Microsoft releases critical VB6 patch. Plus VB 2005 Power Packs 2.0, new VS 2008 downloads and more.
- By Bill McCarthy
- 10/01/2007
Serena Software launches beta of hosted enterprise mashup service.
Dan starts a new series of columns on Silverlight 1.0 by walking you through the fundamentals.
Your code is the expression of your design intent -- make sure you communicate
clearly.
RDN talks with OpenOffice.org's John McCreesh.
- By Michael Desmond
- 10/01/2007
Learn what enabling the application framework in VB actually does and what an invariant culture is and how you take advantage of it.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 10/01/2007
Visual Studio Magazine reviews Altova XMLSpy 2007 Release 3.
Release of MySQL 6.0 is expected in mid-2008.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2007
Jason Zander takes over Redmond’s Visual Studio team.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2007
Dan Wahlin walks you through the steps and code for creating a Silverlight application from scratch.
Microsoft wants to help you build cloud data services with its Astoria code-named technology, a free download now in beta.
There are important differences between consumer Web 2.0 applications and next-gen Web apps in the enterprise, said Oracle's Chief Architect Ted Farrell, and developers who want their applications to succeed in the latter environment need to appreciate those differences.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/28/2007
Microsoft released several major updates for its Windows lineup today, including the first release candidate (RC) for Windows Server 2008 and the initial public beta for Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1.
Although Microsoft had hoped to release a CTP of its newest database server every 60 days, the latest test release will slip, company officials acknowledged this week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/21/2007
Component vendor Infragistics has released a reference application and guidance for Windows Presentation Foundation, the UI development subsystem in .NET Framework 3.0.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/19/2007
CodeGear announced yesterday the general availability of its first development tool for Ruby-on-Rails (RoR). The company's new 3rdRail integrated development environment (IDE) comes with several features specifically designed to make it easier and faster for both new and experienced Rails developers to build database-driven Web applications.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/18/2007
Microsoft has re-organized its developer division, tapping .NET Framework head Jason Zander to oversee the team that puts together Visual Studio, the company's flagship development environment.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/17/2007
Parlano brings group chat platform to Redmond's UC stack.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/15/2007
PerformancePoint Server launch to bolster Redmond’s BI push.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 09/15/2007
A close look at Intersoft Solutions Corp.’s WebUI Studio.NET 2007