.NET Framework


C++ Update in the Works

Major refresh coming for C++ programming language.

Infragistics Pushes Functional Testing for GUI Components

Infragistics releases TestAdvantage 2007 Volume 2.

Google Apps Gets Slapped

Analyst cautions enterprise architects against Google Apps.

New BlackBerry Plug-In for Visual Studio

BlackBerry plug-in can leverage Visual Studio.

New Research Rates Dynamic Languages

Research firm eyeballs what’s hot in dynamic languages.

Redmond Releases ADO.NET Beta 2

Anticipated second beta of ADO.NET Entity Framework released.

RIA Platform Provider Curl Partners with Sonata

RIA platform vendor forms new partnership, aims at U.S. market.

Vista Versus VB

Microsoft's pledge to support the VB 6.0 runtime via Vista may not be as promising as it seems -- here's what you really need to know.

Is Microsoft Office In Trouble?

Is Microsoft Office in danger of having real competition for the first time in a decade? That's the question being asked this week, as the battle for office productivity suites heats up on several fronts.

CodeGear Unveils IDE for Rapid Web Development

CodeGear is releasing a rapid application development (RAD) environment for database-driven Web-based applications that supports multiple versions of Microsoft Windows as well as the .NET Framework. The company's new RAD Studio 2007integrated development environment (IDE) supports Windows 2000, XP and Vista operating systems.

'Windows Live' Gets a Step Closer to Live

The next beta versions of the products that make up the Windows Live suite were made available today.

Microsoft Releases Silverlight

Microsoft has turned on the Silverlight.

Consuming Remote Web Services with ASP.NET AJAX

Notice that ScriptManager can't generate a client-side proxy object that can be used to call the remote service? Dan shows you the workaround.

Microsoft Document Format Voted Down

Microsoft's first attempt to gain acceptance for its Open XML (OOXML) document format from a critical standards body has failed.

Microsoft Shows Commitment to Commerce Server 2007

Microsoft renews public commitment to Commerce Server.

Viva la VB!

WPF Goes to Work

Windows Presentation Foundation has been greatly underserved by Microsoft’s emphasis on glitz and glamour; learn how to take advantage of WPF in your everyday Windows business apps.

Simplify Background Threads

It requires a lot of plumbing to create, manage, and communicate with background threads. The System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker class already contains the functionality you need to follow best practices.

XMLSpy 2007 3 Enterprise Ed.: Process Open XML for Word and Excel

Tools for those who need to fetch, store or transform XML, including in Word 2007 and Excel 2007.

REPLACE WITH NEW ID# 1787

Use the declarative programming model to enable type-safe data access in ADO.NET.

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