Rackspace Cloud SDK for Microsoft .NET is a tool suite for .NET developers working with the OpenStack cloud OS.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/16/2013
The Open Technologies Group has open sourced ASP.NET, MVC 4, and the Entity Framework, among other technologies.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2013
Microsoft releases Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 alpha.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 03/22/2013
Google has a set of libraries that allow older versions of Android to get support for newer APIs. Mono for Android provides full support.
- By Wallace McClure
- 01/08/2013
Learn how to use the Fragments API in Mono for Android to create an application UI for multiple screens, such as a handset and tablet.
- By Wallace McClure
- 12/13/2012
Developers use Codename One to create all components from scratch, instead of using native widgets, to avoid fragmentation.
- By John K. Waters
- 09/12/2012
Office 2013 will provide full support for both variants of Open XML.
The company has added an Azure Authentication Library for .NET to the Developer Preview of its cloud-based identity management service.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 08/06/2012
Windows developers can host code and collaborate with colleagues through brand-new application.
XobotOS is a Xamarin-developed project that translated millions of lines of Java to C#.
While we often talk of how we can leverage OSS to deliver a higher-quality product, rarely do we talk about how we can give back to the OSS community.
Today CSLA is one of the most widely used open source software development frameworks for .NET. We talk to its creator about how it came about and its many uses.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/07/2012
While there's lots of talk about big data these days (a lot of talk), there currently is no good, authoritative definition of big data, according to Microsoft Regional Director Andrew Brust.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/10/2012
VIM is a text editor with a Visual Studio extension. Its time-saving power is well worth the learning curve.
Scott Hanselman, senior program manager in Microsoft's Developer Division, said that the decision wasn't really about open source: "This is about open development."
- By John K. Waters
- 03/28/2012