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Brisbane hosts TechEd 2003
Code cutters around Australia have gathered in Brisbane for Microsoft's 10th annual TechEd Conference, to be staged from 10-13 August. Read more »
Microsoft releases Office developer tools
Microsoft have released a set of developer tools for building software and services that tap into the new version of Office. Read more »
Microsoft kicks off TechEd
Developers from around Australia have gathered in our nation's capital for Microsoft's eleventh annual TechEd Conference. Read more »
Novell, Red Hat ready Linux servers
Novell's NetWare-SuSE Linux combination is slated for completion next month. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is also due this summer. Read more »
Mono-man brings .NET to Linux
Novell's Miguel de Icaza is working on a technology that he says can replicate Microsoft's vaunted software development platform on Linux. Read more »
Microsoft looks to students for TechEd
Microsoft is encouraging students to attend this week's TechEd 2005 conference on the Gold Coast by offering free tickets to the August 30 opening day. Read more »
Macromedia ship new Flex server
Macromedia announced today in Australia the release of Flex 1.5, the companies J2EE server and application framework that enables developers to put rich media applications on top of business applications using ActionScript and XML. Read more »
Builder's August Top Ten
Have you missed any of the hottest technology development stories published in the past month? ZDNet Australia's Builder channel can help you keep in touch with the top ten stories of August. Read more »
Windows 2007 server to omit WinFS
As test versions of the new WinFS file system were released this week, Microsoft said the technology would not be ready for the so-called "Longhorn Server" release, due in 2007. Read more »
Novell brands its own open-source religion
Novell is readying two major product launches meant to make its open-source software more palatable to corporate customers. Read more »
Features (50)
Totally RAD: we road test five IDEs
Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis gets down and dirty with the most popular IDE's to see how they they stack up as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. Read more »
The developer's guide to C# 2.0
The next version of the C# programming language promises some impressive new tricks when it arrives later this year. This guide by local expert Glenn Stephens is just the ticket you need to get started today. Read more »
Tech.Ed Australia 2003
Microsoft's Tech.ED 2003 technical conference runs in Brisbane this year from August 10-13. Builder AU will cover the event live in this special report. Read more »
Developing Office 2003 solutions with .NET
Getting Office applications to talk to each other used to mean writing some VBA code. This sample VB.NET application shows you how to get started with .NET. Read more »
Tim Huckaby on TechEd 2003
Tim Huckaby, CEO of InterKnowlogy, MSDN regional director of the year and guest speaker at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Brisbane talks to Builder AU on this years event and life as a CEO on the road. Read more »
Developing an Intranet with ASP.NET 2.0
In this two-part tutorial we investigate how to build a modular Intranet site with Microsoft's brand new ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Designer 2005. Read more »
First Look: ChartFX for .NET
Builder AU Technical Editor, David McAmis takes a fresh look at the new ChartFX tool for enhanced charting and graphing capabilities for .NET developers. Read more »
Client-side programming with Atlas
In this column, we survey the Atlas architecture to get a better understanding of how you may use it in your development work. Read more »
Ask Chuck: VB.NET and the QueryUnload event
This week Chuck answers a Builder Australia reader's question on the QueryUnload event in VB 6 and how this event is handled in VB.NET. Read more »
Why VB6 still matters
Visual Basic 6 code is something Microsoft needs to take another look at if it wants legacy applications to play nice with .NET Read more »
Blog (13)
.NET doesn't have to mean VB.NET or C#
-- It’s funny... when people think about the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) they tend to think in terms of either VB.NET or C#. Read more »
Warning: ads to get more annoying
-- The addition of high definition video and VoIP within Flash will allows developers to create new user experiences and it's coming to a banner ad near you in all its H.264 and vocal glory. Read more »
Express Yourself!
-- Microsoft has released a community technology preview of the new Expression Web Designer, their new flagship Web development tool and competitor to Adobe’s Dreamweaver. Read more »
Mono a Mano
-- While the world has been heralding the release of Visual Studio.NET 2005, another project on the back-burner has been bubbling along. Read more »
The break-up of Borland
-- This week I caught up with David Intersomone, VP of developer relations worldwide, and Malcolm Groves, regional product director for Asia Pacific, from Borland's Developer Tools Group to talk about the immediate and planned future of the group once this division is sold by Borland. Read more »
The Team of One
-- Looking to implement Visual Studio.NET 2005 Team System? Before you get too far into training and implementing a new tool set, you might want to take a look at the development team itself. Read more »
Certification Nation
-- Is a lack of certification really a hole in a developers resume? Are certificates become part of the way of life for software developers, or are we beginning to see the light? Read more »
Microsoft imagines a better world.
-- Fresh off the wires from Microsoft comes reassuring news that their international student software design and programming competition, the Imagine Cup, is heating up. Read more »
Build or Buy, Do or Die
-- In my job as a developer, I get to talk to all sorts of people. And one of the conversations I seem to have a lot lately is "build vs buy", especially when it comes to custom applications. When developing a new application, I try not to reinvent the wheel, for example, if the application requires extensive charting capabilities, I will look for a third-party charting component to buy and integrate. If the application requires a more polished user-interface, I will buy a set of icons or a UI component to deliver the required user interface. Read more »
Get Ready for This
-- It seems software developers are quite a musical bunch. Microsoft
have a band called "band on the runtime" which play cover songs like
"VB.NET" to the tune of the Villiage People's YMCA, and Richard
Stallman sings his woeful Free Software song. Read more »
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