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- .NET Framework
- The infrastructure of the .NET platform from Microsoft. It includes the Common Language Runtime CLR and .NET Framework class library. The CLR provides the environment for running .NET...
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- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Tolesto
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), Development tools, Code names, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Microsoft starts rolling out several tool test releases
- Microsoft tool testers will have lots of new builds to play with this week.Microsoft is expecting to deliver a public Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") Beta 2 for download on Friday, July 27, company officials said. It will roll out simultaneously Beta 2 of the .Net Framework 3.5. Microsoft is expecting...
- Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), Expression Studio, .Net Framework, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), Development tools
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Near-feature-complete Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 due later this week
- Microsoft plans to deliver the Beta 2 bits of Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") later this week, according to Scott Guthrie, General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division."You'll see Beta2 ship later this week - so only a few more days now," Guthrie posted, in response to a reader comment, on July...
- Tags: Development tools, .Net Framework, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas)
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Silverlight Release Candidate due before end of July
- Microsoft expects to deliver the near-final test release of its Silverlight alternative to Flash before July is over, according to a blog posting from a Microsoft technical evangelist.Microsoft officially unveiled the beta of Silverlight 1.0 at its Mix '07 conference in April. The company also announced at that time the...
- Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), MIX07, Development tools, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Microsoft begins shipping two new Dynamics ERP releases
- Microsoft made available for shipping on June 18 two new ERP releases: Dynamics GP 10.0 and Dynamics SL 7.0.In March, Microsoft officials said these new updates would be available starting in June."We're on time and on delivery," said Jon Pratt, a Microsoft Business Division senior director.GP 10.0 includes the role-tailored...
- Tags: .Net Framework, Dynamics ERP, Office, Office 2007, SharePoint Server
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Microsoft delivers test build of new tool for building line-of-biz apps
- At TechEd 2007, Microsoft released a first Community Technology Preview CTP build of "Acropolis," a set of components and tools for building line-of-business, portal-style .Net applications.Acropolis is "part of the '.NET Client Futures' wave of releases, our preview of upcoming technologies for Windows client development," Microsoft officials explained on the...
- Tags: Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), TechEd 2007, Development tools, Code names, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- What will many cores mean to future Windows releases?
- Windows and existing Microsoft programming languages work just fine with one- to four-processor PCs. But when 8- 16 and 64-core client machines become the norm -- in the not-so-distant future -- will Windows, C#, Visual Basic and other Microsoft applications be able to keep up?Seemingly, the answer is no. Microsoft...
- Tags: .Net Framework, App Compatibility, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Research, Virtualization, Visual Studio Orcas, Windows 7, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Putting lipstick on a cancelled PDC pig
- Microsoft announced late on Thursday May 24 that it has cancelled the Professional Developers Conference PDC that was slated for this October.Microsoft said it had decided to "reschedule" the event to some unspecified future date. The notice of the cancellation is on the Microsoft Developer Network MSDN Web site:"As the...
- Tags: .Net Framework, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Silverlight (wpf/e), SQL Server, Vista, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Sun's JavaFX = Microsoft Silverlight (in theory, at least)
- At JavaOne today, Sun announced a new Java scripting environment and a new Java platform of tools and software that it plans to make consistent across everything from cell phones to desktops for "all of human kind." So is Suns newly unveiled JavaFX really a Microsoft Silverlight killer? Its...
- Tags: Visual Studio Orcas, Silverlight (wpf/e), Expression Studio, Development tools, Corporate strategy, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Project Indiana: Could Sun outshine Microsoft's Silverlight?
- At its JavaOne conference, which kicks off in San Francisco on May 8, Sun is promising a major technology unveiling, code-named "Project Indiana." My ZDNet blogging colleage Ed Burnette is speculating that Sun might unveil a head-to-head competitor to Microsofts Silverlight, a k a "Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere." ...
- Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), MIX07, Expression Studio, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Code names, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Mix '07's sleeper announcement: Cross-platform CLR
- I agree with my ZDNet blogging colleague Ryan Stewart. The biggest Mix 07 announcement made on opening day of this weeks show was one that Microsoft didnt call out in any of its own press releases: Microsoft is making a version of its Common Language Runtime CLR available cross-platform. ...
- Tags: .Net Framework, Code names, Corporate strategy, Development tools, MIX07, Silverlight (wpf/e)
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Microsoft to roll out dynamic-language layer for .Net
- Microsoft is readying a new software layer designed to allow dynamic languages to integrate more easily and tightly with its .Net Framework, according to sources. Microsoft is aiming to unveil the new technology -- which it may christen as the "Dynamic Language Runtime" DLR -- at its Mix...
- Tags: .Net Framework, Development tools, Visual Studio Orcas
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- 'Volta': Microsoft's dev platform in the Cloud?
- Next week is Microsofts much-touted Mix 07 conference. Microsoft has been saying for months that the company will share its vision for its Live development platform at the Las Vegas show. No one from Microsoft is ready or willing to talk publicly about the details yet. Soma Somasegar, the...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Code names, WPF/e, Windows Live, SQL Server, Research, Google, Database, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Why the Sharp languages still matter
- Its been a while since Microsoft has talked publicly about the # Sharp programming languages under development by its research unit. But the silence doesnt mean nothings been happening. Elements of the Sharps -- F#, Spec#, X# now known as C Omega, all of which build on top of...
- Tags: Database, SQL Server, Development tools, Visual Studio Orcas, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- What will the 'father of WebSphere' do at Microsoft?
- Who says Google gets all the good ones? Microsoft has hired Donald Ferguson, the "father of WebSphere," to work in Microsofts Office of the Chief Technology Officer CTO with Ray Ozzie, as reported by the .Net Developers Journal. So what, exactly, will Ferguson do in his new role as...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Application servers, Enterprise software, Web services, Ferguson, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- What should Microsoft do, now that Java is GPL'd?
- Given the long-standing rivalry between .Net and Java, one would assume that Suns decision to release Java under the GPL would likely result in some kind of a reaction from the Redmondians. But exactly what Microsoft could, should and will do, if anything, to counteract Suns November 13 announcement, is...
- Tags: Corporate strategy, Legal, Development tools, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Where's Microsoft's 'Flash killer'?
- Anyone out there still remember Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/e), Microsofts so-called Flash killer? Last time Microsoft discussed the WPF/e technology publicly was in March, at the Mix 06 conference. (I hear there was a demo of WPF/e as part of the MSN Soapbox demo at the recent Streaming...
- Tags: Development tools, Internet Explorer, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- IronPython and ASP.Net: Two tastes that taste great together
- Microsoft released in September the 1.0 version of the IronPython dynamic programming language created by Jim Hugunin. But the Softies are not done tinkering yet with the .Net implementation of the Python language. According to a couple of Microsoft bloggers, Microsoft is taking IronPython to the next level by...
- Tags: Development tools, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
Additional Resources
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Netflix ups outlook; Customer acquisition costs fall
- Netflix said Friday it ended the second quarter with more than 8.4 million subscribers, up 25 percent from a year ago, and spent less money acquiring those customers. Those two factors added up to better than expected quarterly results and an improved outlook. The company has been...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Acquisition, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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