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
Take advantage of new features in C# 3.0 that let you treat code as data -- and save time over more traditional, imperative approaches to programming.
Microsoft's releasing some .NET 3.5 Framework swag: deployment guidelines and the source code itself.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 04/01/2008
Adobe and Microsoft strike a deal allowing Flash and PDF software
to run on smartphones with Windows Mobile OSes.
The Eclipse Project and Microsoft partner up for interoperability, adding
to Redmond’s growing number of open source collaborators.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/01/2008
Utilize table-valued parameters to write less code and to achieve higher application performance.
- By Paul Delcogliano
- 04/01/2008
Apparently, it's not a joke on this April Fools day that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format was approved as an international standard.
Use PInvoke to take advantage of Windows APIs that aren't part of the .NET Framework.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 04/01/2008
On April 8, Microsoft will cease its support of the VB6 IDE.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/31/2008
The International Organization for Standardization plans to announce vote results on the decision to ratify or reject Microsoft's Office Open XML document format on Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
Microsoft confirmed "very limited, targeted" attacks on an open Word security flaw. The company is researching a patch.