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Cross-platform development frameworks make programmers' lives easier. Programming one set of source code files which an interpreter then converts to run on different operating system saves developers ...

Software developers are busy kicking the tires on Silverlight, Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash. This summary of not-necessarily-technical information will help IT managers identify what's ...

In the past week I've gotten a couple of emails about companies that are releasing components for the .NET Framework/Windows Presentation Foundation. Infragistics, the big component vendor, was the ...

Microsoft officials are remaining adamant that they plan to stay mum about the details regarding the Windows 8 developer story until mid-September, when the company holds its Build conference. But ...

In a recent livestreamed .NET Community Standup on YouTube, Microsoft put up a slide indicating Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a "community run project," prompting an audience question about ...

I have a SQL 2008 database with some sprocs, etc... that take data in tables and export it to XML files. These XML files are used to provide sample data to test an application we use that imports XML ...