This "code-oriented IDE" provides a lighter-weight alternative to Visual Studio .NET for some .NET development projects.
Next year we'll have managed code tightly integrated with enterprise-level
databases. But will the tools be ready?
ActiveReports offers a solid reporting solution for .NET applications. You may well find it superior to the built-in Crystal Reports.
The next version of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET offers a plethora of new features to make the developer's life easier. But remember: it's not shipping until next year, so don't plan on using it immediately.
SOA may or may not bring about a reuse nirvana. But whatever happens,
Web services certainly will allow much better connections between apps.
J2EE complexity stemmed the growth of early Java tools. Now, an emerging
breed of simpler offerings aims to give Visual Studio .NET a run for its money
just as the next-generation Microsoft offerings increase complexity.
Mike Gunderloy reviews IBM Rational XDE Developer .NET Edition v2003.06
and DriverStudio 3.0
The Regulator is a full-featured regular expression tool for the .NET Framework. It offers innovative features including multiple document editing and connections to an online library of regexes.
JNetDirect offers a variety of products to help bridge the gaps between databases, .NET, and J2EE applications.
eXpress Persistent Objects (XPO) saves .NET objects into an Access or SQL Server database. An attribute-based approach makes it possible to do this without writing a line of data access code.
Borland Software Corp. cranked up the volume on its application life-cycle management (ALM) strategy last week at its annual user conference.
A grid control for .NET that's so customizable that it would be almost overwhelming if not for all the great documentation and code samples.
Company says XML Web services applications are ideal for the new Motorola MPx200 with Windows Mobile software, as well as existing Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs and other mobile devices.
Delphi 8 for the Microsoft .NET Framework, released at the toolmaker's 14th annual BorCon event, is designed to enable Delphi developers to create .NET Framework-based applications and migrate existing Win32 Delphi applications to .NET.
Discussing the guiding philosophy behind the C# programming language, Anders Hejlsberg quotes Albert Einstein.
Company has supported Oracle and IBM’s DB2 databases as the repository for its change management system.
New version of the SQL Server-backed source code control tool will include improved diff and merge, shadow folders, Linux client support, and other improvements.
Mike Gunderloy reviews DevPartner Studio 7.1 and InstallShield DevStudio 9
Iron Speed Designer offers a fast way to Web-enable database applications using ASP.NET code.
Microsoft's Longhorn will feature new communications technology, code-named "Indigo," designed for Web services application support.