Review of the MadPak bundle.
The second part of VSM's Q&A with Richard Hale Shaw discusses how -- and whether -- developers should keep pace with new technologies.
- By Richard Hale Shaw
- 11/01/2008
Web App Installer from Redmond provides a single way for developers to gather ASP.NET- and PHP-based open source Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft's Brad Becker on Silverlight 2 and the enterprise market.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Learn how LINQ, extension methods, and lambda functions can help you add a bit of distinction, simplicity, and robustness to your code.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 11/01/2008
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
Have Microsoft's new tools made you the part-time DBA?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 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 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
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