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Tools for the new Office System

New toolset allows developers using Visual Studio .NET 2003 to use Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET to write code behind Word- and Excel-based applications.

webMethods grabs The Mind Electric, two other firms

Middleware specialist moves to expand portfolio for Web services.

Source: Microsoft's Longhorn PDC preview to lack GUI

Pre-beta of the OS won't include new "Aero" interface.

Infragistics adds ink-enabled toolset to NetAdvantage

Includes developer tools for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft COM. And it features new .NET UI, ASP.NET date chooser and ASP.NET calendar interface elements.

Conversion made easier as Microsoft unveils JLCA 2.0

New version said to convert 80% of Java code to .NET.

.NET and Beyond: The big bet

Succeeding with Web services depends on winning the big bet we’re placing on this multi-part security scheme.

Heard on the street: Tales of .NET

Development teams are finding their way toward the new Microsoft platform. They are encountering decent performance, sketchy security standards and a handful of best practices.

.NET finally brings Web services to life

Microsoft has realigned its .NET product set and now finds a slew of customers using its Visual Studio .NET toolset to build applications and Web services.

New DevPartner Studio 7.1 boosts .NET support

New version is said to integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and 2002 and Windows Server 2003.

Resources for Application Lifecycle Management

Check out these publications, tools, and community sites for additional information about application lifecycle management (ALM).

Borland joins Together and .NET

Company has expanded its Together analysis and design tools with release of Together Edition for Visual Studio .NET.

Developers to get first look at Longhorn

Microsoft sets date for pre-beta release of new OS.

Q&A: SOAP gains traction

ADT’s Jack Vaughan spoke recently with Rebecca Dias, Microsoft product manager for advanced Web services, about the status of the technology in Redmond today and in the future.

Unisys moves mainframe into .NET, Java age

Also offers expanded Web services support for XML, SOAP, UDDI and other standard specifications.

.NET & Beyond: One more time: What exactly is .NET?

Recent changes have left some believing that Microsoft’s technology strategies have changed or even that the company is de-emphasizing .NET -- and neither of these is true.

5 stories about XML and integration

Users find value -- and challenge -- in the handy markup language that could.

Q&A: Objects meet VB .NET

ADT’s Jack Vaughan spoke earlier this year with Deborah Kurata of InStep Technologies Inc. about the migration of Visual Basic developers to .NET.

Microsoft bolsters speech tech plans

Company adds its voice to speech application development.

Compuware links driver tool and .NET

New toolset promises to speed up driver development.