New/updated Icon Sets with Visual Studio 2005

S SomasegarJanuary 23, 2005Jan 23, 200501/23/05

Visual Studio installs with a collection of bitmaps, cursors, icons, metafiles, and videos to assist developers with Windows and Web application development. The collection of image resources from various Microsoft products has accumulated over time, and we’ve heard clearly from our customers that the old outdated elements are essentially unusable and what they need is a library of updated,

App Install for VS 2005 applications

S SomasegarJanuary 17, 2005Jan 17, 200501/17/05

Last week I wrote about the ClickOnce feature in Visual Studio 2005.  Some readers asked me to elaborate on how ClickOnce relates to Microsoft Installer (MSI) and other setup applications.  We also received feedback on the same topic in the MSDN Product Feedback center.

ClickOnce – Not an ad for your camera!

S SomasegarJanuary 11, 2005Jan 11, 200501/11/05

On Feb 7th, 2005, I will be doing the keynote at VSLive! in San Francisco. Among other things, I will be speaking about ‘Smart Clients’.  
 
One of the key advances that we are adding in Visual Studio 2005 for easy,

The power of the community

S SomasegarJanuary 2, 2005Jan 2, 200501/2/05

Wish you all a very Happy New Year!
 
The last week has been quite an emotional roller-coaster.  On the one hand, you have one of the greatest natural disasters (combination of an earthquake and tsunami waves) taking away the lives of over a hundred thousand people across several countries in South Asia and the impact that this has had on families,