I give my first impressions of Visual Studio, when I open it for the first time.

So today, I realized VS 2019 is out for preview, and I decided I’d give installing it a whirl. I also figured this would be a good time to renew my blogging effort, so you get to see how it looks! So far, I like what I’m seeing! I’ll report back later with some thoughts […]

A few months ago, I wrote about my experience migrating a client into Azure. Now, there’s more! Visual Studio Team Services has released some pretty awesome features related to Build and Release management. Here’s a quick overview of what I did to get a Continuous Deploy scenario set up recently. Environment Setup 3 Deployment Slots […]

Continuing in our C# 6 Features Series… One of the neat things about C# 6 is that it is backwards compatible to previous versions of .Net. Language Versions are not identical to .Net Common Language Runtime (CLR) versions – which can produce a little bit of confusion. As of today (January 30, 2016), the current .Net CLR runtime […]

I had a few minutes, so I thought I’d get a series of posts started – really quick snippets about why C# 6 features are interesting, and why they matter. The one I’m going to start with is the one I’ve been using far and away the most. String Interpolation. Take a look at this: […]

So I’m starting up a couple of side projects, and I’m hosting them on Visual Studio Online (VSO). I wanted to do them right, so I took a little time to review the way that the “Planning Tools” are currently implemented in VSO. It’s just me, plus a couple people feeding me ideas for features, […]

So I have a couple of Visual Basic 6 applications I maintain, and one of the big issues I have had was the lack of GOOD source control available for a small business person like myself. Until now. VisualStudio.com provides an online instance of TFS – we know this… But what I hadn’t thought about […]

Visual Studio 2013 released to the public this morning. If you have an MSDN license, grab it there. If not, here’s a couple links to try: Visual Studio 2013 Editions Visual Studio Launch Party Official ALM Team Announcement Official VS Team Announcement I’m definitely planning on installing everything on my main development machines over the […]