In November, Microsoft released the feature-complete preview of SQL Server 2008 R2, the first major upgrade of its flagship database platform in nearly two years.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2009
The jQuery library makes it easier to create applications that execute in the browser. By leveraging existing ASP.NET technologies and merging them with jQuery, you can create faster, more responsive applications.
Gurock SmartInspect not only allows you to log anything you want, it includes a powerful tool for analyzing the results.
The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 held in Las Vegas in October marked an important milestone for Redmond's popular SharePoint collaboration and publishing platform.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2009
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
The Microsoft SharePoint Conference (SPC) 2009 event defied the tough economic times. With more than 7,400 attendees, SPC eclipsed the size of this year's TechEd and MIX confabs combined.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/01/2009
Visual Basic 10 introduces new generic tuple classes that can help you get more done with less -- if you're careful about it.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 12/01/2009
The free SDK enables developers to use a PC, multiple mice, and PC-based simulator tools to build and test apps for Microsoft Surface.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/20/2009
Burley Kawasaki, the director of Microsoft's Connected System Division, explains why AppFabric is the next logical step in .NET abstraction.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/19/2009
Rx is a .NET Framework extension library that developers can use to build applications that can react to changes to the collections in their environment.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 11/19/2009
Microsoft releases the 2010 set of betas of its Office productivity software -- Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010 and Office Mobile.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/18/2009
Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky reviews features in Windows 7 and early IE9 developments.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/18/2009
Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell details the Dallas data application. Could it emerge as the first killer app for the cloud?
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/17/2009
All Classic VB apps have at least one top-level window. Normally out of reach, you can put them to good use if you know how to get to them.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 11/16/2009
Thousands of attendees are expected to gather in Los Angeles this week to learn more about Microsoft's developer platform strategy.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/16/2009
At design time, you can tie parameters in the DataSource to a variety of data sources. But sometimes the source for your values can't be set at design time. Here's how to set those values at runtime.
Visual Studio plug-in lets Windows developers create .NET-compatible Mono applications that run on Linux, Unix and Mac-based systems.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/11/2009
ASP.NET MVC provides a lot of flexibility when it comes to changing how controllers, actions, routes and more work within an application. Having flexibility is good especially when you need to make a modification quickly without having to write a lot of code to get the change in place.
Java/.NET interoperability solutions provider JNBridge is adding features to the next release of its core interop tool that will integrate distributed transactions between enterprise Java and .NET platforms.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/10/2009
Microsoft announced today in Berlin that it has acquired the Teamprise Client Suite, which supports Eclipse and other cross-platform environments for Team Foundation Server.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/09/2009