This week we released an update to the community technology preview (CTP) of Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework.   Parallel Extensions simplifies development...

we've just released the latest Preview  of Dynamic Data Wizard on the CodePlex website that requires that Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is installed.  This release is...

Looking for free introductory training on the .NET 3.5 SP1 & ASP.NET MVC?  Head over to Jonathan Carter's blog to get all the details on the .NET 3.5...

I am pleased to announce the agenda and details for the Public Sector Technology Conference in Denver, CO to be held on September 17, 2008.   ACTION REQUESTED:...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 provides an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it continues...

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Web Developer 2008 SP1 are now available for download.  This blog post highlights the major changes in SP1 related to web...

Of course, this is so much more than a Service Pack with the release now of ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and the Entity Framework among others. In my area of interest,...

If you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta installed make sure that you run the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool prior to the installation, Microsoft were...

We are very excited about .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008  SP1 and what this update means for developers who use ADO.NET for data development.  This beta...

7 new Silverlight blogs have been completed. Check them out and let me know if you have any questions. Tip of the Day #23 – How to Capture the Mouse Wheel Event ...

Well, MSDN will be busy today… Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1, Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 1 and .NET Framework Beta 1 have all been released today. This is grate news...

A standard part of many Windows forms applications is the system tray icon. Most commonly it is used to provide an application or event status. Tray icons are added to...

Greetings, Today I saw something that I thought was incredibly interesting. Visual Studio 2008 is supposedly going to have a Popfly tie-in called "Popfly Explorer". If...

6 new Silverlight tutorials are completed! Tip of the Day #15 - Communicating between JavaScript & Silverlight. Tip of the Day #16 - StoryBoard versus...

I just came across this whilst making a web service call from a Windows Forms client application. Exception text: "The formatter threw an exception while trying to...

3 new Silverlight blogs have been completed for this week. Check them out! GameFest 2008 – Silverlight Game Programming Tip of the Day #21 - How to work with...

Update: Steve and Omri have the official voices :)In addition what Scott has in its extensive article on SP1, lemme show you some more data on what is new and supported...

Try Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 in a virtual lab and learn more about accessing relational data using Language Integrated Query (LINQ) to SQL or how Visual Studio 2008...

One of the new features of InfoPath 2007 is the ability to integrate the InfoPath editor into Windows Forms. Within Visual Studio this is done using the...