The language and library improvements outlined in Sumit Kumar's April 2010 article, "The Evolution of C++ in Visual Studio 2010," didn't alleviate a few readers' perceptions that C# and Visual Basic will win out at the expense of Visual C++/CLI.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 06/01/2010
Microsoft Office 2010, the new version of Redmond's flagship productivity suite, offers great value through important new features. But could they be doing better?
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 06/01/2010
With the release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, it's time for Visual Basic developers to start leveraging the new capabilities of Visual Basic 2010.
When the Visual Studio Team started developing the latest version of the product, we knew that improving support for Office and SharePoint was paramount.
- By Jay Schmelzer
- 06/01/2010
Is it worth upgrading to the latest version of Visual Studio 2010, even if you're not going to move to .NET Framework 4? And if you are upgrading, what will you get?
Mickey explores what's involved in upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2010.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 05/27/2010
Continuing his investigation of what works and doesn't work with the AJAX library and .NET 4, Peter Vogel continues to explore how to retrieve data from the client... and discovers that it can be very easily done.
On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to use the power of Silverlight 4 COM automation and local file system access to turn Microsoft Word into a report writer for Silverlight.
Microsoft Application Infrastructure Virtual Conference highlights integration between new cloud-savvy, .NET middleware and Microsoft's integration server.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/20/2010
Peter Vogel discusses what you can't do in marrying ASP.NET server-side controls with client-side data access.
Why Microsoft's new technology for surfacing diverse backend data sources and processes in SharePoint and Office could spur robust application development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/19/2010
MobileForms Toolkit maker updates two products, and announced upcoming support for Silverlight-based Windows Phone 7 development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/18/2010
We all tend to obsess on optimizations at times, often needlessly. Here's how to figure out if all your extra work is paying off.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/18/2010
Peter uses the new dataView and dataContext objects from the AJAX Toolkit to create a data-driven page without server-side code.
After a thick April patch, this month's security update, released today, is light with only two "critical" fixes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 05/11/2010
DotNetNuke got 5.4 out a week after ASP.NET 4 was released to the Web, but some developers ran into significant issues when they tested the technology.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/06/2010
If you want to integrate server-side Web service processing with AJAX objects in your browser, you should be considering WCF Data Services -- especially if you're working with the Entity Framework. Here's a quick introduction to the technology.
Windows provides numerous ways to tell an application how to size and position itself on startup. Here's how you can honor those requests.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 05/04/2010
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 makes it easier than ever to work with rich, data-bound elements.
- By Mark Boulter
- 05/01/2010
Will familiar tools and a low barrier to entry entice you to build innovative apps for Windows Phone 7?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/01/2010