Shares of Microsoft closed just shy of 7 percent higher on Friday May 2 based on new speculation that Microsoft and Yahoo are now actively negotiating to seal a deal.
Borland Silk 2008 test suite boosts RIA testing and adds extensibility framework.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/01/2008
Modernize the look of your native Windows apps.
According to a recent survey of 850 "enterprise software customers," Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continues to be the most important enterprise software trend.
Configuration Service 2.0 may offer a glimpse of what’s to come in Microsoft’s next-generation SOA platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/01/2008
IBM launches new mashup tools WebSphere sMash and Mashup Center.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/01/2008
Is VB treated poorly compared to C#? Readers weigh in.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 05/01/2008
Clear out textboxes using recursion and LINQ; use VB literals to transform an XML document; and eliminate an annoying artifact of VB internals.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 05/01/2008
Microsoft task force seeks to improve MSDN by soliciting developer feedback and boosting search features.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/01/2008
Silverlight 2.0 includes a subset of the .NET Framework, which enables you to write .NET managed code that runs in Silverlight.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 05/01/2008
Architecture can be key to staying one step ahead.
- By Rockford Lhotka
- 05/01/2008
Advanced developers who want to tell their computer what to do (literally), rather than punch keys or click on icon, may want to check out a "pre-beta" technical preview of Windows Speech Recognition Macros for Vista.
Microsoft is claiming that an injection attack vulnerability discovered late last week and made public this week related to the popular business database application SQL, is not the company's fault but may lie with lax Web developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/29/2008
Dan shows you how to use Silverlight's color animation features and how you can stop and start them programmatically.
Last week, Microsoft's .NET Framework program manager Krzysztof Cwalina announced that his team is working on a new framework for .NET -- Managed Extensibility Framework -- designed to improve compatibility with third-party extensions.
Live Mesh sounds like "HailStorm" in concept -- a way to access your data from any device with an Internet connection -- says Microsoft's Rosoff.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/25/2008
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solution provider IONA recently announced that its Artix product line will offer interoperability for Microsoft technologies in SOA projects.
Howard A. Schmidt has used technology to thwart crime since his early career
as a policeman and pioneer in computer forensics.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/22/2008
Looking to broaden the reach of high performance .NET applications across multiple clustered tiers and platforms, Microsoft this week will release a sample application, tutorials and benchmarks to help simplify the development and deployment of service-oriented architecture (SOA) composite apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/22/2008
Microsoft is finally tuning up its Microsoft Developer Network site and promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with it.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2008