Microsoft announces that Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 will Release to Web at the end of August.
Microsoft announced the public beta of Visual Studio LightSwitch on August 23. LightSwitch is a developer tool based on .NET that “will be the easiest way to build business applications for the desktop and the cloud.”
The Professional Development Conference (PDC) will be held this year on October 28 and 29 in Redmond Washington on the Microsoft Campus.
Do you want to learn more about Microsoft’s new AppFabric? Earlier today I met up with regular DevProConnections mag Workflow Services columnist Zoiner Tejada to get an introduction to the basics of AppFabric. I’ll post a link to the video soon, but in the meantime here’s a look at the basics of our conversation.
Microsoft's Bill Laing noted that the workforce is changing and is becoming much more mobile; a major trend is the consumerization of IT and the self-provisioning of IT through online services. This affects the delivery of cloud services.
Typemock has released Isolator 2010, the latest version of the Typemock Isolator unit-testing solution for .NET technologies.
LANSA has updated its LANSA Repository access tool for .NET developers by adding Visual Studio support.
dynaTrace software has extended its Continuous APM system to incorporate business transaction management (BTM) into dynaTrace's next-generation APM system.
Kentico has released Kentico CMS 5.5, with Visual Studio 2010 support and other new and improved features.
Brian Goldfarb, director of developer platforms for Microsoft, talks to DevProConnections executive editor Sheila Molnar about how Silverlight 4 incorporates most of .NET developers' wish list for the release.