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
Yousef Khalidi talked about Microsoft's new Azure cloud services at the Interop trade show on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/20/2009
Microsoft Security Program Manager Bryan Sullivan talks about the new agile-focused SDL 4.1a.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/10/2009
A year after the first technical previews of Azure, Microsoft is launching a less-ambitious platform with forklift revisions based on developer feedback.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2009
Oracle used this week's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco to roll out new tools aimed at providing better integration of its disparate wares, but much of the focus at this year's annual event was on the company's pending $7.4 billion agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/16/2009
Several hundred software and enterprise architects this week gathered from around the world to ponder and debate how to affect improvements in how systems and applications can be better engineered and made more adaptive.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/15/2009