.NET Framework


Microsoft's New AppFabric Serves Up Composite Apps

Burley Kawasaki, the director of Microsoft's Connected System Division, explains why AppFabric is the next logical step in .NET abstraction.

Preview of Reactive Extensions for .NET Available

Rx is a .NET Framework extension library that developers can use to build applications that can react to changes to the collections in their environment.

Beta Wave Hits Office and SharePoint Developers at PDC09

Microsoft releases the 2010 set of betas of its Office productivity software -- Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010, Visio 2010 and Office Mobile.

Sinofsky Reviews Windows 7 Features

Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky reviews features in Windows 7 and early IE9 developments.

Dave Campbell Discusses Dallas

Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell details the Dallas data application. Could it emerge as the first killer app for the cloud?

No Such Thing as a Windowless VB App

All Classic VB apps have at least one top-level window. Normally out of reach, you can put them to good use if you know how to get to them.

PDC09 Preview: Azure Launch Among Highlights at Microsoft's Developer Conference

Thousands of attendees are expected to gather in Los Angeles this week to learn more about Microsoft's developer platform strategy.

Dynamically Setting Parameters

At design time, you can tie parameters in the DataSource to a variety of data sources. But sometimes the source for your values can't be set at design time. Here's how to set those values at runtime.

Mono Tools Plug-in for Visual Studio

Visual Studio plug-in lets Windows developers create .NET-compatible Mono applications that run on Linux, Unix and Mac-based systems.

Requiring SSL for MVC Controllers

ASP.NET MVC provides a lot of flexibility when it comes to changing how controllers, actions, routes and more work within an application. Having flexibility is good especially when you need to make a modification quickly without having to write a lot of code to get the change in place.

Interop Vendor Adds Transaction Bridging

Java/.NET interoperability solutions provider JNBridge is adding features to the next release of its core interop tool that will integrate distributed transactions between enterprise Java and .NET platforms.

VS2010 ALM Acquires Teamprise Clients

Microsoft announced today in Berlin that it has acquired the Teamprise Client Suite, which supports Eclipse and other cross-platform environments for Team Foundation Server.

Dynamic Data Retrieval

You can't always make all of your data retrieval decisions at design time -- sometimes you have to wait for the user to tell you what data to get. Peter shows you how to work with a DataSource to retrieve data dynamically at runtime.

Inside Alternative Data Streams

NTFS offers an almost unknown way to obscure streams of data behind the most innocent looking files. Find out how to do this with VB6.

ANTS Performance Profiler

Discover what your application is really doing-method by method, line by line-with Red Gate ANTS Performance Profiler.

Stable Composition in MEF

Learn how to work through debugging challenges posed by stable composition in MEF Preview 7, and get insight into using MEF with Silverlight.

Developers Dig into Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2

Microsoft's flagship IDE is taking an incremental step forward with the second beta release of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.

TFS Basic Profile Appeals to Smaller Shops

A few months back, VSM columnist Andrew Brust wrote about Microsoft moving away from building the type of products that fueled its early success.

The Azure Factor

How factoring out common patterns in your Azure worker roles can improve development.

Re-Architecting Azure

A year after the first technical previews of Azure, Microsoft is launching a less-ambitious platform with forklift revisions based on developer feedback.

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