Google and Microsoft face off with Volta and the Google Web Toolkit, two tools that take aim at JavaScript.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 01/15/2008
Entity Framework beta 3 offers new features, bug fixes and major performance enhancements, but no Oracle support.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 01/01/2008
Making your Web apps more interactive is easier than you think.
- By Peter Varhol
- 01/01/2008
Sybase PowerBuilder 11.1 adds .NET enhancements.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/01/2008
The inaugural Google Web Toolkit (GWT) conference in San Francisco featured a conversation with Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect. He was interviewed by Greg Doench, an executive editor with Pearson Technology Group, which includes book publishers such as Addison-Wesley Professional, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, Sams and Peachpit Press.
WaveMaker Software unveiled two new developer solutions this week: WaveMaker Visual Assembly Studio and WaveMaker Rapid Deployment Framework for Enterprise Web 2.0. The former is designed to provide enterprise departmental developers with a visual dev tool for building data-driven Web apps. The latter enables those apps to be deployed to industry-standard Java app servers.
- By John K. Waters
- 12/20/2007
Scott Guthrie shares his views on the new Web and client development tools in Visual Studio 2008.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/15/2007
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions brings Ruby on Rails’ functionality to ASP.NET.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/15/2007
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
Volta toolset, used with Visual Studio 2008, promises easier deployment of apps beyond the .NET world.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/05/2007
Infragistics releases new tools for WPF, ASP.NET and Silverlight.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/15/2007
Microsoft set to unveil Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/15/2007
Software AG recently unveiled Natural for AJAX, a variant of Software AG's Natural 2006 programming language. Natural 2006 is typically used at the enterprise level for transactional systems running on mainframes.
Jeff walks you through the new method of validating AJAX code in Visual Studio Team System 2008 (no Fiddler required!).
- By Jeff Levinson
- 10/18/2007
Microsoft official: AJAX has reached maturity in enterprises.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/15/2007
New tool assists in Visual Basic-to-Java translation.
- By Chris Kanaracus
- 10/15/2007
Develop your own graphical languages with Microsoft's DSL Tools.
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).
AJAX rich Internet applications (RIAs) on clients and service-oriented architecture (SOA) on servers are combining to produce more effective business software.