Visual Studio News & Articles

It’s a big announcement for Microsoft, at least according to the developer blogging world. There have been over 100 posts trumpheting the release of Visual Studio 2008 - Global Launch Wave part 1. Wow, guess some people were really excited when they logged onto their PCs this morning.

Fear not loyal readers, we will join the crowd and fill you in on how Microsoft has enhanced its core development IDE to suit the new world.

In a winter survey of ‘round about 400 programmers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia (collectively the EMEA region), Evans Data Corporation paints a surprising picture of developer habits and preferences, including Integrated Development Environment (IDE) popularity.

In a thoughtful and much welcomed move Microsoft has delivered the best way to jump start your SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 development projects. A new Visual Studio 2005 extension kit promises to make your geek life much simpler. In brief, the extension shortcuts creating, managing, and publishing WSS/MOSS websites, WebParts, and site data lists. This ties-in timely like with the recent MOSS release announcement.

San Francisco-based Quantum Art updates their QP7 Web CMS platform and makes better friends with Visual Studio, adding a RAD module for content application development.

We previously posted a tip sheet on Getting Started with SharePoint WebParts. Kindly supporting us in these endeavors, our dear friends over at MSDN have published a chapter from the book Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out.

For those of you leveraging one of the best pieces of "free" software on the market today, here's a welcome resource.

Microsoft has released the SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit, the definitive resource for administering, customizing, and othewise rendering useful SharePoint products (SPS and WSS).