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...
Analysts questioned whether Microsoft's decision to use the full .Net Framework in Windows XP Embedded - as opposed to the smaller .Net Compact Framework - makes sense given the limited memory available in devices.
The software is also designed to lay the foundation for grid computing, which IBM touts as a way for businesses to buy computing power on demand, similar to the way electricity and other utilities are purchased.
Microsoft released its ASP .Net web development software as part of Visual Studio .Net and .Net Framework last year. Now Martin Michaels must choose between finding an older version of the ASP tool supported by bCentral, or finding a new hosting...
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.
The current plan has been for Microsoft to include that as part of an update to its Visual Studio developer tools. Helm sees other options as well, including adding a planned update to its ASP.Net framework into Windows Server.