David Treadwell - Chatting with one of DevDiv's Vice Presidents

still watching but i have a doubt any of u guys know might reply

         .net 2.0 will be released only in november 7 right ? then wht version are the people at microsoft are using to develop avalon,win fs and all other new stuff that r in the pipeline

Hours away? Sounds great!

Albeit it is a bit weird that if you look at this

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f832b85f-b710-49ed-92a1-b80b948aeb65&DisplayLang=en

It seems MS just released Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package Release Candidate like yesterday or so. (10/14/2005). (I know it has been around since PDC, wonder why the download is dated is yesterday)

If RTM is really hours away, why release RC literally hours (less than 100 hours?) before. Customers have requested for it?

Good video Robert   Nice and relaxed and good info.

Interested in the DMV thing you mentioned.  Any links on the problems with that project.  Was this the deal where they did not pick MS, but some ~Open *nix thing?  TIA

--wjs

As you said ASP.NET works only on Microsoft products. Why is that? I mean I know that porting the framework to other oses might not be desirable or monetarily fisible, however what about the webserver part. Why can't Microsoft provide a free module, like it does for IIS, that will allow Apatche running on Windows to access ASP.NET? Don't you think that this will make ASP.NET even more appealing and accessible?
Thanks for the interview anyway.

"I think it was this one that I remembered: http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=13638"

O my, that seems foobar.  Sounds like they need an IBM or EDS with some big iron and not the guy down the street.  This seems like a common issue shared among 50 states, you would think a company could leverage a working solution across many.

I want to aks to what extend is Visual Studio used inside Microsoft. Is the Windows team using it to write Windows? The Office team, Channel9 is written in ASP.NET in Visual Studio?
Generally, how do developers work atMicrosoft. Do they write their code in the VS editor? Do they design their Win32 guis in Visual Studio using MFC? Where do they design their WinForms apps in Visual Studio? Do they edit and format their code in the VS editor or do they use another text editor like Notepad? And if so why not VS?
How are the various programs built? I do not think that they are built using Visual Studio. Are make files used to built Windows or what? How do developers check in code using VS or not?
How do you debug your code and how do you prophile it. Do you use the VS debugger? Whic prophiler do you use to test Windows or Office? If Windows or Office are built using make file how can developers use the full debugging cababilities of VS? Why are projects or solutions not used and how do you expect you customers to use them for large projects?
And so on and so on. If as he said, Windows is the largest software project in the history of mankind, then please share your experiences and the processes developing it. Write a book perhaps: The largest software project in the history of mankind.

Very good interview and - as others have already said - very relaxed which makes for enjoyable viewing.

The less the interviewee is trying to show off how smart or clever he or she is, the more enjoyable the interview is for everybody and the more clever we actually think he or she is! 

You mentioned that this was the biggest software project ever, but I wonder if it was bigger then IBM's project back in the late 60s, early 70s for the Air Traffic Control system.  According to one source I read, they had 500+ programmers at one time working on this, on mainframes, using languages like BAL and JOVIAL. 

Is it bigger than that?