I just got back from Europe last night. I spent one week in Rome at a partners summit and almost a week in Berlin at Tech Ed. I had 4 talks in each city (wow, it was a lot of speaking :)). It was really a terrific trip. It's the first time I've had the chance to spend a lot of time face to face with customers since Beta 2 sh...
Today we are announcing that Microsoft has closed on the purchase of the Teamprise Client Suite from Teamprise (a division of SourceGear). I’m incredibly excited to be taking this step. From my very first software job (producing an email client in the late 80’s) it has been clear to me that the value of collaboration software grows exponentially w...
One of the cool new capabilities in the 2010 wave of products is Lab Management. It allows you to easily manage a pool of virtual machines and automate deployment and testing of your applications. Lab Management allows you do define "Environments" - collections of virtual machine templates that define your application deployment archite...
The products available include: We also have Japanese translated documentation available: Please provide feedback on our Connect site at: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudioJapan/ The product downloads will be available for non-MSDN subscribers on November 11th. I’ll blog the download links when I have them. Thanks, Bria...
As part of our efforts to collect as much feedback on Beta 2 as we can, we've posted a survey that we hope you'll fill out. It's 11 multiple choice questions and 3 free form answer questions. If you've had a chance to try Beta 2, please take the time to fill out the survey. If you've already given me performance feedback on my blo...
I'm starting to get very mixed messages about people's satisfaction with performance in Beta 2. Clearly performance in Beta 1 was bad. We knew that. We did a lot of work in Beta 2 to make it better and I've heard a lot of people comment on how much better Beta 2 is. At the same time, I'm hearing some people say they are very...
As you may know, we are offering a "go-live" agreement for Beta 2. As part of that, we are making support available. Of course news groups and other avenues are available but I mean a live person on the phone helping you (assuming the hours match up - standard US business hours). Sorry, we can't support 24x7 until the product ship...
Jeff Beehler wrote a good post on what it means to "go-live" on Beta 2 and steps you need to take in order to get support. The only thing I'd add to his post is a little tempering of "high standards of quality". I want everyone to understand that it is a Beta. If you are going to go live on it, you need to be prepared to live with...
We've been working on a bunch of training content - videos, labs, etc to help you get up to speed on the 2010 wave of products. Check out http://r.ch9.ms/vs2010b2f for videos and a like to the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Training Kit download.Brian
It's probably a bit early yet. But once you've had a change to play with Beta 2 and look at the docs, the doc team here at MS would like some feedback from you so that they know where to focus their remaining work. They've created a survey to help them collect your feedback.Brian
