Exploit Vista in new apps with Auks, Desktop Search, and Win32 UI elements, while maintaining backwards compatibility.
Vista just got here and Orcas is coming, but users need their apps today -- and these vendors aim to help you provide them.
Expression Design targets graphic design professionals working on elements for both Web and desktop application UIs.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/01/2007
Dubbed Service Pack 2, or SP2, the second service pack for Windows Server 2003 will be the last service pack for the aging Windows Server 2003 before the company ships its putative replacement at the end of the year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/01/2007
Microsoft buys out devBiz Business Solutions, the makers of TeamPlain Web Access, a Web interface for Team Foundation Server that helps you manage work items, documents, reports, and source control repositories.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/01/2007
Get better performance and productivity by relying on .NET's native string handling capabilities.
- By Billy Hollis
- 03/01/2007
Microsoft's Visual Tools for Apps (VSTA) is announced and its functionality demonstrated at VSLive! San Francisco 2007.
Orcas will include exciting new tools and functionality for database management within VB and C# while maintaining continuity and connectivity with legacy DBMS.
Less than a month after shipping SP2 for SQL Server 2005, Microsoft issues a hotfix to prevent maintenance plan cleanup tasks from removing data before the specified cleanup interval.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/01/2007
Discover performance tricks in ASP.NET and VSTS Edition for Testers to make your Web site run more efficiently.
- By Brian Randell
- 03/01/2007
Altova demonstrated a new version of its UModel 2007, which displays the full UML 2.1.1 compatibility, at VSLive! San Francisco 2007.
- By Peter Varhol
- 03/01/2007
Georgia Tech's Tucker Balch says Microsoft Robotics studio could revolutionize his field.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/15/2007
Windows Vista might be Microsoft's most secure client operating environment to date, but that doesn''t mean it's completely unassailable.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/01/2007
Discover what it takes for an application to the Certified for Windows Vista or Works for Windows Vista logos.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/01/2007
Borland Software adds another piece to its life-cycle quality management tool offering with its shipment of Gauntlet automated build and test software.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/01/2007
You can influence the honesty of those around you, or at least understand the causes that lead people to be less than truthful.
- By Peter Varhol
- 02/01/2007
To create quality code development teams must continually collect and analyze data on their processes for writing and building applications.
- By Peter Varhol
- 02/01/2007
Microsoft Security Response Center plans to publish twelve security bulletins that will address at least four
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/01/2007
Take advantage of WSE 3.0 to set up Web service authentication with a username and password using only one server certificate.
- By Martin Kulov
- 02/01/2007
Microsoft''s .NET Micro Framework Software Developers Kit (SDK) integrates with Visual Studio 2005, enabling SPOT devices developers to work in C# in a managed code environment.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/01/2007