joc's bLog
VisualStudio 2010 Beta1 – Free at last
I was at TechEd2009 a few weeks ago and I was so sad we weren’t able to talk more about VS2010 there...
Date: 05/27/2009
Debugger tip for stack overflows
Every so often my team likes to make me feel useful. I don't get to write code and fix bugs as much...
Date: 04/16/2009
The science of bugs
One of the more interesting things about working at Microsoft is the close collaboration the...
Date: 03/30/2009
Speaking again at TechEd 2009
I'll be out at TechEd this year and delivering the next version of my Debugger Tips and Tricks talk,...
Date: 03/20/2009
VS2008 SP1 Shell fix available
A fix for a widely reported crash in the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is now available. This fixes a crash...
Date: 03/12/2009
Why is my app so much slower under the debugger?
Even when I switch to "Release builds"? We recently got a connect bug on this so I thought I'd share...
Date: 02/19/2009
Computer Science and Software Engineering
This is an opinion piece, and my opinion at that, not of my employer. I was watching a debate on one...
Date: 02/18/2009
Last year's VSTS 2010 CTP - Feedback still needed!
Last year's CTP of VSTS 2010 was one of the major milestones on the road to shipping what we think...
Date: 02/05/2009
VS 2008 SP1 Debugger stepping and breakpoint issues
For the last few weeks we have had reports of stepping issues caused by people installing VS 2008...
Date: 11/14/2008
PDC08 - Debugger tips and tricks talk posted
The channel 9 rendering of my talk at PDC is now up for your general enjoyment/education/amusement....
Date: 11/07/2008
Upcoming VSTS 2010 features - what have we been up to?
It's nice to at last be able to publicly discuss some of the features we've been working on...
Date: 09/29/2008
Architect != Suite
I was in a colleague's office the other day and ran into the now ubiquitous issue that people still...
Date: 07/28/2008
PDC 08 now open for registration
It's been a while, but the time has come again for a Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference....
Date: 06/02/2008
Debugger expansion follow-up - PM jobs
As promised it is time to follow up with the PM jobs from our debugger expansion (Test to follow...
Date: 04/07/2008
An expansion in the VS debugger (aka we're hiring)
We've been working for a while now on a plan to re-invest in one of Visual Studio's core strengths -...
Date: 04/01/2008
At EclipseCon next week
I'll be at EclipseCon next week, but just the Wednesday and Thursday. If you read the blog and want...
Date: 03/11/2008
_NT_SYMBOL_PATH and VS
I've seen many folks in our ISV community use the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable to set the...
Date: 02/28/2008
New debugger extensibility sample
Jackson on our team recently posted a sample on building a debug engine. In our architecture, the...
Date: 02/20/2008
More off-road monster truck madness: How to read a VS Profiler (vsp) file programmatically
Happy New Year! Thought I'd start the new year with some more off-road fun on how to interact with...
Date: 01/02/2008
Internal MS use of the VSTS profiler
A question that is common from folks in the field is "who's using the profiler at Microsoft"....
Date: 10/31/2007
New for VS2008 - debugger support for .Net frameworks support
ScottGu just posted info on something our team has been working on in conjunction with Shawn Burke...
Date: 10/04/2007
The Visual Studio Diagnostics team
I thought I'd share a little bit of organizational info about the team I work in as a way to dust...
Date: 09/05/2007
My own private Orcas
I love Orcas. I would say that of course, but for me personally I've been involved in so much of the...
Date: 07/30/2007
Cool debugger add-in for IL viewing
For those of us that use ILDASM and Lutz's reflector tool often, "Friend of the VS Debugger" (I may...
Date: 06/09/2007
The Value of Team System to C++/Native Win32 developers
Whoa - didn't realize I had let this blog get so moldy! Apologies. Recently I've had a similar...
Date: 04/19/2006
How we built team system on team system
When I was out talking to customers over the last couple of months I was surprised to hear so many...
Date: 12/04/2005
Sequel to off-road coverage article now posted
It's a tale of a wronged brother seeking vengance. A tale of intrigue, mystery and politics. Bolder...
Date: 11/28/2005
Visual Studio Team System “off-road” code coverage analysis and reporting experience
Team System “off-road” code coverage analysis and reporting experience John Cunningham, Developer...
Date: 11/22/2005
Coverage errors
A bunch of folks have replied to my original offroad posting on using the code coverage...
Date: 11/14/2005
Team System Code Coverage - it works for native C++ too
Today I got yet another request from inside Microsoft about when our code coverage utilities will...
Date: 10/04/2005
By popular demand - COBOL Code coverage
As a follow up to my last blog post, I thought I'd show COBOL coverage in all of its glory. See here...
Date: 09/27/2005
PDC Day 2
Another fun day at the office today, with a host of different customer issues and questions to work...
Date: 09/14/2005
PDC at last
It's great to think that PDC is just around the corner. It's been a while since I've been at one of...
Date: 09/09/2005
Highland games - too much Highlander
While visiting the Pacific Northwest Scottish Highland Games and Clan Gathering for the second time...
Date: 08/03/2005
Code Coverage off-road now available
Although Beta2 is not available as yet, I decided to publish this article anyway. You can read and...
Date: 04/08/2005
Announcing the Off-Road series of posts
After a lot of feedback from users, we'll be producing a series of blog posts that talk about using...
Date: 04/07/2005
eDT Chats - a great success
I felt the chats mentioned below were a great success. A wide range of issues were touched on that...
Date: 01/14/2005
Just keep talking
I'll be participating in a VSTS Dev/Test tools team chat over the next couple of days. Please feel...
Date: 01/12/2005
The Beta2 push, and Team System in Europe
Looks like my blog is a little green and moldy, time to scrape that off and freshen things up....
Date: 01/11/2005
Beta1 Refresh with Team System
Head on over to RickLa's blog to find out more about this release. J
Date: 08/27/2004
One last debugger tip
Since Matt is doing a great job of documenting the handy features I added in the debugger, I thought...
Date: 08/23/2004
Help! To policy, methodology or just plain old help?
I volunteered to work on a feature for other groups in VSTS that are responsible for integrating...
Date: 08/11/2004
Will someone turn the volume down
Yeah, my blog has been a bit quiet lately. Simple reason is I'm a new dad. One of my colleagues,...
Date: 08/09/2004
Tracepoints!
Now that Beta1 is out, I'd like to draw attention to the little known new debugger feature called...
Date: 07/02/2004
Maoni Stephens blog
Maoni Stephens, performance PM in the CLR, has started a blog. She discusses many of the deeper...
Date: 06/23/2004