Third-party developers and Microsoft project leaders this week showcased applications developed with Redmond's four rich client technologies: Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Windows 7 Touch and Surface.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/27/2009
Peter continues his series on integrating cascading DropDownLists with databound controls and the SqlDataSource.
Nearly one year after releasing its free cloud-based hosting service for developers of Python-based applications, Google revealed a new fee structure for those making active use of the offering.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/25/2009
San Francisco, Calif. -- Microsoft is adding some important ALM improvements to the next version of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). That’s the take of independent solutions architect Mike Vincent, who spoke at this week's MSDN Developer Conference (MDC).
- By John K. Waters
- 02/24/2009
Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built-in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro.
A team consisting of Microsoft Research personnel and university staff members has demonstrated a potentially more secure Web browser called Gazelle.
Adobe Systems used this week's Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona to advance its effort to provide a common runtime across desktop, Web and mobile environments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/20/2009
Embarcadero Technologies has taken the integration of its CodeGear assets to the next level with what it is coining "on-demand multiplatform software development."
- By John K. Waters
- 02/19/2009
You've given your users cascading DropDownLists to make it easy for them to find the item they want -- but now your page won't update. Peter has a solution for single-tier applications using the SqlDataSource.
Novell has released its widely anticipated Moonlight 1.0, a plug-in based on Microsoft's Silverlight 1.0 rich interactive application (RIA) runtime.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/12/2009
The battle for mindshare of rich interactive application developers took a step forward today as Sun Microsystems released a follow-up to its recently released JavaFX platform with its anticipated mobile edition.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/12/2009
Getting your content and master pages to work side-by-side is easy, thanks to UpdatePanel.
On Monday open-source middleware maker WSO2 unveiled a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework built on the OSGi specification.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/10/2009
Silverlight 2 lets you access and manipulate data several ways, thanks to a data access framework that's built right in.
Microsoft's antitrust past has come back to haunt it, yet again.