Microsoft releases critical VB6 patch. Plus VB 2005 Power Packs 2.0, new VS 2008 downloads and more.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 10/01/2007
Learn what enabling the application framework in VB actually does and what an invariant culture is and how you take advantage of it.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 10/01/2007
Release of MySQL 6.0 is expected in mid-2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2007
Microsoft has re-organized its developer division, tapping .NET Framework head Jason Zander to oversee the team that puts together Visual Studio, the company's flagship development environment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/17/2007
Microsoft's pledge to support the VB 6.0 runtime via Vista may not be as promising as it seems -- here's what you really need to know.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 09/14/2007
Windows Presentation Foundation has been greatly underserved by Microsoft’s emphasis on glitz and glamour; learn how to take advantage of WPF in your everyday Windows business apps.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2007
Learn how to copy all the custom data formats in objects to the clipboard and determine which ones are appropriate when you paste.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2007
Get the latest downloads related to Visual Studio 2008 (formerly Orcas).
- By Bill McCarthy
- 09/01/2007
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it intends to buy Parlano, a Chicago-based company it has already worked closely with on enterprise communications software.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 08/30/2007
Microsoft's flagship IDE should ship by December.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/15/2007
Learn how to write programs that not only protect themselves from bugs, but that also seek them out and destroy them.
- By Rod Stephens
- 08/01/2007
Orcas is coming! Plus other download goodies this month.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 08/01/2007
Learn how constraints work when creating custom generic classes; display the VB splash screen for an extended period of time; and preserve Handles clauses when you cut-and-paste them.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 08/01/2007
Take an in-depth look at operators in Visual Basic; examine the rules and guidelines for operator overloading; and learn about ternary operators and operator lifting.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 08/01/2007
If you're a Visual Studio developer, you're now a [fill in the blank] developer. The way Microsoft has updated this line over time says a lot about the versatility of its core tools and development platform.
- By Patrick Meader
- 07/01/2007
Ken Cox reviews Infragistics suite of more than 30 controls for building AJAX-enabled ASP.NET Web applications, including grid, chart, toolbar, menu, editors, data entry, and scheduling controls.
Get the latest downloads.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 07/01/2007
Learn how to create expandable menus such as you find in Office; handle mouse up/down events properly; and create a custom toolstrip button.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 07/01/2007
Readers respond to Kathleen Dollard's Guest Opinion that asserted no developer can remain competent given the rate of change in developer tools and technologies.
Learn to set up and change durations in a supply-chain application that's both metadata- and template-driven.
- By Joel Champagne
- 07/01/2007