Software company takes .NET on the road.
Company offers new version of its development software to colleges and universities.
A preview of what's in the works for Visual Studio.
Infragistics' NetAdvantage 2003 Vol. 1 is an integrated toolset for developing the
presentation layer for applications.
Microsoft's Visual Studio Developer conference, VSLive!, held in San Francisco during the week of Feb. 3, 2003, gave the company an opportunity to show off the latest enhancements to its one-year-old Visual Studio .NET development tools and to
crow about its growing list of vendor partnerships.
A roundup of tools and technologies uneveiled at the February 2003 VSLive! conference.
Borland's is showing off its Project Sidewinder IDE for the .NET Framework. It's not ready for prime time just yet, but when it is, the new developer tool suite will compete with Microsoft's VS .NET.
Microsoft believes technology is aligning to make 2003 the year XML Web services "take off" in applications for mobile devices, according to Steve Lombardi, technical product manager, Microsoft's MapPoint .NET.
Neon Systems Inc., Sugar Land, Texas, last week unveiled a monitoring/management tool designed to shed light onto the 'black hole' of legacy mainframe processing connected to distributed applications based on J2EE and .NET platforms.
At this week's VSLive in San Francisco, security specialist Sanctum Inc. announced an automated security testing suite for application developers -- AppScan Developer Edition (DE) 1.5 -- that can integrate with Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET.
At Lotusphere in Orlando, Fla., Lotus managers talked about what is in store for Domino and Notes specialists, as the Lotus platform continues to become a more intrinsic partner with IBM's other middleware offerings.
LogicLibrary has recently initiated a QuickStart program to push forward Web services
initiatives.
Borland moved last week to improve the tools available to customers who are beginning to pursue .NET application development. The company became the first to license the .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) from Microsoft.
At Lotusphere in Orlando, Fla., Lotus managers talked about what is in store for Domino and Notes specialists, as the Lotus platform continues to become a more intrinsic partner with IBM's other middleware offerings.
Multivendor standards are not equally desirable in all areas.
To show that not all Web services deployments are
back-office integration efforts, Microsoft is touting a .NET application bringing together FAA and related information to provide business travelers with real-time flight data.
Maintaining that ''the lack of adequate monitoring and management tools has
delayed the promise of Web services,'' Confluent Software Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced plans to release ''Interceptor'' technology for Microsoft .NET.
Three software companies -- OpenLink Software, Winfessor and Tipic -- recently weighed in with their support for Mono, an open-source implementation of the .NET Development Framework.
There are understandable reasons why IT
departments are delaying the adoption of .NET. However, the rate of .NET adoption will pick up.