DeeDee Walsh

The Ice King and the Art of Compounding Gains In the early 19th century, a Boston merchant named Frederic Tudor embarked on a venture that seemed ludicrous to his contemporaries: …

Well, this is a blast from the past. I just saw the news from Microsoft's Scott Hanselman and Stacey Haffner: they've officially open-sourced the original 1978 source code for Microsoft …

Every two years, Microsoft releases a Long-Term Support version of .NET. Usually, it's the "safe" choice—the boring, stable option that enterprises pick while the cool devs chase the latest features …

The gap between VB6 and .NET 10 is more than a version upgrade - it's a generational leap in computing architecture. While your VB6 apps may still run (mostly) on …

While everyone's talking about the sexy features in .NET 10 - C# 14's extension members, Blazor improvements, and performance boosts - there's a ton of lesser-known features that deserve your …

What's Still Alive, What's on Life Support, and What's Six Feet Under Old, outdated code - the gift that keeps on giving... headaches. If you're managing applications built with Visual …

As someone who spends their days working with VB6 forms, PowerBuilder DataWindows, and Clarion templates, I'll admit that when I first heard about Microsoft's Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, my …

We attended MS Build 2025 and learned a lot about what's most important to Microsoft. In this blog post we outline the highlights. We also wrote more indepth posts about …

Imagine this: you have a legacy application that's old enough to vote, still rocking VB6 (or its younger sibling, WinForms) and you're dreading the rewrite that everyone keeps telling you …

Back in the dark ages of 1991, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and dial-up was king, I was living the dream as a product manager for Visual Basic. Seriously, GREATEST …