Developer's Toolkit


Expressway or Dead End?

If your on a budget should you use Visual Studio Express Edition for a professional product development and release project?

Jazzing up Dev Teams

Tools in Team System and Jazz begin to offer ways to integrate all teams into the dev process.

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Building Workflows

If you have to build applications that require several discrete steps, then Windows Workflow Foundation is a tool that can help you do so.

Visual Studio's Future

Microsoft is attempting to address one of the biggest perennial problems with the application development process: communication among disparate roles in development.

Keep an Eye on F#

The marriage of F# and Visual Studio has brought about unprecedented ease of use for a functional language, as well as excellent project- and team-organization facilities.

Express Yourself

Expression Blend -- and by extension, Expression Web -- should be available as add-ins to Visual Studio, rather than separate standalone products.

Managed-Code Mysteries

Understanding and applying the principles of memory management is key to building high-performing managed applications.

Moments of Fun

Microsoft's Popfly uses Silverlight to create and present a community for building and using innovative Web-based apps.

A Blueprint for Health

Microsoft's HealthVault is a platform for building applications that tie together a user's health and medical data with that person's health-care stakeholders.

A New App Platform

Live Mesh has the potential to become a platform that will tie together all of Microsoft’s online storage, file management, synchronization and sharing services, along with other third-party services that care to use its API for integration.

Jazzing up Dev Teams

We don’t use a hammer on a daily basis just to make sure all nails are still fully pounded in, and we don’t use development tools if we don’t think there’s a problem.

Fostering Collaboration

.NET developers need to communicate even more to effectively foster sharing and collaboration.

Visual Studio and Java?

Using Mainsoft for Enterprise Edition, Visual Studio developers can write code in .NET and cross-compile it to Java.

Protecting Your Property

Obfuscating your source code.