DataDirect Technologies this week upgraded its ADO.NET database drivers, which provide connectivity between .NET-based applications and DBMSes from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Sybase.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/12/2008
Microsoft server and tools exec Bob Kelly told an investment banker audience how Microsoft plans to take advantage of opportunities in the enterprise IT market.
Can you name one thing Microsoft designed right the first time?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 12/08/2008
Microsoft on Friday released free open source code that can be used by Web developers to build online blogs.
Sun Microsystems today began shipping version 1.0 of its JavaFX platform, the runtime and tools combo for content authors and Web developers building rich Internet applications (RIAs).
- By John K. Waters
- 12/04/2008
Microsoft executive Bill Veghte answered a few questions about Microsoft's business strategies for the Windows product line at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference.
You can use ASP.NET Routing to decode meaningful URLs into real physical path names.
Our hands-on review of the Windows 7 pre-beta reveals an operating system that is remarkably stable.
- By Sandro Villinger
- 12/01/2008
LINQ to SQL continues to be a top contender in the .NET object/relational mapping tool market despite Microsoft's promotion of the Entity Framework as one of the "Pillars of SQL Server 2008: Dynamic Development."
- By Roger Jennings
- 12/01/2008
Review of Perforce's software control management product, Perforce 2008.1 GA.
Redmond offers major discounts for Visual Studio 2008.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/01/2008
The new branch visualization feature brings order to the chaos of branching and merging.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 12/01/2008
ByteShield’s Software Usage Management solution protects game and PC-application developers from would-be hackers.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
VB and C# share many similarities, but also have a handful of significant differences; learn what you need to know to program effectively in VB as a C# programmer.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 12/01/2008
BizSpark program offers start-up software makers access to Microsoft's tools, products, licenses and tech support.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/01/2008
Developers face a long trek to Microsoft's ambitious "Oslo" modeling vision.
- By Michael Desmond
- 12/01/2008
Developers of VB and C# can learn a lot from the similarities -- and differences -- between the two.
- By Patrick Meader
- 12/01/2008
What's your strategy for going parallel?
- By Patrick Leonard
- 12/01/2008
Chances are C# is not your first programming language. Here are several tips that can help you leverage C# better if you already know VB.NET.
Reviews of new products for developers.
- By Editors Visual Studio Magazine
- 12/01/2008