The language behind WPF is starting to gain momentum, thanks in large part to Silverlight.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2009
Validator controls make handling errors and reporting them in the UI easy, but what you may not know is how easy it is to create your own Validator.
The inventor of the first PC spreadsheet talks about his new book and challenges facing developers.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/23/2009
If you've consumed an ASP.NET ASMX Web service before, then you'll feel right at home consuming a WCF service.
In his ongoing campaign to convince ASP.NET developers that User Controls are a simple way to start implementing customizable pages, Peter shows how to improve the integration between User Controls and ASP.NET's WebPart framework.
As applications take flight beyond the desktop, the .NET Framework is trying to keep pace. The programming environment, which debuted in 2002 and today ships with Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio, remains the consistent foundation for Microsoft's proliferating toolsets.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/02/2009
Adobe Systems today is providing developers with the first public look at its next-generation tooling for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) with the release of two key betas and updates to its framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/01/2009
Google this week took developers off guard by revealing Google Wave, a real-time shared communications stream that can include text, photos, videos and maps to which all participants have access.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/29/2009
Palm has said it will support a grassroots effort to assemble independent developers looking to build their own apps for the Pre, the device manufacturer's next-generation smartphone built on a new Web-based platform called webOS.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/26/2009
Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, fielded questions from financial analysts at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on Wednesday.
Responding to public reports of a wild bug, late Monday Microsoft issued a security advisory to address a potential vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2009
Responding to public reports of a wild bug, late Monday Microsoft issued a security advisory to address a potential vulnerability in its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/19/2009
As smartphone developers await the release of devices based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5, tinker with the recently released Google Android SDK, and pine over the one billionth iPhone app downloaded, a grassroots movement by some influential developers is pushing the adoption of an alternative mobile platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/04/2009
Covariance and contravariance are precise terms that describe which conversions are safe on parameters and return types. Learn practical definitions for those terms, what new constructs will be supported in C# 4.0 and how to live with the current limitations until Visual Studio 2010 is adopted by your organization.
Learn how to create and debug templates using Microsoft's T4 templating language.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2009