Zend Technologies releases updated open source framework with support from Microsoft, IBM, Google and others.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/15/2008
First public demo of ‘Rosario’ at VSLive! showcases a host of capabilities that focus on integration.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/15/2008
Microsoft Research projects drive innovation in development.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/15/2008
Last fall, contractor Lockheed Martin delivered an update to the Federal Aviation Administration's next-generation flight data air traffic control system -- ahead of schedule and under budget, which is something you don't often hear about in government circles.
- By Joab Jackson
- 04/14/2008
sQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data sharing.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 04/14/2008
Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace pages or shop for other goods and services -- all while at the workplace.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/10/2008
The refreshed offerings mark a significant evolution in the Silk family, originally acquired by Borland in the 2006 purchase of Segue Software.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/10/2008
Microsoft today released the first community technology preview (CTP) of Robotics Developer Studio 2008 at the RoboBusiness conference in Pittsburgh.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/09/2008
Mainsoft, known for its development-related interop software, on Tuesday released a new 2.2 version of Mainsoft for Java EE that offers "full support" for ASP.NET 2.0 components for AJAX-type Web applications.
If the traditional notion of infrastructure-based perimeter security is not yet dead, it's not for lack of effort by keynote speakers at this week's RSA Security conference.
- By William Jackson
- 04/08/2008
This week, Microsoft offered its first public glimpse of the next release of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), Redmond's next-generation integrated application lifecycle management suite, though the company is still not committing to any deliverables.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/04/2008
Microsoft's Office Open XML document format was accepted as an international standard, according to an announcement issued today by the International Organization for Standardization.
Take advantage of the System.AddIn namespace to handle logic external to your application; don't get caught by Excel's one-based indexes; and make LINQ extension methods work with ArrayLists.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 04/01/2008
OOXML software development kits expected in April and July, with
key LINQ-to-XML support anticipated in the later release.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2008
Redmond is making bold promises about interoperability and standards, but is the company serious about changing the way it does business?
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/01/2008
This month's new products.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2008
As planned, Redmond is ending Visual Basic 6.0 support this month, prompting enterprises to migrate to .NET.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/01/2008
Microsoft faces challenges as it looks to advance CardSpace for cross-platform identity management.
- By Richard Adhikari
- 04/01/2008
VB.NET gets left behind (again), this time by the Windows Live team.
- By Patrick Meader
- 04/01/2008
Make sure developers don't sacrifice quality for the sake of finishing.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 04/01/2008