When the free Express editions of Visual Studio were first announced, the Microsoft .NET Development Series got quite a few proposals for books aimed at amateur and novice programmers. As Series ...

Asynchronous programming enables you to perform resource-intensive I/O operations without having to block on the main or the executing thread of the application. Though beneficial and seemingly easy ...

Donald Knuth, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Grace Hopper: The United States has produced some of the greatest software engineers who have ever lived. But outside the United States computer technology ...

Novell has launched a test release of an open-source project that recreates Microsoft's .Net programming framework on Linux and Unix. Novell inherited the Mono project through its acquisition of ...

Microsoft's .NET computing framework stands poised to help you speed test application development. With Visual Studio .NET (Microsoft's .NET programming package), you can write distributed ...

Through the looking glass: The .NET framework was originally developed by Microsoft in the early 2000s to simplify software development on Windows. The technology was later ported to other computing ...

The company unveils a test release of Mono, an open-source version of Microsoft's .Net programming framework and tools that's designed for Linux and Unix. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now ...