Michael A. Volz

• Building Metro style Apps with XAML: What .NET Developers Need to Know

  Jun 13, 2012 at 11:14 AM

  Nice talk, thanks.

• Introducing the New Visual Studio 2012 Unit Testing Experience

  Jun 13, 2012 at 3:26 AM

  Finally! Great Talk.

• Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks

  Jun 12, 2012 at 3:48 PM

  Great presentation.

• Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate

  Jun 02, 2012 at 6:54 AM

  Everything I wanted to say was said before;:

  "The tire tracks in the title bars need to go. Changing colons to tire tracks doesn't make it any better."

  "...how many more comments do you guys need to get rid of ALL CAPS menu?"

  "I stare at thing all day, and with monochrome it hurts my eyes."

  "This is the first release of VS in 10 years where I don't want to move to it."

  "Adding a smidgen of color is not enough."

  We have to work with it, day in day out. Those supposedly minor annoyances are huge if you will be annoyed every freaking day. Why is it so hard for us developers to get this message to Microsoft?

  PLEASE NO CAPS

  PLEASE NO MONOCHROME(ish) UI

  A WELL BALANCED USER EXPERIENCE IS MISSING, IMHO

  The rest of the product is amazing as always.

   

  BTW: The only videos not working in "IE10 / Windows 8 Release Preview" are the Channel 9 Videos.

• Meet Windows 8

  Mar 05, 2012 at 12:44 AM

  3 days ago, ChrisStepaniuk wrote

  Seriously, this should be the TV commercial!!!!

  I totally agree!

• Visual Studio Toolbox: Visual Studio 11 Beta with Jason Zander

  Mar 05, 2012 at 12:01 AM

  At first the black and white theme is nice to look at. But the missing colors make it really hard to differentiate things without thinking about it. It is much harder to just use or navigate to elements. I have to actively search for every tiny bit. Over and over again. The more "dimensions" (form, size, color...) in play, the faster my work can be done without interrruptions.

  Additionally, the black and white is quite boring to look at after a short while. That's important too.

  On the other side, the functionality of VS11 is amazing. Keep up the good work.

  Just my 5 cents.

• Building Single Page Apps for desktop, mobile and tablet with ASP.NET MVC 4

  Feb 20, 2012 at 4:10 AM

  Very awesome presentation.

• Science of Great UI

  Jul 25, 2011 at 11:38 AM

  Awesome presentation. Every developer should watch this!

• Real World Architecture with ASP.NET MVC

  May 07, 2011 at 7:39 AM

  You can write bad code with MVC and easily write good code with Webforms. IMHO is your introduction somewhat misleading...

• Windows Azure from Startup to Scale

  May 01, 2011 at 12:15 PM

  I agree...

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