Frameworks


Microsoft's Flight to Simplicity

If you've been reading Andrew Brust's Redmond Review columns and Redmond Diary blog, you know that he's expressed concern about the complexity of the Microsoft development stack.

.NET: Fated to Succeed

I remember a time, not that many years ago, when I doubted Microsoft's bet-the-company strategy around .NET. For all its breadth, the impetus for the Microsoft .NET Framework wasn't breathtaking innovation.

A Seat at the SharePoint Table

Stop me if you've heard this one before. Microsoft takes a popular application, builds it out into a platform, then refines and extends the opportunities for developers to code against it.

Big Changes

By almost any metric, Visual Studio 2010 is a big release.

Will MIX Fix Microsoft's Mobile Mess?

Taking place March 15-17, MIX offers an exclusive developer focus on Web, rich media, and dev/design issues and technologies.

TFS Basic Profile Appeals to Smaller Shops

A few months back, VSM columnist Andrew Brust wrote about Microsoft moving away from building the type of products that fueled its early success.

All I Really Need to Know

Since announcing the Microsoft Interoperability Initiative early last year, we've seen the company move in a consistent and tangible direction toward greater openness, cooperation and interoperability.

Windows 7: A Fresh Start

Windows 7 has gone RTM and seems poised undo much of the damage Windows Vista has wrought. Is it time to start developing for Windows 7?

The Readers Speak

You pick the best of the best in 2009.

Time for XAML?

The language behind WPF is starting to gain momentum, thanks in large part to Silverlight.

Depressing Developments

How is your organization weathering the downturn?

Going Large

Visual Studio now supports myriad development platforms.