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Technology products have many birthdays – do you count from first announcement, or release to manufacturing, or general availability? Still, this week is a significant one for Microsoft .NET and the C# language, which was first unveiled to the world in detail at Tech-Ed Europe on July 7th, 2000. The timing was odd; July …continue reading Ten years of Microsoft .NET – but what about the next ten? Cliff Click of Azul Systems has an excellent post on Java vs C/C++ performance: Is Java faster than C/C++? The short answer is: it depends. He then presents three categories of cases: the first C/C++ beats Java, the second where Java beats C/C++, and the third and longest, where C/C++ proponents claim Java is …continue reading Java versus C/C++ performance – which is really faster? I’m just back from QCon London, a software development conference with an agile flavour that I enjoy because it is not vendor-specific. Conferences like this are energising; they make you re-examine what you are doing and may kick you into a better place. Here’s what I noticed this year. Robert C Martin from …continue reading QCon London 2010 report: fix your code, adopt simplicity, cool .NET things Microsoft’s Charlie Kindel has blogged about the Windows Phone 7 development platform. As widely leaked, the new mobile device supports Silverlight and XNA; Kindel also mentions .NET, but since both Silverlight and XNA are .NET platforms, that might not mean anything additional. The big story is about compatibility: To deliver what developers expect …continue reading Windows Phone 7 incompatibility may drive developers elsewhere The Visual Studio Blog makes great reading for .NET developers, and not only because of the product it describes. Visual Studio 2010 is one of the few Microsoft products that has made a transition from native C++ code to .NET managed code – the transition is partial, in that parts of Visual Studio remain …continue reading Microsoft .NET gotchas revealed by Visual Studio team I have just com across Mono Tools, a Novell add-in for Visual Studio that lets you test Mono compatibility. It adds a Mono menu which has options to run locally or remotely in Mono, analyze for compatibility issues, and create deployment packages. No sign of Mac support, which is a missed opportunity, but understandable …continue reading Mono Tools for Visual Studio: code on Windows, run on Linux Microsoft has made the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2010 available for download to MSDN subscribers. From tomorrow (10th February) the same release will be available to everyone. There is a go-live license so you can use this in production if you wish, though if the full release comes in April as planned, it …continue reading Visual Studio 2010 RC arrives with go-live license I’m beginning to think Microsoft has under-sold Visual Studio 2010. Of course it is a huge product, as I observed back in October, especially since it includes a major new release of the .NET Framework as well as updated tools, but I thought I had discovered most of the significant new features. Still, when …continue reading What’s new in Visual Studio 2010 – more than you may realise |
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