This week marks Windows 95's birthday, with the venerable operating system turning 15 years old.
If you want to take advantage of the power of multi-core machines, you need to start creating applications with parallel processing using PLINQ, the Task Parallel Library and the new features of Visual Studio 2010.
The new IntelliTrace feature in Visual Studio 2010 promises to eliminate the pernicious scourge of "no repro" bugs by giving developers a detailed view of what happened during execution when a bug was filed. Here's how you can get started with IntelliTrace.
Microsoft's community program manager for the Visual Studio Managed Languages Team talks about the new capabilities in C# 4 and what we can expect going forward.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/29/2010
In part 2 of his series on Web performance testing and load testing in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Ben Day explains how to set up a load test rig to determine how well your application performs with multiple users.
- By Benjamin Day
- 07/12/2010
How to use SQL Server to build a business intelligence (BI) platform without getting your organization's top brass involved.
- By Andrew Peterson
- 07/01/2010
Visual Studio 2010 seriously raised the bar for application lifecycle management. From test and debug to team-based collaboration and project management, here's an in-depth look at the improved tooling.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/01/2010
OPINION: It's been ten years since .NET Framework was launched at the 2000 PDC.
LINQ to SQL is a powerful technology that can do as much harm as good if it is mis-used. Here is how to get more out of your LINQ to SQL efforts.
- By Bart McDonough
- 06/24/2010
Patrick Steele looks at the enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 that will make your C# development more productive.
- By Patrick Steele
- 06/23/2010
Microsoft's sim-ship program has helped more than 90 third-party vendors update products for Visual Studio 2010. In some cases, those vendors are helping Microsoft fill crucial gaps.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/18/2010
Performance testing and debugging is a major focus of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.
- By Benjamin Day
- 06/17/2010
We speak with Microsoft's Senior Director for Visual Studio and MSDN product management about application lifecycle management with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Team Foundation Server 2010.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/16/2010
We speak with Microsoft's Director of SharePoint Tools and Technologies about SharePoint 2010 and its impact on .NET developers.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/02/2010
Vishwas Lele is chief technology officer of Applied Information Services and a Microsoft Regional Director. He offers four use cases that make SharePoint 2010 a compelling target for application development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/02/2010
Visual Studio Magazine spoke with Vishwas Lele, a veteran SharePoint application developer, Microsoft Regional Director and chief technology officer of Applied Information Services, about his thoughts on developing apps for SharePoint 2010.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/02/2010
Why Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 are poised to unleash a new wave of developer innovation.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/01/2010
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