Microsoft this week posted several new downloads for developers working with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Basic. One of the downloads, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools, ...

In-Depth Tooling Around in Your Database These products can help make your occasional forays into the world of databases much easier to take. By Peter Varhol 08/01/2008 Sometimes you don't need a full ...

A new database-oriented tool in Visual Studio Team System will let programmers more easily make, test changes to database designs.

Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 comes nearly a year after the first Beta (a Community Technology Preview, as Microsoft terms it), and the full official release is still some months away.

You've carefully crafted a concurrent application taking advantage of all the latest and greatest language features. It scales magnificently and it's the jewel of the cloud. But what about the ...

The Visual Studio Shell will be available to Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP) partners with Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 and will be available to the broader development community with the ...

Going far beyond bug fixes, Service Pack 1 to Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 adds many important new features Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VS08) Service Pack 1 (SP1) took eight months ...