This video was on reddit/r/programming recently but only got two upvotes. I feel it's worth more attention than that.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Text-Editor-from-SkyDrive-wit...

Edit: It's had almost 30,000 views, so it's getting attention.

I had missed it. Thank you.

Suprisingly enough, this really is the release announcement. This is their marketing department.

Scott Hanselman ... Microsoft employee.

It's Microsoft's new marketing strategy - they try to promote 'organic growth and acceptance' of new products through social media and viral advertising. I don't believe it works very well - it always comes across as a bit false and pollutes the real comment environment, giving viewers the strange feeling that something is wrong. It also creates a lot of antagonism when paid employees actually argue with detractors, etc.

Respectfully, that's nonsense. I don't even work in their department. I've been online for 20+ years, blogging for like 12 years and I've worked at MS for 6.

The blog is a blog. This post is just a post. I get in trouble for blogging a few times a year, and that suits me just fine. It's just a job.

Wow, Mr Hanselman himself.

I'm a big fan - listen to all episodes of your podcast. Just watched a few presentations from this year Build. You should really give other MS employees a course on public speaking - they are sooo slow and boring compared to you ;-)

He's got a course on public speaking available on TekPub.

OT, but do you think you could point me in the direction of whoever's responsible for WPL/AntiXSS? It's been broken for ages [1] [2]. There seem to be no reliable HTML sanitization library for .NET right now. It looks like the best I could do is to copy and paste a bunch of code and hope that it works [3].

[1] http://wpl.codeplex.com/releases/view/80289#ReviewsAnchor

[2] http://wpl.codeplex.com/workitem/17246

[3] http://eksith.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/whitelist-santize-htm...

Let me ask around. It's handled by a group that isn't ASP.NET.

Any effort is appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you for your blog, the posts are always entertaining and informative :)

OT, but on the .NET Framework versioning, the support lifecycle of 2.0/3.0/3.5 is a mess that needs to be cleaned up:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2696944

The lifecycle policy of 3.5 SP1 should also be applied to 3.0 SP2 and 2.0 SP2, for example.

Thanks for the feedback Yuhong. As you correctly pointed out .NET 2.0 SP2 and .NET 3.0 SP2 are sub-components of .NET 3.5 SP1 so it makes sense to have these on the same lifecycle. The good news is that this is already the case, the Knowledge Base Article 2696944 clarifies that when .NET 3.5 SP1 is installed the same lifecycle will apply to .NET 2.0 SP2 and 3.0 SP2 too.

This is the relevant snippet from that KB article -

...snip...

However, Microsoft will provide support for the .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0 components for customers who install the .NET Framework 3.5 for as long as the .NET Framework 3.5 remains in support.

...snip...

Thanks, Jamshed Program Manager, .NET Framework Fundamentals team

But why 2.0 SP2 and 3.0 SP2 has a different lifecycle if 3.5 SP1 is installed vs if it is not installed?

Thanks, I've sent this note to the Lifecycle guy and I'll get you a response.

What a load of rubbish. Scott Hanselman has been blogging on these sorts of things for years before he ever joined Microsoft, and always tries to maintain his independence in his blogging and podcasting regardless of employer.

Er, is that why the screenshots use Google Chrome?

The official release announcement (at the bottom of the post):

http://blogs.windows.com/skydrive/b/skydrive/archive/2013/07...

In http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/3-314 around 00:54:40 Anders Hejlsberg mentions that there is a team in Switzerland working on that editor, and it is written in TypeScript.

It is at 53:40+.