(May 6, 2003) - Hoping to provide an alternative for C# developers to Microsoft's own Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio .NET 2003 products, Borland has announced the mid-summer availability of their new C#Builder IDE and the future availability of their Janeva J2EE interoperability ...

(San Francisco) -- Microsoft Corp. chief software architect Bill Gates launched Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, the application development tool and platform for .NET applications, at the VSLive! 2002 Conference in San Francisco, on Feb. 13, 2002. In a keynote address and wo...

(July 26, 2002) - Microsoft Corp.'s chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates this week outlined the company's vision and road map for phase two of Microsoft® .NET.

(August 28, 2002) -- Rational Software has further expanded its 'Extended Development Experience' by extending the reach of Rational XDE Professional with support for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET. Rational has also added more power to Rational XDE Professional with industry...

(January 14, 2003) - LaGarde, Inc., a leading provider of e-business solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced the immediate availability of their StoreFront 6.0 e-commerce software. It's described as a development platform built on .NET that 'offers a range o...

(March 19, 2003) - In a move to turn as many of the existing seven million Visual Studio .NET developers as possible into developers for the Pocket PC and other Windows CE devices, Bill Gates today announced that Microsoft was officially releasing the .NET Compact Framework. This launc...

(May 13, 2003) - Actuate Corp. has just announced Actuate Active Portal for .NET, a new component of Actuate 7 that enables organizations who have standardized on the Microsoft platform to rapidly build and deploy information applications. Active Portal for .NET deepens the integration...

On February 13, Microsoft finally unveiled the retail release of its Visual Studio .NET product. In an interesting move, Microsoft's main announcement was made in San Francisco at the VS!LIVE conference, rather than at Microsoft's corporate headquarters in Redmond. Satellite conference...

(July 26, 2002) - Microsoft Corp. this week unveiled the Microsoft® .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle, a new technology that enables enterprise developers to more easily integrate applications built on the Microsoft .NET Framework with Oracle databases. The technology enables use...

(September 11, 2002) - Segue Software is currently offering a free tool for testing Web services by just providing the WSDL file or testing .NET components (dll). All based on an easy-to-use visual approach. Called 'SilkPerformer .NET Explorer,' what Segue is offering is a tool that a...

(January 14, 2003) - Emurasoft, Inc. has just released EmEditor 3.31, the latest version of the company's text editing shareware tool designed mainly for Web and software development. EmEditor supports editing of a number of different programming languages via an array of plug-ins. New...

(March 24, 2003) - eHelp Corporation has announced that their WebHelp Enterprise solution will henceforth be known as WebHelp Pro. More importantly, their RoboHelp Engine can now run as a Web service. This will allow, for example, developers to embed help searches in their own applicat...

(May 13, 2003) - Apress has acquired the rights to several Peer Information Group imprints: Friends of Ed, Glasshaus, and Curlingstone. In addition, Apress has acquired the publishing rights to over 300 former Wrox titles and contracts. The acquisition provides Apress with the majority...

(March 15, 2002) - Highlighting the growing importance of the Microsoft .NET platform and the XML Web services it enables, Microsoft and Deutsche Telekom, Europe's largest telecommunications company, have unveiled extensive plans for Deutsche Telekom (DT) to adopt the .NET platform for...

(August 1, 2002) - In a joint announcement made yesterday, Microsoft Corporation and AT&T Wireless announced plans to cooperate on a number of new wireless data initiatives. The first of these initiatives will see AT&T Wireless beginning to sell Microsoft's Pocket PC Phone Edition Edi...

(September 19, 2002) - Kenamea, Inc., has released a major new version of the Kenamea Web Messaging Platform. The Kenamea Web Messaging Platform Version 2.0 continues to enable real-time access to critical business information and interactivity with core applications via the Internet. ...

Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler spoke exclusively to JDJ-IN News Desk today, confirming that Microsoft does plan to appeal Judge Motz' ruling. 'We intend to appeal the court ruling in this case once the case is entered,' said Desler. The formal order is anticipated to go into place on ...

(May 13, 2003) - Covigo, Inc., a provider of adaptive software for developing and deploying mobile, Web, and portal applications, now offers native support for Microsoft .NET on laptops, tablet computers, and PDAs. 'By supporting .NET, we're enabling organizations that utilize both Jav...

(March 20, 2002) -Microsoft has released the second beta of Microsoft® Visual J#™ .NET, a development tool for Java-language developers who want to build applications and services on the Microsoft .NET Framework. Visual J# .NET is the first Java-language development tool to run on a pl...

(August 2, 2002) - Macromedia, Inc. has just introduced Pet Market, a sample application built using the entire Macromedia MX product family. Pet Market, a fictitious online pet retailer, illustrates both the benefits of rich Internet applications and the ability to deliver these exper...

(September 24, 2002) - Desaware, Inc.'s latest Microsoft Visual Studio .NET product, StateCoder, ver. 1.0., makes it easier for developers to create and support powerful state machines using Visual Basic .NET, C# and other .NET languages. This .NET class framework solution also dramati...

Microsoft CFO John Connors had every reason to say, in a conference call with financial analysts earlier this week to discuss earnings, that - compared to 2003 - the financial challenges ahead for MS would be 'daunting.' 'It would be great to get some help from a better world-wide ec...

(March 31, 2003) - Transcender LLC has released its first TransTrainer video computer-based training (CBT) for Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB) .NET exams. TransTrainer for VB .NET/Windows instructs individuals about Microsoft's 70-306 exam topics. Single-user licenses for TransTrainer fo...

(May 13, 2003) - WIN Enterprises Inc., a developer and manufacturer of embedded systems, has integrated Windows® CE .NET into its platform solutions, offering customers complete packages. These range from board design, manufacturing, and fulfillment, to application development from a s...

(March 20, 2002) - Citigroup and Microsoft Corp. announced a broad strategic agreement in which Citigroup businesses will use Microsoft® .NET technologies, including Passport and .NET Alerts, to enhance customer access to Citigroup's products on the Internet. By using these new techno...

(August 2, 2002) - AlphoraTM's new Dataphor Data Access ComponentsTM (DAC) suite, built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, is now available. The Dataphor DAC is a suite of components and controls that are data aware by design rather than merely data bound. The easy-to-use controls increa...

(September 23, 2002) - InterSystems Corporation has recently announced the launch of version 5 of their object-oriented database system, CACHÉ. This database is considered to be faster than either Oracle or SQL Server and is the leading database within the healthcare industry. It is ...

(February 5, 2003) - Borland Software Corporation has become the first to license the Microsoft .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) for distribution, which will help to accelerate the .NET application development lifecycle. This licensing agreement underscores the Borland com...

(March 31, 2003) - LogicLibrary has reached an agreement with Microsoft enabling Visual Studio .NET developers and software architects to quickly search a central library of software development assets and identify those that best match business and technical requirements for Microsoft...

(June 2, 2003) - ComponentOne LLC has released two integrated Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 combos. The combos include Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional, plus ComponentOne Studio for .NET or one ComponentOne tool for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

(May 10, 2002) - Microsoft Corp. has reached an agreement to acquire Navision, a global provider of integrated business software solutions. The acquisition will bring together the geographic and product strengths of Navision with Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions, enhancing Mic...

(August 1, 2002) - Infragistics will combine its COM product offering UltraSuiteTM with its full WIN and WEB Forms suites for the .NET Framework in the NetAdvantageTM Suite v1.2, the most comprehensive offering of presentation layer components now available, featuring best-of-breed com...

(November 19, 2002) - eHelp Corporation has recently announced the 'X3' release of their popular RoboHelp software. Using this software, developers can create automated user assistance in many popular formats. New features include improved single-sourcing for multiple documentation t...

(January 29, 2003) - A pesky worm targeted servers worldwide recently: could it have been prevented? Well, to begin with, this problem was discovered and a fix posted several months ago (on July 24, 2002) at this location: www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/se...

(April 11, 2003) - On April 8, a research group at Cornell, in association with CollabNet and Microsoft Research, opened a new Web site at http://www.sscli.net.  The idea is that individuals working with Microsoft’s Shared Source CLI project - also known as Rotor - can use this site to...

(June 2, 2003) - Under terms of a new agreement between Borland and Microsoft, the Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Developer Edition will ship with Borland® C#Builder™ for the Microsoft .NET Framework. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will create a Borland page that is acc...

(May 10, 2002) - Microsoft Corp. has announced the beta release of the Microsoft® .NET Speech Software Development Kit (SDK), the industry's first Web developer tool and the industry's first product deployment based on the Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) specification. The SDK ...

(August 6, 2002) - In a truly interoperable world of software development, the kind of world envisaged by Web services, what would be the ultimate philosopher's stone? What would be the silver bullet?

(September 24, 2002) - Kenamea, Inc., has released a major new version of the Kenamea Web Messaging Platform. The Kenamea Web Messaging Platform Version 2.0 continues to enable real-time access to critical business information and interactivity with core applications via the Internet.

(January 29, 2003) - Softel vdm, Inc. has released a major new version of its Masked Edit control SftMask/ATL. This ActiveX control offers significant data input and validation features and is now also fully supported with Visual Studio.NET and all .NET languages, in addition to Visual...