Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Microsoft today released Visual Studio 2008 to MSDN customers for downloading, making it the first of the "big three" servers of the coming "Global Launch Wave" to be available. Along with VS2008, the ...

Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic. One of the downloads, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools, ...

Microsoft announced today through its ISV blog that partners can now begin selling Visual Studio 2008. The program is also now available through retail channels. "With its inclusion on the January ...

Visual Studio 2008, .Net Framework 3.5 coming this month as first pieces of Microsoft’s software-as-a-service infrastructure Microsoft Monday said Visual Studio 2008 would ship by the end of this ...

The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta, which includes tools, documentation, and samples for developers to design, build, test and deploy extensions for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta (required, ...

It's great that your new team is ready to support your immersion into Visual Basic. It's always a bad idea to exaggerate skills, but since everyone is being honest, I think you'll be successful in the ...

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Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 were released yesterday. As far as Microsoft development tool releases go, this one is particularly important, as it is the first version of Visual Studio that includes ...

When I wrote about free Ruby on Rails IDEs last Wednesday, I drew a comment from "teki321:" "I would never put 'Ruby in Steel' in the context of free. It's an extension for a commercial application, ...