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Programming Windows: Bombshell (Premium)

On January 6, 2001, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates delivered the keynote address at the Consumer…

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Programming Windows: Riders on the Storm (Premium)

Microsoft should have ended the year 2000 on a triumphant note, but an economic downturn…

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Programming Windows: Overpromise, Underdeliver (Premium)

Microsoft had to deliver on its sweeping promises for .NET and a new generation of…

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Programming Windows: Hello, .NET Framework and Windows Forms (Premium)

While most of Microsoft’s public .NET pronouncements involved web services, .NET also brought a major…

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Programming Windows: Windows Forms (Premium)

In 2000, Microsoft was working to modernize Visual Basic for the .NET era and make…

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.NETpad Resurrections (Premium)

With .NET 6 now available, I’ve been looking over the four versions of .NETpad that…

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Programming Windows: Whistler and Blackcomb (Premium)

Microsoft planned to release Whistler and Blackcomb back-to-back to usher in the .NET era and…

Windows Developer Team Tweets a Programming Mistake

The Windows Developer team wanted to celebrate the New Year by tweeting some software code…

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Programming Windows: What is .NET? (Premium)

Developers curious about the future of the Microsoft developer stack filed into PDC 2000 in…

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Programming Windows: Why .NET? (Premium)

.NET wasn’t the result of a years-long strategy. Instead, it was the culmination of three…

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Programming Windows: The .NET Era (Premium)

After a two-year wait, I’m happy to announce that I’m returning to my Programming Windows…

Apple Releases Swift Playgrounds 4

Swift Playgrounds 4 lets anyone build iPhone and iPad apps right on an iPad and…

Windows Terminal to Become Default Windows 11 Command Line Experience

Microsoft revealed that it will make Windows Terminal the default command-line experience in Windows 11…

Google Releases Flutter 2.8

Google announced the availability of Flutter 2.8, which adds the first stable release of its…

Google Announces Android 12L Beta 1

Today, Google announced the first beta version of Android 12L, a new version of the…

Microsoft Finalizes the Windows App SDK

Microsoft has quietly finalized the Windows App SDK, which seeks to reunite Windows desktop and…

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