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Better Windows Development Environments - One project at a Time

by Mark Stone on April 10, 2009

Discussions of the PC market usually break down into "desktop" vs. "server", as if these are the only platform categories. However, the developer's dev box -- call it a "workstation" to distinguish it from desktop -- is really a separate platform. Remember... more

• Friday, April 10, 2009
• in: Community
• Mark Stone

Developers, developers, developers...

by Peter Galli on October 27, 2008

It's all about developers, all the time - well, at least for the next week here in Los Angeles at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference. The first day of the show started off with an opening keynote by Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, who welcomed... more

• Monday, October 27, 2008
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

Pilot

by jcannon on December 19, 2007

I spend a significant amount of my time crisscrossing Microsoft, looking for (and advocating) interesting ways that our research and development teams are adopting open approaches in their work. It’s not terribly difficult - and, in fact, increasingly easy to find areas where sharing code, participating in community and collaborating with the commercial open source industry are part of what we do every... more

• Wednesday, December 19, 2007
• in: Community
• jcannon

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

by jcannon on October 03, 2007

Some news from Scott Guthrie's blog this morning - "One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them. Today I'm excited to announce that we'll be providing this with the .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 release later this year...." ... more

• Wednesday, October 03, 2007
• in: Community
• jcannon

Following-up...

by admin on May 22, 2006

Hope you're all doing well - I'd like to try and get some traction on the resource kit that we talked about earlier...... more

• Monday, May 22, 2006
• in: Community
• admin