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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
New .NET libraries support data and task parallelism.
- By Stephen Toub
- 11/15/2008
A look back at the 2008 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/15/2008
IBM launches a cloud-computing initiative in an effort to evolve its software-delivery model into a mix of on-premises and online apps.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2008
Why Windows Azure and Windows 7 will change the way you work.
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/15/2008
The OpenAjax Alliance unveils two key standards initiatives: a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/15/2008
Microsoft releases "Geneva" and Live Identity Services as the first pieces of its identity-management roadmap.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/15/2008
First Visual Studio 2010 CTP offers IDE upgrades and advancements in tooling designed for .NET Framework 4.0.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/15/2008
After using EF to drive a series of drop-down lists, Peter moves on to the next step: using EF to build a Master/Detail page.