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The latest community technology preview of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition is now available on our download site . In addition to providing support for SQL Server 2008 database projects, this release incorporates many previously released
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You can sell video games for the Xbox 360 console — and keep most of the profits — beginning this holiday season. As a Premium member in the XNA Creators Club , you’ll be able to submit any complete Xbox 360 game you’ve created in XNA Game Studio to the
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IE8 is set for broad release in the third calendar quarter, which means real soon now. There are several features for you. Most important is standards compatibility. You may see misaligned Web pages, overlapping text or images, JavaScript functionality
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eWeek.com provides an insight into the Oslo and how the initiative relates to cloud computing. You can read the article at Oslo: Road to Microsoft's Cloud . But I'll summarize key points of interest to ISVs here. Oslo is built around service oriented
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Testing applications has often been an after-thought when building applications. But now many leading software companies build unit tests and are building applications using test-driven development. While these are not new ideas, this month's Visual Studio
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Building Software-plus-Services (S+S) applications is getting easier with S+S Blueprints. S+S is about providing your customers with choices of on premises or hosted applications. The S+S Blueprints are a series of open source frameworks and guidance
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It turns out that less than 10% of vulnerabilities disclosed through June 2007 were targeted at Operating Systems. More than 90% of vulnerabilities targeted at the application layer. In his blog entry How Vulnearable are Software Applications? , S. Somasegar
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I found an interesting article, Five Things the Boss Should Know About Microsoft's LINQ , written by John Paul Mueller who talks on CIO about LINQ from the developer manager point of view. LINQ provides general-purpose query facilities that have been
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If you're using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) , you're invited to share and download templates that share your process templates. Creating new process templates can be a significant undertaking. It's way easier if you can start with a process
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The ability to model architecture of an application and validate it against application code will be added to the next version of Visual Studio Team System, code named Rosario . A new feature will allow you to create a visual map of your application's
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The first three components of Oslo , the model-driven connected systems software development initiative from Microsoft, was announced at TechEd . The components are: Modeling tool Repository Declarative programming language The community technology previews
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The release date for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 , targeted at a broad range of consumer and business users, has been set for August. This means that now is the time to test your Web applications and see what new features you can leverage so you stand
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When it's release later this week, Silverlight 2 Beta 2 comes with a Go Live license. The Beta 2 release of Silverlight 2 will be publicly available later this week. The following provides a summary of what the new release includes: UI Framework : Beta
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Soma Somasegar, VP Developer Tools, and Bill Gates describe the paradigm shift in client application development at the Developer TechEd this week in Orlando. As part of that discussion, several announcement that can help ISVs are being announced. Silverlight
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This week S. Somasegar , Senior Vice President Developer Division, announced on his blog that we've released an update to the community technology preview (CTP) of Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. Parallel Extensions simplifies development of
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