Looking to broaden the reach of high performance .NET applications across multiple clustered tiers and platforms, Microsoft this week will release a sample application, tutorials and benchmarks to help simplify the development and deployment of service-oriented architecture (SOA) composite apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/22/2008
Microsoft is finally tuning up its Microsoft Developer Network site and promises to resolve long-running frustrations developers have encountered working with it.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/18/2008
Jeff goes through some features in the upcoming Rosario, including UML models and the new Architecture Explorer.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 04/18/2008
As of yesterday, Vista Service Pack 1 is now generally available in all 36 supported languages.
Microsoft's new RIA technology extends .NET across platforms.
- By Laurence Moroney
- 04/15/2008
Novell releases MonoDevelop 1.0, a tool that allows developers to port Visual Studio .NET apps to Linux and Mac environments.
In a bid to beef up its embedded systems business, Microsoft is reaching out to a broader cadre of developers while also looking to expose its existing ones to the entire Windows development stack.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/15/2008
Zend Technologies releases updated open source framework with support from Microsoft, IBM, Google and others.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 04/15/2008
First public demo of ‘Rosario’ at VSLive! showcases a host of capabilities that focus on integration.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/15/2008
Microsoft Research projects drive innovation in development.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/15/2008
Last fall, contractor Lockheed Martin delivered an update to the Federal Aviation Administration's next-generation flight data air traffic control system -- ahead of schedule and under budget, which is something you don't often hear about in government circles.
- By Joab Jackson
- 04/14/2008
sQL Server 2008 offers new support for spatial data types that some analysts say should deliver a real boost to geospatial applications and data sharing.
- By Patrick Marshall
- 04/14/2008
Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace pages or shop for other goods and services -- all while at the workplace.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/10/2008
The refreshed offerings mark a significant evolution in the Silk family, originally acquired by Borland in the 2006 purchase of Segue Software.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/10/2008
Microsoft today released the first community technology preview (CTP) of Robotics Developer Studio 2008 at the RoboBusiness conference in Pittsburgh.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/09/2008
Mainsoft, known for its development-related interop software, on Tuesday released a new 2.2 version of Mainsoft for Java EE that offers "full support" for ASP.NET 2.0 components for AJAX-type Web applications.
If the traditional notion of infrastructure-based perimeter security is not yet dead, it's not for lack of effort by keynote speakers at this week's RSA Security conference.
- By William Jackson
- 04/08/2008
This week, Microsoft offered its first public glimpse of the next release of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), Redmond's next-generation integrated application lifecycle management suite, though the company is still not committing to any deliverables.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/04/2008
Microsoft's Office Open XML document format was accepted as an international standard, according to an announcement issued today by the International Organization for Standardization.
Take advantage of the System.AddIn namespace to handle logic external to your application; don't get caught by Excel's one-based indexes; and make LINQ extension methods work with ArrayLists.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 04/01/2008