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Visual Studio 2008 to RTM in November: Visual Studio 2008 to RTM in NovemberWe've been using Visual Studio 2008 BetaWe've been using Visual Studio 2008 Beta for a while now. The app we are building uses WCF/WPF and we are targeting .Net 3.0 (not .Net 3.5)We were very happy that we can target specific runtimes with this...; Tags: .NET, Application servers, Microsoft development tools, Middleware, VS2008, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2008, LINQ; Discussion threads 2007-11-05

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Jobs' Apple as premier platform mantra to accelerate: Jobs' Apple as premier platform mantra to accelerateNo, ZDNet talkbacks are the reason[i]So, instead, they declare the Mac user irrational.[/i]5 minutes on ZDNet talkbacks are all we need to declare Mac users irrational. :)False on many frontsWhy PC users are not excited about their machines? Completely wrong. Plenty...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, job, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, computer; Discussion threads 2008-06-09
MIX08 keynote rundown: MIX08 keynote rundownwhere's the kewl UI?The controls are all available under an open source license...There is a story here and an opportunity for a controls/UI developer. Strip out the glossy video. Why are there no CLOSED source licensed controls in VS2008 for input? I looked at Kathy Kim's Silverlight controls...; Tags: MIX08 keynote, MIX08, Microsoft Silverlight; Discussion threads 2008-03-05
Infragistics releases NetAdvantage for Visual Studio 2008: Infragistics releases NetAdvantage for Visual Studio 2008do they have something for OSS?That's where the money are, not VS2008!It always amazes meIt always amazes me that people think that .Net and Visual Studio are some niche products that no one uses. For example: "Info-Tech’s research identified that almost half (49 per...; Tags: .NET, Microsoft development tools, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, NetAdvantage, Infragistics; Discussion threads 2008-03-03
One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?: One year later: Where are the killer Vista apps?They're not difficult to write...No Mary, it's because there will be no killer application."Next killer app" is a hackneyed holdover from the late 80's after the Macintosh took some of the world by storm on account of Pagemaker, i.e. desktop publishing. Since...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP; Discussion threads 2007-12-06

Silverlight 1.1 tools available for Visual Studio 2008: Quick item that I'm sorry I missed. Microsoft released the Silverlight 1.1 Tools Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 so you can start building Silverlight apps with the shiny new Visual Studio. According to Don they aren't available for Visual Studio Express but it sounds like he's going to be doing...; Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Tool, Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2007-11-27
Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as Monday: Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as MondayLet seeThere are great features coming with VS2008. Let's just hope it will be stable enough. Hard to make a decision. How many of us can actually continue their work aacording to their current plans for the next 6 month (or...; Tags: Microsoft development tools, development tool, server, RTM bit, Beta 2, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-11-18
Visual Studio 2008 coming next week: Visual Studio 2008 coming next weekAwesome!Christmas will be arriving early for me this year! The second beta release was pretty good, higher quality than beta 2 for VS 2005, so I'm anticipating a blockbuster RTM release this time around as well! Thanks Microsoft!VS 2008 Isolated ShellFor me one of the...; Tags: .NET, Microsoft development tools, Application servers, Middleware, Programming languages, Silverlight 1.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, RTM Release, Microsoft Silverlight; Discussion threads 2007-11-17
The WPF component market is hot: The WPF component market is hotWPF market is getting warmerRyan,WPF component market is definitely growing but is still not as significant as Windows Forms. Main reason for that is, I believe, lack of good design-time tools and existing Windows Forms technology is good enough and well tested. VS.NET 2008 should...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Expression Blend, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, XAML, Windows Forms, Winforms; Discussion threads 2007-11-06
Microsoft to let devs see .NET source: Any long time MFC coder will tell you that one of the things Microsoft did right was to include the source code to MFC libraries with the binaries. That way, when you were debugging your own program, you could step into any library functions you called to see why they...; Tags: Source Code, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2007-10-04
Near-feature-complete Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 due later this week: Near-feature-complete Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 due later this weekDefinitionsOK, I guess I just didn't get the memo. The development flow I learned ([b]loooong[/b] years ago) [1] went like this:[u]* ...* feature complete[/u]* integration* alpha testing* lots of bug fixes[u]* beta release* lots of bug fixes[/u]* Repeat previous two...; Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Linux, Microsoft Visual Studio.Net, Microsoft Visual Studio; Discussion threads 2007-07-24