Microsoft has expanded the Visual Studio product line with the addition of
six new Express products designed to help the student, hobbyist, enthusiast,
or novice developer become proficient with the Microsoft .NET 2.0 platform as
quickly as possible.
Based upon the same code-base as their professional cousins in the Visual
Studio 2005 product line, the express products have been on a diet, allowing
them to be downloaded easily even when connecting to the Internet using a
dialup connection.
Microsoft has provided six express beta products, which are all freely
available at http://labs.msdn.microsoft.com/express/. The express product
line consists of the following products: Visual Basic 2005 Express Visual C#
2005 Express Visual C++ 2005 Express Visual J# 2005 Express Vis... (more)
In today's enterprise applications nobody is going to comment on the quality
of your middle-tier components or the databases to which you persist your
application's data. Enterprise applications, like all others, are judged
using the age-old adage: first impressions count. Essentially, your
applications are judged on the quality of the user interface.
Integrating advanced business and sci... (more)
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third
Edition
Since 1997 the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been the de facto modeling
language for describing object-oriented systems, from requirements analysis
to design and implementation. Since the first edition, UML Distilled has been
the de facto guide for novices and experts alike using UML to describe thei... (more)
VMWare was the first software of its kind to offer the ability for one
operating system to host others in such a way that users could be interacting
with multiple operating systems simultaneously. Each virtual machine shares
the host computer's hardware resources such as CPU, memory, network
connections, and hard disks.
Developers today often need access to several operating systems or
... (more)
With the release of Visual Studio 2005 in November Microsoft Visual Studio
entered the enterprise development tools space with a coherent set of
products targeted at the distinct roles in the software development
lifecycle. On March 17 2006, Microsoft released Team Foundation Server, which
finally enables users of the various editions of Visual Studio 2005 to
achieve the Team System.
Vi... (more)
A "blue-badge" .net architect and developer at Intel Corporation since March 2007, Doug Holland is part of the Intel Mobility group and is presently working within an advanced tools and development team with an emphasis on graphics performance. He holds a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from Oxford University and has been awarded both the Microsoft MVP and Intel Black Belt Developer awards. Outside of work, Holland enjoys spending time with his wife and four children; and is also an officer in the Civil Air Patrol / U.S. Air Force Auxiliary. 
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