In announcing today that it will release to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 this month, Microsoft is meeting the most optimistic forecasts for when the long anticipated upgrade to its flagship IDE would ship.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/05/2007
The ongoing file format battle between proponents of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) took a surprising turn lthis week, when a key ODF proponent announced that it intended to abandon the ISO-approved specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/02/2007
Developers shrugged off Microsoft's decision this week to revert to a separate download deliverable of Windows Sharepoint Services.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/02/2007
Take advantage of the new PipeStream classes and XML features in .NET 3.5 and VB9 to resolve the age-old problem of creating a single-instance application.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 11/01/2007
Developers sound off on the release of .NET Framework source code
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2007
Versitile, .NET-based licensing-management software.
Updated source code search engine from Koders serves midmarket.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 11/01/2007
User Account Control (UAC) issues usually result from improperly allowing administrator-level access in your applications. Learn how UAC works and make such problems a thing of the past.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 11/01/2007
Get the Code Protector SDK, plus new VS 2005 SDK v4 samples, Microsoft Windows Search 3.x SDK and more.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 11/01/2007
CodeGear brings on C++ expert Alisdair Meredith.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2007
Fortify Software updates app-dev security and management suite.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2007
Why is C# taking the lead over VB.NET?
- By Patrick Meader
- 11/01/2007
OCS 2007 will allow developers to embed telephony into apps.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/01/2007
You can't predict change, but you can prepare for it. Learn how to avoid cases where you need to remove work and rework too much of what you've already done.
Seven alternative tools and widgets for .NET programmers.
- By Leonard Lobel and Brian Schmitt
- 11/01/2007
Going into this review, I was not at all sure what to expect. I had no prior knowledge of Curl, although some preliminary research revealed it to be an object-oriented hybrid markup language with similarities to HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Microsoft yesterday announced that it will take a $240 million equity stake in social networking service Facebook, giving Redmond a key conduit to grow its online advertising efforts. The deal also gives tacit credence to Facebook as a platform for .NET developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/25/2007
Microsoft has signed its first patent protection deal with a Linux vendor based in Asia.
Redmond reveals that it's working on a stripped-down version of the Windows kernel that would dramatically reduce its footprint.
Jeff walks you through the new method of validating AJAX code in Visual Studio Team System 2008 (no Fiddler required!).
- By Jeff Levinson
- 10/18/2007