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Code Parallel or Die, Part 2

by Frank Chism on April 15, 2008

It’s multicore time. Do you know where your parallelism is? Do you know where your parallelism is? Well you better find it! This is because you must or your users will not see the doubling of performance that they have seen for the last seven or eight... more

• Tuesday, April 15, 2008
• in: Dev Center
• Frank Chism

Supernova

by Sam Ramji on March 19, 2008

I’m writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I’m going to announce the beginning of Microsoft’s collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the... more

• Wednesday, March 19, 2008
• in: Dev Center
• Sam Ramji

Connecting Office Applications to MySQL and PostgreSQL via ODBC

by MichaelF on April 10, 2007

In cases where business applications have been built on open source databases, it may be necessary to connect other Windows applications, such as Microsoft Access or Excel, to these databases for reporting or business intelligence purposes. One potential application of this process is to use Excel as a front-end for data analysis. Data can be pulled from views or tables and then further analyzed... more

• Tuesday, April 10, 2007
• in: Dev Center
• MichaelF

Developer Resources for Open Source Software on Vista

by MichaelF on October 10, 2006

Recently we posted about http://www.devreadiness.com, an online resource for Vista Application Compatibility questions/guidance.  After posting we received some feedback that with some changes they could become much more useful for Open Source Developers.  Based on this feedback we are going to create a set of resources specifically tailored for the open source developer/ISV.  This is where we would... more

• Tuesday, October 10, 2006
• in: Community
• MichaelF

WIX: An Open Source Project at Microsoft

by admin on April 25, 2006

Sam Interviews Rob Mensching, owner of the WIX project and an Open Source pioneer at Microsoft. ... more

• Tuesday, April 25, 2006
• in: Media
• admin