To succeed in tough times, you need the best tools. The Visual Studio Magazine 2009 Readers Choice Awards honor the very best third-party tools, components and frameworks, as selected by one of the ...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. At least, that's the hope of most conference organizers in the software development sector. With IT and dev budgets slashed and most organizations ...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack (SP) 1, which Microsoft released to manufacturing on August 11, isn't just a bunch of fixes and patches. Why not just call SP1 a new release, say Visual Studio 2009, I ...

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Windows Azure is the cloud operating system that serves as the development, run-time, and control environment for the Azure Services Platform. The May 2009 Community Technology Previews (CTPs) for ...

Jason Zander, general manager of Visual Studio, Developer Division, Microsoft Corp. SAN FRANCISCO — Feb. 24, 2009 — Visual Studio developers got their first look at a new user interface (UI) that has ...