Visual Studio

We were recently at a Visual Studios Components lab here on the Redmond campus and ran into Raghavendra, an SDE on the Windows Forms team. He tells us a little bit about the Designer and how it's made. Enjoy. Download Size: 28 MB

Rick, general manager of Visual Studio Team System, responds to customer complaints about VSTS's planned licensing and pricing.

Rick, general manager of Visual Studio Team System, defines what team system is. This is the first of two parts. The second part of the interview with Rick, which you can download here (or will be posted on Monday), talks about the licensing issues surrounding VSTS.Don't know what VSTS is?…

Tony Goodhew, product manager on Developer Marketing, is helping write the specs for the next NEXT version of Visual Studio. No, not Whidbey, the one that comes after that! Why are we already starting to think about Orcas? Because Whidbey now is in the final stages of being completed. Whidbey is…

This comes in a little late, but better than never. Right?  Part 3 is almost 11 minutes long and in it John talks about the challenges involved in building a V1 feature, how they dogfood, the best suggestions they've received from customers, and the relationship with UML.  The…

As part of our birthday celebration, we took a trip back to see Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager on Web Platform and Tools team, and get a demo of the next version of ASP.NET (er, Visual Studio 2005 for Web Development). We specifically talk about Web Standards Features in the next…

I’ve personally been involved in several projects that started out with some great Visio diagrams for documentation that would eventually become stale as you progress in your coding. In part 2 John demonstrates why those days are over because the class designer is really a living diagram that…

We heard Eric Lippert was talking with a bunch of customers over in building 20 (that's where a lot of teams meet with groups of customers to show them new technologies). So, we headed over there to meet with Eric, a software design engineer, to talk about developing applications for Microsoft…

I've now done a few interviews with my co-workers building Visual Studio 2005.  I always like to ask "Aside from your own feature, What is your favorite new thing about Visual Studio 2005?"  The answer I consistently received was "the class Designer".  It will be…

Robin and Liangxiao complete their demonstration of the application designer in this video.  Here you'll see the resulting Office Application querying a class library that pulls information from a web service interface to a database.  At the end of the demonstration we talked a bit…