Silverlight 5 offers improvements targeted at premium media experiences and enterprise apps, according to Microsoft. The public beta is slated for the first half of 2011.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/02/2010
During the 2010 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in late October, the keynote address demonstrated Internet Explorer 9 and its superb support for HTML5.
- By Mark Michaelis
- 12/01/2010
With HTML5 promising native support for video and animation, what can developers expect from Silverlight in the months to come?
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/29/2010
If you're going to work with AJAX you should be, at least, considering using "pure" client-side code to create your UI. Peter looks at a popular (and free) JavaScript grid.
Learn how to create WCF services that are easier to troubleshoot and take advantage of the lightweight WCF configuration options offered in Visual Studio 2010.
- By Doug Gregory
- 11/01/2010
Is Microsoft helping HTML5 and the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) stack harm its own products and market position? Historically, Microsoft has struck a delicate balance in melding homegrown and external technologies into a cohesive stack and a winning strategy.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 11/01/2010
Microsoft and the jQuery team's announcements about the new data-driven plugins for jQuery have Peter all excited. He describes the plugins and what he's going to be doing with them in upcoming columns.
WebMatrix Beta 2 is integrated with NuPack, a new open-source package manager Microsoft announced today. The company also released the ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta, which supports the Razor view-engine.
The Microsoft Internet Explorer team on Wednesday described some of the decisions being made to accommodate the ECMAScript 5 spec in Internet Explorer 9.
OutSystems this week released version 5.1 of its Agile Platform, featuring "1 Click" provisioning designed to help developers quickly get projects up and running on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing service.
Microsoft provided more information about security for Windows Azure, publishing a talk and white paper.
Change Management columnist Bola Rotibi continues her exploration of the challenges and opportunities shaping the adoption of user experience and rich Internet application development in the corporate space. (Part 2 of 2)
- By Bola Rotibi
- 08/10/2010
Microsoft today released the fourth "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9, the company's next-generation Web browser.
Microsoft knows HTML5 is coming, and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) needs to implement it or face irrelevance.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 08/01/2010
Change Management columnist Bola Rotibi explores the issues hindering development of rich interactive applications in the enterprise. (Part 1 of 2)
- By Bola Rotibi
- 07/29/2010