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10/28/2008 12:27:00 AM
After 5 years in DevDiv marketing, I’ve recently made a change to the Windows Mobile group where I’ll be leading a team looking at product management and product planning for the developer space. It’s bittersweet – DevDiv has been a great place to work and I’ve made a lot of friends in that group and in the community. However, there’s also a lot of opportunity in the mobile space and I’m very glad that I’m going to get to keep working with developers. Plus, I get to pla ... [ read more ]
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2/16/2006 12:04:00 AM
Are you passionate about helping to address the challenges that face professional developers? Do you have a technical background and innate marketing savvy? Then we need to talk.
I'm building a team that will be responsible for marketing VS Standard, VS Professional, and VSTO. This will also include all of the language marketing. I'm looking to fill a couple of open positions.
The first challenge for which I'm hiring is the strategy and prog ... [ read more ]
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9/26/2005 5:31:00 PM
Have you done some really cool development with Visual Basic 2005 that you've already rolled into production?
I'm continuously excited when I talk to many of you about the great work that you're doing with VB 2005 and the great solutions that you've created. We've got a lot of great stories coming, but I'm always looking for more. If you've built a cool solution and would be willing to talk about it, please send me a note at jroxe@microsoft.com and we'll see if it would be ... [ read more ]
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8/12/2005 6:06:00 PM
Almost five months ago, we launched VBRun: the Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center. Since then quite a few of you have visited the site and have sent me feedback about it.
I'm pleased to announce that we've added a new section featuring content from some of our partners that's relevant to Visual Basic developers. We've started by highlighting InnerWorkings which provides training content that's available right in Visual Studio and provides detailed feedback on code that you write.& ... [ read more ]
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5/27/2005 2:11:00 AM
There have been a number of press articles recently about application compatibility between the .NET Framework 1.1 and the .NET Framework 2.0 (beta). You can see an article in eWeek and an article in Microsoft Watch .
You can get the full story on our application compatibility plans in a whitepaper that we just put up on MSDN. Those of you who are frequent readers of my blog, (or those of you who scroll down a few entries;-) will see a request ... [ read more ]
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5/23/2005 7:32:00 PM
Are you going to be down at TechEd in Orlando in a couple of weeks? Are you interested in meeting with the Visual Basic team while you’re down there?
Nine people from the VB team are going to be down at TechEd and we’re very interested in meeting with as many customers as possible while we’re down there. We’re going to be hosting a couple of customer round tables (stay tuned to this location for more details on time and location).
If you have ... [ read more ]
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4/5/2005 11:17:00 PM
I'm happy to announced that we launched a new subsite for the Visual Basic Developers Center today: VBRun: The Visual Basic 6.0 Resource center .
This site highlights some of our best VB 6.0 content from the MSDN archive, has some new content on making Visual Basic 6.0 and VB .NET work together and has some additional training on VB .NET for those who are interested. We hope that this site provides VB6 developers information that they need for their current development and ... [ read more ]
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3/18/2005 1:20:00 AM
Author's Note: Earlier today, I sent the attached note to each of the MVPs who signed the petition around VB6. Please let me know what you think. I noticed that you signed the petition at http://classicvb.org/petition . I'm mailing each of the MVPs who signed the petition directly in hopes of continuing this dialog and giving you some more insight into what’s going on with VB these days. There was a great deal of discussion arou ... [ read more ]
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3/12/2005 2:48:00 AM
There have been a lot of questions raised about the “end” of support for Visual Basic 6.0 recently that are worthwhile addressing. Let’s just get the biggest question out of the way: Support is not ending. Let me say that again: Support is not ending. So what happens on April 1st of this year? The change in support that we announced back in 2002 is that we transition from a warranty support model to a paid support model. The ... [ read more ]
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3/3/2005 7:15:00 PM
We're running a survey (only takes about 3 minutes) to get some feedback on partially-trusted applications. How many of you are building them? What do you think? Here's your chance to let us know: http://host.ultimatesurvey.com/microsoft/surveys/takesurvey.aspx?surveyid=1030
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2/25/2005 6:28:00 AM
Richard Grimes posted his final column in Dr. Dobbs the other day. Dan Fernandez replied to part of it in his blog and I also found Scott Swigart's reply on some of the VB comments interesting. What do you think?
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2/21/2005 10:58:00 PM
I recently did a chat with Graham Parker, George Gallagher, Richard Costall and Geoff Hirst with VBUG.NET in the UK. It was a pretty interesting IM conversation and they were nice enough to post the transcript here . We covered everything from the future of Visual Basic to upgrade paths from VB6. Let me know what you think.
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2/18/2005 12:04:00 AM
I'm working to create a library of applications that we can use for testing compatibility between .NET Framework 2003 applications and Whidbey applications. We don't need source in order to do this, all we need is the binaries for the application, instructions to install it, and permission from you to run it. We're working with some ISVs already to test their applications, but we're interested in finding corporate applications that you're building. So here's the results if you ... [ read more ]
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2/17/2005 4:26:00 AM
Happy Chinese New Year! (well, a couple of days late). As a part of my Chinese New Year resolutions, I'm going to write more in this blog, so look for an entry at least weekly. I spent last week down at VSLive and had a chance to catch up with a bunch of folks even if I wasn't speaking. I actually had a small talk for the theatre prepared, but the plasma screen was busted. One of the things that I was most looking forward to demoing was RegFree COM. This is a ... [ read more ]
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10/19/2004 12:09:00 AM
It's been a while since I've written in my blog, primarily because I finally went on vacation and then went straight from Jackson Hole to the Visual Basic User Group Tour in Asia. Matt Gertz and I visited Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in 6 days. Yes, that's right 4 hotels in 6 days and 15 presentations in 5 days. It was, however, pretty energizing because we had a chance to meet with a number of different users and just missed getting hit by the typhoon that rolle ... [ read more ]
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8/20/2004 4:13:00 PM
Jackie Goldstein, the Regional Director from Israel, did a migration tour through Europe last year where he gave some great information on bringing VB6 applications forward to .NET. It was a 10-stop, 1 day-per-stop seminar. I've seen Jackie's content and it's good stuff - It's now available online at http://www.microsoft.com/israel/vbasic/vb2vbnet/english/default.mspx . Check it out and let me know what you think. jlr
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8/16/2004 4:43:00 PM
So I'm very remiss in not having already blogged about the European User Group tour. In the two weeks after TechEd Europe at the end of June, the VB team visited 11 different user groups around Europe including Amsterdam, Munich, Milan, Vienna, Vic, Porto, London, Zagreb, Paris, Geneva and Zurich. Overall, people were pretty psyched with the tour both the presenters and the user group attendees. A couple of events stand out - we had over 250 people show up for the Italian u ... [ read more ]
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8/3/2004 8:47:00 PM
Have any of you checked out Soma's blog ? For those of you who don't know Soma, he's the VP who owns all of developer tools and sets direction for the development teams. I'm psyched that he's joined the blogosphere and started to tell us what he's thinking about. In this case, he was writing about the future of Visual Basic - a topic obviously near and dear to my heart. Let me know what you think after you take a look at his post.
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