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New tools for data modeling and a new class library for LINQ.
Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for SharePoint makes developing and testing Web Parts almost easy, provided you install it correctly.
Plus, saying good-bye to RDN.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 04/01/2009
Learn how to create powerful templates that can be called from both client- and server-side code.
- By Steele Price
- 04/01/2009
Run repeatable, automated tests of Web applications as you develop them with this high-end tool.
Learn how to free your application from dependencies and interchange implementations using Managed Extensibility Framework.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 04/01/2009
A pure relational database in the cloud will be offered by Microsoft via its forthcoming Azure Services Platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/01/2009
Aligning SQL in the cloud to SQL on the ground is about more than just common sense. It's about getting things done.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 04/01/2009
Facebook and Adobe Systems today said they have formed a partnership to ease the development of Flash-based applications on the popular social networking service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/31/2009
More than a year after its first community technology preview was released, ASP.NET Model View Controller has finally shipped.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/30/2009
Numerous software suppliers last week took the wraps off new Eclipse-based tools, and a few were brought to cloud-based services.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/30/2009
The evolution of IDEs is not keeping pace with hardware advances and significant trends like cloud computing, according to two unlikely bedfellows: the lead developers for IBM's Eclipse tools team and Microsoft's Visual Studio organization.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/30/2009
Microsoft's attempts to plug in to cross-platform got more convincing last week when development on the Macintosh became a reality with Silverlight 3.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/27/2009