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Rapid app development hits Delphi for PHP 2.0
CodeGear has launched the Delphi for PHP 2.0 integrated development environment to improve its developer tools suite for building interactive Web applications. Read more »
Microsoft charms hobbyists for embedded developments
The software maker has launched a project to encourage more amateur developers to tinker with its embedded software Read more »
Microsoft releases more XAML details
Microsoft on Tuesday made more technical information available for XAML, a language for designing the user interface of Web and Windows applications. Read more »
Microsoft and Eclipse cosy up on Java
Microsoft will begin collaborating with the Eclipse Foundation to improve native Windows application development on Java. Read more »
Nokia switches on Microsoft's Silverlight
Content developed for the software giant's alternative to Adobe's Flash will be able to be viewed on Nokia smartphones. Read more »
Server 2008 adoption not driven by virtualisation
Despite being touted as a key reason for adopting Windows Server 2008, virtualisation is not why companies will buy Microsoft's server operating system Read more »
Oz users give new Microsoft server suite thumbs-up
Early adopters of Microsoft's new suite of enterprise products have given the vendor an initial thumbs-up. Read more »
Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft
For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »
Windows Server 2008 'over-complicates' virtualisation?
Microsoft officially launched Windows Server 2008, Windows Visual Studio 2008, and announced SQL Server 2008, which is due in the third quarter of this year. Read more »
Sun: MySQL buy 'most important in software history'
The company says its acquisition of open-source database provider MySQL will enable it to dominate in open-source server software. Read more »
Features (242)
Visual Studio 2008 simplifies JavaScript debugging
One of the more cumbersome development tasks is debugging client-side JavaScript code. Tools such as Firebug are helpful, but in the case of Firebug, you're forced to use Firefox. Thankfully, Visual Studio 2008 provides a robust and developer-friendly environment for debugging JavaScript. Read more »
Seamlessly integrate applications with eBay using its Windows SDK
The eBay Windows SDK allows you to easily access eBay data within your application. Tony Patton gives you an overview of the functionality provided by the eBay Web services API. Read more »
Easily test Web services with soapUI
The soapUI tool makes it much easier to test Web services during development. It's also useful for interacting with third-party Web services to get a better idea of what to expect (and what to include) in the response. Read more »
Remote debugging with Visual Studio 2008
If you often have to track down bugs in an application installed on another machine, you should check out Microsoft's remote debugger tool with Visual Studio 2008. This article takes a look at its set-up and usage. Read more »
My move from VB.NET to C#
The author confesses why he stuck with VB.NET for so long rather than moving to C# and reveals how life has been now that he's taken the plunge. Read more »
Manipulating ASP.NET 2.0 browser support
ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to address browser support through browser configuration files. This set of files defines the capabilities for specific browsers. Read more »
Building Microsoft code inside the tornado
Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »
Develop a fully functional site with DotNetNuke
The open source DotNetNuke framework allows you to create a powerful Web application using an out-of-the-box solution. Read more »
Easily manipulate data with LINQ
The buzz around .NET Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) is hard to ignore, especially since Microsoft is embracing it with the latest release of the .NET platform (beginning with C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0) and Visual Studio 2008. Read more »
Silverlight 2.0 offers paradigm shift from predecessor
A quick overview of what you'll find in the latest version of Silverlight. Read more »
Video (11)
Looking into Visual Studio's future
Jason Zander, general manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft explains the areas of work that will appear in future versions of Visual Studio. Read more »
Visual Studio 2008 takes to the tubes.
The latest release of Visual Studio has added network functionality. Read more »
What's doing with non-C# languages in .NET?
Jason Zander, general manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft discusses using J#, F#, IronRuby and IronPython with .NET. Read more »
Visual Studio vs Expression Suite
Jason Zander, general manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft explains where Micrsoft draws the line between developers and designers and how this affect their development tools. Read more »
Eliminating boilerplate code with LINQ
Jason Zander, general manager of Visual Studio, Microsoft, explains the advantages of using LINQ. Read more »
Tips for managing smart people
General manager of Visual Studio, Jason Zander, explains how he manages the smart people in his team. Read more »
Improved GUIs with Windows Presentation Framework
Visual Studio 2008 allows developers to take further advantage of WPF, David McAmis shows you how. Read more »
Working with LINQ in Visual Studio 2008
One of the new features in Visual Studio 2008 is LINQ -- a query language that allows access to SQL databases, XML and local data stores with one interface. Read more »
What's new in Visual Studio 2008
David McAmis looks through the new features in Visual Studio 2008. Read more »
The missing LINQ
Coming out with the next version of Visual Studio and .NET, LINQ is a new feature that allows developers to iterate through data sources using an SQL-like syntax. Read more »
Blog (19)
How to manage a team of geniuses
-- Hiring a team of developers and techies that are smarter than you is inevitable. As a manager how do you cope with this and keep things on track? Read more »
Feeling fines with Microsoft
-- This week had Microsoft-related news coming at us from left, right and centre -- fines, launches and more Steve Ballmer than you can handle. Read more »
Microsoft says "open sesame"
-- While you may have been out last night watching the latest Rambo adventure with Sly Stallone making war for war's sake, Microsoft was busy declaring a truce with the open source community. Read more »
Wireless theft -- what's the harm?
-- Hand up if you have logged in to use some poor schmuck's unprotected wireless connection to overcome a bandwidth drought? Read more »
Reader Offer: Silverlight Training
-- Get one hour of learning in Silverlight that is all practice-based and fully integrated with Visual Studio. 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 »
PowerBuilder hitches wagon to .NET
-- The recent release of Sybase's PowerBuilder rapid application development tool allows users of the toolkit to deploy applications on the .NET architecture. Will it be enough to regain their footing in the enterprise tool space, against the behemoths of Visual Studio and Eclipse? Read more »
All this matter and make up and déjá vu
-- There are some weeks when you could be mistaken for thinking that the record had skipped and the players involved were simply going through the motions -- this week was one of them. Read more »
Flash in the pan
-- So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. Read more »
Mixed Emotions
-- Betamax showed that technical superiority can be beaten with a good dose of distribution -- does the same fate await Silverlight? Read more »
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Facebook's portal for the masses
This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »
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Do you trust data in the cloud?
Cheap hosted storage, app engines, and hosted code libraries. Can you really trust your data, or your client's data in the magical Web 2.0 cloud? Read more »
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Remember when MySQL was blazingly fast and cared little for SQL standards? When MySQL regarded a view as something nice from your window and a trigger was treated as a weaponry component? Those days are set to return with a MySQL fork called Drizzle. Read more »
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Club Builder: Honesty, WWIII and other minor annoyances
On this week's Club Builder we look at some local scientists who have made a break through in fibre throughput, a group of local lads win big in Paris and we hand out our first Honesty Award.
