PreEmptive Solutions is now shipping Dotfuscator Professional 4.3. This release includes enhanced application tamper defense and heuristics that automatically extend protection to applications that ...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VS08) is the current incarnation of the company’s long line of IDEs. It’s the premier IDE for developing applications with the Microsoft .Net Framework and, at least, a ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...

Meanwhile, people who still maintain Classic ASP sites should not abandon their existing tools. WPF, Silverlight, and Web 2.0 VS08 supports Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) with a split-pane WPF ...