New APIs and native support for resources like the Ribbon UI, the Windows 7 Taskbar and parallelism boost native development.
- By Marian Luparu
- 06/01/2010
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 makes it easier than ever to work with rich, data-bound elements.
- By Mark Boulter
- 05/01/2010
Will familiar tools and a low barrier to entry entice you to build innovative apps for Windows Phone 7?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/01/2010
Stuart McGill, Chief Technology Officer at Micro Focus, discusses the company's new direction and priorities.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/16/2010
Visual Studio 2010 provides familiar tooling and resources for developers who want to put their applications up in the cloud. Here's how to do it.
- By Anson Horton, Hani Atassi, Danny Thorpe, Jim Nakashima
- 04/01/2010
C++ developers will see major improvements -- beyond support for Windows 7 APIs -- in Visual C++ 2010.
With the ambitious nature of the Visual Studio 2010 upgrade, it's hardly surprising Microsoft faced challenges on its way to RTM. We take a look behind the development of Microsoft's game-changing IDE.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2010
Microsoft Technical Fellow and Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server Brian Harry talks about testing, data and team-based development in Visual Studio 2010.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/25/2010
From a scaled-down Office client to the much larger role of Silverlight, here are seven things about Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 preview that stood out at last week's conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/22/2010
Directions on Microsoft Analyst Rob Sanfilippo talks about Microsoft's epic VS2010 development effort and what we can expect going forward.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/15/2010
Every codebase contains some measure of technical debt -- code that is maddeningly hard to test and maintain. We outline some ideas for identifying and dealing with the high-interest debt in your code.
- By David Laribee
- 03/01/2010
Mergers and acquisitions, Windows 7 and the Web are driving a legacy migration to .NET. Developers tell how they unlocked their old technology and made the sometimes-painful journey to the modern platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/01/2010
New functionality in Visual Studio Team System 2010 supports the Agile dev trend.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/01/2010
Why Silverlight 4 should change the way you make decisions about application development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/01/2010
Flawed code is a lot like financial debt. It drags you down and consumes resources that would otherwise go to profit-making ventures. Here's how to avoid getting caught in the technical debt trap.
- By David Laribee
- 02/01/2010
Will the Dev10 improvements be worth it if the result is slower performance?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/01/2010
Still rooted to traditional dev models? Learning the skills and processes to span on-premises and cloud scenarios is fundamental for Visual Studio developers in 2010.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/01/2010
Microsoft has decided to drop development of OracleClient from its ADO.NET roadmap; while the provider remains available, use of it should be avoided in new applications accessing Oracle data sources.
- By Jonathan Bruce
- 12/22/2009
As CIOs largely reject the early crop of cloud services for business-critical apps, Redmond readies private and hybrid cloud platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/17/2009
Microsoft's second release of ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 could bring object-relational mapping to more developers, but exactly how many remains to be seen.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2009