As applications take flight beyond the desktop, the .NET Framework is trying to keep pace. The programming environment, which debuted in 2002 and today ships with Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio, remains the consistent foundation for Microsoft's proliferating toolsets.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/02/2009
Microsoft cancelled its standalone Office Developer Conference for this year and instead will fold the content into its SharePoint Conference 2009 event, which is scheduled for the fall.
On Wednesday, Microsoft released the latest Visual Studio (VS) extension preview for building apps that run on its Windows Azure cloud computing operating system and services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/29/2009
Microsoft this week released a new community technology preview (CTP) of its modeling environment code-named "Oslo."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/29/2009
If you want to use Entity Framework in ASP.NET, you're going to need to handle concurrency problems. Here are some suggestions from a Microsoft "architect evangelist."
Peter revisits the problem of dealing with multiple updates to the same data, but this time he looks at a solution that involves the ObjectDataSource.
Teams developing applications using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 (VSTS 2008) can now better implement Microsoft's security development lifecycle (SDL) process using a new template addition.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/23/2009
Deal with Black Duck Software will feed .NET code into KnowledgeBase and Koders.com.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/21/2009
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 bits are available to MSDN subscribers today. A public beta is scheduled for release on Wednesday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/18/2009
In the last installment of this three-part series, Peter overcomes the final obstacle before achieving JavaScript nirvana: attaching a constructor to a JavaScript "item."
Mickey shows you how the work item templates functionality helps you keep team members in the loop, set default templates quickly and make bulk changes without the need for Excel.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 05/11/2009
Looking to give its Surface table top device more functionality, Microsoft today released its first service pack with a new SDK that the company says will give developers more flexibility in adding more features.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/11/2009
Microsoft on Monday launched the second beta of its claims-based identity management server platform, code-named "Geneva."
Microsoft has restructured its .NET Micro Framework (MF) team and plans to eventually open up the .NET MF source code for community development.
Peter continues to explore the differences between the .NET object-oriented, server-side languages he's used to and the world of JavaScript.
Microsoft announced that the Windows 7 release candidate (RC) is now available to the general public.
Here's the least complicated method for determining how long a given process has been running or how much CPU time it's actually consumed. This technique is used here to establish how long Windows has been running.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/05/2009
Microsoft announced that it is seeking customers willing to test their databases in a cloud-based data connectivity project.
Covariance and contravariance are precise terms that describe which conversions are safe on parameters and return types. Learn practical definitions for those terms, what new constructs will be supported in C# 4.0 and how to live with the current limitations until Visual Studio 2010 is adopted by your organization.
Learn how to create and debug templates using Microsoft's T4 templating language.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2009