The source code for Microsoft's Web Sandbox is now available under an open license.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/03/2009
Microsoft has released Semblio SDK version 1, a new tool for education developers that's designed to aid in the creation of interactive learning materials.
Defense Department officials have launched a new Web site where developers can work on open source software projects specifically for DOD.
Iterators are a crucial part of modern programming, not least because they provide the basis for collection traversal using For Each loops. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) adds to the importance of iterators, as iterators are the source of IEnumerable(Of T) that forms the backbone of LINQ. Learn how to take advantage of them in your code with several different techniques for creating your own iterators in VB.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 02/01/2009
The convergence of the "three screens" -- PC, TV and Phone -- and what it means for developers.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 02/01/2009
A new framework for data synchronization.
Lambda expressions are nothing more than convenient syntax for delegates. So why can't you use them where the Framework expects a delegate? And more importantly, what can you do about it?
IE8 GM talks about switching to standards compliance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Kurt Mackie
- 02/01/2009
Developers respond to Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg's discussion on the future direction of C#.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/01/2009
Putting updateable controls in the ItemTemplate in a GridView gives developers what they want: the ability for users to change more than one row at a time. The cost is writing some extra code.
Microsoft today made available Release Candidate 1 of its ASP.NET Model View Controller, a design pattern for test-driven development of enterprise-scale Web applications.
- By Kathleen Richards and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/27/2009
With the release candidate of IE 8 now available, Microsoft GM Dean Hachamovitch talks about switching to standards compliance.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and Kurt Mackie
- 01/26/2009
Peter provides an alternative to the default mechanism for accessing connection string -- and plugs his next book.
Microsoft announced today the release of Web Platform Installer (Web PI) 1.0, a free downloadable tool designed to help install the Microsoft Web Platform or its components.
- By Herb Torrens
- 01/21/2009
Microsoft released the second community technology previews of its Software Development Kit and Visual Studio extensions for the new Windows Azure cloud services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/16/2009