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You can actively influence and shape the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio!

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My friends over in the Visual Studio User Experience group have put together an awesome program to get feedback from engineers to engineers -- this is your chance to really get deeply involved in the product feedback cycle and make sure your opinon is heard. I highly encourage anyone who is actively using VS2005 and has an opinion to apply to participate. Oh and get some free software for your time too -- XBOX games, VS Pro, and more...

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You can actively influence and shape the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio!

To improve our next release, Microsoft wants to connect everyday users of Visual Studio 2005 with our internal engineers – Engineer-to-Engineer. We’re looking for you to give us feedback on how to make the current product better. If you use Visual Studio 2005 as part of your daily work, you are invited to participate in a one-time 1-4 hour survey, and then to join our Engineer-to-Engineer (E2E) Connection Program with opportunities to continue your participation beyond our initial survey. Participation is totally voluntary and it’s up to you to decide your level of participation. Participation ranges from our one-time survey to future direct-interaction with product teams in defining our product.

Each time you are selected (and are able) to participate in one of our E2E Connection Program activities, you can select a gratuity of your choice from our extensive library of titles. Gratuities include several of our software packages ranging from Visual Studio Pro through Xbox games.

If you are interested and would like more information, please contact Andy (a-andy@microsoft.com). If you are a good match, we will ask you to complete our survey in March. We appreciate your consideration regarding participation in our E2E Connection Program.

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  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2006
    is Visual Studio  2005 of the  thing to Visual Studio   2003?
    not where of  then sun to java of this
  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2006
    It is not my custom to volunteer to be a "Blog Repeater". In this case however, the request comes from...
  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2006
    Via Brian
     
    You can actively influence and shape the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio! ...
  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2006
    i am studying .net so i need some nots
  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2006
    I think this is a great opportunity for those of us down in the trenches, who may not of reached MVP status (yet) and can't gain the larger audience needed to make change, yet still have a lot of feedback to give to the developers out in WA.

    Thanks for putting this out there Brian.

    BPJ
  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2006
    Why can't I just write what I want in a web form on MSDN.

    I work with solutions made by other developers (Orginizing Code). Before launching the development I want to see the application run. This can usually tell me how long it will take to work with (e-mail the people sending me the solutions, "DO NOT SEND MORE IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME"). Of course before that I take more into consideration, If it is a big application in one project I will usually put it into much smaller Class Library. The more files, the less orginized is a common rule here.

    What I really want is to be able to right click a file, project, or solution and press compile. I don't like having to launch the IDE to do that (Too Much Time).

    I hope someone reads this.
  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2006
    Hi Brian,

    Can you post the minimum criterian that is seeked to participate?  The current posting is too vague.
  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2006
    Hi Brian,

    Can you post the minimum criterian that is seeked to participate?  The current posting is too vague.  

    Are you looking for students, hobbyist, CSEs, ISVs, some of whom are from other disciplines - like marketing and sales, that found themselves heavily coding some markting app.
  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2006
    I did not see ASP.Net as part of VS 2005 Pro,  is ASP.Net a seperate product?

    Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Professional Edition Includes:

    Microsoft Visual Basic®, Microsoft Visual C#®, Microsoft Visual C++®, and Microsoft Visual J#® programming languages
    Tools for building Windows® and Web solutions
    SmartPhone and Pocket PC development tools for building Windows CE–based applications
    Visual Database Tools
    XSD and XSLT editing and debugging
    Advanced debugging tools, including cross-machine debugging
    Visual Basic and Visual C# development of stored procedures, functions, and triggers when combined with SQL ServerTM 2005
    Tools for building server-based solutions


    Thanks - Mike
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    April 05, 2006
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    April 06, 2006
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