New Job, New Challenges

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Today we announced that I will be moving from the .NET team to run Visual Studio.  I'm really excited about this!  The VS and .NET teams are sister teams under Soma which means I will continue to work very closely with ScottGu. 

The products on my team include Mobile (VSD and NETCF), Phoenix, C++, C#, VB, Javascript, the DLR (with IronRuby and IronPython), Office Tools (VSTO/VSTA), the core VS IDE platform, Popfly, and several groups doing some advanced work we aren't yet talking about (<g>).  As you can imagine, there are some really phenomenal people working on these products.

VS2008 is wrapping up now and is a really great product.  One of my first tasks is now to work with the team on planning the next version of VS after that.  So please send me your feedback on what you'd like to see in that release!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 15, 2007
    Hi Jason, Congratulation on the new job. If I could ask for one thing to be added to vsNext it would be a difficult one to create but essential in the post-multi-core development environment of the future - that is some kind of decent multi-threaded debugging experience. It would also have to work in something like an Ajax development environment as well. I'm not sure how you'd do it - but I'd be very grateful if your team found a way... Andrew

  • Anonymous
    September 15, 2007
    Hi Jason, Good luck in your new job. One thing I would like to see support for in VS is merging of solution-files. Another neat feature is something Borland (now CodeGear) has in their Delphi and C# Builder IDE: history of local changes. This means that you can track the changes done to a file locally (without checking the file in to source control) with compare. Regards, Trygve

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2007
    thanks for the suggestions! Andrew - We are indeed working on several things related to more cores, stay tuned... Trygve - these sound like useful changes in the editor, I'll pass them along Jason

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2007
    Hey, Jason. Congratulations! A few wishes:

  • Keep adding static analysis features, even on-the-fly hints.

  • Work with the Open Source tools community to avoid incompatibilities or completely killing OS projects.

  • I'm still waiting for a full online IDE. With Silverlight and the DLR available, one should be able to code and debug right into the browser. Think Popfly Pro!  8-) Best luck! Martin Salias Enterprise Architect Microsoft South Cone

  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    September 18, 2007
    thanks Martin & Ian, great feedback!

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2007

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  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2007
    Congratulations, What is happening with FoxPro and will VS be adding ever again.

  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2007
    Congratulations on the new job. I would like to see VS always provide the ability to convert from the previous release to the new release without making any manual changes.  This would make it easier as well as encourage enterprises to stay current with their application systems.  I am not saying to support older versions but at least make it so they can open the solutions in the next version and successfully build and deploy them. Thanks,  Clyde

  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2007
    I would love to see Visual Studio ported to Linux operating system.  Do you have any plans on bring any version of Visual Studio to other operation system? Regards, Justin

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    September 20, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2007
    Hello Jason, One thing that I would like to have in Visual Studio is the ability to attach documents that describe within the code editor, similar to how you can embed images, tables, and visio diagrams within MS Word. Just the other day I had a complex non-UML diagram that I wanted to appear when someone opened the code. For now I have been placing the files as part of the project. Good luck! Regards, Fritz

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    September 20, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2007
    More memmory leaking analyzer in the c++ module.

  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2007
    Hi Jason, one of my biggest wishes for the Orcas+1 release is support for C++0x. It would be great if Visual Studio were one of the early adopters of the updated C++ spec. VC++ devs had a very bad experience when it took until VS2003 (FIVE years after formal standardization!) to get a reasonably conforming compiler. This should never ever happen again. Best regards

  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2007
    Take a look at the Eclipse IDE. If VS will do what Eclipe does in terms of code editing and refactory, you can call it an IDE.

  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2007
    New lead for the Visual Studio team

  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2007
    Hi, Congrats for joining this team. We are expecting much in IronRuby support. We are looking for a special IDE for DLR. just the way VS2008 works today for Vb and C#. The tool IDE can be given a name such as DLR Express, which comes strictly for DLR languages, such as IronRuby, IronPython, IronLisp, VB Dynamic etc.. It would be great if you could study few great IDE like (1) Komodo (2) 3rdrail (3) NetBeans (4)E-text etc. The popularity for DLR languages is totally dependent on Great IDE specially built for them. MS and Your Team should take a serious note of this and perhaps create a poll or feedback to know more reviews. Thanks IronRuby

  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2007
    Hi Jason Congrats with the new job I would like to have the opertunity to change colour and Font in all windows. Finn

  • Anonymous
    September 23, 2007
    Jason, Congrats! I hope you enjoy.  I am a big fan of VS and TFS/Team Suite. Are you going to be working in the TFS area as well or is that a different group?  If TFS is part of your domain, please consider better Outlook to TFS integration between Tasks and Work Items. Also, OneNote integration would be nice as well.   Thanks, David

  • Anonymous
    September 23, 2007
    Hi Jason, Congrats for new great job!! One major thing, which i would like to have in .net is transforming of ASP.NET Application to Windows based and vice versa. This would be fantastic if we have this feature available in Next Big Version. Hope your team work on it. Thanks, Amrat Nandlal

  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2007
    Hi, Congratulation on the new job. A couple of things I'd like to see in VS:

  1. The auto-generated code uses the "int" keyword instead of "Int32", or "bool" instead of "Boolean"... It'd be amazing, however, if the programmer could specify which pattern the auto-generated code engine should follow.
  2. When renaming a formal parameter of a method in C#, the comments of the mentioned method (if any) should reflect the changes too. Good luck, Mehdi Mousavi [ http://www.mehdi.biz/blog ]

  • Anonymous
    September 27, 2007
    thanks everyone for the great feedback.  I see a few themes:

  • Increased extensibility in the IDE. We are working on this, including introducing ways to write new VSIP plug-ins using managed code.

  • Navigation, discoverability, and productivity increases (fonts, windows, toolbox, etc)

  • Questions around platform coverage.  - We have not planned changes around FoxPro  - We're not planning to take VS off Windows. However we did add cross debugging support for the Mac for Silverlight 1.1.

  • Better tools for systems developers (threading, code focused, etc)

  • DLR specific questions. I've been building dynamic langauges support in the CLR for quite a while so I have a lot of passion around this one as well. Thanks for all the great feedback!  I'm going to use my blog to cover both great new things in VS2008 and when the time is right, the next version for feature feedback. thanks,  Jason

  • Anonymous
    October 15, 2007
    I recently switched from managing a large group (VB, VC#, VC++, and Phoenix product units) to working