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
The refreshed offerings mark a significant evolution in the Silk family, originally acquired by Borland in the 2006 purchase of Segue Software.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/10/2008
Mainsoft, known for its development-related interop software, on Tuesday released a new 2.2 version of Mainsoft for Java EE that offers "full support" for ASP.NET 2.0 components for AJAX-type Web applications.
As planned, Redmond is ending Visual Basic 6.0 support this month, prompting enterprises to migrate to .NET.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/01/2008
VB.NET gets left behind (again), this time by the Windows Live team.
- By Patrick Meader
- 04/01/2008
The Eclipse Project and Microsoft partner up for interoperability, adding
to Redmond’s growing number of open source collaborators.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/01/2008
Use PInvoke to take advantage of Windows APIs that aren't part of the .NET Framework.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 04/01/2008
On April 8, Microsoft will cease its support of the VB6 IDE.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/31/2008
Novell, a sponsor of the open source Mono project, issued an announcement today that a new development tool, called MonoDevelop 1.0, will be available for download at the end of this week.
We're going to be featuring free downloads of interest to .NET developers on a fairly regular basis; below is the first installment.
Learn how to minimize inherent inaccuracies with Singles and Doubles when performing comparisons; learn how to use extensions, a .NET 3.5 feature, when targeting .NET 2.0 apps; and learn why you should avoid using Names that are used in a type you are extending.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 03/01/2008
All About Microsoft's Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Redmond is working on a new declarative programming language, currently named "D."
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
Looking ahead to Bill's departure later this year.
- By Patrick Meader
- 02/01/2008
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
On Friday, Microsoft's Visual Web Developer Team announced through its blog that Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects is now available for download.
Jeff walks you through best practices when using Team System.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 01/29/2008