Redmond offers major discounts for Visual Studio 2008.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/01/2008
The new branch visualization feature brings order to the chaos of branching and merging.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 12/01/2008
ByteShield’s Software Usage Management solution protects game and PC-application developers from would-be hackers.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
VB and C# share many similarities, but also have a handful of significant differences; learn what you need to know to program effectively in VB as a C# programmer.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 12/01/2008
BizSpark program offers start-up software makers access to Microsoft's tools, products, licenses and tech support.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
Developers face a long trek to Microsoft's ambitious "Oslo" modeling vision.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2008
Developers of VB and C# can learn a lot from the similarities -- and differences -- between the two.
- By Patrick Meader
- 12/01/2008
What's your strategy for going parallel?
- By Patrick Leonard
- 12/01/2008
Chances are C# is not your first programming language. Here are several tips that can help you leverage C# better if you already know VB.NET.
Reviews of new products for developers.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/01/2008
Microsoft works to promote the Text Template Transformation Toolkit, a code generator built into Visual Studio 2008.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
Readers air their frustrations over the "Ribbon" interface -- and share how they fixed them.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/01/2008
Microsoft's Managed Services Engine, designed to facilitate enterprise SOA through service virtualization, gains SOA governance support.
- By John K. Waters, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/01/2008
Microsoft has rolled out a software package for the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 users that allows developers to quickly setup interactive charts and graphs for applications without writing any code.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/26/2008
Facing criticism that the beta of its Web Platform Installer didn't support Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft addressed that complaint with the release candidate made available yesterday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/25/2008
ISO/IEC on Tuesday published the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format standard, formally known as ISO/IEC 29500:2008.
New for ASP.NET developers with .NET 3.5 SP1 is routing, an easy way to simplify site maintenance -- and give meaning to your users' lives.
Three companies are seeking indemnification from Microsoft after being sued for using technology associated with Microsoft's Visual Studio software development platform.
How do you track down what's really going on inside your compiled EXEs?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 11/17/2008
Engine Yard releases Merb, a new open source Web framework for building Ruby applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2008