Bradley L. Jones

Watch out Chrome. Stand back Firefox. Move over Safari. At high noon (EDT), Internet Explorer 8 is stepping out of beta and into the streets as a released product. “Customers have made clear what they want in a Web browser — safety, speed and greater ease of use,” said Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. “With […]

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is not officially released. You can download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b&displaylang=en From Microsoft: “ASP.NET MVC 1.0 provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime. This means that developers can take advantage of the MVC design patterns to create their Web Applications which includes the ability to achieve […]

There are a number of news releases that IBM is starting talks about buying Sun Microsystems. You might remember, this is the company that Microsoft infuse a couple billion of dollars into a while back to help it along. (( okay, that might have been a legal settlement, but still that was billions with a […]

Tuesday March 17, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Raw Input Device informations Creating Flexible Constant Fields QuickConnect.NET BLOG: Will the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) be at Tech Ed? [Updated] Combinations in C++, Part 2 [Updated] Use STA COM Objects Asynchronously Hottest Discussions […]

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Our very own TheCPUWizard was mentioned in the story, Bellport businessman wins second award from Microsoft at Newsday.com. Also mentioned in the story is Codeguru.com. You have to read to the end to see the Codeguru mention. If you see Codeguru mentioned elsewhere, please let me know!  

Microsoft is not an Apple. Regardless, they are trying to play one on the internet. This week Microsoft announced more information on the Microsoft MarketPlace. This is a response – or reaction – to the success of the Apple Store.   So what’s important to know?   If you develop applications for Windows Mobile, you […]

Tuesday March 10, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru TIP: Closing your WCF Connections properly BLOG: Which Is More Mature: C++ or C#? Managing Threads in J2SE: The Java.2 Standard Edition Thread Container Check-in policies VIDEO: ASP.NET Dynamic Data Hottest Discussions New Articles on […]

When this question came up in a side conversation the Microsoft MVP summit, my initial reaction was that C++ is obviously the more mature language and that C# was a new language that was still “wet behind the ears.” This conversation was with a person on the Microsoft C++ team, so the comment surprised me […]

Tuesday March 3, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru .NET Tip: Avoiding Boolean Overload TIP: Using Proxies and ChannelFactory in WCF TIP: Be Careful with Dummy Reference Arguments BLOG: What’s the goal of Visual Studio 2010? Deploying Separate User/Site Configurations with ClickOnce Hottest Discussions […]

Tuesday February 24, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Writing to the EventLog from a Web Application A Multidevice ASIO Output Plugin for WinAMP Pause Before Exiting a Console Application Text Transformation with MGrammar and the Oslo SDK Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com […]

According to Jason Zander, General Manager of Visual Studio, the answer is “Our goal with both the current and upcoming products is to provide streamlined solutions that increase developer productivity and make developers’ jobs easier.” Jason Zander, Microsoft In Visual Studio 2008, the goal was to allow developers to do more with less, in 2010 […]