Recently some folks had posted questions about Visual Studio 2005 in the comments section. Many people were asking why they should upgrade. To me there are several reasons, as long as you can ...

PM: Visual Studio 2005 is quite vast, in terms of the tools and technologies it provides you with to implement your solutions. For example, you might find yourself programming against a combination of ...

Visual Studio 2005's Object Browser lets you examine and expand system objects in a treeview (see Figure 5). In addition to understanding and working with the class structure and methods within each ...

Microsoft released a new extension for Visual Studio 2005 yesterday that adds several enhancements to the popular IDE. The extensions are as follows: These extensions add some much-needed ...

Visual Studio 2005, code-named “Whidbey,” is due to ship in the second half of this year and will feature a range of products including the Team System variant of Visual Studio for ALM ...

Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition is intended as a comprehensive development tool for professional developers working alone or in small teams, while Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition is ...

Though Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 dropped the .NET moniker, it remains the premier .NET development platform for hosting compilers that target this platform, such as Visual Basic, C#, and J# ...

Microsoft’s own Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack (SP) 1 – a first beta of which went live on September 26 -- may not work correctly with Windows Vista. That revelation (admirably) comes ...

Microsoft plans to provide programmers with an interim version of its Visual Studio 2005 development tool and to release its server-based speech software next week. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates ...

However, the new Visual Studio 2005 “Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista” adds a few features that will help developers create applications that take better advantage of the Vista ...

A beta of Visual Studio 2005 is planned for the first half of this year, as is a second beta of SQL Server 2005, according to Microsoft. Related content. feature ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft released Beta 3 of Visual Studio 2005 TFS (Team Foundation Server). Turns out my developers are always interested in seeing competitors to CVS, and the moniker Beta 3 ...