.NET Framework


Looking (Suspiciously) at SP1

What's in SP1 for ASP.NET developers? At least one bug fix, a couple of enhancements and -- perhaps -- something that will change your life. But Peter is suspicious.

AccuRev Streams Flow to the Enterprise

AccuRev, a software change and configuration management (SCCM) tool, has just been enhanced for to support larger, more distributed development teams.

Using Excel To Manage Your Work Items

Learn how to integrate VSTS' Team Explorer into Project and Excel.

Microsoft Outlines Next-Generation Databases

Microsoft kicked off its BI Conference this week in Seattle with news that it's planning to enhance the BI capabilities in the next version of SQL Server database.

Mono 2.0 Takes Flight

Mono version 2.0, an open source effort to implement the Microsoft .NET development framework for Unix, Linux and other platforms, was formally released today.

Create a Data-Driven Messaging System

Hard-coded messages don't scale well, and .NET's inherent error messages are user-unfriendly. Learn how to create a more scalable and user-friendly data-driven messaging system.

Achieve Low-Impact Reuse

Sometimes it makes more sense to separate functionality you use repeatedly into its own component. Learn how to create a special command-line processing component.

New Visualizations at Work

Is it time to move from classic Web apps to Silverlight clients?

Creating Master-Detail Pages in ASP.NET: Details, Details, Details

Peter shows you how to make a Master-Detail page that will work right and save your users a lot of grief.

XMPP Developers Get .NET Client Library

Jabber introduces JabberWerx Client Libraries, a set of libraries for .NET and AJAX programmers working with XMPP.

New York Embraces .NET

VSLive! New York keynote speaker highlights New York City’s .NET and open source development efforts.

Understand Your Code Better

Visual Studio Team System's Code Metrics feature isn't perfect, but if you understand what it's measuring and how, you can use it to gain insight into your apps' overall complexity and to spot potential problem areas.

Are You Ready for Visual Studio 2010?

Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference will bring previews of 'Oslo,' 'Rosario' and .NET Framework 4.0

Microsoft Opens Up (Even More)

Microsoft's new Windows 7 blog goes live.

Microsoft's 'Dublin' App Server Tied to .NET 4.0

New Windows Server and .NET Framework 4.0 technologies aimed at developers who are building composite applications will be released at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. The server technologies are the first to support Microsoft's upcoming "Oslo" modeling platform, according to Microsoft.

Intersoft Updates WebUI Studio.NET Components

Component maker Intersoft Solutions releases WebUI Studio.NET 2008 R2, an ASP.NET- and Silverlight-based Web development suite

Microsoft Offers SDL Tools to the Masses

Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle initiative introduces a set of dev requirements aimed at reducing security defects in software.

Windows HPC Server 2008 Goes Mainstream

Redmond releases Windows HPC Server 2008, the data center-class operating system for high-performance computing applications.

Decoding Microsoft's MVC

Computer Zen's Scott Hanselman enlightens developers.

Visual Studio To Include jQuery Library

In a tip of its hand toward open source software development, Microsoft announced on Sunday that it will incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET.

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