A no-brainer upgrade for Microsoft-oriented developers, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 marks a major advance in functionality and ease As a daily user of Visual Studio from its inception, and of Visual ...

As Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 edge toward production release, Microsoft shops should be assessing when best to make the switch I recently sat down with my new employers to plan out our ...

ASP.NET 4 adds a wealth of features for client-side developers, including new ways of instantiating controls, a new infrastructure for managing libraries and some minor but much-needed tweaks. And ...

There are so many programming languages that I can’t keep track of them all any more. Presumably each has specific strengths and weaknesses, but I couldn’t tell you what those are, nor under which ...

As expected, Microsoft today announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. To celebrate, the company is hosting a launch consisting of more than 150 developer-focused ...

When developing applications, programmers must follow certain rules linked to the programming languages implicated in the developing process. These rules are not only syntactical or semantic but also ...

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It's launch day for Visual Studio 2010, and Microsoft is making Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 generally available for purchase as of today, April 12. (Update: It looks like MSDN subscribers will be ...

Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 MSDN subscribers now have access to the Beta 2 releases of both Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. If you have MSDN access, go ahead and ...

This weekend saw a blog post go up by Microsoft tools guru Jihad Dannawi who detailed the news that Monday May 18th is the launch day for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Professional, Suite and Team ...