To address licensing questions surrounding the Mono Project, Microsoft has agreed to apply its Community Promise to both C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).
The inventor of the first PC spreadsheet talks about his new book and challenges facing developers.
In a significant move for those who develop .NET applications targeting Oracle databases, Microsoft is removing the Oracle data provider from its ADO.NET roadmap.
Red Hat and Microsoft loom large as thousands of developers ponder the future of Java at annual meet last week.
As applications take flight beyond the desktop, the .NET Framework is trying to keep pace. The programming environment, which debuted in 2002 and today ships with Windows, SQL Server and Visual Studio, remains the consistent foundation for Microsoft's proliferating toolsets.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a surprise appearance at the annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco this morning.
Microsoft cancelled its standalone Office Developer Conference for this year and instead will fold the content into its SharePoint Conference 2009 event, which is scheduled for the fall.
Adobe Systems today is providing developers with the first public look at its next-generation tooling for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) with the release of two key betas and updates to its framework.
On Wednesday, Microsoft released the latest Visual Studio (VS) extension preview for building apps that run on its Windows Azure cloud computing operating system and services platform.
Microsoft this week released a new community technology preview (CTP) of its modeling environment code-named "Oslo."
Teams developing applications using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 (VSTS 2008) can now better implement Microsoft's security development lifecycle (SDL) process using a new template addition.
Deal with Black Duck Software will feed .NET code into KnowledgeBase and Koders.com.
The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 bits are available to MSDN subscribers today. A public beta is scheduled for release on Wednesday.
Microsoft announces SharePoint product updates.
Microsoft announced that the Windows 7 release candidate (RC) is now available to the general public.
Microsoft last week week rolled out the next community test version of a distributed cache platform code-named "Velocity" that promises to speed up .NET-based applications.
Microsoft is drawing mixed reactions to the release last week of the source code for its ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC).
Microsoft on Monday announced a new services capability that's part of its Windows Embedded Server product line.
Facebook and Adobe Systems today said they have formed a partnership to ease the development of Flash-based applications on the popular social networking service.
More than a year after its first community technology preview was released, ASP.NET Model View Controller has finally shipped.