Dr. Dobb's Journal - February 2008 - (Page 4)

d02TOFC_p3ma 12/10/07 10:47 AM Page 4 The World of Software Development February 2008 Contents F EAT U R E S 16 South American Software Development Using Brazil to take the temperature of the South American software climate. by Michael Swaine 22 Inside Visual Studio 2008 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. by Dino Esposito 30 BibPort: Creating Bibliographic References 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. by Matthew Curry and Jeffrey G. Gray 55 Continuous LINQ Continuous LINQ is just one expansion made possible through language extensions and LINQ on the .NET Framework 3.5. by Kevin Hoffman Page 55 60 The ZK Framework ZK is a framework that introduces event-handling programming—backed by an AJAX engine—to web applications. by Andrzej Sekula 66 Static Testing C++ Code 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. by Carlo Milanesi DE PARTM E NTS COLUMNS 6 Hmmmm A caffeine-starved editor does his best to stay on track. by Jonathan Erickson 14 Developer’s Notebook New development products and new releases of existing ones. compiled by the DDJ Staff 71 The Agile Edge Test-driven development is an important agile software development technique that lets you specify and validate functionality at a finely detailed level by Scott W. Ambler 10 Alia Vox If you are not yet using virtualization in your build environment, then it’s time to get moving. by John Graham-Cumming 20 Conversations Microsoft’s S. Somasegar discusses some of the new and unique features that Visual Studio 2008 offers developers. by Deirdre Blake 74 Effective Concurrency Herb fought the law—Amdahl’s Law, that is— and Herb won. by Herb Sutter 12 Developer Diaries Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers. edited by Michael Swaine 80 Swaine’s Flames Michael goes through the mail. by Michael Swaine 4 Dr. Dobb’s Journal l www.ddj.com l February 2008 Page 60 http://www.ddj.com

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Dr. Dobb's Journal - February 2008 Contents Hmmmm Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer’s Notebook South American Software Development Conversations Inside Visual Studio 2008 BibPort: Creating Bibliographic References Continuous LINQ The ZK Framework Static Testing C++ Code The Agile Edge Effective Concurrency Swaine’s Flames

Dr. Dobb's Journal - February 2008

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