Bradley L. Jones

You might be asking the question, “What more could Microsoft add or change in Microsoft Office?” If so, then now is your chance to find out with the new beta of Microsoft Office 2010. Download the Office 2010 Beta from Here Because I’m talking about Office already, let me do a free plug for Microsoft… […]

Tuesday January 18, 2010 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru How to Make a Virtual Tree Control — Really Virtual Soap Panda a Soap Client application for testing Web Services SharePoint 2007: Integrating the Google Chart API Using ASP.NET 3.5’s ListView and DataPager Controls: The Ultimate DataPager Interface […]

I attended the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association meeting last night. One of the discussion points was on the parallelism features in .NET. The question that was asked was in regard to these new commands in .NET were based on threads. Programming parallel feature has required creating and using threads. When I heard this question, it […]

It is always cool to find tips and tricks you can use. While not a programming trick, the addition of GodMode to Windows Vista or Windows 7 can turn out to help you as a developer. GodMode isn’t really a change in functionality for Windows. Rather, it is the creation of a folder that has […]

Do you know what NGWS, COM++ and .NET all have in common? About ten years ago, these were all candidates for the name of a new framework being created by Microsoft. NGWS and .NET were the two that came down to the wire, but we all know that .NET won. I believe that Next Generation […]

Scott Guthrie and Somasegar have both announced the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 will be delayed. How long the delay will be is unknown. In fact, March 22nd, 2010 was announced as the launched date. Nothing was stated specifically about moving this date; however, both indicated that the release would shift a few weeks. […]

In my last blog entry, I mentioned Intel’s futuristic 48-core chip. That is a long-term look that might cause you to believe you still have time to wait before considering multicore issues in your applications. If you are not considering multiple cores today, when developing your applications, then you are falling behind. While tapping the […]

Are you looking seriously at concurrent or parallelized procedures within your applications yet? Do you know what impact using such techniques is going to have on your development cycle or your applications? If you are not at least considering the impact of multi-core processors on your application development, then it might be a good time […]

Tuesday December 1, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Constructing your First PowerShell Provider Dynamic Programming with Lambda Expressions Autorun Menu Creator in VB.NET Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com Working with the Android Calendar The 7 Rules for Writing World Class Technical Documentation […]

Tuesday November 24, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Autorun Menu Creator in VB.NET Installing SQL Server 2008 BLOG: Public Betas Available Now Writing UDFs for Firebird Embedded SQL Server Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com Forms Processing with the Zend Framework Installing SQL […]

Tuesday November 18, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Building Windows Azure Cloud Service Applications with Azure Storage and the Azure SDK [Updated] Shutdown Manager VIDEO: Intro to Windows Azure Undo/Redo Framework Tip: Screen Capture File System Filter Driver Tutorial File Verbs – EXE System Shortcut Menu […]

Microsoft has released a number of public betas. This includes Silverlight 4, which can now be downloaded from: http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/ Silverlight 4 is targeted for release next year. The first three versions of Silverlight were released within 22 months. Micorosft is on the same clip with Silverligth 4. Also released are public betas of products such […]