News (5)

Oracle joins Microsoft developer program

Oracle has pledged to make its database software work better with Microsoft's development tools. Read more »

Microsoft readies Indigo

Aiming to get developers behind its approach to Web services, Microsoft plans in March to offer a first look at the company's forthcoming Indigo technology. Read more »

IBM beefs up Rational toolset

IBM's Rational division yesterday announced new features that will appear in its next generation toolset, code-named Atlantic. Read more »

SOA heeds industry's call

Experts say the time has come for services-oriented-architecture design approaches, which revamp business processes and could change the economics of delivering software. Read more »

Microsoft places bet on Whitehorse

Microsoft this year will seek to distance itself from Java rivals with tools designed to streamline how Windows-based business software is built and used. Read more »

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Microsoft attempts to streamline .NET development with Volta

In the ads for Visual Studio and for .NET, Microsoft promised to revolutionise and streamline daily development tasks. While .NET is a vast improvement over past Microsoft development platforms, it still requires a certain level of expertise. Microsoft continues its push to simplify Web development with Volta. Read more »

Architectural standards in a .NET environment

One of the most challenging aspects of being an architect is implementing your architectural designs in the development environment. Luckily, the .NET environment is built on a series of templates and scripts that you can modify to let developers start from a known state. Read more »

Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer. But can they play nicely together? Read more »

New .NET certs: A look at requirements

Check out this examination of the testing requirements for the new Microsoft .NET MCAD and MCSD certifications. Read more »

Take advantage of code snippets in Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio 2005 brings auto-complete for code snippets to C#, J#, and XML, as well as additional features for Visual Basic. Read more »

.Net standards

The .NET environment is built on a series of templates and scripts that you can modify to let developers start from a known state. ZDNet Australia looks at the structures of these environment assets and how they may be modified. Read more »

New .NET certifications

Microsoft has introduced a new batch of .NET certifications, which will become active at the end of 2003. Check out this guide from Builder.com Read more »

Selling developers on .Net

He's hardly as well-known as Bill Gates but Eric Rudder will have more influence over the future of Microsoft's bet-the-company .Net software strategy than his more famous boss. Read more »

VS.NET Debugging Made Easy, Part 2

In the second part of this series on debugging in Visual Studio, Nick Wienholt explores some more advanced features to help debug your .NET code. Read more »

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 »

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