Anith Gopal

Since we released the latest version of the guidance and in particular the Visual Studio extension we have noticed steady increase in downloads and are also getting candid feedback What is not getting much traction are the new videos … are they too hidden on Codeplex? Should we be offering them as separate downloads?

Context I was introduced to the integrated development environment (IDE) in the 80’s with the CTOS development environment and in the 90’s with the Windows development environment. Since then the evolution of Visual Studio has been astounding and looking at what is to come with Visual Studio 2010, see Better Coding with Visual Studio 2010 for more information, we can merely stand  gobsmacked and in awe. Since the IDE emerged my excitement was, however, stifled with the fact that in practise the “integrated” environment was far from reality.