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Programming Windows: Countdown (Premium)
Programming Windows: Countdown (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium Microsoft spent much of 2001 focused on getting Windows XP out the door, […]

Programming Windows: Overpromise, Underdeliver (Premium)
Microsoft had to deliver on its sweeping promises for .NET and a new generation of Windows. It would fail on […]

Programming Windows: Hello, .NET Framework and Windows Forms (Premium)
As you may recall, the Windows API (Win32) was a flat, unorganized collection of many thousands of confusing C-based functions. […]

Programming Windows: Windows Forms (Premium)
Programming Windows: Windows Forms (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium Approximately 6,000 developers streamed into the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, […]

.NETpad Resurrections (Premium)
As a reminder, I wrote four versions of .NETpad: the original version with Windows Forms, Visual Basic.NET, and the .NET […]

Apple Releases Swift Playgrounds 4
Swift Playgrounds 4 lets anyone build iPhone and iPad apps right on an iPad and submit them directly to the […]

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 sometime next year. “A default […]

Google Releases Flutter 2.8
Google announced the availability of Flutter 2.8, the latest version of its open-source app development toolkit, which adds the first […]