With the U.S. economy still circling and unemployment on the rise, it's a good time to be in IT -- relatively speaking.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/11/2008
These products can help make your occasional forays into the world of databases much easier to take.
- By Peter Varhol
- 08/01/2008
If Silverlight 2 wins the gold in Beijing, will it be ready to light up your rich Internet apps?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/01/2008
Industry watcher Andy Updegrove on the future of OOXML and ISO.
- By Michael Desmond
- 08/01/2008
In-depth Q&A analyzes what developers can expect after the appeal's expected defeat.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/17/2008
Microsoft's Michael Pizzo talks up Entity Framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/15/2008
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2008
Enterprise SharePoint adoption is exploding and development managers are learning some hard lessons in the process.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2008
Microsoft readies its new "cloud database" by hosting beta versions of REST and SOAP protocols for performing CRUD operations on clustered, customized SQL Server 2008 instances. These instances are organized as massively scalable, super-reliable, highly available Web services.
- By Roger Jennings
- 07/01/2008
As the mantle of leadership at Microsoft shifts, what is Gates' legacy as a developer?
- By William F. Zachmann
- 06/15/2008
Paul Preiss champions the role of software architects.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/15/2008
Why has Microsoft clammed up about dev projects in the Windows and Windows Live groups, and what does it mean for developers?
- By Mary Jo Foley
- 05/15/2008
Microsoft's first CSO shares his views on data security and Redmond's new trust model.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/15/2008
- By Bill McCarthy
- 05/01/2008
Microsoft's end-to-end trust initiative is long on vision, but short on developer details.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2008
In the era of Software+Services, Microsoft takes a different approach to software licensing than Web hosting companies and managed service providers. Microsoft's Michael van Dijken explains in the Q&A.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/21/2008
Zend co-founder talks about the new PHP framework, Yahoo! and open Web standards.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/15/2008
Redmond is making bold promises about interoperability and standards, but is the company serious about changing the way it does business?
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2008
Utilize table-valued parameters to write less code and to achieve higher application performance.
- By Paul Delcogliano
- 04/01/2008
TopCoder's Ira Heffan weighs in on Microsoft's pledge to open its technology.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008