Application Development News & Articles


First Look: Komodo IDE 5.0

The integrated development environment makes coding easy but it lacks .NET support.

ISO/IEC Publishes Office Open XML Standard

The international standard for document formats, based on Microsoft's OOXML, has been released.

IE8 Release Candidate Coming on 1Q 2009

Microsoft wants to get technical-community feedback before releasing its latest Web browser next year.

'IP Peace of Mind' Year 2 for Microsoft-Novell

Microsoft and Novell marked the two-year anniversary of their controversial Linux patent agreement.

Microsoft Sues To Protect Visual Studio Users

Redmond is contesting claims made by WebXchange after it sued three companies over alleged patent violations.

Sun To Cut More Than 15 Percent of Global Workforce

Exec VP of software leaves the company.

Microsoft Rolls Out Windows Live Services, Silk Road Project

Redmond updated some services and released a beta of a search customization tool for Web site developers.

Microsoft Exec Describes Azure Services Vision

Treadwell illuminates Microsoft's services platform.

Open Source SOA Project Gets Axed

The Eclipse Foundation's archiving process for the Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) project has already started.

VMware Acquires Trango, Brings Virtualization to Telecom Market

VMware plans to target mobile phone makers and their partners with a new bare-metal hypervisor optimized for telecom applications.

Tech-Ed Barcelona: Visual Studio 2010 News Amid VS 2008 Price Cuts

More details about planned features in VS 2010 are coming to light as Microsoft slashes pricing on different versions of VS 2008 by as much as 30 percent.

Microsoft Offers Security Dev Lifecycle Solutions

The company has outlined security best practices in tools and models for application developers.

WinHEC: Windows Server 2008 R2 Pushes Processor Limits

The latest Windows Server technology from Microsoft expands logical processor support for mission-critical enterprise computing.

Java-Based Data Integration Tool Supports Eclipse

Providing the services layer will drive SOA adoption, XAware argues.

Microsoft To Add Smooth Streaming in IIS7

The technology helps throttle bandwidth in streaming media, with a beta release expected early next year.

OASIS Forms ODF Interop Committee

Group seeks better interoperability and conformance for office-suite XML document format standard.

PDC: HP Startup Tests Windows Azure Cloud Platform

An online startup company migrated some of its operations into the cloud by using Microsoft Windows Azure services.

PDC: Office Communications Server Gains New Developer Hooks

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is out for private beta testing, but Microsoft is planning some new capabilities.

Microsoft Joins Standards Effort on Ubiquitous Messaging

The company will add its efforts toward developing the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol open standard.

PDC: Visual Studio 2010 CTP Adds Parallel Computing Tools

The latest version of Visual Studio features help for developers with parallel computing apps.