New security appliance gives DBAs a leg up on flaws and vulnerabilities lurking in corporate database management systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/13/2008
The National Security Agency has released a case study showing how to cost-effectively develop code with zero defects. If adopted widely, the practices advocated in the case study could help make commercial software programs more reliable and less vulnerable to attack.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/10/2008
As Microsoft readies pre-release bits for its Professional Developers Conference later this month, the company's Connected Services division today announced key components of its "Oslo" modeling platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/10/2008
Microsoft's tools for building rich Internet applications (RIAs)-ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight 2-promise to help take the "developer ugly" out of line-of-business software.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/09/2008
Indonesian component maker Intersoft Solutions Corp. last month released a new version of its controls and components suite for ASP.NET -- and Silverlight-based Web development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/09/2008
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, a software change and configuration management (SCCM) tool, has just been enhanced for to support larger, more distributed development teams.
Learn how to integrate VSTS' Team Explorer into Project and Excel.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/06/2008
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.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/06/2008
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.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/06/2008
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.
- By Paul D. Sheriff
- 10/01/2008
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.
Is it time to move from classic Web apps to Silverlight clients?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2008
Peter shows you how to make a Master-Detail page that will work right and save your users a lot of grief.
Jabber introduces JabberWerx Client Libraries, a set of libraries for .NET and AJAX programmers working with XMPP.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2008
VSLive! New York keynote speaker highlights New York City’s .NET and open source development efforts.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2008
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.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 10/01/2008
Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference will bring previews of 'Oslo,' 'Rosario' and .NET Framework 4.0
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz, with Kurt Mackie contributin
- 10/01/2008
Microsoft's new Windows 7 blog goes live.
- By Patrick Meader
- 10/01/2008
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.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/01/2008