http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com A SearchWinDevelopment.com Blog Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:16:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Ajax interface has proved an interesting animal. Many people trace asynchronous JavaScript use back to Microsoft's early Outlook Web clients, but it was not promoted by Microsoft much until open-source AJAX [for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML] as used by Google became popular about three years ago. ... http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/17/aspnet-ajax-roundtable/ SearchSoftwareQuality.com survey on Agile processes is out. The Web site asked its readers a series of questions on team-oriented development issues. The take-away: Requirements gathering is still hard; waterfall methods are still as prominent as Agile methods; and Use Cases are here to stay despite a push toward User Stories for ... http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/03/im-an-agilist-and-im-ok-right/ The USENIX conference is a technical undertaking dedicated to all things UNIX and some things Linux. Actually, it is nothing less than the premier event for system programmers. Despite the UNIX-leanings, USENIX in recent years has featured some Microsoft experts, usually from the company's research arm.  This year, at USENIX in ... http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/27/the-javascript-worm-turns-at-usenix-2008/ Microsoft parallel extensions to .NET have undergone an update in the form of a new Community Technology Preview. Included are Coordination Data Structures, now part of the extensions. Coordination Data Structures join Parallel LINQ and the Task Parallel Library and other elements intended to address the  new era of mulitcore processors. Coordination ... http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/19/microsoft-parallel-extensions-to-net-framework-35-arrive-as-new-ctp/ Document generation is nobody's favorite task. Microsoft has had a pre-beta automatic document generator brewing for a number of years that would help take classes, code and the like, and create documentation, saving some onerous tasking. This long-running project took on an open-source tenor with a Codeplex download. It is suddenly ... http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/09/sandcastle-codeplex-download-dissolves/ The lights dim in the keynote hall, the music comes up, and Microsoft’s leader Bill Gates is announced to the developer legions at Tech Ed for the final time. That is the scene on the first week of June in Orlando as Bill Gates makes one last keynote before moving ... http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/27/how-will-bill-gates-be-remembered/ The Mono team has been working on its version of Sytem.Windows.Forms for almost four years. And it has hit the finish line. There were 6,434 commits along the way. What's next? Bug fixing! Twas ever thus! http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/22/mono-winforms-reaches-finish-line/ Microsoft released a beta of .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 releases. While devoted in great part to bug fixes, they also include new features, some that have been eagerly awaited. Versions of ADO.NET Entity Framework and the ADO.NET Data Services framework (Astoria) are included. http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/14/net-35-sp1-and-vs-2008-sp1-beta-appears/ Little noted but of major interest: At last months Microsoft MVP Global Summit, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie spoke about how he approaches his role as leader software technology steward at Microsoft. The session provided an inside view of how this famed technologist operates. http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/08/how-does-ray-ozzie-measure-software-projects/ Microsoft has abandoned its effort to purchase Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Yahoo vigorously rebuffed the offer, first launched in February. In announcing the withdrawn offer, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer disclosed that the company had increased its initial bid. "Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo! ... http://dotnet-developments.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-its-over/