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Windows Vista Beta is now available
Windows Vista Beta 1 is available. Here are a few links to news articles I've read about this today:...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 07/27/2005
Windows Vista Developer Center
The Windows Vista (previously known as Longhorn) Developer Center is live, and has some new material...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 07/27/2005
Debugger Chat this Thursday
I will be participating in a debugger chat this Thursday, from 1 pm to 2 pm Pacific time. If you...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 07/25/2005
Longhorn ==> Windows Vista
VS 2005 (aka Whidbey) is the next major version of Visual Studio. The version after that is...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 07/22/2005
My goals for the next year
First of all, my apologies for the lack of posts lately. June and July are always busy for me, with...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 07/22/2005
Visual Studio Express mention in Fortune
The Visual Studio 2005 Express SKU's garnered a mention in Fortune: The Amazing Rise of the...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 05/17/2005
C# videos
We recently did a significant remodel of the Visual C# Dev Center. I'm enjoying the revamped C#...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 05/04/2005
XML tools for Visual Studio 2005
Ken Levy just blogged about a new Channel9 video on XML tools. I've seen these demos of these...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 05/04/2005
VS 2005 bootstrapper
Keeping up with C#-related projects for the entire Microsoft platform and tools (from device to data...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 04/28/2005
Jason Zander on compatibility
Jason Zander has an excellent new blog entry on compatibility that is definitely worth a read....
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 04/27/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2!
I'm very excited to blog that Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 has been released. Our team has been hard at...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 04/17/2005
MSDN Forums for C#
MSDN has a new web-based threaded discussion system in Beta called Microsoft Forums. Josh Ledgard...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 04/11/2005
InfoWorld on Java IDE's
Java is the #1 competitor for C#, and the Java platform is the #1 competitor for .NET. So it should...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 04/06/2005
Computerworld survey of language usage
A recent Computerworld article contains some interesting data on language and platform usage. The...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/30/2005
C# established as a JIS standard
This week, C# was approved as a standard in Japan, and there was a joint press release from...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/25/2005
try/catch and scoping
I received an interesting customer question last week, and thought it would be valuable to share the...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/21/2005
Visual Studio 2005 pricing and SKU plan announced
We announced the pricing and SKU plan for Visual Studio 2005 today: Q&A with Soma "The Shape...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/21/2005
Transcript for today's chat with Eric Rudder
As previously mentioned, I participated in a chat today with Eric Rudder and 200+ customers. The...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/18/2005
Avalon and Indigo CTP
The March 2005 Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Avalon and Indigo is now available to MSDN...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/17/2005
Chat with Eric Rudder on Friday 3/18
I'll be participating in a chat on Friday 3/18 that includes Eric Rudder, who is the Senior VP for...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/16/2005
C# job openings
C# has a number of job openings that people might be interested in. In particular, there are...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/15/2005
Anders Hejlsberg interview in .NET Developer's Journal
.NET Developer's Journal has an interview with Anders Hejlsberg. It's in text, not multi-media like...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/15/2005
Peter Golde on Power Collections
Peter Golde is one of the original designers of the C# language. He left Microsoft awhile back and...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/15/2005
"This American Life" on software
I'm a big fan of the public radio show "This American Life", and was pleasantly surprised to hear a...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/15/2005
.NET Framework penetration
Approximately three years ago, we shipped the first version of C# along with VS 2002 and .NET...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/09/2005
February 2005 Tech Preview
The Februrary 2005 Community Technical Preview (CTP) has been released. This CTP includes VS Pro and...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 03/07/2005
Office System Developer Conference
While I was on vacation, the Office System Developer Conference happened in Redmond. From the news...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 02/09/2005
Dodgeball
The athletic club that a lot of MS employees belong to recently started a Dodgeball league, and we...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 02/08/2005
Back from vacation
I returned yesterday from vacation, a week-long trip to Hawaii with my wife and kids. We lived in...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 02/08/2005
Locking toolbars
G. Man asked about locking toolbars in an earlier post: <question> My own personal complaint...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/20/2005
Deployment issues in VS 2003 addressed (hopefully!) in VS 2005
seer asked a question in an earlier post about deployment issues with VS 2003: <question> Why...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/19/2005
Nomination for the .NET Developer's Journal Reader's Choice Award
Our C# book (The C# Programming Language by Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde) has been...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/19/2005
Open source and quality
A recent SD Times column by Allen Holub questions the quality and customer focus of Tomcat...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/18/2005
Avalon Tech Preview
CNet has an article today about the general availability of the Community Technology Preview (CTP)...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/17/2005
Anders on virtual calls from constructors in C# and .NET
Years ago, I had the good fortune to work with Eric Lippert on VBScript and JScript. I was a young...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/14/2005
Developer Division LeaderSpeak
My blog is cross-linked from the Developer Division LeaderSpeak page, which lists blogs from some of...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/13/2005
New C# Development Manager
I’m excited to announce that Steve Kruy is joining the C# team as Development Manager. Steve comes...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/13/2005
Striving for broader perspective
Today was the first day of a 2-day offsite with a group of senior leaders in Visual Studio,...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/12/2005
Anders Hejlsberg interview
TheServerSide.net just posted an interview with Anders Hejlsberg, the Chief Designer of the C#...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/06/2005
SmartPhone vs. Paper, Round 1
I bought a SmartPhone over the holidays, and I’m very happy with it. I’ve only had it a few weeks,...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 01/06/2005
Hello, world
One of the pleasures of working through the holidays, when few people are in the office, is to do...
Author: Scott Wiltamuth Date: 12/30/2004