papers to the public!

As you know I presented my performance signatures paper at the Computer Measurement Group's (CMG) conference a little over a year ago and I am happy to announce that CMG is now offering previous proceedings from 2005 and older to the public .  I
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:00 PM

Linq to SQL Compiled Queries are thread-safe

JD Conley wrote an interesting article showing the benefits you can get by using compiled queries on his blog .  He wrote me today saying: "I enjoyed your postings on linq to sql performance and compiled query optimization. I recently published
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Monday, November 19, 2007 2:48 PM

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 ship today

Well you can read all about it on Soma's blog -- today is the day! I'm really proud of the work we did in this release and I'm especially proud of that performance work -- great results in many areas with Linq and VB taking top honors from me on really
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:37 PM

Performance Threat Models

I've been meaning to post this for ages and somehow I kept forgetting. J.D. and I have long thought that many of the techniques used to do a security threat model are actually directly applicable to doing performance analysis as well. The idea of threats
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 7:11 AM

Some things to visit

My sometimes cohort J.D. Meier in Patterns and Practices has been busy: Now on MSDN: patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications Performance Testing Videos posted to CodePlex My other cohorts in the Technical Community Network
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Friday, September 07, 2007 11:53 PM

Gamefest 2007: The Costs of Managed Code: The Avoidable and the Unavoidable

A few weeks ago I spoke at Gamefest 2007 where I delivered this talk: The Costs of Managed Code: The Avoidable and the Unavoidable This talk is for those who want to understand the inescapable performance consequences of the managed programming method:
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Friday, September 07, 2007 12:26 PM

Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2008

It seems I'm doing a lot of referral postings this month and I've got a couple more for you. This is the first one, near and dear to my heart because I worked with Cameron on some of these (and he didn't mention me at all, *sniff*) especially the performance
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