Mixing generics and functional programming simplifies writing some extensibility libraries tremendously. For example, combining these techniques makes it easy to create a generic Undo library.
Compuware delivers DevPartner Studio 9.0, an upgraded version of its
automated code-scanning and analysis suite.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2008
Microsoft releases beta of model-view-controller framework with a go-live license.
- By Becky Nagel and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
Redmond reveals “Kilimanjaro,” the business intelligence-focused successor to SQL Server 2008.
- By John K. Waters, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2008
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
Microsoft Office users soon will be able to open, create and edit files using "lightweight" hosted versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Microsoft announced this week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/31/2008
Developers this week heard more about the planned upgrade of Microsoft's platform for integrating e-mail, instant messaging, conferencing and telephony at this week's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/30/2008
Microsoft is evolving its strategy for relational data services in the cloud.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/29/2008
Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on Monday, and developers may be pleased with the new parallel computing capabilities now available in the CTP.
Microsoft today articulated how it will bridge PCs and mobile devices with an extraordinary blitz of announcements that included the first demonstration of Windows 7, its Live Framework, a bevy of new offerings for developers including WPF support for Visual Studio, and the first preview of Office 14.
- By Michael Desmond and Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/28/2008
Microsoft today released the first beta of its federated identity services framework aimed at simplifying the way enterprises deploy authentication services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/27/2008
Just make sure to avoid duplicating properties between controls, and everyone will be happy.
A consortium of vendors focused on AJAX interoperability last week unveiled two key standards initiatives: a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/27/2008
At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft is unveiling the end-to-end vision for its Software plus Services platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 10/27/2008
A new cloud-based lab service for developers will be demonstrated by Seattle-based Skytap Inc. at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles next week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/24/2008
To support a real page, your entity model is going to need multiple entities and associations between them. Here's how to add them.
Mickey covers the basics on code metrics in Visual Studio 2008 Team System.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 10/21/2008
Microsoft claimed on Tuesday that it did not release the next version of its Sync Framework on Oct. 13, as reported by some news outlets last week.
Web App Installer centralized management of ASP.NET and PHP-based open source Web apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/16/2008
Microsoft to integrate jQuery library into Visual Studio and ASP.NET.