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Silverlight 4 Beta Hits the Street

by Peter Galli on November 18, 2009

The beta for Silverlight 4 was released today, Scott Guthrie, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Developer Division, told attendees at the annual Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles. The final verison of the product will be shipped... more

• Wednesday, November 18, 2009
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

PDC 2009: Availability of the Windows Azure Platform

by Peter Galli on November 17, 2009

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, used the company's annual Professional Developers Conference here in Los Angeles to announce the availability of the Windows Azure platform . That platform consists of Windows Azure, the operating system... more

• Tuesday, November 17, 2009
• in: Community
• Peter Galli

Better Windows Development Environments - One project at a Time

by Mark Stone on April 10, 2009

Discussions of the PC market usually break down into "desktop" vs. "server", as if these are the only platform categories. However, the developer's dev box -- call it a "workstation" to distinguish it from desktop -- is really a separate platform. Remember... more

• Friday, April 10, 2009
• in: Community
• Mark Stone

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

by jcannon on October 03, 2007

Some news from Scott Guthrie's blog this morning - "One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them. Today I'm excited to announce that we'll be providing this with the .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 release later this year...." ... more

• Wednesday, October 03, 2007
• in: Community
• jcannon