First Visual Studio 2010 CTP offers IDE upgrades and advancements in tooling designed for .NET Framework 4.0. read more

IBM launches a cloud-computing initiative in an effort to evolve its software-delivery model into a mix of on-premises and online apps. read more

Microsoft releases "Geneva" and Live Identity Services as the first pieces of its identity-management roadmap. read more

The OpenAjax Alliance unveils two key standards initiatives: a new metadata specification and a new version of its mashup runtime. read more

Engine Yard releases Merb, a new open source Web framework for building Ruby applications. read more

A look back at the 2008 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. read column

The PDC 2008 offered a stunning display of overwhelming force as Microsoft rolled out a veritable host of development-oriented platforms, products, tools and technologies. read column

If you have to build applications that require several discrete steps, then Windows Workflow Foundation is a tool that can help you do so. read column

The cleanest wins for virtualization come not in production infrastructure, but in development platforms. read column

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Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell on Windows Azure and SDS. more

by Stephen Toub
New .NET libraries support data and task parallelism. more

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Software development gone wrong. more

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A sampling of letters from the developer community. more