Open source community projects and commercial software aren't necessarily adversaries. Some interactions have resulted in a positive outcome for all. One such instance is the KDE project's collaboration with Oslo, Norway-based Trolltech. Since 1996, Trolltech's QT toolkit has been used in the KDE Desktop Environment. The collaboration resulted in user-friendly desktops for Unix and Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux).
Nothing has prevented ASP.NET developers from using a model view controller (MVC) architecture. But it's likely to get a lot easier with Microsoft's ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions, which will include the highly anticipated MVC option. The first preview of the technology was released today.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/10/2007
Microsoft released Entity Framework Beta 3 on Dec. 6 and officially announced the third-party database vendors and ADO.NET 2.0 data providers that have agreed to support the framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/07/2007
Microsoft set to unveil Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/15/2007
In announcing today that it will release to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 this month, Microsoft is meeting the most optimistic forecasts for when the long anticipated upgrade to its flagship IDE would ship.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/05/2007
User Account Control (UAC) issues usually result from improperly allowing administrator-level access in your applications. Learn how UAC works and make such problems a thing of the past.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 11/01/2007
Get the Code Protector SDK, plus new VS 2005 SDK v4 samples, Microsoft Windows Search 3.x SDK and more.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 11/01/2007
CodeGear brings on C++ expert Alisdair Meredith.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2007
Fortify Software updates app-dev security and management suite.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/01/2007
Why is C# taking the lead over VB.NET?
- By Patrick Meader
- 11/01/2007
You can't predict change, but you can prepare for it. Learn how to avoid cases where you need to remove work and rework too much of what you've already done.
Businesses running data-intensive Web applications need Web pages that can update incrementally. The technology to do so has been accelerated since 2005, with the advent of open standards such as AJAX, which is the acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript (JS) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML).
Learn the details on the new anonymous types and nullable type features in VB 9 (VB 2008).
- By Bill McCarthy
- 10/01/2007
Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 simplify the process of incorporating SharePoint into your Visual Studio applications.
- By Gustavo Velez
- 10/01/2007
Your code is the expression of your design intent -- make sure you communicate
clearly.
Release of MySQL 6.0 is expected in mid-2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2007
Major refresh coming for C++ programming language.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2007
Research firm eyeballs what’s hot in dynamic languages.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/15/2007
RIA platform vendor forms new partnership, aims at U.S. market.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2007
Windows Presentation Foundation has been greatly underserved by Microsoft’s emphasis on glitz and glamour; learn how to take advantage of WPF in your everyday Windows business apps.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2007