Grad student with a Java dev focus wins the New York City .NET User Group’s Speaker Idol competition, and learns to love .NET in the process.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/15/2008
Microsoft released to manufacturing its widely touted first service pack (SP) of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/11/2008
Language features aren't good or bad. The choice of language feature depends on what you're doing. In this issue, we dive into the methods vs. properties debate.
Customize your application startup screen and add log-in functionality; learn how to view derived types in your projects; check for improper GUIDs; and drill down on extension methods.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 08/01/2008
A rundown of some new releases.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 07/01/2008
Drill down on how arrays work and learn some cool tips and tricks for taking advantage of them in .NET.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 07/01/2008
Learn how to work around a couple bugs in Excel to return double values; drill down on lists with anonymous types; and learn the
difference between Build and Rebuild.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 07/01/2008
IBM Corp.'s Rational Software unit is set to release version 1.0 of Team Concert, the commercial client to the company's Jazz collaborative software development environment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz and John K. Waters
- 06/17/2008
Mixed .NET and Java application deployment platforms promote new interoperability initiatives.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/17/2008
How to live a C++ life in an XML world.
- By Stephane Raynaud
- 06/15/2008
IBM's Rational Software division today unveiled 20 new commercial products based on its Jazz collaboration platform and opened up the Jazz community to all interested parties.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/02/2008
You probably write a lot of code to test object state. A better approach might be to make your objects report their own state.
A take on one reason why VB is getting overlooked.
- By Patrick Meader
- 06/01/2008
Your comments on whether Microsoft really does treat VB like a second-class language.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2008
Codejock Technologies offers improved toolkits to Visual C++ and ActiveX developers.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/01/2008
Codemesh bridges the Java-to-.NET gap at Deutsche Post.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/15/2008
Modernize the look of your native Windows apps.
Is VB treated poorly compared to C#? Readers weigh in.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2008
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
Last fall, contractor Lockheed Martin delivered an update to the Federal Aviation Administration's next-generation flight data air traffic control system -- ahead of schedule and under budget, which is something you don't often hear about in government circles.
- By Joab Jackson
- 04/14/2008