MSIDC - Developer Tools

overview

Microsoft Corporation’s Visual Studio product line simplifies the entire development process from design to deployment. The prototyping, modeling and design tools help unleash creativity and transform visions to working software for individual developers and for teams. Coding is faster than ever before as the developer can leverage existing code and skills to write applications targeting platforms, including Windows Phone, SharePoint and Windows Azure applications. It enables developers and testers to work better together and save time with integrated testing and debugging tools. They can find and fix bugs quickly to make sure their solutions meet the highest possible quality standards.

Our Developer Tools teams at MSIDC contributes to many parts of the Visual Studio product line, including features for Windows Phone development, manual and automated functional testing, load and performance testing, unit testing infrastructure, Lab Management and code coverage. These features are shipped as part of Visual Studio Ultimate, Visual Studio Premium, Visual Studio Test Professional and Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone.

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Our team at MSIDC supported Microsoft Corp in the development of:

Visual Studio Test Professional 2010
Visual Studio Lab Management 2010
Load & Automation Testing Solution in VS2010 Ultimate
Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Phone 7 (Beta)
Device Emulator v2.0, v3.0 in Visual Studio for Devices
.NET Compact Framework v3.7 for Windows Phone 7 (beta)
.NET Compact Framework v3.5
.NET Compact Framework for XNA on Zune, Xbox & IPTV
Silverlight for Symbian (RTM)

showcase

Manual Testing with VSTS 2010

Naysawn Naderi takes us through manual testing in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Naysawn shows off how the manual testing capabilities allow not only for better authoring and execution of manual tests, but can also be a tool to help automate portions of manual tests as well.

Lab Management in VSTS 2010

Lab Management integrates with the rest of the Visual Studio to help testers more easily test a variety of configurations in a virtual lab environment, and help developers more easily repro bugs by delivering snapshots of those virtualized environments after bugs are discovered.

Windows Phone Developer Resources

meet amit

Amit Chatterjee, Managing Director, Microsoft India R&D Pvt Ltd, & General Manager, Server & Tools Business, MSIDC

Amit Chatterjee is the Managing Director of Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd (MIRPL) and the General Manager of the Server & Tools Business at MSIDC. Amit has been with Microsoft for the last 23 years. He started his Microsoft career in Redmond in 1988 and spent the first few years as a key member of the Windows team that shipped Windows 2.1, 3.0, 3.1 and '95, after which he joined the Direct Show and Direct X Media product teams.

He moved to India to join MIRPL in 1998 and has held a variety of roles, including being the General Manager for the Windows Technologies group. He took over as the General Manager of the Visual Studio Test & Lab Management business at MIRPL in the year 2007. In September 2010, Amit was appointed the Managing Director of MIRPL. Recently, he was appointed the General Manager of the Server & Tools Business at MSIDC.

Amit completed his Master’s in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur after graduating in Electronics from the same university. He received the President of India Gold Medal for the ‘Best Graduating Engineer’ in 1984 and the Technology Alumni Association Gold Medal for topping the post graduate class of 1985. He was recently conferred the IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award 2010.