Looking ahead to Bill's departure later this year.
- By Patrick Meader
- 02/01/2008
A functional programming language built for the .NET Framework
Microsoft releases .NET 3.5 Framework library source code.
Virus detectors can detect more than just bugs -- Karl encounters one such system set off by his code, and shares how he worked around it.
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 01/29/2008
Experts believe the rising number of exploits targeting Excel gives hackers incentive to continually exploit applications -- rather than operating systems -- for flaws.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/29/2008
Don't want Office 2003 SP3 rolled out across your desktops next month? Then make sure you don't have Microsoft Update set to automatic.
Jeff walks you through best practices when using Team System.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 01/29/2008
On Friday, Microsoft's Visual Web Developer Team announced through its blog that Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects is now available for download.
In a blog post today, Microsoft announced new APIs that will make security settings easier for developers, particularly for those writing solutions that will run on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3.
Despite public confidence that SQL Server 2008 would ship by the end of June, Microsoft today indicated it probably is more likely to arrive toward the end of the year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/25/2008
Yesterday, Microsoft posted the final version of the .NET Framework 3.5 to its download site, as well as several updates to other .NET Framework versions.
A rumor is spreading across the Web that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) may be scheduled to arrive on Feb. 15.
Microsoft in January released the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack, which extends the VC++ 2008 Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) libraries that shipped with the Visual Studio 2008 IDE.
- By Michael Desmond
- 01/21/2008
Dan shows you the code you need to embed XAML code directly into a page, plus the problems this might cause with Firefox and how to work around it.
Microsoft this week took steps to assure Office developers that it has no plans to kill off Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
Following reports that Microsoft released "Milestone 1" for Windows 7 to several partners, TG Daily reports that software will get released in late 2009.
Last month, Redmond released an early build of "Volta," a set of tools for building Web apps that run across multiple tiers.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/18/2008
Oracle Corp. and BEA Systems announced today that they have completed a deal whereby Oracle will acquire BEA for $7.2 billion, or $19.375 per share.
Microsoft Corp. said hackers have found a way to use some older versions of its Excel spreadsheet program to take over control of people's computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/16/2008
Microsoft today followed up on its earlier promise to start releasing the .NET framework library source code for .NET 3.5.