CA's latest release of its Plex rapid application development environment now lets developers model and generate Microsoft .NET-based services based on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
- By John K. Waters
- 12/17/2008
Microsoft released documentation on Tuesday designed to help developers create applications compatible with Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2, particularly if they need to understand how Office 2007 implements the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard.
Microsoft released a beta version of its Code Analysis Tool and Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library for developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/16/2008
Microsoft ratcheted up its product support for SQL Server 2005 by releasing Service Pack 3 (SP3) on Monday, along with SP3 Cumulative Update 1.
- By Herb Torrens
- 12/16/2008
Sun Microsystems joins Microsoft and Adobe in the RIA race with the launch of its JavaFX runtime, platform and development tools.
- By Michael Desmond and John K. Waters
- 12/15/2008
Where should Microsoft draw the line between adopting outside standards and technology, and building its own technologies?
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 12/15/2008
Release candidate of Redmond’s Web Platform Installer now supports Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2008
David DeWitt talks about building parallel processing into SQL Server.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/15/2008
Microsoft’s Robotics Developer Studio 2008 comes with increased
runtime performance and improved tooling.
- By John K. Waters, Michael Desmond
- 12/15/2008
The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) on Monday unveiled a limited private community technology preview (CTP) of "SQL Server Application and Multi-Server Management [tools], as part of the SQL Server codename 'Kilimanjaro,'" according to a PASS spokesperson.
DataDirect Technologies this week upgraded its ADO.NET database drivers, which provide connectivity between .NET-based applications and DBMSes from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Sybase.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/12/2008
Microsoft server and tools exec Bob Kelly told an investment banker audience how Microsoft plans to take advantage of opportunities in the enterprise IT market.
Can you name one thing Microsoft designed right the first time?
- By Karl E. Peterson
- 12/08/2008
Microsoft on Friday released free open source code that can be used by Web developers to build online blogs.
Sun Microsystems today began shipping version 1.0 of its JavaFX platform, the runtime and tools combo for content authors and Web developers building rich Internet applications (RIAs).
- By John K. Waters
- 12/04/2008
Microsoft executive Bill Veghte answered a few questions about Microsoft's business strategies for the Windows product line at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference.
You can use ASP.NET Routing to decode meaningful URLs into real physical path names.
Our hands-on review of the Windows 7 pre-beta reveals an operating system that is remarkably stable.
- By Sandro Villinger
- 12/01/2008
LINQ to SQL continues to be a top contender in the .NET object/relational mapping tool market despite Microsoft's promotion of the Entity Framework as one of the "Pillars of SQL Server 2008: Dynamic Development."
- By Roger Jennings
- 12/01/2008
Review of Perforce's software control management product, Perforce 2008.1 GA.