Visual Studio

Mike McKay drives the ship room for the next version of Visual Studio. He talks about what he and his team does to get Visual Studio to get to Zero Bug Bounce (ZBB).

Exit criteria are the shipping rules that a team sets for itself. For instance, one of the rules is "we won't ship with a known security issue." Mike McKay is a program manager on the DevDiv release team (that's the team that ships Visual Studio). Hear what Mike says about how exit…

Bugs, bugs, bugs. Everyone thinks they know what a bug is. But, a bug isn't just a product defect (you know, those little buggers that get your system to crash). Here Chad Royal, lead program manager on the developer division at Microsoft, talks about the bug database here at Microsoft and…

We were hanging out in building 41 in Microsoft's headquarters the other day and saw a wall of customers' photos and a bit about what they were using Visual Studio for. So, we tracked down the guy responsible, Chad Royal, lead program manager, and got the story behind the wall. Turns out that…

"Go to Slashdot and I guarantee you that on almost any Microsoft post someone will be making a Clippy joke," Tony Goodhew says. He's one of the guys planning out a future version of Visual Studio. So, why are we talking about Clippy and Visual Studio? Well, Microsoft Bob wasn't a…

Yeah, yeah, the next version of Visual Studio isn't even done yet. You know, the "2005" version that's code-named "Whidbey." So, why we talking about the version after that? Its code name is "Orcas." Well, Tony Goodhew and a small band of geeks over in building 42…

What kinds of applications will you be able to build with the next version of Visual Studio? Ori discusses the kinds of apps that'll take advantage of WiFi and cellular phone technologies. What kinds of applications would you like to build?

Ori Amiga, program manager on the Visual Studio for Devices Team, demonstrates the next version of Visual Studio for Whidbey. Drag and drop and, bang, you have a Web browser control right on your phone. In another video we just posted Ori discusses the emulator that's built into the next…

Ori discusses the emulator that's built into the next version of Visual Studio. This makes developing apps for PocketPCs and SmartPhones very easy.

SmartPhones. PocketPCs. How do you build applications for them? With Visual Studio, of course. There's a whole team of people who are building the next version of Visual Studio for devices. You can meet them on this video tour. But here Ori Amiga shows off all the devices that he has hanging…