By Jonathan Goodyear, 10/04/2011
Developers were very interested in what Microsoft had to say at the company’s BUILD conference in September. Find out what Jonathan Goodyear thinks of several of Windows 8’s new ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 09/01/2011
Jonathan Goodyear believes that Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 tablet platform has the potential to succeed in the market. But to ensure its success, Microsoft must take a cue ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 08/01/2011
Visual Studio LightSwitch may not be a flashy software development technology, says Jonathan Goodyear. But its benefits--providing the means to build Silverlight-based ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 07/07/2011
Although Silverlight isn't going away anytime soon, it hasn't become the standard Microsoft had hoped it would be. That explains Microsoft's apparently lukewarm behavior toward ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 06/01/2011
Despite the setback of being tossed out in Attachmate's recent acquisition of Novell, the Mono team and MonoDevelop cross-platform IDE for .NET live on. Jonathan Goodyear gives ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 05/04/2011
Jonathan Goodyear critiques Microsoft's mobile strategy in light of recent announcements at MIX11: cool features in the upcoming Windows Phone vNext that nevertheless may have ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 04/20/2011
Jonathan Goodyear discusses a novel idea for eliminating the Visual Studio licensing quagmire: Microsoft should allow users to purchase Visual Studio features à la carte--that is, ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 03/21/2011
Jonathan Goodyear looks at some features in the next generation of SQL Server that should be especially helpful to developers--for example, Active Secondary, which enables you to ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 02/14/2011
Jonathan Goodyear believes that laying the groundwork for a thriving Windows Phone application marketplace will go a long way toward helping Microsoft pull an "amazing ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 01/17/2011
What did Microsoft do wrong, and right, for the developer community in 2010? Windows Phone 7 on both counts, says Jonathan Goodyear--and explains why.
By Jonathan Goodyear, 12/14/2010
Microsoft's recent Silverlight 5 announcements promise support for both cross-platform and Windows-specific web application development--but leave Jonathan Goodyear wondering ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 11/17/2010
Jonathan Goodyear discusses lessons he learned--some painful--in reworking a Windows Presentation Foundation/Windows Communication Foundation application to run under Silverlight.
By Jonathan Goodyear, 10/22/2010
Recently, a group of researchers announced that they had discovered a flaw in the cryptography implementation used by ASP.NET to encrypt such things as ViewState data. The ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 09/23/2010
Microsoft’s Visual Studio LightSwitch should be a big favorite with Mort, the classic Visual Basic persona for the non-developer interested in creating LOB apps for his team.
By Jonathan Goodyear, 08/20/2010
I welcomed Microsoft’s announcement of Web Matrix, which includes a development environment, a new development web server named IIS Express, a database manager, and a gallery of ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 07/21/2010
Unpredictability arises every day in software development every day, which is a big reason why my team is moving to the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern for our next project.
By Jonathan Goodyear, 06/21/2010
Microsoft used to be fairly close-mouthed about development projects. Not quite to the level of Apple, but close. When Java and the open source movement began to eat up developer ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 06/03/2010
Thanks to the iPhone and iPad, multi-touch applications went from "nice to have" to practically mandatory. The good news is that Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 let you multi-touch ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 05/14/2010
Microsoft "got the memo" and in .NET 4 has made Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) simple to use at first, with advanced features available as your project grows in ...
By Jonathan Goodyear, 04/01/2010
Jonathan Goodyear is excited about the possibilities for developers that Microsoft's next-generation phone holds, but he has a few caveats as well.