New Hands-on Labs and Samples Available for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

• Balisage 2008 Announces Program Balisage is probably not a term on everyone's tongue. Its original usage comes from the Navy - for a ship to travel "balisage" means that they are using special dimmed lights for navigation while in enemy territory, a term als ...

• Poor Man's Linq in Visual Studio 2005 A way you can use Linq to Objects in C# 2.0 with .NET Framework ...

• SharePoint Workflow Wizard in Visual Studio 2008 SharePoint Workflows Wizard in Visual Studio ...

• Create Secure Java Applications Productively, Part 1: Use Rational Application Developer and Data St... This is the first in a two-part tutorial series creating secure Java-based Web applications using Rational Application Developer, Data Studio and Rational AppScan. This first tutorial begins by showcasing how Data Studio with pureQuery can increase the efficiency of your database-driven Web developm ...

• Building Interactive User Interfaces with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX: Providing Visual Feedback with the...  Microsoft's ASP.NET AJAX Framework helps page developers design more interactive web pages by streamlining the postback mechanism. In traditional web pages, a full postback involves the browser re-requesting the page, which is then re-rendered. This re-rendered page markup is returned, in its ...

• JavaOne 2008, Day 3: Hosted Developer Tools  Software-as-service (SaaS) has started to permeate the field of software development tools, says Atlassian's Jeffrey Walker in this interview with Artima. Walker describes important characteristics of hosted developer tools, and highlights the need for such tools to integrate well with locally ...

• Building a Visual Studio DebuggerVisualizer with a Custom Serializer For most any Serializeable object, making a DebuggerVisualizer is exceeding simple and examples abound. However, if you are trying to build a DebuggerVisualizer for an object which is not Serializable or takes too long to Serialize and Deserialize, things are not quite so simp ...

• Visual Studio Project MRU List Editor II An update to a stand-alone tool for editing Visual Studio's MRU l ...

• JavaOne 2008, Day 1: Rich-Client Misconceptions  Rich clients are more than just about user interfaces, argues Adobe's James Ward in this JavaOne 2008 interview with Artima. Rich clients are about architecture, and are also about collaboration between developers and designers. ...

• JavaOne 2008, Day 1: Application Factories  Re-using developer knowledge is an important concern for many enterprises. In this interview with Artima, CodeGear's Jeff Anders talks about Application Factories, a feature of the new JBuilder 2008 IDE that facilitates knowledge sharing among developers. ...