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 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...
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...
Also at WES, RIM announced a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio, letting developers use the .NET programming environment to create applications for BlackBerrys. Mike Lazaridis, president and co-chief executive at RIM, said: "This new developer...
DiDio said software tools such as Microsoft's Visual Studio helped to boost the appeal of the Windows platform. What we found is that costs are not really dependent on the underlying functionality in the core operating system," DiDio said.
Microsoft, which mainly sells SourceSafe as part of its Visual Studio packages, does not recommend it being used for a team of more than 30 developers, while Perforce cites customers with thousands of developers in a single team.