Michael Butler

• A Quick Look At "Windows 8"

  Jun 02, 2011 at 11:05 PM

  I'm not going to believe WPF is dead until I get a copy of VS2012 which has been rewritten again, this time not to use WPF. WPF is core to Visual Studio, it can't be going away.

• A Quick Look At "Windows 8"

  Jun 02, 2011 at 2:31 PM

  As long as I can add whitespace and carriage returns (and { on the line below the function defintion), then I'll be happy to write some Javascript.

  If the script is running local and not being downloaded, then there is no excuse for Fugly looking source-code.

  You'll prise my copy of StyleCop out of my cold dead hands

• A Quick Look At "Windows 8"

  Jun 02, 2011 at 12:47 PM

  What kind of tiles do you want in Windows 8

  I'm looking forward to my Visual Studio Team System Build Tile, showing a picture of the person who broke the previous nights build.

   

• A Quick Look At "Windows 8"

  Jun 02, 2011 at 7:20 AM

  Won't .NET still have its place as the platform of choice for building the back end to all the systems that use the new HTML 5  / Javascript "clients". Will there be a new "service layer" for local machine based REST services that give the Json to Javascript to display. Lots of interesting questions to be answered.

  I'm going to wait till September to hear the full developer story before I start to mourn the passing of .NET/Silverlight and WPF.

  I'm still hoping that Microsoft will make C# a first class "scripting" language for whatever hosting framework (IE?) is used to frame Windows 8 apps.

  Whatever happens, for me it will be business as usual, I've done the full MS development evolution from Basic, C, C++, MFC, ATL, C#, HTML Razor and Javascript. I'll continue to choose the best tool to solve the problem at hand.

• Hanselminutes on 9 - ASP.NET MVC 3 and NEW ASP.NET Futures with Phil Haack and Morgan the Intern

  Jul 27, 2010 at 1:42 PM

  Another great video. Love this more candid style.

   

  Looking forward to trying out MVC 3

• Hanselminutes on 9 - "Razor," IIS Express, SQL 4 Compact Edition and VS2010 Tooling with Damian Edwards

  Jul 14, 2010 at 5:29 AM

  Another great video. Enjoyed it very much.

   

  I'll add my voice for separation of IIS Express from Web Matrix, even though I'll probably have Web Matrix installed too.

• Corrinne Yu - Principal Engine Architect, Halo Team Microsoft: Part One

  May 12, 2010 at 8:50 AM

  Not my field of knowledge so a lot of what was said went way over my head, but I love the passion and knowledge that Corrinne shows. Wish I could get so excited about my own work.

• Hanselminutes on 9 - Inside CodePlex.com

  Oct 18, 2009 at 12:31 PM

  Enjoyed this very much. I do love these behind the scenes looks where you see dev teams in their natural environment. Video and Audio quality were fine, although I was watching it from my IPod Touch.

   

  More of these kind of informal videos would be very welcome.

• How We Do It: Building the Visual Studio Product Line

  May 24, 2009 at 11:12 AM

  Thanks for this. A most interesting video that has given me a lot of food for thought on my own build processes. Especially when  it comes to quality control. I've read bits over the years about how Microsoft handle the build process and this has further added to my awe.

  Any recommended reading or links that might give more insights into the build processes used by other Microsoft departments?

• Tad Brockway - Terminal Services team tour

  Sep 21, 2005 at 6:59 AM

  Remote applications and remote documents. Way cool.
  
  Another reason to persuade my customers that the upgrade to Vista will be a productivity boost.
  
  

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