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October 6th was the big launch day for Windows Phone and there are many great posts on the new devices available. I have more info on devices here . As background, since the initial release of Windows Mobile 6, the Windows Mobile team has
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An old teammate in DPE now a new Seattle resident working on Channel 9 / part-time Coding for Fun blogger Clint Rutkas posted some good questions recently on an internal discussion list, thus motivating me to create this post. If you are looking to start
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There are many reasons why you would want to know when a line in the code editor in Visual Studio is a certain length. For me, it has to do with authoring books where the publisher needs to have a CRLF at a certain line size. I found this
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Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0 has many improvements over its predecessor including support for Visual Studio Professional and higher, which means professional level support such as integrated Application Lifecycle Management / source code control with
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When you download SQL 2008 Express, the version available currently does not have tools like SQL Management Studio. The tools will be available soon but if you are like me and cannot wait for the tools to become available, you can use Visual Studio 2008
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I don’t know the authors personally and I don’t work for the publisher----I publish with Apress:-) but I have to say LINQ in Action is one of the best technical books I have read in recent years. LINQ in conjunction with the language enhancements in C#
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I recorded a webcast a while back on what's new in Visual Studio for mobile development. Here's an abstract for the webcast: Learn how the Windows Mobile developer platform and tools help developers build innovative and secure applications and solutions
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Soma announced that VS2008 and .NET 3.5 shipped today . It is available via MSDN Downloads for subscribers here . Don't forget, you can target .NET Framework 2.0 with Visual Studio 2008 so existing .NET Framework 2.0 developers can start taking advantage
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The question "How secure is any product?" is a similar question to "how many bugs does an application have?" As my software engineering professor liked to say in grad school, "trying to count bugs in an application is like trying to count fish in a lake."
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Check out Jeff Beehler's Blog announcing the Tester Center on MSDN here . Testers play a critical role in successful software but quite often I find that enterprise customers either have the devs act as testers (never a good idea) or a subset of end-users
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If you think it would be helpful as a developer to be able to debug into the source code of the .NET Framework, then we have exciting news for you. With Visual Studio 2008, you will be able to do exactly that. As part of the Shared Source Initiative ,
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