Take control of casting exceptions, determine whether parent records have children in LINQ to SQL, and resolve cref references in XML comments.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 11/01/2008
Details are being released in bits and pieces, instead of Microsoft's usual all-or-nothing approach.
- By Patrick Meader
- 11/01/2008
When it comes to new technologies, less is more.
- By Billy Hollis
- 11/01/2008
Mixing generics and functional programming simplifies writing some extensibility libraries tremendously. For example, combining these techniques makes it easy to create a generic Undo library.
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
A security flaw in Google's new Android operating system discovered recently by independent researchers further underscores the security debate between open source and proprietary software.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/30/2008
Microsoft is evolving its strategy for relational data services in the cloud.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/29/2008
Microsoft announced the new Live Framework during a Tuesday keynote that addressed Windows 7 and other tools and technologies that will comprise the front-end infrastructure of the company's unfolding Software plus Services strategy.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/28/2008
Microsoft today articulated how it will bridge PCs and mobile devices with an extraordinary blitz of announcements that included the first demonstration of Windows 7, its Live Framework, a bevy of new offerings for developers including WPF support for Visual Studio, and the first preview of Office 14.
- By Michael Desmond and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/28/2008
Rewiring Yahoo plan establishes a "front door" for developers into its evolving Open Stack of platform services.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/27/2008
Microsoft today released the first beta of its federated identity services framework aimed at simplifying the way enterprises deploy authentication services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2008
Just make sure to avoid duplicating properties between controls, and everyone will be happy.
A consortium of vendors focused on AJAX interoperability last week unveiled two key standards initiatives: a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/27/2008
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/27/2008
A new cloud-based lab service for developers will be demonstrated by Seattle-based Skytap Inc. at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles next week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/24/2008