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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Beta 2 hits MSDN
Blog Hushed mutterings around the MSDN’s many chambered portals this afternoon confirm that today is in fact the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to MSDN subscribers. Performance of Visual Studio 2010 is considerably better...
[October 19, 2009, 17:00 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Microsoft RTMs Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Blog Microsoft has just announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Microsoft is feeding us these coding condiments not much more than nine months after the release of the .NET...
[August 11, 2008, 19:18 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Grill Microsoft about Visual Studio 2005
Talkback I currently develop apps for vb6 & never bothered moving them to .net but I may consider moving to VS2005 if the benefits are there & it's easy to migrate my apps (none of which are web based, they're just traditional apps).
About: Grill Microsoft about Visual Studio 2005
[November 2, 2005, 14:02]
OpenOffice developers clear Visual Studio licensing hurdle
Talkback So why do so many people use .Net? They must be like sheep. This is really expensive - even in comparison with a developer's salary in the UK. You can't surely claim that any productivity advantages over something like Eclipse and Java outweigh...
About: OpenOffice developers clear Visual Studio licensing hurdle
[February 16, 2005, 11:27]
OpenOffice developers clear Visual Studio licensing hurdle
Talkback This facet of the point will evapourate when KDevelop finishes going native as part of the KDE on Win32 project (http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/) While the title is poorly chosen and sensationalist, the writer does have a point.
About: OpenOffice developers clear Visual Studio licensing hurdle
[February 14, 2005, 22:54]
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 now available to MSDN developers
Blog This weekend saw a blog post go up by Microsoft tools guru Jihad Dannawi who detailed the news that Monday May 18th is the launch day for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Professional, Suite and Team Foundation Server editions to MSDN subscribers.
[May 18, 2009, 8:09 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Firefox: Doing it for love
Talkback For Firefox to outpace IE in the corporate environment, you'd need a development environment as good as Visual Studio.NET (since Visual Studio.NET doesn't do a good job of supporting Firefox).
About: Firefox: Doing it for love
[July 20, 2005, 16:34]
Novell’s Mono Tools tunes up for stereophonic Linux, UNIX & OS X
Blog The company says that this is the first commercial development tool for the rapid creation of .NET applications for Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X within Visual Studio. Regardless, Mono Tools for Visual Studio claims to allow Microsoft .NET developers to...
[November 12, 2009, 17:57 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Silverlight 2 announced
Blog Visual Studio Industry Partners such as ComponentOne LLC, Infragistics Inc.and Telerik Inc.are providing products that further enhance developer capabilities when creating Silverlight applications using Visual Studio.
[October 13, 2008, 18:07 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Microsoft: 'Linux is more of a threat than before'
Talkback "PharmiWeb recently chose to use Visual Studio .Net rather than J2EE or Eclipse, the open-source, Linux-based tool, as the development environment for a portal it has build for the healthcare sector" You've printed a gross error when you call...
About: Microsoft: 'Linux is more of a threat than before'
[June 11, 2004, 18:11]
Is Microsoft’s ‘Democratic’ ALM really a ‘Republican’ Party Reptile?
Blog Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 have already garnered media attention from ZDNet and many other media sources. Codenamed ‘Rosario’, according to Microsoft the new product is capable of ‘democratising...
[September 30, 2008, 10:50 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Dell Latitude D600
Member Review I have a complete J2EE Environment (IDE(WSAD 4.1.1, IntelliJ 3.0.5), web server (Apache), app server (IBM WebSphere 4.1), database server(Oracle 9i)) running on this in addition to a .NET environment (.NET framework Visual Studio.NET 1.1, MSDN...
[January 12, 2004, 16:59]
Orange SPV C500
Member Review For developers out there you can program/covert c#.net, VB.net, J++.net (java) and of course C++ programs to work on your phone using Visual Studio. Very good, does a lot.
[April 13, 2005, 13:56]
Vendors snuggle up for Microsoft PDC
Blog The company says that, “DevPartner Studio 9.0 scans Microsoft ASP.NET application source code to find security problems before they become deeply embedded in the code base. Microsoft is clearly pleased to see its so-called partners save up their...
[October 27, 2008, 7:37 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Microsoft in 'quite good' shocker..
Blog Windows Server 2008 (RC0) and SQL Server 2008 (CTP) worked very well together and Chris upgraded his application, all 30,000 lines of it to .Net 3.5 with 3 mouse clicks inside Visual Studio 2008. It was in Chris’s roadmap to use Visual Studio 2008...
[June 5, 2008, 16:25 in Uptime by ryanpothecary]
Ballmer confident, but admits failings
Talkback Visual Studio 2005 for .NET ROCKS, and Windows Longhorn is going to be very .NET-savvy. I wonder how it is that Microsoft has stalled on pushing .NET in the last 12 months. What's not to like?
About: Ballmer confident, but admits failings
[June 28, 2005, 17:00]
Linux developers shift the course of an industry
Talkback My developers are switching to .Net from Java because they like the Visual Studio IDE. Ops, that means we are going to have to buy boxes and operating system software that runs the .Net framework. So was this a serious article or an advert ?
About: Linux developers shift the course of an industry
[September 12, 2003, 16:14]
Guess what? Microsoft won
Talkback I noticed in the published development road-map, the inclusion of add-on’s to Visual Studio .Net to allow Office development. I do hope this means the removal of Visual Basic for Applications from Excel and the rest of the Office applications.
About: Guess what? Microsoft won
[August 4, 2003, 13:56]
Looking forward to 2010. Part 1 - Killing Windows Mobile to save it.
Blog Yes, you can develop for Windows Mobile in Visual Studio, but both the.NET Compact Framework and the Windows Mobile SDK are cut down versions of their Windows counterparts. Tools can then cross-compile the same code to different platforms - and...
[December 28, 2009, 12:10 in 500 words into the future by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe]
COBOL keeps on rolling along
Blog Its latest morsel is called Net Express with .NET and is reportedly designed to bring COBOL application development kicking and screaming into the 21st Century via use of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
[July 9, 2008, 16:21 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
