Posted June 10th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
A number of great improvements and changes were made for Silverlight Tools Beta 2. The following list summaries some of the major changes with details on each below.
- WCF templates for Silverlight Enabled.
- Build configurations.
- XAML Validation now reports build errors.
- Setup Improvements.
- Projects created in Beta 1 are prompted for conversion when opening to [...]
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Posted May 28th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
Since taking over the Windows development reins from Jim Allchin, Steven Sinofsky has chosen to fall almost completely off the public radar.
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Posted February 23rd, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
Microsoft’s recent pattern may signal that the XP service pack release is imminent.
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Posted February 4th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
- Visual Studio provides several programming languages for software development
- Use the Project System to manage items required by your development effort, such as references, data connections, folders, and files
- Visual Studio includes a number of core external tools to aid in developing and debugging your applications
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Posted January 31st, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
Microsoft on Tuesday made its Visual Studio 2008 software development package widely available for purchase — a month ahead of a high-profile event in Los Angeles meant to serve as the product’s official launch.
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Posted January 30th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
Despite public confidence that SQL Server 2008 would ship by the end of June, Microsoft today indicated it probably is more likely to arrive toward the end of the year.
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Posted January 14th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
Visual Studio 2008 is an ambitious new release and it includes a slew of new language features and tools that were required to get LINQ up and running by itself and with SQL Server 200x. Of course, not everything planned made it into the product. Here’s a description of the elements that were pared back [...]
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Posted January 9th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
Sales of the Vista operating system have hit the 100 million-mark, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Sunday night at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in what is expected to be his last keynote address.
Microsoft has not broken down what percentage of those sales were from enterprise customers but the company said [...]
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Posted December 21st, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Excited and whimsical speculation about future versions of Windows is a popular pastime, almost as much as complaining that newly-released versions are too different from the “old reliable” releases that everybody knows and (sometimes) loves. With Windows Vista recently celebrating its first birthday and preparing for the release of Service Pack 1, a team of [...]
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Posted December 11th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
With the release of SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 we delivered significant new improvements to make developers more productive when working with data stored in SQL Server.
With Visual Studio 2008 and the upcoming version of SQL Server 2008 we’re going to continue driving new innovations and ensure that developers can build richer data [...]
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Posted December 5th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
A forthcoming update to the Windows XP operating system will include patches that add pieces of Vista, according to a research group that says it has seen the code.
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Posted November 27th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
November 24, 2007 (Computerworld) Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), the update scheduled to be released next year, runs Microsoft Corp.’s Office suite 10% faster than XP SP2, a performance testing software developer reported Friday.
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Posted November 21st, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Beta testers have received access to a release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3, but general consumers still have a long wait until they’ll see SP3 available for download. Microsoft has scheduled the last major update to its six-year-old OS for the first half of 2008 - likely after Windows Vista SP1.
Around 15,000 testers [...]
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Posted October 23rd, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
European Commission announces that Microsoft is in full compliance with March 2004 decision; Microsoft will not appeal Court of First Instance decision.
REDMOND, Wash. — October 22, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. issued the following statement regarding the announcement Monday in Brussels that Microsoft is in full compliance with the European Commission’s March 2004 decision:
“At the time [...]
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Posted October 18th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
SAN FRANCISCO — It was back to the future for Microsoft today. The company’s chairman and co-founder Bill Gates took the stage here to help launch the company’s Unified Communications (UC) software. In other words, he was here to talk phones.
Gates told an audience of about 2,000 customers, partners and media that office phone [...]
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