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Posted: March 26th, 2008, 3:59pm CDT
After a long beta period, Visual Studio .NET 2008 is finally on general release. There are a ton of new features and enhancements in this release that make it almost a no-brainer to upgrade - I thought I’d take a moment and list my top ten favorites in no particular order.
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Posted: March 19th, 2008, 3:42pm CDT
We look at the rise of 'patterns' in the developer community, and how they've evolved to help communication between developers and understanding more clearly the intent of a given piece of code.
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Posted: March 19th, 2008, 3:26pm CDT
Richard takes a looks at a preview of a Microsoft incubation project called Volta, offering a new way of deploying applications written using single-tier architecture to a multi-tiered client/server environment without having to rewrite the code.
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Posted: March 4th, 2008, 4:20pm CST
The new file format introduced with the 2007 Microsoft Office System opens up many business opportunities. Matt Nicholson finds out who is doing what.
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Posted: March 4th, 2008, 4:20pm CST
Matt Nicholson introduces a range of articles covering the new Ecma Office Open XML standard, as supported by 2007 Microsoft Office system. Find out how Open XML works, how to use it and what you can do with it.
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Posted: March 4th, 2008, 4:20pm CST
As Matt Nicholson explains, Open XML is not just a new file format for the latest version of Microsoft Office, but an open standard capable of expressing any Word, Excel or PowerPoint document.
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Posted: March 4th, 2008, 4:19pm CST
In the second part in this series on OpenXML, Tim Anderson explains how the new Packaging API helps you work with Office Open XML documents.