Friday, August 10, 2007 10:53 AM/EST
If you want to try out some of the Visual Studio 2008 code (such as the ones in my recent LINQ article) without starting up Visual Studio, you can do so at the command prompt. Visual Studio always includes a...
Friday, August 03, 2007 12:08 PM/EST
In one of our recent news articles, we mentioned the latest betas for Visual Studio 2008 (previously called Orcas) and .NET 3.5 are available. (If you want to try out anything with LINQ you'll need these; LINQ isn't available with...
Friday, April 27, 2007 10:49 AM/EST
Hi everyone! I thought I'd share with you a quick tip that demonstrates how your .NET programs can interact with Microsoft Office programs. In this example, I'll use Outlook. Start up Visual Studio and create a new Windows Application. Here...
Friday, March 23, 2007 10:08 AM/EST
When Microsoft released .NET 2.0, they introduced a new concept called generics. This concept, in my opinion, has been made out to be far more complex and difficult than it really is. Let's get right to it: A generic collection,...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:43 PM/EST
Welcome to my new blog! This is the MSDev blog, and the focus is going to be on Microsoft development. For this first blog, I'm wondering, should we require our users to install .NET? Read on......