Test Lint: A Unit Testing Helper for VS 2010
Recently, Typemock added a new free tool (now in public beta) to their offerings called Test Lint. The company says its the first and... more »
Even with its success, .NET causes some consternation
The .NET Framework has scored many points with developers over its eight years of existence, but it also has created confusion and angst... more »
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VS2010 Load Testing for Distributed and Heterogeneous Applications
VS2010 is almost here and comes with an updated Web- and Load-Testing feature. Microsoft extended Visual Studio to allow external... more »
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The Secret Origin of Windows
A quarter century ago, Windows wasn't everywhere. In fact, some were doubtful it would ever ship at all. And Tandy Trower was there. ... more »
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The Future of Windows
How can Microsoft keep Windows relevant? Technologizer asked journalists, technologists, and former Microsoft employees that simple... more »
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Daily Dose - JavaFX Eclipse Plugin Goes Open Source
The Exadel JavaFX plugin for Eclipse is now open source with a new version release. Pictures of Microsoft's Courier digital journal are... more »
WIMPinator Chronicles Part 3: Installing PEAR and PHPUnit
This is the third article of a series of blog post called the WIMPinator Chronicles that describe how to setup a PHP development... more »
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What Microsoft Could Learn from Avatar
When a movie is as successful as James Cameron’s movie Avatar has been, Hollywood takes notice. We can assume that other studios and... more »
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Complaint Was Worth it: Opera Gets 3x Increase in European Downloads
Yesterday, Microsoft's ballot screen debuted with stunning results for Opera. Today, Opera reported that its browser downloads have... more »
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Identify Performance Bottlenecks in your BizTalk Environment – Part II
In Part I of this blog series I gave a general overview of BizTalk - the components that are involved in message processing and talked... more »
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Microsoft Launches Its First Android App. Yes, Google’s Platform.
Tag for Android is the first Microsoft-made app launched on the mobile platform. This is notable, of course, because Android is the... more »
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New Offers for Visual Studio 2010
Last October, we announced a new packaging lineup and licensing options for Visual Studio 2010 to provide customers with simplified ways... more »
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Visual Studio 2010 C++ Project Upgrade Guide
One of the major improvements in this release is that the C++ build system is moving from the VCBuild based system to the MSBuild based... more »
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Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
Microsoft has now released the Release Candidate or RC version of Visual Studio 2010 which is officially due to be launched on April 12th... more »
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To IDE or not to IDE: is a programmer's editor the best way to code?
I've written positively about Microsoft's forthcoming Visual Studio 2010, both here and more recently in a review on The Register. I was... more »
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LightSpeed and LINQPad: the perfect partners
Today Mindscape released a LINQPad driver for LightSpeed 3.0. This extends LINQPad and allows developers to run LINQ Queries against... more »
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MVP Global Summit 2010 Wrap-Up
I was in the Seattle, WA area last month for the 2010 edition of the MVP Global Summit. This year the summit was held in Bellevue and... more »
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Adding additinal features and extensions to PHP on Windows for IIS
This is the second article of a series of blog post called the WIMPinator Chronicles that describe how to setup a PHP development... more »
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Expression Web 3: what’s in it for ME?
Expression Web 3 has a lot in it for a many different user types; from professional UI designers working as part of a team, to lone... more »
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Choosing the right PHP version and flavor for Windows and IIS
This blog post might be useful to somebody who is new to running PHP on Windows and IIS. I hope this summary will help to maneuver around... more »
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RIP: IE6 Funeral Is On 4th March. Are You Coming?
Some guys from a Denver design company Aten Design group are going to kill Internet Explorer 6 today i.e. 1st March and they are also... more »
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Object-Oriented Programming
Wikipedia will tell you ”Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses “objects” – data structures consisting of... more »
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Using SQLite with C#
Adding a database to your application can be an easy way to store data and settings between sessions for your program, but it is not... more »
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Daily Dose - Vote for the New Eclipse Logo!
Eclipse is modernizing its logo, and you get to decide which one is the best! Another poll is active for PayPal developer contest apps. ... more »
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Disposable Pattern in .NET
Garbage collector (GC) is a blessing in .NET, if you happen to program in C++ in the past, where it was one of the prime responsibility... more »
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