Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic.
Xignite Inc., a provider of component-based financial services software, this month will roll out a hosted offering that will let corporate developers build and share composite .NET-based Web services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/19/2008
The first public beta of Silverlight 2.0 is expected from Microsoft in the next few weeks. By all accounts, those that have seen the private beta report that the features outlined by the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, Scott Guthrie, in a November blog posting are pretty much on track.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/19/2008
Microsoft rolls out 2008 versions of Visual Studio, Windows Server and SQL Server.
- By Staff of Redmond Developer News
- 02/15/2008
The beta of Microsoft's long-awaited RIA platform is weeks away. Are you ready for the .NET runtime in a browser?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/15/2008
In a blog post Tuesday, Scott Guthrie, general manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, laid out the roadmap for its upcoming ASP.NET model view controller (MVC) framework for developing Web applications.
The second Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey found a general trend toward the use of mixed open source and proprietary software in the enterprise.
When it comes to developing a successful product, perspective and timing in testing are key. Jeff shares the steps for getting it right.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 02/12/2008
Microsoft wants Silverlight to be a rich interactive application environment you can bank on -- literally.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/12/2008
All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Redmond is working on a new declarative programming language, currently named "D."
Get started using Silverlight's rich media capabilities.
The latest version of Spring.NET, made generally available in December, is a major upgrade to the original port of the popular Spring Framework, a layered Java/J2EE application-programming model.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/05/2008
A survey released by Compuware Corporation and the Ponemon Institute shows "an overwhelming majority of organizations surveyed risk compromising critical information by using actual customer data for the development and testing of applications."
- By James E. Powell
- 02/01/2008
Learn when and how to utilize Windows Communication Foundation to develop and maintain your
communications layer when creating a loosely coupled, scalable, interoperable services-oriented application.
This month's featured downloads include the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview, Visual Basic 9.0 language specification document and more.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 02/01/2008
.NET developers, regardless of whether they use VB or C#, realize that the .NET platform is far more important than the language they choose.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 02/01/2008
Learn to pass anonymous types outside the method in which they're created; take advantage of closures when working with lambda expressions; drilldown on overloading; initialize static fields properly; and see where KeyedCollections improve performance.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 02/01/2008
Is C# really gaining ground against VB? Readers weigh in.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 02/01/2008
Salesforce.com's Steve Fisher talks about development beyond CRM.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 02/01/2008
A look at: Kaxaml 1.0, SubSonic 2.1, SapphireSteel Software, Subkismet.
- By Staff of Redmond Developer News
- 02/01/2008