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Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010

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Article: New Book: Agile Software Engineering with Visual Studio

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A University Education -- for Free

MIT, Stanford and other institutions of higher learning offer basic computer science courses that cost nothing but time. Similar stories ...
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Visual Studio Sweepstakes | Microsoft Visual Studio

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A Eulogy for MIX

Microsoft has nixed MIX, its Web-focused conference. One fan laments its early demise. Similar stories ...
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: Agile Support, Group Collaboration, and Clone Detection

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Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management Future

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Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers Begin Their Rule

As the cloud is quickly demonstrating, small, seemingly underpowered servers are quite enough for most development tasks. Buy... Similar stories ...
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Developer's Reading List

The latest books off the press cover code readability, Java performance, hunting for and prying open security defects, game t... Similar stories ...
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Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 - Microsoft Visual Studio

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Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010

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Microsoft Visual Studio as a Game

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I need help with Python Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and Django

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Visual Studio 11 ALM Advances

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Creating a Windows Phone Application in Visual Studio OR Expression Blend

A Windows Phone application is made up of a frame and pages. The Pages are made up of XAML that define the UI and the Applica... Similar stories ...
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Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010

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.NET Demon Provides Continuous Compilation and Testing for Visual Studio

Red Gate's .NET Demon is a new Visual Studio tool that continuously tests, compiles, and auto-saves code in the background. B... Similar stories ...
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Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010

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Entity Framework 4.3 Gets Final Tune-Up -- Enum Support Promised in 5.0

Microsoft last week shipped the Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1, with some NuGet integration enhancements and bug fixes. Similar stories ...
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Visual Studio 11 ALM Advances

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Microsoft Brings Achievements To Visual Studio

In its ongoing quest to incentivize every facet of human existence with largely meaningless numerical scores and shiny badges... Similar stories ...
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Visual Studio Gets Achievements, Badges, Leaderboards

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Microsoft gamifies Visual Studio with achievements

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Microsoft gamifies Visual Studio with achievements

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Microsoft adds developer achievements to Visual Studio

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Microsoft adds Achievements to Visual Studio software

Get ready with your "slow news day?" comments, because Microsoft has introduced an Achievement system to its Visual Studio pr... Similar stories ...
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Microsoft Announces ‘Visual Studio Achievements’ for Developers

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Microsoft Visual Studio brings Gamification to app development

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Microsoft Visual Studio brings Gamification to app development - SlashGear

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Visual Studio Achievements - Remember Kids They're Just For Fun

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Channel9′s Visual Studio Achievements now available

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Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta | C9Team | Channel 9

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CompuLab Trim-Slice Review

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[Special Edition] Achievement Unlocked! - Visual Studio Achievement Beta Released

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Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part II: Advanced Initialization

Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid ou... Similar stories ...
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Linked Lists Are, Like, So Last Century

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Language of the Month: JRuby

Ahead-of-time compilation, metaprogramming Java objects, real threads, and the ability to call Java directly from Ruby code a... Similar stories ...
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When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error.

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ASP.NET: Integrating Search and Help with Cross-Page Posting

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Database Jobs Provide Job Security, Says Survey

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A Windows Phone-CES Post Mortem

When I went by the booth and watched a few demos, I realized that Nokia's Lumia 800 and 900 phones don’t just run Windows Pho... Similar stories ...
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Microsoft Uses LiteSpeed™ for SQL Server from Quest Software to Eliminate the Need for Additional Storage

In this white paper read about Microsoft’s Enterprise Application Services Group, and how using LiteSpeed™ increased database... Similar stories ...
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Top 6 LiteSpeed™ Features DBA's Should Know About

LiteSpeed’s SQL backups are smaller, run faster and are more secure. Learn to get the most from its power, discover six featu... Similar stories ...
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Top 6 LiteSpeed™ Features DBA's Should Know About

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Best Practices for SharePoint Development and Customization

In this white paper, discover best practices for empowering SharePoint users to customize their own sites with less “hands-o... Similar stories ...
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Microsoft Uses LiteSpeed for SQL Server from Quest Software to Eliminate the Need for Additional Storage

LiteSpeed™ for SQL Server’s Adaptive Compression technology delivers expanded tuning capabilities, high-performance compressi... Similar stories ...
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VS hangs for 1 minute on start debugging? Check for dead symbol paths!

I’ve just hit this again so I decided to share the solution in case anyone else hits this. Symptom: Visual Studio freezes fo... Similar stories ...
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How to: Use Visual Studio 11 to Publish Solutions to SharePoint Online

So I’ve been living under a rock again and I had never gotten around to checking what’s new in Visual Studio 11. The Develop... Similar stories ...
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DateTime.UtcNow is generally preferable to DateTime.Now

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The Rise and Fall of Programming Languages in 2011

As mobile devices become a major development platform, scripting languages are beginning to fall out of favor. Similar stories ...
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Jolt Awards: Coding Tools

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5 Reasons Why Agile Won’t Scale Without Automation

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Jolt Awards: Coding Tools

Going to the very heart of the developer's toolbox, we select four outstanding tools. Similar stories ...
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Destructors Considered Harmful

Allocating dynamic resources may seem hazardous — but freeing them is the real hazard. Similar stories ...
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Oracle Developers Playing in the Microsoft Sandbox? Indeed.

Times change, and the database behemoth does an about-face and supports development within Microsoft's Entity Framework. Similar stories ...
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IDEs Are Dead. Long Live the IDE!

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The Best of 2011

The most popular articles of last year from Dr. Dobb's, plus some additional pieces picked out for your thoughtful considerat... Similar stories ...
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Metro style JS Apps in Visual Studio 11

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Visual Studio Magazine's 2012 .NET Developer Salary Survey

Our first annual salary survey shows that developers aren't just surviving, but thriving. Similar stories ...
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It's the User

Historically speaking, the most profound change in the way we build software today is in how we care for the user. Similar stories ...
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Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background

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Cross-Platform C/C++ Development with Eclipse CDT

Using Eclipse as a universal C++ IDE for Linux and Windows requires navigating a few issues in setup and functionality. Here'... Similar stories ...
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Martin Odersky on Scala

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Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award

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The Need to Rewrite Established Algorithms

Parallel architectures, like other hardware advances before them, require us to rewrite algorithms and data structures &#151... Similar stories ...
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Welcome to the Jungle

The free lunch is over. Now welcome to the hardware jungle. Similar stories ...
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Efficient Use of Lambda Expressions and std::function

Functors and std:function implementations vary widely between libraries. C++11's lambdas make them more efficient. Similar stories ...
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Working with Parser Combinators

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Performance and Stress Testing | Microsoft Visual Studio

Do you stress test your apps? See how #VisualStudio 2010 models real-world scenarios using simulated load conditions. http://... Similar stories ...
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Windows Phone 7 App Adds Achievements to Microsoft Visual Studio, of All Things

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Download: Visual Studio Agents 2010 - Microsoft Download Center - Confirmation

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Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part I: Early Initialization

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Trust Me, I Won

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Microsoft's Visual Studio now has Achievements - Neowin.net

In a rather inventive move, a group of coders have added Achievements to Microsoft's Visual Studio application in order to dr... Similar stories ...
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Visual Studio add-ins, extensions and tools

BugAid by Omer Raviv and Vitaly Belman helps you visualize, search and compare live objects data when debugging a C# applicat... Similar stories ...
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Blog: Visual Studio add-ins, extensions and tools

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Changing the default HTML Templates to HTML5 in Visual Studio

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Preview of Visual Studio 11: DirectX and SharePoint Features

Visual Studio 11 will introduce some new editor features intended to make developing for DirectX and SharePoint easier. By Je... Similar stories ...
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Microsoft's Windows Azure Leads the Data Revolution

Microsoft may become the big data provider, especially if the government's data sources lose funding. Similar stories ...
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10 Golden Rules for Choosing an ERP System

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3 Key ERP Features and How to Use Them Effectively

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Checklist: 10 Tips to Optimize Your ERP Initiatives

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Future Tech: Where Will Telephony Be in Two Years?

The white paper identifies two clear trends in the telephony market and predicts how they’ll shape the telephony market in th... Similar stories ...
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5 Steps for Switching Telephony Vendors

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10 Golden Rules for Choosing a Telephony System

Learn about the 10 golden rules for choosing a telephony that fully addresses your needs now and into the future. Read on. Similar stories ...
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Hidden Gems: 5 Other Phone Systems Vendors to Consider

This brief gives some insight into a few of the vendors you may not have considered, but probably should. Read on. Similar stories ...
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Hidden Gems: 5 Other Phone Systems Vendors to Consider

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Video: Create a PhoneGap Windows Phone 7.5 Application in Visual Studio 2010

PhoneGap, an HTML5 and JavaScript framework that allows to build cross-platform mobile applications very easily fully support... Similar stories ...
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