Enhancing the C# Community

 Enhancing the C# Community

My primary goal is to serve your needs by facilitating the creation of a vibrant and useful C# community. Along the way, I also want to foster open and honest communication. For this type of communication to succeed, I need to be able to connect people to people. Nothing should stand between those who create C# and those who use C#.

The C# team creates its product in conjunction with its customers. The team cannot and does not exist independently from the people who use Visual C#. Getting feedback from users is a vital part of planning and developing our product. We need to work with you. We need involvement from you when we are designing features, and we need to work with you while we are developing them.

One good way to encourage that kind of communication is to create a lively, active community of C# users. I have ideas about how to encourage that kind of community, but I want to let them simmer a little longer before I share them here in my blog. To do this right, I’m going to have to exercise both patience and care.

In the mean time, I would like to hear from you. Please add some comments to this blog if you have ideas about how we can help create a strong C# community. I’m open to any thoughts you would like to share, whether they involve the web, public events, product enhancements, or some entirely unique approach.

None of us can work alone. We are only as strong as the community we create together.

I’ll close this first post by writing a little about myself. I’ve been working with computers for about 20 years, and I’ve been in the industry proper since March of 1992, when I joined Borland.

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