Visual Studio

Robert Green, program manager, on the Visual Basic team, gives us a demonstration of the data features in the next version of Visual Studio (Visual Basic 2005, aka Whidbey).

Testers find bugs. Developers need to fix them. Right? But not all bugs are the same. There's a difference between a bug that every customer would hit and a small display problem that only happens after a user clicks on something 250 times in a row, to give one example. Sara talks about the…

Sara Ford, who is a tester on the Visual Studio team, talks about how many bugs she finds a day. During the interview she also reveals that there's such a thing as a "cool" bug. Find out what she means.

Sara Ford likes to play the bad guy. She's a tester. But what does that mean? It's an important role and it's one that places her in conflict with developers. After all, who likes to be told that their code isn't working correctly? How do you find bugs in your code? Do you have a tester?…

Sara Ford, software design engineer and tester on the Visual Studio team, introduces herself to Channel9 (the rest of her interview will run over the next week here on Channel9). She has an important job at Microsoft: she makes sure that everyone is able to use Visual Studio (she's an…

Developing for Mobile Devices is starting to be hot and one of the things that Scott Swanson likes most about the next version of Visual Studio is the aides for building applications for the new SmartPhones. Scott also lets slip that the help team also is "eating the dogfood" (which…

Getting new updates in the hands of customers is hard. Hear how the Visual Studio help team will handle help updates in Visual Studio 2005, code-named Whidbey. One thing Scott wanted everyone to know is "install the updates!" Yes, there are regular updates to the help system in…

Scott Swanson, lead program manager on the Visual Studio team, talks about how the help team works to internationalize their content. They've learned some interesting things. What? For instance, people don't trust the translations. See how they decided to handle that mistrust.

Focus groups. Conferences. Blogs. Newsgroups. These are among the ways that Scott Swanson's team gathers feedback from customers. Hear him explain how the team took all that feedback and turned it into the help system that's in Visual Studio 2005, code-named  Whidbey.

Scott Swanson, who is a program manager on the Visual Studio 2005 team (code-named Whidbey) talks about the help SDK that developers will be able to use to plug in their own help functionality. Audio is a bit low on the interview, but Scoble is asking whether a team, like the Office team, or a…