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The Visual Studio Documentary: Jason Zander Full Length Interview

tina10 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:52:00 GMT

The Visual Studio Documentary Part One and Part Two.
S. Somasegar's Full Length Interview

Jason Zander is the General Manager for the Visual Studio Team here at Microsoft. He was an enormous asset to The Visual Studio Documentary Part One and Part Two. Here is Jason Zander in his own words from his blog:

I'm the General Manager for the Visual Studio team in the Developer Division at Microsoft, including Visual Studio Pro and Visual Studio Team System. I've been in the Developer Division for a long time (back to ODBC). I was lucky to be one of a small handful of folks who started working on what would become the CLR back in '97. I worked primarily on the metadata, file formats, and compiler integration. I was the first dev lead for those features as well as the debugger/profiler. I was the Development Manager for V1.1 and the first part of V2.0, and ultimately became the PUM of the team before taking the GM role first in .NET and then for Visual Studio.
I love writing code! And it is an amazing opportunity to work on a team where dogfooding my product requires means writing code. Please enjoy the .NET Framework and Visual Studio and make sure to send us your feedback!

Jason Zander: Perspectives on Visual Studio 2008 and the Future of VS

Charles — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:41:00 GMT

With Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 out the door and available for your coding pleasure, we figured it would be a great time to talk to Jason Zander about Visual Studio 2008, which has been available since, well, 2008. VS2008 introduced a lot of new technologies for developers to add to their arsenal. Which ones are successful? Which ones aren't being used as much as anticipated? Of course, we also talk about the upcoming version of VS, VS 2010 (How could we not?). Jason is a developer at heart. He has code in Windows, in the CLR and other big shipping products. Last I talked to him, he ran the CLR team (and you've seen Jason many time on C9 over the years). Now he runs Visual Studio. Let's find out what's on his mind...

Visual Studio 2010 Overview

Jason Olson — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:44:00 GMT

In this kick-off video for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 Week on Channel 9, we sit down with Jason Zander, Group Manager of Visual Studio.

Jason discusses the major enhancements coming in Visual Studio 2010, including everything from language enhancements, to IDE improvements, to changes in Visual Studio itself.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

This is a Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Week Video. For other Visual Studio 2010 videos, check out the Visual Studio topic area here on Channel 9.

Jason Zander on the WinFX to .NET FX 3.0 rename

Duncan Mackenzie — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:39:00 GMT

Ok, just when we all had the WinFX name firmly stuck in our heads, they went and changed it! Why? What does this mean for you? What folders will you end up with in your Microsoft .NET directory? All these answers and more in this interview Duncan did with Jason Zander from the .NET Framework team.

CLR Team Tour, Part II - The Future of Languages (PDC panel preview)

Charles — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:10:00 GMT

With this second segment of our CLR Team pre-PDC tour we start out with Rico Mariani where we talk again about .NET performance and how to wring the most out of your .NET code.

Then we head off to meet a group of architects on the .NET team where they hint at the future of languages.

Brad Abrams is seen (this part starts at 11:55). Jim Miller, architect on the team joins Rico and Brad (and later Jason Zander, product unit manager) to talk about what they'll talk about at the PDC. These guys are among the smartest people at Microsoft, so this will be an interesting panel.

At about 27:30 Joe Duffy, our host, takes us to another group of people where we talk about dynamic languages in another preview of another PDC panel discussion. "Are we all going to switch to Ruby?" That's my question, which gets the discussion rocking and rolling. You also meet Erik Meijer, architect on SQL Server services (he's the language pimper).

Jason Zander - Discussing the architecture and secrets of .NET and the CLR

The Channel 9 Team — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:22:00 GMT

"Show us the architecture of .NET on the whiteboard," is what we asked Jason Zander and that started out an interesting discussion of what .NET is.

That led into a discussion of .NET's garbage collector and determinalistic finalization that developers will find interesting (Charles Torre, developer on Channel 9, was asking the questions). It ends up with a discussion of "secrets of the CLR."

This is the final piece of our tour of the CLR team. Thanks Jason and to your team for giving us an interesting inside look at .NET.

The other segments of the tour/interview are here:

CLR Tour, Part 1
CLR Tour, Part 2
CLR Tour, Part 3
About the CLR

Jason Zander - About the CLR team

Charles — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:26:00 GMT

Charles Torre, one of the developers who works on Channel 9's code, sat down with Jason Zander, Product Unit Manager of the .NET Common Language Runtime team. Here's the first part of that interview.

"Our team is a cross between compiler geeks and kernel geeks," Zander says in response to "What is the magic of the CLR?"

"We do the rocket science so you don't have to."

The .NET CLR Team Tour, Part III

The Channel 9 Team — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:57:00 GMT

Hear the roar!

Oh, that's just the CLR team's lab where they are testing 64-bit versions of the .NET common language runtime. But, first, we drop into Adam Nathan's office where he shows us the pinvoke.net Web site. That concludes our tour of the CLR team, but next week we'll sit down with Jason Zander for an interview about what the CLR team is doing. CLR, by the way, stands for Common Language Runtime.

The .NET CLR Team Tour, Part II

Charles — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:59:00 GMT

Here Jason Zander continues his tour through the CLR team's offices.

Do you know how hard it is walking backward while trying to aim a camcorder properly?

What is that that Kit George is working on (he's a program manager on the BCL team)? Hey, who said working on the CLR team is all work and no play? Ahh, the things developers do under the guise of testing serial port functionality. Heh.

You also meet Rico Mariani. He's part of the team that's tuning the .NET CLR (the engine at the heart of every .NET application) to get every last bit of performance out of it. Hear his ideas on performance tuning. His first hint? Pay attention to the numbers.

Read Rico's blog for more performance tuning tips. He also recommends reading Microsoft's patterns and practices performance site for even more .NET performance tips.

Jason Zander - Tour of the .NET CLR team

The Channel 9 Team — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 04:50:00 GMT

Jason Zander invited Charles Torre and cameraman Robert Scoble to meet the .NET Common Language Runtime team.

In this first of three segments (it's a big team!) you'll meet a variety of developers from across the team and see what they are working on.

Don't know what this team does? Well, the .NET CLR is at the center of all .NET applications. So, if you're writing .NET apps, you are using this team's work.

You'll meet more of the CLR team over the next week.