Microsoft has just launched the beta version of Visual Studio.NET, the development tools it hopes will get people writing apps in the .NET environment. This shift into the backroom for Microsoft also enables it to embrace other software delivery...
IBM has joined Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net development programme. DB2 developers already use Visual Studio - Microsoft's application for software developers - to create other Windows-based applications.
Microsoft sells its .Net-focused Visual Studio.Net programming application, while IBM, Oracle, BEA Systems and others sell primarily tools based on the Java language. The release of Borland's C#-based tool will provide the final component in the...
Those include Visual Studio 2005 Team System, a planned addition to the company's Visual Studio line of developer tools. The package, intended for delivery with the main Visual Studio 2005 release in the first half of next year, will include...
John Montgomery, a director in Microsoft's developer division, said during an interview at VSLive, a conference devoted to the company's Visual Studio .Net toolkit: "There will be a beta one of Longhorn.happening in the first half of this year.
For those companies employing Microsoft .NET for business applications and development there are more profound implications, starting with the release of a raft of products this autumn, not least of which is SQL Server and Visual Studio 2005.