I agree with my ZDNet blogging colleague Ryan Stewart. The biggest Mix '07 announcement made on opening day of this week's show was one that Microsoft didn't call out in any of its own press releases: ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET has introduced many new concepts to the Visual Studio developer, including the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) with runtime compilation, garbage collection, ...

Microsoft's addition of generics to Visual Studio 2005 (code-named Whidbey) makes a new form of polymorphism available in Visual Basic .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, and the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Generics ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) layer for the .NET development platform. Designed to simplify the process of bringing support for additional dynamic languages to .NET, the ...