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Sun, Microsoft Boost IDEs

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

NetBeans is upgraded to include retooling for PHP, an early access version of NetBeans for Python, and support for Spring, Hibernate, JavaServer Pages, and the Java Persistence API. Meanwhile, Visual Studio adds jQuery capabilities to its software development IDE via JavaScript IntelliSense support.

Microsoft Eyes Visual Studio Advancements

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Among the many improvements planned for the software development environment are a Windows Presentation Foundation-based editor, a code-generation tool, C++ enhancements and support for Windows 7 multi-touch and ribbon capabilities.

Microsoft Releases Developer Tools for Parallel Computing, Concurrency and Coordination

Esther Schindler — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The multicore PCs you buy can do powerful, asynchronous computing, and the software you need to build might benefit from decentralized hardware resources, but your developers' ability to exploit those capabilities& not so much. Microsoft's new set of libraries promises to help developers exploit multicore processing without requiring anyone to become a threading and distributed computing guru.

Exploring Oslo's Modeling Language Promises

Esther Schindler — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft is sharing bits of Oslo at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) this week. Learn what's new in M, the company's language for creating domain-specific languages, and why Microsoft thinks it's such a big deal.

6 Scripting Languages Your Developers Wish You'd Let Them Use

Esther Schindler — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Several up-and-coming scripting languages--some open-source--are gaining popularity among software developers. These dynamic programming languages, including Groovy, Scala, Lua, F#, Clojure and Boo, deserve more attention for your enterprise software development, even if your shop is dedicated to Java or .NET. Here's why.

Microsoft Woos Developers Under The Silverlight

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

As it releases version 2.0 of Silverlight, Microsoft is turning to the next phase of its strategy: Directly wooing developers and designers to the rich Internet platform.

The A-Z of Programming Languages: C#

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg reveals the history behind one of the most common programming languages, C#, and what the future holds for C#4.0.

Why UDDI Rocks

Rich Levin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

SOAP, WSDL, WS-*, and UDDI are proven and widely adopted technologies and REST is growing strongly, believes a UDDI supporter from Microsoft. But while REST is often cited as a SOAP alternative, Microsoft's Steven Martin thinks this a distinction without a difference. "Does it really matter if there are angle brackets or curly braces on the wire?" he asks.

Microsoft Prepping Preview of REST Support, App Server Improvements

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

PDC handouts will highlight workflow, communication technologies and hosting platform for services.

Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010. Developers Respond.

Esther Schindler — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft's development environment offers new tools for Agile development, software testing enhancements and improved support for cloud computing. Microsoft showed us a sneak peek, and we invited developers to chime in with their feedback.

Why Steve Ballmer Will Make Microsoft Good for SOA

Nicholas Petreley — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Microsoft is poised to be an important player in service-oriented architectures. Longtime open-source advocate Nicholas Petreley sums up the reason in two words: Steve Ballmer.

Goodwin Procter Makes Strong Case for Knowledge Management

Jarina D'Auria — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Integrates data using Microsoft's Sharepoint

Five Things the Boss Should Know About Microsoft's LINQ

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Do you think that LINQ is just another in a long series of odd Microsoft technologies? This database-meets-software-development technology could easily save your development staff time and avoid complexity!

Clear Channel Broadcasting Better IT Integration Between Software Development and Operations

Esther Schindler — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The media company discovered a weakness in developing Web services and SOA applications: the ability to monitor and track transactions to locate system failures. In solving its technology problem, the IT team also improved communication between operations and development. And isn't that a happy story?

Eclipse to Stress Component, Runtime Efforts

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Open source-foundation's conference this week also to feature Eclipse holdout Microsoft, which is expected to announce a collaboration arrangement.