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Microsoft software architect Erik Meijer dreams of a "democratized" Web in which programming in the cloud is accessible to the masses. But he also has a recurring nightmare: "What happens if [chief ...

In my local developer community, the popularity of the Microsoft Model-View-Controller Web development platform is clearly increasing, particularly since version 3 -- featuring the Razor view engine - ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...