'Orcas' will include exciting new tools and functionality for database management within VB and C# while maintaining continuity and connectivity with legacy DBMS.
Scott Cate illustrates how to implement key features of ASP.NET AJAX to a packed crowd at VSLive! San Francisco 2007.
Microsoft's Prashant Sridharan lifts the covers on widely anticipated 'Orcas' and 'Rosario,' and offers a view of new Microsoft initiatives aimed at both corporate and junior-level developers.
The pending acquisition will add distributed data caching capability and strengthen Oracle's SOA and data management middleware stack.
Microsoft announced Tuesday it is shipping one of the first key pieces of its Dynamic Systems Initiative, also called DSI.
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Microsoft announced Monday it has bought out devBiz Business Solutions, a company that specializes in software development tools and components for professional .NET developers.
The IT Architect Skills Library has opened online, providing resources for aspiring architects.
Microsoft is shipping the second beta release of Design, a graphics tool that's part of the company's Expression Studio suite.
In a move that promises to facilitate interoperability of AJAX-based applications developed with different tools and frameworks, Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has joined the OpenAJAX Alliance.
Microsoft this week began shipping the release candidate for Expression Blend, its new design tool for building Windows user interfaces using the .NET Framework 3.0’s Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
Microsoft Tuesday began shipping the second service pack for Windows Server 2003.
Visual FoxPro 9 will be the end of the line for Microsoft's under-appreciated desktop database developer tool, the company formally told third-party developers Tuesday.
Get ready for an anti-climactic Patch Tuesday. Following on the heels of last month’s gonzo Patch Tuesday event -- wherein Microsoft Corp. released 12 new patches -- Redmond this month doesn’t plan to patch any security-related flaws.
Altova demonstrated a new version of its UModel 2007, which displays the full UML 2.1.1 compatibility, at VSLive! San Francisco 2007.
Most organizations in software development are interested in application quality; Instantiations is doing something about it.
Microsoft says it is wrapping up the beta test code for its first service pack for Exchange Server 2007, and plans to begin testing the update in April.
Microsoft announced Monday the formation of what it’s dubbed the Microsoft Business Process Alliance, or BPA, an organization created to boost deployment and use of business process management tools with a focus on the BPEL standard.
Microsoft is shipping the first CTP of a new business intelligence tool dubbed PerformancePoint server.