Why is C# taking the lead over VB.NET?
- By Patrick Meader
- 11/01/2007
You can't predict change, but you can prepare for it. Learn how to avoid cases where you need to remove work and rework too much of what you've already done.
Businesses running data-intensive Web applications need Web pages that can update incrementally. The technology to do so has been accelerated since 2005, with the advent of open standards such as AJAX, which is the acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript (JS) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
Learn the details on the new anonymous types and nullable type features in VB 9 (VB 2008).
- By Bill McCarthy
- 10/01/2007
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 simplify the process of incorporating SharePoint into your Visual Studio applications.
- By Gustavo Velez
- 10/01/2007
Your code is the expression of your design intent -- make sure you communicate
clearly.
Release of MySQL 6.0 is expected in mid-2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2007
Major refresh coming for C++ programming language.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2007
Research firm eyeballs what’s hot in dynamic languages.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/15/2007
RIA platform vendor forms new partnership, aims at U.S. market.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2007
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
It requires a lot of plumbing to create, manage, and communicate with background threads. The System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker class already contains the functionality you need to follow best practices.
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
Microsoft's flagship IDE should ship by December.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/15/2007
Publish a PL/SQL procedure in Oracle as a Web service and consume it from a Web service client in WCF.
- By John Charles Olamendy Turruellas
- 08/01/2007
Multithreaded programming is difficult because context switches can happen any time. Here are a few techniques to mitigate the chance of failure.
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
Microsoft's lightweight platform for developing rich Internet apps.
- By Laurence Moroney
- 08/01/2007
Analyst, firms warn that outsourcing development poses risk to
intellectual property.
- By Thomas Caywood
- 07/15/2007
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