DDJ, February 2008
Visual Studio 2008


FEATURES

South American Software Development
Michael Swaine
Using Brazil to take the temperature of the South American software climate.

Inside Visual Studio 2008
Dino Esposito
Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship for developers, and Visual Studio 2008 is the first version of Visual Studio to support multiple versions of .NET.

BibPort: Creating Bibliographic References
Matthew Curry and Jeffrey G. Gray
BibPort extracts relevant information from a set of legacy documents to create a database of bibliographic references using Visual Studio Tools for Office in combination with Visual Studio 2008 and Word 2007.

Continuous LINQ
Kevin Hoffman
Continuous LINQ is just one expansion made possible through language extensions and LINQ on the .NET Framework 3.5.

The ZK Framework
Andrzej Sekula
ZK is a framework that introduces event-handling programming--backed by an AJAX engine--to web applications.

Static Testing C++ Code
Carlo Milanesi
The C++ utility Carlo presents here implements static testing automation that retrieves from the command line the paths of the files containing the static testing programs.


COLUMNS

The Agile Edge
Scott W. Ambler
Test-driven development is an important agile software development technique that lets you specify and validate functionality at a finely detailed level.

Effective Concurrency
Herb Sutter
Herb fought the law—Amdahl's Law, that is—and Herb won.


DEPARTMENTS

Hmmmm
Jonathan Erickson
A caffeine-starved editor does his best to stay on track.

Alia Vox
John Graham-Cumming
If you are not yet using virtualization in your build environment, then it's time to get moving.

Developer Diaries
edited by Michael Swaine
Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers.

Developer's Notebook
compiled by the DDJ Staff
New development products and new releases of existing ones.

Conversations
Deirdre Blake
Microsoft's S. Somasegar discusses some of the new and unique features that Visual Studio 2008 offers developers.

Swaine's Flames
Michael Swaine
Michael goes through the mail.