Rico Mariani: Visual Studio Today, Tomorrow and Beyond - Your Questions Answered

Posted By: Charles | Dec 1st, 2008 @ 10:22 AM | 75,090 Views | 18 Comments

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The great Rico Mariani, software performance guru and Chief Architect of Visual Studio (we dig into what this role is exactly...), sits down with us to discuss what's on tap for the next iteration(s) of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2010) and beyond... If you spend alot of time in VS, then you definitely want to make some time to watch this (and listen carefully). It's a long one, but well worth it. 3/4 of the time is spent answering YOUR questions!

I recently asked Niners to submit questions for Rico that would be addressed in this conversation. Rico was kind enough to answer not some but all of the questions! Thank you for your submissions Niners and thank you Rico for taking the time to listen to, learn from and engage with your customers! Smiley

Tags: Architecture, MS Personalities, Rico Mariani, Visual Studio

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Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

822MB for the iPod format? You're kidding right? And I was like downloading the iPod RSS feed via the iTunes Podcast feature (as I do ost of the time) to watch it tomorrow before school on my nano... hm nah... not this time Sad
I have like 700MB free on it, that's normally enough for like 3 hours of video... what bitrate are you guys using to encode your videos to MP4? 384kbps video and 96kbps for audio is plenty enough and needs about 1-2MB per minute, oh and as a sidenote, how about normalizing the audio stream to use all the virtually available 16 bits per sample? Audio is really silent on an iPod. With full volume I don't understand anything when there's people talking around me and I'm listening to those people in the video.

Hm... maybe I better should have put that in the Feedback forum... but, yeah, too late :\

Charles
Welcome Change

In reply to Dodo

#Dec 1st, 2008 @ 11:42 AM

Interesting. The low bit rate WMV file for this interview comes in at 223 MB. I'm not sure why the MP4 is so large... I'll ask the people who do know.

C

ZippyV
Fired Up

I am not angry you guys. Seriously.

I try to stay up to date with Wix but it's far from ready yet. I can't create dialogs in a designer, intellisense gives html garbage on top of the Wix tags, the latest version 3.0 is still in beta and in the end I have to type too much to get a basic result.

You can find the wix project on Sourceforge. I couldn't find anything about Wix on Codeplex.

I created a demo which uses Wix. You can find it on: http://home.scarlet.be/~zippyv/zippydemo/

aL_
Blend Behaviors rule

only at 22:00 but just a quick comment, isn't the framework already sort of componentized? its all different assemblies and you don't load em all at once Smiley

so its not like we're loading the entire framework Smiley

perhaps there should be more granularity in the framework assembles, but still, the foundation is there Smiley

aL_
Blend Behaviors rule

yay im on c9
with a billion questions but still Wink

great to hear about the mef stuff Smiley

not being able to mash together several "left margins" together is great Smiley

it is "Al", short for allan btw Wink

sorry for the smileys, i'm from the msn generation, what can i say Wink

--edit--

another quick comment, great stuff about the help system :O one huge pain for me is having to go look in a chm file with that so-nineties-viewer.. it would be really great if you could get chm files into (the equivalent of) dexplore, or if that's not possible, make chm equivalents that go in there. fromfrmo what rico is saying that sounds possible Smiley

id love more info on that

--edit2--
great interview (as always) Smiley

are there more vs interviews on the way? ias a general note it would be awesomeawsome to have like a schedule of what c9 videos are in the works and whats planned Smiley

(of course sanitized for thing that are still secret)

dot_tom

Another great interview Charles. I know we all have our personal wish lists for the product many of which will conflict, but it's good to know that Rico will be there in the future searching for the path forward. Speaking personally I can't think of a cooler job than to be in the software tooling industry. You folks get to enable human creativity, that's simultaneously a heck of a responsibility and way cool.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

At first I thought "Man, Charles, that's a bit harsh constantly cutting him off like that." but in the end it was still over an hour worth of interview.

Great video, very informative.

vesuvius
War and Peace

Many thanks Rico for taking time out of your frenetic schedule and spending some time with the "niners". We all feel humbled, elated and immensely proud. Also thanks to Charles for making this all happen, it makes one proud to be a niner.

Stebet
Buuuurrrritoooo!

Yes. Thanks Charles and Rico for this interview. I'd really love to see more of these niner-contributed interviews. I think they are really informative and to be able to get our questions and concerns answered like this is just awesome.

Again... an awesome and informative interview.