David Treadwell - Chatting with one of DevDiv's Vice Presidents
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We're hours away from releasing to manufacture (our way of saying "ship it to the customers") Visual Studio 2005. This is a big deal for the developer division. There are tons of people who've worked for years on this series of products. The launch event
is November 7.
To get ready for RTM, we wanted to sit down with one of the guys who runs the team and talk about what it took to get here. Hope you enjoy this little chat with one of the top managers at Microsoft where you get to learn a little more about some of the challenges
of building the tools that much of the world's software is built on.
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.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
There isn't any one answer. Sparkle, for instance, is built using itself as well as Visual Studio 2005. I'd expect that most of the other tools will just be recompiled with the final version of Visual Studio 2005.
They are already working on future versions of Visual Studio. The next one is code-named Orcas and the version after Orcas is code-named Hawaii.
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
I think it was this one that I remembered: http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=13638
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.
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.
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.
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!
Is it bigger than that?
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