(September 24, 2002) - Desaware, Inc.'s latest Microsoft Visual Studio .NET product, StateCoder, ver. 1.0., makes it easier for developers to create and support powerful state machines using Visual Basic .NET, C# and other .NET languages. This .NET class framework solution also dramati...

Microsoft CFO John Connors had every reason to say, in a conference call with financial analysts earlier this week to discuss earnings, that - compared to 2003 - the financial challenges ahead for MS would be 'daunting.' 'It would be great to get some help from a better world-wide ec...

(March 31, 2003) - Transcender LLC has released its first TransTrainer video computer-based training (CBT) for Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB) .NET exams. TransTrainer for VB .NET/Windows instructs individuals about Microsoft's 70-306 exam topics. Single-user licenses for TransTrainer fo...

(May 13, 2003) - WIN Enterprises Inc., a developer and manufacturer of embedded systems, has integrated Windows® CE .NET into its platform solutions, offering customers complete packages. These range from board design, manufacturing, and fulfillment, to application development from a s...

(March 20, 2002) - Citigroup and Microsoft Corp. announced a broad strategic agreement in which Citigroup businesses will use Microsoft® .NET technologies, including Passport and .NET Alerts, to enhance customer access to Citigroup's products on the Internet. By using these new techno...

(August 2, 2002) - AlphoraTM's new Dataphor Data Access ComponentsTM (DAC) suite, built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, is now available. The Dataphor DAC is a suite of components and controls that are data aware by design rather than merely data bound. The easy-to-use controls increa...

(September 23, 2002) - InterSystems Corporation has recently announced the launch of version 5 of their object-oriented database system, CACHÉ. This database is considered to be faster than either Oracle or SQL Server and is the leading database within the healthcare industry. It is ...

(February 5, 2003) - Borland Software Corporation has become the first to license the Microsoft .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) for distribution, which will help to accelerate the .NET application development lifecycle. This licensing agreement underscores the Borland com...

(March 31, 2003) - LogicLibrary has reached an agreement with Microsoft enabling Visual Studio .NET developers and software architects to quickly search a central library of software development assets and identify those that best match business and technical requirements for Microsoft...

(June 2, 2003) - ComponentOne LLC has released two integrated Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 combos. The combos include Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional, plus ComponentOne Studio for .NET or one ComponentOne tool for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

(May 10, 2002) - Microsoft Corp. has reached an agreement to acquire Navision, a global provider of integrated business software solutions. The acquisition will bring together the geographic and product strengths of Navision with Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions, enhancing Mic...

(August 1, 2002) - Infragistics will combine its COM product offering UltraSuiteTM with its full WIN and WEB Forms suites for the .NET Framework in the NetAdvantageTM Suite v1.2, the most comprehensive offering of presentation layer components now available, featuring best-of-breed com...

(November 19, 2002) - eHelp Corporation has recently announced the 'X3' release of their popular RoboHelp software. Using this software, developers can create automated user assistance in many popular formats. New features include improved single-sourcing for multiple documentation t...

(January 29, 2003) - A pesky worm targeted servers worldwide recently: could it have been prevented? Well, to begin with, this problem was discovered and a fix posted several months ago (on July 24, 2002) at this location: www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/se...

(April 11, 2003) - On April 8, a research group at Cornell, in association with CollabNet and Microsoft Research, opened a new Web site at http://www.sscli.net.  The idea is that individuals working with Microsoft’s Shared Source CLI project - also known as Rotor - can use this site to...

(June 2, 2003) - Under terms of a new agreement between Borland and Microsoft, the Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Developer Edition will ship with Borland® C#Builder™ for the Microsoft .NET Framework. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will create a Borland page that is acc...

(May 10, 2002) - Microsoft Corp. has announced the beta release of the Microsoft® .NET Speech Software Development Kit (SDK), the industry's first Web developer tool and the industry's first product deployment based on the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) specification. The SDK ...

(August 6, 2002) - In a truly interoperable world of software development, the kind of world envisaged by Web services, what would be the ultimate philosopher's stone? What would be the silver bullet?

(September 24, 2002) - Kenamea, Inc., has released a major new version of the Kenamea Web Messaging Platform. The Kenamea Web Messaging Platform Version 2.0 continues to enable real-time access to critical business information and interactivity with core applications via the Internet.

(January 29, 2003) - Softel vdm, Inc. has released a major new version of its Masked Edit control SftMask/ATL. This ActiveX control offers significant data input and validation features and is now also fully supported with Visual Studio.NET and all .NET languages, in addition to Visual...

(April 11, 2003) - As a part of Service Pack 1 for their InstallShield Developer product (http://www.installshield.com/isd/info/smart.asp?source), InstallShield Corporation has recently added support to their products for installing .NET Compact Framework applications. These installer...

(June 6, 2003) - Microsoft's Tech Ed conference closes today, leaving the world of .NET development pretty much unchanged. Although the conference was well attended, no major announcements of any consequence to developers were made. Is this, perhaps, a sign that Microsoft is at a loss...

(May 21, 2002) -Microsoft Corp. has announced the product strategy for the next version of SharePoint® Products and Technologies, the company's enterprise portal and collaboration solution. The next version of SharePoint utilizes the application server technologies in Windows® ...

(August 6, 2002) - Borland Software Corporation has announced Borland® DelphiTM 7 Studio, featuring full support for new and emerging Web services, integrated model driven development, and preview capabilities for the Microsoft® .NET Framework. Using Delphi 7 Studio, the estima...

In February of this year, Microsoft changed up everything for the first time in ten years. With the launch of Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, Microsoft drastically altered the way developers in the average environment did their job. Few of us are terribly willing to launch...

(February 5, 2003) - Microsoft won an important round this week, when the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay on a court order requiring Microsoft to include Sun's Java software in Windows operating systems within 120 days. Microsoft had planed to comply with the first step...

(April 22, 2003) - On April 22, Borland Software Corporation announced the immediate availability of new .NET functionality for two of their products. In particular: Borland Design - now allows modelling using the .NET Framework classes. Once your design is finished, this tool can a...

(June 11, 2003) - Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, part of the Microsoft Office System, has been reinvented to support a wide range of capabilities for building XML-based, data-driven Web sites, while retaining ease of use. FrontPage 2003 will be the first commercially available, fully...

(May 25, 2002) - An audit of the latest Oracle and Microsoft-published performance data for the Java and .NET Pet Shop found the .NET Pet Shop to be over ten times faster than the latest optimized J2EE Pet Store based on the latest Oracle-published benchmark data. The independent audi...

(August 7, 2002) - XAware, Inc. has announced the availability of XA-Suite for .NET, an enhanced version of XA-Suite that provides XML-based data integration functionality for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

It is the rare .NET developer who is able to work in complete isolation from that other great development platform of the early 21st century - Java. Microsoft tells us that there are two 'right ways' to make .NET interoperate with Java:

A new wave of mobile technology has given people new lives, with freedoms no other culture in the history of mankind has enjoyed. The world's mobile-minded inhabitants talk and work and surf on the move. My XBOX allows me to speak online to friends as if we were at one another's homes....

(April 25, 2003) - Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and Visual Studio .NET 2003, has just been released, along with Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 64-bit. This trio of products provides developers with a robust, dependable application platform. Along with new support for devices t...

(June 18, 2003) - Microsoft has released three offerings for Web developers to make it easy to create data-driven Web sites and Web applications: an update to the Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix, the release of the ASP.NET Starter Kits, and a resource to easily find ASP.NET Web hosting co...

(January 11, 2002) - In an exclusive interview with the Web Services Journal News Desk, Microsoft group product manager Greg Leake is pulling no punches when he asserts his opposite number at IBM - in the interview we posted earlier - is 'misinformed' and that IBM was 'misrepresenting'...

(June 4, 2002) - UpShot® Corporation has launched its second generation release of Offline Express, which allows customers of its online service to work with sales-critical information even when they're not connected to the Internet. Since its introduction late last year, thousands...

(August 8, 2002) - It has 204 volumes, 50 titles, 28 subtitles, 375 chapters, 799 subchapters, 7,400 parts, and 181,500 sections and appendices. It's the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). And it's a part of the reason why OakLeaf Systems was announced yesterday as one of the firs...

CyberSource, a leading provider of payment processing and fraud detection services, has recently announced their release of a .NET component to provide developers with access to their services' proprietary API. The service uses a micro-payments system that is very much in keeping with...

(February 11, 2003) - Microsoft today released a full set of ASP.NET Starter Kits for unrestricted use by the worldwide .NET developer community. These starter kits are comprised of entire Web sites applications that have been written completely in ASP.NET. Best of all, Microsoft ha...

(April 29, 2003) - On April 25, the DotGNU project announced that their 'pnetlib' library is now 100% signature-compatible with version 1.1 of Microsoft's own 'mscorlib' library. What this means is that executables compiled for execution using Microsoft's commercial .NET implementatio...