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
Get started using Silverlight's rich media capabilities.
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
Looking ahead to Bill's departure later this year.
- By Patrick Meader
- 02/01/2008
A look at: Kaxaml 1.0, SubSonic 2.1, SapphireSteel Software, Subkismet.
- By Staff of Redmond Developer News
- 02/01/2008
A functional programming language built for the .NET Framework
Microsoft releases .NET 3.5 Framework library source code.
Virus detectors can detect more than just bugs -- Karl encounters one such system set off by his code, and shares how he worked around it.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 01/29/2008
Don't want Office 2003 SP3 rolled out across your desktops next month? Then make sure you don't have Microsoft Update set to automatic.
Experts believe the rising number of exploits targeting Excel gives hackers incentive to continually exploit applications -- rather than operating systems -- for flaws.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/29/2008
On Friday, Microsoft's Visual Web Developer Team announced through its blog that Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects is now available for download.
In a blog post today, Microsoft announced new APIs that will make security settings easier for developers, particularly for those writing solutions that will run on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3.
Jeff walks you through best practices when using Team System.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 01/29/2008
Despite public confidence that SQL Server 2008 would ship by the end of June, Microsoft today indicated it probably is more likely to arrive toward the end of the year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/25/2008