Some key products won't get attention at the Professional Developers Conference. Here's a guide to what will remain under wraps at Microsoft's biggest developer showcase in years.
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 10/15/2008
The National Security Agency has released a case study showing how to cost-effectively develop code with zero defects. If adopted widely, the practices advocated in the case study could help make commercial software programs more reliable and less vulnerable to attack.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/10/2008
Component maker Intersoft Solutions releases WebUI Studio.NET 2008 R2, an ASP.NET- and Silverlight-based Web development suite
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2008
Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle initiative introduces a set of dev requirements aimed at reducing security defects in software.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2008
Developers can get prepared for the next version of Microsoft's rich Internet application platform by grabbing Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 developer runtime edition, which became publicly available on Thursday of last week.
Microsoft is crossing the aisles to see the security process through from start to finish -- not just internally, but for outside software developers too.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/18/2008
Austria-based testing-tools vendor Ranorex GmbH has released an automated application-testing solution targeting Windows, .NET and Web development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/16/2008
Why software development as a repeatable business process may work for you.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2008
Understanding and applying the principles of memory management is key to building high-performing managed applications.
- By Peter Varhol
- 09/15/2008
Testing tools vendor Ranorex releases automated application-testing solution for Windows, .NET and Web development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2008
Microsoft’s UrlScan 3.0 is an improved security filter for Internet Information Services Web server designed to prevent SQL-injection attacks.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was released late last month, so I gave it a test run.
Xenocode releases Postbuild 2008 for .NET, a code-obfuscation and deployment tool that protects intellectual property.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
Software development gone wrong -- terribly wrong.
- By Alex Papadimoulis
- 09/01/2008
Alfresco Software’s open source enterprise content management system presents a new challenge to SharePoint.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/01/2008
CollabNet offers a new version of SourceForge Enterprise, an ALM system that provides a single interface for Visual Studio and Eclipse IDEs.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/01/2008
AVIcode releases the newest version of its AVIcode Intercept Studio, an application-monitoring and reporting suite for .NET dev shops.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/15/2008
Microsoft released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/11/2008
Skytap’s Virtual Lab service lets developers subscribe to virtual machines
(VMs) and provides a VM image library and a virtual lab-management app.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/01/2008
How to track Agile requirements with Windows SharePoint Services.
- By David Christiansen
- 08/01/2008