Microsoft is finally tuning up its Microsoft Developer Network site and promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with it.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2008
sQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data sharing.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 04/14/2008
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
Utilize table-valued parameters to write less code and to achieve higher application performance.
- By Paul Delcogliano
- 04/01/2008
Adobe releases first version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime, and open
sources the complementary Flex framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
First Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 2.0 betas are released at MIX08.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
Microsoft opens APIs, protocol documentation in an effort to reach out
to the developer community.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
Developers explore opportunities on Redmond's new platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/15/2008
Microsoft's 'Heroes Happen Here' launch events encourage IT pros to
test the company's new 2008 offerings.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
At last week's VMworld, BEA and VMware announced their partnership on a project to allow BEA's Java applications to work within virtual environments created with VMware's tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/06/2008
One week after Microsoft officially launched the 2008 versions of Windows Server, Visual Studio and SQL Server, the company has taken its show on the road.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/05/2008
Perry shares his take on the best LINQ to SQL features, walks you through the biggest changes from ObjectSpaces and more.
According to blogger Nicholas Carr, Microsoft may be preparing to make a major Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) announcement soon, possibly at its Mix '08 conference this week in Las Vegas
Redmond officially rolls out Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Los Angeles event.
If you're using SQL CE 3.1 or earlier, watch out for this glitch.
One of the great things about virtualization is that it makes it incredibly easy to add a new server -- or 10, or 100 new servers.
While Microsoft's announcement yesterday that it will publish key APIs and share its communications protocols was met with skepticism by the European Commission and other critics, .NET developers we talked with welcomed the step that Redmond had defiantly resisted until now.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2008
Although 54 percent of large enterprises around the globe rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, fewer than half (45 percent) think their companies are doing it effectively, according to CA's global survey about virtualized environments released this week.
- By James E. Powell
- 02/21/2008
A fully baked beta release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is now available for testing.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/19/2008
Microsoft Corp. to give away Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server Standard and other software to college students worldwide.