Get ready with your "slow news day?" comments, because Microsoft has introduced an Achievement system to its Visual Studio programming environment and this is indeed a news story highlighting that ...

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With the latest version of its Visual Studio software development platform, Microsoft is looking to entice developers by expanding language capabilities and accommodating mobile development. Visual ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio software development system is getting a makeover. With the planned Visual Studio 2010 software development environment, Microsoft intends to offer a new editor based on the ...

"If you look at the application life cycle, there has been a disconnect for quite a while between the application development side and the database people," said Matt Nunn, a senior product manager ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. It is now a full 20-years since Microsoft first offered its ...

Microsoft is expected this week to release the first beta of its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 software development products. The software giant also plans to announce a low-cost edition of ...

Visual Studio 2010's IntelliTrace features achieve this by creating a screen movie of the steps followed by the tester, linked to the test script. Virtualisation technology is used to capture the ...