January 21, 2008 2:36 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET Web services (Windows Communication Foundation),
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5In its first incarnation, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) did not support custom validators with transport-level HTTP security. That changed with .NET Framework 3.5. But how do you make it...
January 16, 2008 1:51 PM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5As New Hampshire proved, polls can be pretty darned meaningless. But they're fun.
It is for that reason that we bring you a poll about Visual Studio 2008 adoption. The new IDE came out at the end of November, and we're kinda curious about what kind of adoption rate it has seen so far.
So go take...
December 28, 2007 12:06 AM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
Visual Basic,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5The Visual Basic 2008 language specification has been posted. It's not 100% totally officially ready, as it needs some copy edits, but it is available for download
December 18, 2007 12:37 PM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
.NET programming downloads,
VS 2005 and .NET 2.0,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5Forgive our gratuitous use of .NET in the headline there, but Microsoft has re-released its download of.NET 3.5 so that it now includes the Service Pack releases of .NET 2.0 and 3.0.
Here's the
December 10, 2007 1:10 PM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
Database development and architecture,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5Two years ago, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 were released simultaneously. This time around, as you well know, Visual Studio 2008 is ready now, but SQL Server 2008 will not be out until the end of February.
As a result, Soma Somasegar, corporate vice president in Microsoft's Developer,...
December 6, 2007 1:14 PM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
.NET programming downloads,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5Need help with Visual Studio 2008 and that newfangled .NET Framework 3.5?
Fret not, young Skywalker. Microsoft has assembled a training kit for Visual Studio...
December 3, 2007 11:51 AM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
Database development and architecture,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5LINQ, the Language Integrated Query, is well known for its ability to query data types like SQL, XML and objects.
However, you may not know that LINQ is extensible -- that is, it can be programmed to query data types other than those cited above. For example, there's a
December 3, 2007 11:02 AM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
.NET programming downloads,
Ajax,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5You can add the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to the list of products that has been updated to target Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5.
The toolkit itself is hosted on the
November 26, 2007 1:24 PM
Posted by: Brian Eastwood
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5Can't wait to dive into the hot-off-the-presses Visual Studio 2008 RTM?
Well, before you can do that, you have to install VS 2008 RTM. And before you can do that, you have to uninstall VS 2008 Beta 2 and its various and...
