Anith Gopal

Your feedback is important to us. Please take 5 minutes – link to the survey and let us know what you think.  Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta Survey Thanks! 

The CLR performance team is running a survey to get your feedback about what to focus on for performance in the .Net framework. This includes performance in the framework itself as well as performance profiling, optimization, and tuning for the applications that you write. If you have any WCF performance feedback you can always send it to me even if this survey later closes and I’ll direct it to the right people

Want us to fix a particularly nagging perf problem? Dying to tell us your awesome idea about an optimization? Here is an opportunity for you to provide us feedback on your level of satisfaction with .NET Framework performance and voice your opinions and thoughts on what we should be focusing on in the future

They’re probably still on a high from the sale of their billionth app, but Apple now has more cause to celebrate thanks to consumer research firm J.D. Power and Associates.

Some two weeks ago, we exposed the preliminary product backlog for Enterprise Library 5.0 and invited the community to vote on the features that matter to them most.

If so, we want to hear from you! We have created a survey to help us better understand how developers and designers are using our tools and SDK to build Microsoft Surface applications. To make this worth your time, we are giving away over 80 prizes, including a $100 gift coupon to a major online retailer! To learn about the official giveaway rules and to complete the survey, visit the “ Survey for Microsoft Surface developers and designers ” page on the Microsoft Surface Community Web site.

As if you couldn’t already tell by the sheer number of white earbuds you see slouching youths with backpacks and baby mustaches wearing, iPods are popular with the teen crowd. Very popular, according to a recent survey of teen consumer spending by investment banking firm Piper Jaffray. The survey, the results of which were reported by AppleInsider , found that Apple was actually nearing the saturation point with its survey respondent sample, which, if true, is both good and bad news for Cupertino.

I tripped across the daedalus project  this morning while I was looking for player statistics for World of Warcraft.

We are considering making some changes to the patterns currently leveraged to apply custom conflict resolution policies and business logic.   During our design discussions a handful of questions came up, so we thought it would be best to post them on our blog in an effort to collect feedback.  Please provide your feedback in the comments attached to this post.  Our questions are as follows: Can you give a handful of examples when you have had to apply some sort of custom conflict resolution policy and/or your own business logic when syncing changes?  Specifically, we are interested in examples that require data to be changed in the middle of synchronization either before/after getting changes or before/after applying changes. Do you typically leverage the Sync Framework or Sync Services events  in order to do so?  If so, which events do you most commonly use?  If not, can you describe alternate approaches you have taken?

I know all three of you who semi-regularly read my missives already have enough T-shirts but this one is a bit special. Why is it special you ask?  Because I said so! I’m even going to sweeten the pot and if you do the survey and respond back to me, I will send you an even cooler blue BizSpark long-sleeved T-shirt!                                                                      “Are you a PC?” Get a FREE “I’m a PC” black, cotton t-shirt by taking a short survey…honest, it’s less than 10 questions!  Click here to take the survey and get your t-shirt:   I’m a PC T-shirt Giveaway Survey Check out MSDN for all the latest on Windows ® Microsoft is committed to protecting your privacy. Your personal information such as name, e-mail address, postal address, and phone number may be collected if you choose to register to complete the survey to receive the incentive.

A couple of weeks ago, I attended CodeMash 2009 in Sandusky, Ohio -  my second time attending as Program Manager for CodePlex. The first year, I spent 2 days sitting non-stop with project owners and site visitors, collecting feedback about the site.

Earlier in the beta period, we put out a call here on the development blog for designers in the WordPress community who might be interested in designing custom icons for the 2.7 admin interface.