Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

On Monday, Microsoft announced availability of the much-anticipated beta two version of Visual Studio 2005 and the .Net Compact Framework 2.0, as well as a community technology preview of SQL Server ...

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“Developers are one of the software industry’s most important assets and they constantly have their eyes on the future,” said Eric Rudder, senior vice president of the Developer and Platform ...

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Microsoft today announced Visual Studio LightSwitch (previously codenamed Kitty Hawk), the newest member of the Visual Studio product family. It will be available as part of Visual Studio Professional ...

I have a 2014 15” MacBook Pro that I’m looking to replace sooner or later with an equivalent M1 MacBook Pro (most likely the 14”). However, one big holdup is that for my day job, I run Visual Studio ...

In a dramatic shift, Microsoft takes a big step into open source, with the aim of spreading Microsoft development across iOS, Android, OS X, and Linux Microsoft’s long and contentious relationship ...