Microsoft is focusing on long-term stability and more flexible developer tooling with its new “AI-native” Visual Studio 2026 IDE and .NET 10. These new releases are aimed at two main business goals: ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft has finally released the first preview of .NET 10 ahead of its final release this coming November. It’s later than usual, and the release notes make it difficult to determine if there are ...

Securing microservices can feel like herding cats, and in the dynamic world of .NET 8 the challenge of ensuring robust security looms large as developers embrace the agility and flexibility of this ...

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Developers commenting on a Microsoft post about performance improvements in the upcoming .NET 8 demanded the company end Visual Studio 2022's dependency on the old .NET Framework. The comments came in ...

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How to: Modify XML Literals (Visual Basic) Visual Basic provides convenient ways to modify XML literals. You can add or delete elements and attributes, and you can also replace an existing element ...

XML has been widely adopted as a way to format data in many contexts. For example, you can find XML on the Web, in configuration files, in Microsoft Office Word files ...

This paper describes an audio digital signal-processing toolkit that the authors develop to supplement a lecture course on digital signal processing (DSP) taught at the department of Electrical and ...

Enhancements provide an alternative to OPC-based driver software for for Allen-Bradley MicroLogix, SLC and PLC-5 families of programmable logic controllers. September 13, 2010 - CimQuest INGEAR ...

In the last newsletter, I discussed a really powerful and free open source tool for manipulating XML content. Today, I have a commercial product that’s in more-or-less the same space. The product is ...