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
Mixing generics and functional programming simplifies writing some extensibility libraries tremendously. For example, combining these techniques makes it easy to create a generic Undo library.
Compuware delivers DevPartner Studio 9.0, an upgraded version of its
automated code-scanning and analysis suite.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft releases beta of model-view-controller framework with a go-live license.
- By Becky Nagel and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
Redmond reveals “Kilimanjaro,” the business intelligence-focused successor to SQL Server 2008.
- By John K. Waters, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008
Developers this week heard more about the planned upgrade of Microsoft's platform for integrating e-mail, instant messaging, conferencing and telephony at this week's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/30/2008