Microsoft quietly opened its Live Mesh preview to more testers on July 15, but by today (July 17), the offer had been narrowed to just waiting-list only.
Microsoft's Chief Architect Ray Ozzie and some say the sky will be the limit for cloud computing in the enterprise, but there's still a need for IT security too.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 07/16/2008
Optimistic concurrency doesn't work for most tables, but Peter shows you how to change that.
New director of product management talks up database and hints at future technologies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/16/2008
In its first product release since acquiring Borland's CodeGear business, Embarcadero Technologies Inc. this week released a new tool set designed to help developers optimize SQL code in databases.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/16/2008
Microsoft's Michael Pizzo talks up Entity Framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/15/2008
Three new tools let programmers examine application code for SQL-injection vulnerabilities.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/15/2008
ILOG, a business-rules management system solutions and tools provider, launches a resource portal aimed at .NET developers.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/15/2008
Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, which was technically approved in April as an international standard (ISO/IEC 29500), may be on its way toward surviving an appeals process -- the last challenge to its legitimacy as a standard.
Redmond divulges tidbits of SQL Server 2008 release information at this week's Worldwide Partner Conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/10/2008
Dan walks through how to arrange Silverlight controls on an interface using Grid, Canvas and StackPanel.
One of the big surprises at Microsoft's Tech-Ed North America 2008 Developers conference in Orlando, Fla., last month was the launch of Project "Velocity," the code name for a distributed, in-memory data-caching platform that was quietly under development in Redmond.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/09/2008
At the NECC 2008 conference in Texas this week, Microsoft unveiled an addition to its SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK), a suite of tools deigned for helping developers build education solutions.
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
Microsoft's surprise launch of its in-memory data caching platform could bolster data-driven app development.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2008
Microsoft adds velocity to data-driven apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2008
Enterprise SharePoint adoption is exploding and development managers are learning some hard lessons in the process.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2008
Adobe launches Acrobat.com, a free Web-based productivity and collaboration tools bundle.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/01/2008
New support for both Silverlight and the .NET 3.5 Framework.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/01/2008