Control templates let you manage the look and feel of a control and customize the way it's rendered in an application.
IT pros can expect one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays in recent memory this month as Redmond indicated there would only be two patches -- one critical, one important.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/06/2008
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a rousing endorsement of cloud development in Australia today at a Live Web Rally event entitled Liberation Day.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/06/2008
Microsoft's Steve Sinofsky started WinHEC by telling developers how Windows 7 will make it easier to integrate device drivers and provide an improved user experience.
As Microsoft gets set to deliver its cloud-based services centered on the Windows Azure platform and Live Framework, the company's new identity management roadmap will be the key to addressing concerns about security and authentication.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/05/2008
Web sites will be able to get improved bandwidth management for streaming media using a new extension to the Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Web server.
- By Herb Torrens
- 11/04/2008
Work item hierarchies have finally come into their own in the latest Rosario CTP.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 11/03/2008
SDK of Touchless, which allows use of a webcam as a graphical input device, is now available for download on CodePlex.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
Review of the MadPak bundle.
The second part of VSM's Q&A with Richard Hale Shaw discusses how -- and whether -- developers should keep pace with new technologies.
- By Richard Hale Shaw
- 11/01/2008
With Silverlight 2, the focus moves to optimizing development of RIA-based business apps.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Web App Installer from Redmond provides a single way for developers to gather ASP.NET- and PHP-based open source Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
Learn how LINQ, extension methods, and lambda functions can help you add a bit of distinction, simplicity, and robustness to your code.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft's Brad Becker on Silverlight 2 and the enterprise market.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Mark Logic releases MarkLogic Server 4.0, with added support for
geospatial data, dynamic content and entity enrichment.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Have Microsoft's new tools made you the part-time DBA?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2008
Take control of casting exceptions, determine whether parent records have children in LINQ to SQL, and resolve cref references in XML comments.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 11/01/2008
Details are being released in bits and pieces, instead of Microsoft's usual all-or-nothing approach.
- By Patrick Meader
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 adds new APIs and integration with Visual Studio.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
When it comes to new technologies, less is more.
- By Billy Hollis
- 11/01/2008