At the centre of the product suite is Blue Planet, a development system created by hardware supplier, Embedded Systems, which uses the software development kit for Microsoft Visual Studio to build Windows CE applications.
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 is battling with the likes of Sun Microsystems, PalmSource and Qualcomm to be the preferred software embedded in a growing array of gadgets and mobile phones. The company announced on Wednesday that the Visual Studio.Net development tool...
Microsoft will continue to use the .Net moniker for products that involve application development and web services, including its Visual Studio.Net programming tool, Goffe said. Because web services capabilities are becoming embedded within all...
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. Oracle, too, cut the price of its application server in an attempt to gain more...
Supported by the Visual Studio integrated development environment, the new product now supports the HTML embedded scripting language PHP and also features a preview version of the Expression Blend website animation tool.