Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

The personal technology industry, now run by some of the worst human beings on earth, was started by dreamers.

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world. By Kenneth R. Rosen Thomas E.

Take advantage of the DispatchProxy class in C# to implement aspect-oriented programming by creating proxies that dynamically intercept method calls. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) decomposes an ...

Quu Inc. has created a division to promote its in-dash messaging technology to national advertisers. The Quu Visual Network or QuuVN will be led by Sam Rogers, reporting to CEO Steve Newberry.

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...