Jason Zander's blog
Corporate Vice President, Windows Azure
A Different Kind of Fan Boy
The marketing team gave me one of these really cool VS2008 fans from the Japanese sub. It has...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 04/16/2009
VSTS and the Platforms Magic Quadrant
Over the last few months I’ve been sharing updates about VSTS 2008 and 2010, most recently sharing...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 04/01/2009
Essential LINQ
Charlie Calvert and Dinesh Kulkarni have just released their new book, Essential LINQ. LINQ...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 03/27/2009
A New Look for Visual Studio 2010
At the PDC and TechEd EMEA last year we described our new editor support built on the WPF technology...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 02/20/2009
Pep Talks
I’ve found at times working as a team can be tough. The VSTS marketing team just released a...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 02/18/2009
IronPython 2.0 Released
IronPython 2.0 was just released to codeplex for download. Here are a few important links: Home page...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 12/10/2008
TechEd EMEA 2008 Keynote, Including SharePoint Tools for VS
Today in the TechEd Developers Keynote in Barcelona we announced a number of new features we haven't...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 11/10/2008
Service Pack 1 for VS2008 SP1 and .NET FX 3.5 Now Live
You can now download the SP1 for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework here. Like any service...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 08/12/2008
Melbourne Videos Live
In March I did the keynote for our Heroes Happen Here launch in Melbourne. While at the launch...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 05/13/2008
Announcing Popfly Game Creator
My boys (11 and 13) love playing video games. I've also spent time trying to get them...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 05/02/2008
VC++ 2008 Feature Pack Released Today
The VC++ 2008 Feature Pack, with a new version of MFC and an implementation of TRE1, has officially...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 04/08/2008
Silverlight 2 Map / DataGrid Demo (Part 2)
In Part 1 we created a n-tier Silverlight application which used LINQ and Silverlight 2 including...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 04/04/2008
Silverlight 2 Map / DataGrid Demo (Part 1)
I did the keynote speech for VS Live in San Francisco on 3/31 and included a demo of how to use the...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 04/04/2008
Lang.NET Videos Back Online
I had posted a pointer to our Lang.NET videos here, but unfortunately the site they were hosted on...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 03/13/2008
Announcing Silverlight Support for Nokia Devices Including S60
Part of my role as GM for Visual Studio is driving our Mobility efforts in the Developer Division...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 03/04/2008
Recommended Book: ADVANCED WINDOWS DEBUGGING
I just got this new book on advanced debugging in Windows by Mario Hewardt and Daniel...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 03/01/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event in LA
Today we are formally launching Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 here in...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 02/27/2008
Lang.Net 2008 Videos Available
We held our second Lang.Net Symposium on campus at the end of January and the videos from the event...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 02/21/2008
Download Install Challenges with VS2008
I've seen several folks having problems since we RTM'd VS2008. These usually manifest...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 11/27/2007
Couple of Historical Facts
At first when I started to see things I've worked on talked about in articles I thought it was...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 11/22/2007
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 RTM!
Today we released to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5! I want to...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 11/19/2007
Tulsa Techfest 2007 Keynote Slides
This morning I gave the opening keynote for the Tulsa TECHFEST 2007 event. There is great attendance...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 10/19/2007
Getting Started With Silverlight
I've had a number of queries on how to get started with Silverlight after my talk in NYC on Monday....
Author: Jason Zander Date: 09/21/2007
Slides from VSLive New York Keynote
This morning I presented the keynote on Silverlight at VSLive in New York. As promised, here are...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 09/17/2007
New Job, New Challenges
Today we announced that I will be moving from the .NET team to run Visual Studio. I'm really excited...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 09/15/2007
Final .NET Show with Scott Guthrie and Jason Zander
Scott and I had the opportunity to do the final .NET show on Silverlight. The show is live now: I...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 08/21/2007
Visiting Microsoft India Campus
I've spent this week visiting the Microsoft Campus in Hyderabad, India. On Wednesday I had a chance...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 08/10/2007
Speaking at the Oklahoma City Code Camp
I will be doing the opening talk at the OKC Code Camp this Saturday. It looks like Raymond has a...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 07/24/2007
IronRuby Source Available for Download
John Lam and team have been working hard on getting IronRuby ready for public release, and today is...
Author: Jason Zander Date: 07/23/2007
Code Sample: Is Your Process Using the Silverlight CLR?
In my previous post I described how multiple CLRs can now be run in the same process starting with...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/11/2007
Side by Side In Process CLRs Start with Silverlight
When we started working on managed code for Silverlight one scenario I wanted to see working was the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/10/2007
Tip/Trick: Embedding ActiveX in WPF with WindowsFormsHost (Video Demo)
I was looking for instructions on how to embed ActiveX in a WPF application and didn’t find a ton of...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/07/2007
Silverlight Podcast on HanselMinutes
ScottGu and I did a podcast with Scott Hanselman at Mix on Silverlight. You can get the podcast from...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/03/2007
Origin of the Silverlight CLR and .NET Framework
One of the common questions I’ve been asked at Mix is exactly where did the CLR / .NET Framework in...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/01/2007
Announcing .NET Framework Support for Silverlight!
This morning at Mix’07 in Las Vegas we announced something we have been working on since we shipped...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/30/2007
.NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1 redist released
Last week you saw Soma's announcement about Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 shipping. I'm pleased to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/27/2007
Origin of "FrankenBuild"
One thing I realized (too late) is that I need to be more careful about picking funny terms to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/31/2007
Tip/trick: finding errors with mda's
Most errors you run into when using the .NET Framework throw an exception making it easy to figure...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/17/2007
Visiting Chicago
I've been, umm, a little remiss in keeping my blog up to date. The good news is I've been heads down...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/17/2007
Headed to BASTA! 2006
I will be speaking at the 10th anniversary Basta! conference this week on the .NET Framework 3.0 (in...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/16/2006
IronPython V1.0 Released!
Congratulations to the IronPython team for releasing their final version of V1.0 for production use....
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/05/2006
.NET Framework 3.0 RC ready for download
NETFX 3.0 just went live on the web today, you can download it here. NETFX 3.0 contains Windows...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/01/2006
Bringing .NET to the XBox with XNA Game Studio Express
When I was 11, I was introduced to my first computer (an Apple II) in school and had started to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/16/2006
Channel 9 video on .NET FX 3.0
The Channel 9 gang has just posted a video I did with Duncan on the .NET FX 3.0. Hopefully the video...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/19/2006
.NET Framework 3.0 Install White Paper
Annie Wang (PM on our setup team) has written a detailed white paper that just got posted on MSDN....
Author: Anonymous Date: 06/29/2006
More on .NET Framework 3.0 Naming...
Wow, it is great to see the level of passion around the .NET Framework! I wanted to add some...
Author: Anonymous Date: 06/13/2006
WinFX 3.0 Renamed .NET Framework 3.0
Soma announced today that WinFX is being renamed to .NET Framework 3.0 to help out with developer...
Author: Anonymous Date: 06/09/2006
Red Bits and Compatibility
Doesn't Side by Side Cure All? Soma posted in his blog how we plan to produce an updated version of...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/22/2006
.NET running on XBox 360
Mike's blog has some great screen shots of some C# apps running on the XBox. I had a chance to play...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/23/2006
ROTOR (SSCLI) 2.0 Ships!
I'm happy to announce today that ROTOR 2.0 has released to the web. You can download the release...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/23/2006