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Microsoft has added support for database professionals in the latest version of Team Edition for Visual Studio.

The now-free version of the developer platform Visual Studio 2005 Express gives hobbyists and home developers the tools to hone their application development skills.

Now here's a search engine destined for controversy. Pixsy.com, a "visual search engine" that scours the web for images and videos on RSS feeds and makes them searchable, launched yesterday - for the second time, and it may not be ready still.

A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Problem is, a picture can also take up a lot of space, particularly on a web page. Leave it to Edward Tufte to come up with a solution.

Any developer who has ever wanted to provide file/folder browsing or file-selection functionality in his own application knows the utter lack of simple, extensible and customizable MFC components for this purpose.

While waiting for someone to show up to a meeting, a few of us were chatting about music. Greg was playing a selection from his "music that'd scare you about the rest of my music collection" (or something like that).

HP and Infinity Broadcasting announced they will work together to deploy Visual Radio to U.S. listeners.

Today, Microsoft revealed details about the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2005, complete with price information and target release windows.