C# 411 Crazy Stuff! Lookout Below!Microsoft announced the next version of its developer platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft said VS10 will focus on five key areas (in marketing-speak): riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM).
Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. This update patches numerous bugs, improves performance, and even adds a few new features.
As a .NET commercial software developer, I am most excited that SP1 provides a .NET Framework installation optimized for client applications. The optimized download is less than 28 MB, compared to the original 200 MB download that all but ensured consumers would not download .NET 3.5 and hence forced us to remain on .NET 2.0 (see FAT .NET).
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Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework v3.5. These upgrades enable .NET software developers to rapidly create more secure, manageable, and reliable applications and take advantage of new features found in Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.
Tags: .NET, AJAX, C#, LINQ, Tools, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Visual-Studio-.NET
Microsoft has announced that it will release the source code for the .NET Framework with .NET version 3.5 later this year. Microsoft will release the code under its Reference License. This is essentially ”read-only mode,” meaning that you can view the source code for reference and debugging, but you cannot modify or distribute the code. This is Microsoft’s most restrictive shared-code license and should not be confused with “open source” code such as Linux and the projects on SourceForge.Net. Continue reading »
Tags: .NET, Open-Source, Visual Studio, Visual-Studio-.NET
Upgrading to Windows Vista takes time, money and patience. And after much sweat and a few tears, it was all for naught, and I ultimately retreated back to Windows XP.
Tags: Software, UAC, Vista, Visual Studio, Windows, Windows-Vista
