Skinner's Blog
Comments on Visual Studio, Visualizations & Modeling, .NET, and beyond
Latest Videos and Info on VS11 Visualization Tooling
Wanted to make you folks aware of a few new videos that have been recently made showing the latest...
Date: 03/11/2012
Debugger Canvas 1.1 Released
Since the initial release of the Debugger Canvas last summer, the team has been busy taking all the...
Date: 01/31/2012
What do you think of Debugger Canvas?
The folks behind the Debugger Canvas project ( a few from my team, a few from MSR ) are very...
Date: 07/22/2011
ALM vNext Announced at TechEd
We just finished announcing all the great new stuff that will be coming in the next version of...
Date: 05/17/2011
MSDN Instant Answers
Wanted to point out a great new feature that the MSDN team has just made available when searching in...
Date: 05/13/2011
New version of the Architecture Guidance
I’m a bit tardy in passing this information along, but the Rangers have recently ( April 18th )...
Date: 05/01/2011
Tech Ed North America 2011
Registration for this year’s Tech Ed North America is open. The convention is happening May 16-19 in...
Date: 04/08/2011
Debugging Series: Symbols Server and Your Symbols
Last post, I gave you a simple introduction to Symbol Servers. I showed you how you can use the...
Date: 04/06/2011
Debugging Series: Symbol Server
Whether you are doing pre or post mortem debugging, whether you are using Visual Studio or WinDBG,...
Date: 04/01/2011
New Docs for Windows Phone 7 Development
The Developer Guidance team has just released Building a Windows Phone 7 Application from Start to...
Date: 03/31/2011
The Visual Studio Debugger: A new series on an old topic
The Visual Studio Debugger has long been regarded to be one of the industries best debugger. The VS...
Date: 03/28/2011
Job Opportunities
Wanted to directly call out a number of positions that are currently open on my team. To refresh...
Date: 03/24/2011
More Docs Updated
Our UE ( User Education ) team is constantly updating our documentation on MSDN. This last month is...
Date: 03/18/2011
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Released
Lots of news today, as we have release the first service pack to Visual Studio 2010. At the same...
Date: 03/08/2011
IntelliTrace and Azure
Grant Holliday has recently published a blog post that goes into more of the details around using...
Date: 02/21/2011
Code Metrics, Reporting, and XSLT Debugging
In my last post, I announced a new power tool that allows you to analyze your managed assemblies to...
Date: 02/20/2011
Code metrics from the command line
Yesterday, we made available a power tool that allows you to analyze assemblies in order to...
Date: 01/28/2011
Force VS to garbage collect
Here’s another little gem I’ve got for you. As you probably know, Visual Studio is a big product,...
Date: 12/15/2010
ALM Summit 2010
On November 16-18 here on campus, Microsoft sponsored an event called the “ALM Summit”. The event...
Date: 12/13/2010
XMI Export Sample
Steve Cook, a long time architect on my team, has made available a sample that shows how to access...
Date: 11/29/2010
A Windows Explorer Gem
I just tripped into this little gem and just couldn’t let this go without telling somebody, ‘cause I...
Date: 10/11/2010
Need your feedback on Visual Studio 2010
Do you use Visual Studio 2010 everyday? If so, I’d really appreciate it if you could take 5-10...
Date: 10/07/2010
ALM Summit Nov 16-18
Brian Harry just blogged about a conference we’ll be hosting on the Redmond Microsoft campus this...
Date: 09/28/2010
TIP support for any ADO.NET app
In my last post, I discussed the benefits of the Tier Interaction Profiler found in Visual Studio...
Date: 09/06/2010
The Tier Interaction Profiler ( TIP )
There is a little known feature that is part of Visual Studio 2010 Premium edition that I wanted to...
Date: 09/03/2010
MSDN Keeps getting better
The documentation on MSDN Library continues to rev, as our hard working User Education folks have...
Date: 08/26/2010
Final Feature Builder Power Tool Released
The final version of the Feature Builder Power Tool designed to work seamlessly with Visual Studio...
Date: 07/22/2010
Productivity Power Tools: A MUST Have
If you use Visual Studio 2010 at all, stop what you are doing and install the Productivity Power...
Date: 07/20/2010
Manipulating DGML Styles
Chris Lovett has created another fantastic video that explains the ins and outs of manipulating the...
Date: 07/20/2010
IntelliTrace and unfamiliar code
One of the many great things about the new IntelliTrace feature in Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 is...
Date: 07/07/2010
Architecture Guidance now available
I’ve been saying since the first PDC “Lap Around Visual Studio” talk I did back in 2008 how “big” of...
Date: 06/26/2010
Layer Diagram Extension using the Feature Pack
As you certainly know by now, we have released the Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack. One of...
Date: 06/18/2010
Feature Pack vs. Power Tool
In my “Sneak Peek…” post I promised to discuss the differences between a Feature Pack and a Power...
Date: 06/07/2010
Documentation Refresh
The MSDN Library of documentation has been updated. Along with new content discussing the new...
Date: 06/07/2010
Visualization and Modeling Feature Pack is now Available!
I gave you a sneak peek about this new feature pack here, but I am now very happy to announce that...
Date: 06/07/2010
Video discussion about Visualization and Modeling in VS2010 Ultimate
David Giard, the force behind Technology and Friends, has just pushed up a conversation we had...
Date: 05/25/2010
Great blog Posts on Architecture Tools in VS2010 Ultimate
Jennifer Marsman has created a series of posts that capture the essence of my talks that I did on...
Date: 05/14/2010
Launch tour summary
Jennifer Marsman, Developer Evangelist extraordinaire, has just blogged about the recent launch tour...
Date: 05/10/2010
Sequence Diagram RE, LINQ, and Lambdas
The Sequence Diagram Reverse Engineering feature available in Visual Studio 2010 allows you to...
Date: 05/08/2010
Sequence Diagram RE and WCF
I got a number of great questions in last weeks launch tour. One of those questions was a general...
Date: 05/07/2010
Free VS2010 Training
The amount of new features that we have enabled in VS2010 is simply staggering. Scott Guthrie just...
Date: 04/13/2010
Upgrade tool and VSVMSDK Available now!
Not only is Visual Studio itself launching today, but a couple of supporting deliverables are also...
Date: 04/12/2010
Launch Day for VS2010 and .NET Framework 4!!!
As you undoubtedly have heard by now, VS2010 and .NET Framework 4 have officially launched! WooHoo!...
Date: 04/12/2010
Announcing the Preview release of “Feature Builder”
Today we released the Feature Builder Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 Preview for RC on the Visual...
Date: 03/30/2010
XMI Support in VS2010
A few folks have pinged me in regards to the fact that I didn’t include XMI Export as part of the...
Date: 03/24/2010
Work Item Visualization CodePlex Project
Mr. Levinson, one of our MVPs that has really been taking advantage of the new tooling in VS2010 has...
Date: 03/22/2010
Sneak peek at the first “Feature Pack” for VS2010 Visualization and Modeling Tools
I’ve been hinting about a number of new capabilities that my team has been working on that are...
Date: 03/19/2010
Visualizing large code bases with VS2010
Chris Lovett has just posted a great video on how to manage larger code bases with the new...
Date: 03/17/2010
Layer Diagram templates for P&P Architecture Guide
Just wanted to point you all to the availability of a great little VSIX that the Patterns &...
Date: 03/13/2010