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One of the things that the C# team does occaisionally is hold an appweek, where we take a week out of our schedules and devote it solely to using our product to build apps. For the last week or so, there's been a QA appweek that the PMs have been participating in, and we're organized into 8 or so teams.

The reason I called it “appweak” is that I've only been able to spend, at best, 50% of my time devoted to appweek, which means my contribution has been fairly modest. Our team has been using the profiling apis to do some program visualization (function stack, exception behavior, memory behavior, etc.). Other teams have their own projects, with at least one team doing a game (a Berzerk clone, IIRC).

Why do I mention this? Well, to explain a bit how we test our products, and to tell you that I think you're going to be pretty happy with Whidbey - it has some nice advances that make writing code a fair bit easier.

[Update] Jack asked how we decide what kinds of apps we write, and whether we target specific feature areas.

The apps are nearly always chosen by the teams. Sometimes we give them guidance on what kind of app they write, but my experience is that it's better to just let the teams guide themselves. Our goal is to use the product the way we expect our customer to use it, which for us meant using source code control, the new build system, and training ourselves to use refactoring

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  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2004
    Now that's a good idea, I'm convinced that my current project would have been better off if the devs had been forced to build a product on top of our services.
  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2004
    How many of those apps end up useful and on http://toolbox ?

    Do you have it free for all anything goes or do you have goals for this appweek like application themes?
  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2004
    Applicaiton themes like "User Controls" or "Refactoring" or "interop" etc.

  • Anonymous
    February 13, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 15, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2004
    Suggestion for an AppWeek project:

    Having had a lot of trouble developing and deploying Smart Client (aka no touch deployment), it would be great if more MS people tried building them.
  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2004
    It would be fun to watch them try to make a setup package within VS.NET and also have prerequisites of other setup packages :D

    Now that I think would be comedy gold.