Microsoft on Thursday offered a glimpse of the new features it's planning to include in future versions of its Visual Studio.Net development tool bundle. Visual Studio.Net, originally released in February, serves as Microsoft's chief weapon in the...
However, a key reason to present a unified IDE is to give Java developers a more attractive alternative to Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net tool, which has broad third-party support. The proposal outlines a standardised way to merge Java programming...
The company announced on Wednesday that the Visual Studio.Net development tool, set for release with Windows Server 2003 on 24 April, will include the .Net Compact Framework for building mobile applications.
With "Rave", Sun is trying to match the speed with which programmers can use Microsoft tools such as Visual Studio.Net to create comparatively simple programs for servers, said Rich Green, Sun's vice president of developer platforms.
Microsoft is delaying the release of its forthcoming SQL Server database and Visual Studio.Net development tool in a move that could deprive customers of upgrades they were expecting. The company said on Wednesday that it has decided to push out to...
Sybase has shipped a separate product, called DataWindow.Net, which allows developers to use the database query tool from PowerBuilder in Microsoft Visual Studio.Net, Borland C# Builder, or other .Net development tools.