Last fall, contractor Lockheed Martin delivered an update to the Federal Aviation Administration's next-generation flight data air traffic control system -- ahead of schedule and under budget, which is something you don't often hear about in government circles.
- By Joab Jackson
- 04/14/2008
The refreshed offerings mark a significant evolution in the Silk family, originally acquired by Borland in the 2006 purchase of Segue Software.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/10/2008
VB.NET gets left behind (again), this time by the Windows Live team.
- By Patrick Meader
- 04/01/2008
Take advantage of new features in C# 3.0 that let you treat code as data -- and save time over more traditional, imperative approaches to programming.
Novell, a sponsor of the open source Mono project, issued an announcement today that a new development tool, called MonoDevelop 1.0, will be available for download at the end of this week.
All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Redmond is working on a new declarative programming language, currently named "D."
This month's featured downloads include the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview, Visual Basic 9.0 language specification document and more.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 02/01/2008
.NET developers, regardless of whether they use VB or C#, realize that the .NET platform is far more important than the language they choose.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 02/01/2008
Learn to pass anonymous types outside the method in which they're created; take advantage of closures when working with lambda expressions; drilldown on overloading; initialize static fields properly; and see where KeyedCollections improve performance.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2008
Is C# really gaining ground against VB? Readers weigh in.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 02/01/2008
Salesforce.com's Steve Fisher talks about development beyond CRM.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 02/01/2008
A look at: Kaxaml 1.0, SubSonic 2.1, SapphireSteel Software, Subkismet.
- By Staff of Redmond Developer News
- 02/01/2008
A functional programming language built for the .NET Framework
Microsoft in January released the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack, which extends the VC++ 2008 Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) libraries that shipped with the Visual Studio 2008 IDE.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/21/2008
Last month, Redmond released an early build of "Volta," a set of tools for building Web apps that run across multiple tiers.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/18/2008
The Creative Commons foundation recently released the CC+ protocol, which allows authors and other content makers to release their work for free (under the Creative Commons noncommercial license) and charge a fee for commercial use at the same time.
Open source community projects and commercial software aren't necessarily adversaries. Some interactions have resulted in a positive outcome for all. One such instance is the KDE project's collaboration with Oslo, Norway-based Trolltech. Since 1996, Trolltech's QT toolkit has been used in the KDE Desktop Environment. The collaboration resulted in user-friendly desktops for Unix and Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux).
Nothing has prevented ASP.NET developers from using a model view controller (MVC) architecture. But it's likely to get a lot easier with Microsoft's ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions, which will include the highly anticipated MVC option. The first preview of the technology was released today.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/10/2007
Microsoft released Entity Framework Beta 3 on Dec. 6 and officially announced the third-party database vendors and ADO.NET 2.0 data providers that have agreed to support the framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/07/2007
Microsoft set to unveil Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/15/2007