On Monday, Microsoft announced availability of the much-anticipated beta two version of Visual Studio 2005 and the .Net Compact Framework 2.0, as well as a community technology preview of SQL Server ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Let’s settle this up front. Microsoft has let its developers down. During the past few years, the company has left a trail of broken promises: a .Net-centered operating system; a broad stack of ...

To speed development, Visual Studio now has additional code refactoring capabilities, including IntelliSense code snippets and intelligent helpers. Hundreds of components and classes inside the .Net ...

Microsoft is making several changes to its upcoming Visual Studio 2005 development tools platform based on early user feedback. Changes include improvements pertaining to Visual C#, Web Forms, and ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Microsoft released a new extension for Visual Studio 2005 yesterday that adds several enhancements to the popular IDE. The extensions are as follows: These extensions add some much-needed ...

Although disappointed by product delays, Visual Studio 2005 beta users are nonetheless pleased with the product’s feature set, noting enhancements in areas such as application life-cycle management ...

Though Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 dropped the .NET moniker, it remains the premier .NET development platform for hosting compilers that target this platform, such as Visual Basic, C#, and J#. It ...

In an effort to recruit additional .NET developers, Microsoft have lowered the barrier to entry by introducing the Visual Studio 2005 Express line of tools. An important addition here is the Visual ...

Official Microsoft support for the decade-old development platform ends mid-April. So, who is still using it to develop enterprise-grade apps? Who among Visual Studio Magazine readers is still ...

Microsoft’s own Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack (SP) 1 – a first beta of which went live on September 26 -- may not work correctly with Windows Vista. That revelation (admirably) comes courtesy of the ...