.NET Framework


Google Tightens Its Gears

Google's first major developer conference focuses on improvements to 'Gears,' its cloud-based browser extension.

To Parse or Not To Parse

How to live a C++ life in an XML world.

EC Official Talks Open Standards, Raps Microsoft

A speech given yesterday by Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for competition, skewered Microsoft without mentioning the company by name.

ISO Benches Microsoft OOXML

Due to objections from four countries, the International Organization for Standardization has temporarily put a hold on publishing Microsoft Office Open XML as an ISO standard.

Microsoft Releases 7 Patches, 3 Critical

Microsoft released seven patches for its June rollout of security fixes. As expected, three are labeled "critical," three "important" and one "moderate."

Report: Office 14 May Be Office 2009

Technology reporter Mary Jo Foley discovered a Microsoft FAQ that appears to indicate Microsoft's official name for the next version of Office.

RC0 Version of SQL Server 2008 Available

Microsoft rolled out Release Candidate 0 (RC0) of SQL Server 2008, which is available for evaluation by developers and database administrators who want an early look at the relational database management system.

Microsoft Releases Windows Embedded Standard CTP

In a bid to modernize the embedded version of its Windows software, Microsoft this week has released the community technology preview (CTP) of a newly revamped version set to ship by year's end.

Opinion: Gates' Tech-Ed Farewell

Don shares his take on Gates' keynote goodbye to developers.

JavaScript and AJAX in ASP.NET: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time

Client-side debugging is better, but IntelliSense still has a few issues to be worked out.

Microsoft Starts Global Rollout of Retail Consumer Web Sites

Microsoft Corp. is now selling its wares directly to consumers.

Microsoft To Add Architecture Explorer to Visual Studio

Microsoft announced Tuesday at its Tech-Ed conference that it will add a new tool to Visual Studio that will visually model applications.

Tech-Ed: Gates' Farewell to Developers Focuses on Silverlight, Velocity, Oslo

Microsoft's founder and chairman kicked off Tech-Ed with a keynote that took an opportunity to look back, as well as provided a glimpse into the future.

Threats to Office's Dominance Multiply with New Offerings from Adobe, IBM

Paying for word processing software may soon be a thing of past if Microsoft competitors Adobe, Google and IBM have any say.

MySQL Gives .NET High Five

There was a lot of head scratching at this year's MySQL Conference and Expo when Microsoft was singled out for its contributions to open source development.

IBM Rational's Big-Band Jazz Release

IBM's Rational Software division today unveiled 20 new commercial products based on its Jazz collaboration platform and opened up the Jazz community to all interested parties.

New Wares Bridge Java and .NET

While last month's JavaOne conference focused on the next generation of the Java platform, there's a growing ecosystem of tools to connect existing Java-based apps to those based on Microsoft's .NET environment.

Microsoft Updates Expression Studio Suite

Microsoft refreshes its Expression Studio Suite with upgrades to all five Expression tools.

Make Your Types Report Their State

You probably write a lot of code to test object state. A better approach might be to make your objects report their own state.

SlickEdit's Tools Editing Toolbox 2.0: An Editor Add-In for Power Programmers

SlickEdit's Tools Editing Toolbox v2.0 offers "power programmers" enhanced Visual Studio tools.

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