.NET

Mon, November 01, 2010 - Before you ever saw Windows Azure, Microsoft CIO Tony Scott had to use it for two years. In this Q&A, he shares what he's learned about cloud moves, security, application portability and how CIOs can prepare.

Mon, March 02, 2009 - Is the clock on every computer system in your organization set to the correct time? Making sure that computers are set with the correct time is one of those seemingly petty technical things that can unfortunately have big, negative consequences if not done properly.

Mon, November 24, 2008 - NetBeans is upgraded to include retooling for PHP, an early access version of NetBeans for Python, and support for Spring, Hibernate, JavaServer Pages, and the Java Persistence API. Meanwhile, Visual Studio adds jQuery capabilities to its software development IDE via JavaScript IntelliSense support.

Mon, November 10, 2008 - Among the many improvements planned for the software development environment are a Windows Presentation Foundation-based editor, a code-generation tool, C++ enhancements and support for Windows 7 multi-touch and ribbon capabilities.

Wed, October 29, 2008 - The multicore PCs you buy can do powerful, asynchronous computing, and the software you need to build might benefit from decentralized hardware resources, but your developers' ability to exploit those capabilities& not so much. Microsoft's new set of libraries promises to help developers exploit multicore processing without requiring anyone to become a threading and distributed computing guru.

Tue, October 28, 2008 - Microsoft is sharing bits of Oslo at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week. Learn what's new in M, the company's language for creating domain-specific languages, and why Microsoft thinks it's such a big deal.

Mon, October 13, 2008 - Several up-and-coming scripting languages--some open-source--are gaining popularity among software developers. These dynamic programming languages, including Groovy, Scala, Lua, F#, Clojure and Boo, deserve more attention for your enterprise software development, even if your shop is dedicated to Java or .NET. Here's why.

Mon, October 13, 2008 - As it releases version 2.0 of Silverlight, Microsoft is turning to the next phase of its strategy: Directly wooing developers and designers to the rich Internet platform.

Fri, October 03, 2008 - Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg reveals the history behind one of the most common programming languages, C#, and what the future holds for C#4.0.

Wed, October 01, 2008 - PDC handouts will highlight workflow, communication technologies and hosting platform for services.

Mon, September 29, 2008 - Microsoft's development environment offers new tools for Agile development, software testing enhancements and improved support for cloud computing. Microsoft showed us a sneak peek, and we invited developers to chime in with their feedback.

Fri, August 01, 2008 - Integrates data using Microsoft's Sharepoint

Mon, June 16, 2008 - Do you think that LINQ is just another in a long series of odd Microsoft technologies? This database-meets-software-development technology could easily save your development staff time and avoid complexity!

Mon, March 17, 2008 - Open source-foundation's conference this week also to feature Eclipse holdout Microsoft, which is expected to announce a collaboration arrangement.