Columns
From the issues of Redmond Developer News and our sister publications
in the Redmond Media Group.
Zachmann.NET
Can Silverlight Compete?
August 2008 | by William F. Zachmann
Microsoft and NBC are betting very big on using Silverlight to change -- permanently -- the way TV broadcasting is done.
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Frameworks
Message in a Bottle
August 2008 | by Michael Desmond
Microsoft is looking for a way out of the Windows legacy code bear trap and if 'Midori' is any indication, it appears Redmond is working to do just that.
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Developer's Toolkit
A Blueprint for Health
August 2008 | by Peter Varhol
Microsoft's HealthVault is a platform for building applications that tie together a user's health and medical data with that person's health-care stakeholders.
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Zachmann.NET
Developer Education
August 2008 | by William F. Zachmann
For anyone who wants to get the most out of Visual Studio 2008, one of the best sources has been Microsoft developer/evangelist Zain Naboulsi's "Is This Thing On?" .NET developers’ blog and webcasts.
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Frameworks
SharePoint Does It All
August 2008 | by Michael Desmond
Make no mistake, Microsoft SharePoint is the Shimmer floor wax/dessert topping of the software industry.
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Developer's Toolkit
A New App Platform
August 2008 | by Peter Varhol
Live Mesh has the potential to become a platform that will tie together all of Microsoft’s online storage, file management, synchronization and sharing services, along with other third-party services that care to use its API for integration.
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Zachmann.NET
Get Firebugged? Yes!
July 2008 | by William F. Zachmann
Whether you want to tune up a Web site you built yourself or dive into the techniques used to build someone else’s site, Firebug lets you peer under the covers to understand how the site works.
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Frameworks
Talking SharePoints
July 2008 | by Michael Desmond
Microsoft's perspective on the issue of coding against SharePoint.
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Zachmann.NET
Don't Drop This Thing!
July 2008 | by William F. Zachmann
Omar Al Zabir is not just a coder, but a software architect, designer, developer and entrepreneur executing major projects.
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Frameworks
Open Source Woes
July 2008 | by Michael Desmond
The pulling of Microsoft's Sandcastle from Redmond's CodePlex open source project site.
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Developer's Toolkit
Jazzing up Dev Teams
July 2008 | by Peter Varhol
We don’t use a hammer on a daily basis just to make sure all nails are still fully pounded in, and we don’t use development tools if we don’t think there’s a problem.
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Zachmann.NET
Moving Mountains
June 2008 | by William F. Zachmann
Anders Hejlsberg, a key .NET creator
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Frameworks
So Long, Bill
June 2008 | by Michael Desmond
A reflection on Bill Gates
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Developer's Toolkit
Fostering Collaboration
June 2008 | by Peter Varhol
.NET developers need to communicate even more to effectively foster sharing and collaboration.
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Zachmann.NET
Know Your Neighborhood
June 2008 | by William F. Zachmann
How much do developers really know about the operating systems their code runs on?
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Frameworks
When Less Is More
June 2008 | by Michael Desmond
Features for features sake in Windows 7.
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Developer's Toolkit
Visual Studio and Java?
June 2008 | by Peter Varhol
Using Mainsoft for Enterprise Edition, Visual Studio developers can write code in .NET and cross-compile it to Java.
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Zachmann.NET
Microsoft's Second Life
May 2008 | by William F. Zachmann
Virtual reality version of "Heroes Happen Here" is launched.
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Frameworks
Null Disclosure
May 2008 | by Michael Desmond
Microsoft development: the tension between open access and tight control.
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Directions on Microsoft
Live Mesh
May 2008 | by Greg DeMichillie
Microsoft envisions a world where all the user's Web devices share and synchronize information among themselves, with the Internet as the hub.
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