In a tip of its hand toward open source software development, Microsoft announced on Sunday that it will incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET.
Who's ahead: Microsoft Corp.'s .NET or Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Platform Enterprise Edition?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/30/2008
Developers can get prepared for the next version of Microsoft's rich Internet application platform by grabbing Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 developer runtime edition, which became publicly available on Thursday of last week.
Dan walks through building a "sports score scroller" to show clipping paths in action.
Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/29/2008
Peter stumps for the Cache, despite developers' worries over stale or lost data.
Microsoft hopes to draw crowds to its upcoming Professional Developers Conference by making Windows 7 bits available to the public attending the event.
Process for process' sake is a waste of time. Jeff gives some pointers on how to create something more useful.
- By Jeff Levinson
- 09/23/2008
Microsoft's strategy for keeping recent builds of its latest operating system tightly under wraps sprang a few holes last week.
Despite speculation that Microsoft might make an announcement around its Silverlight runtime environment at Zend/PHP Conference and Expo, the company's profile was lower than past events.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/19/2008
Microsoft won't say when the first public beta release of its Windows 7 operating system will occur, but some possible dates have been anonymously leaked.
TeamExpand has announced a commercial version of its TX Chrono product.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/16/2008
Infragistics Inc. is adding icon packs to its UI tools arsenal.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/16/2008
Austria-based testing-tools vendor Ranorex GmbH has released an automated application-testing solution targeting Windows, .NET and Web development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/16/2008
TeamExpand releases commercial version of TX Chrono, its Web-based timesheet-tracking application for Visual Studio.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2008
Why software development as a repeatable business process may work for you.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/15/2008
Understanding and applying the principles of memory management is key to building high-performing managed applications.
- By Peter Varhol
- 09/15/2008
Testing tools vendor Ranorex releases automated application-testing solution for Windows, .NET and Web development.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2008
Phase 2 International offers hosted SaaS solution for Microsoft's Team Foundation Server.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 09/15/2008
Embarcadero Technologies releases Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009, updated versions of dev tools acquired in its purchase of CodeGear.
- By Michael Desmond
- 09/15/2008