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Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010

Brein N. Matturro — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:42:04 EDT

Embarcadero Technologies announced a new version of its RAD Studio, called RAD Studio 2010, featuring updated versions of Delphi, C++ Builder, and Delphi Prism and comes in three SKUs: Professional, Enterprise, and Architect.

Microsoft's Oslo modeling platform, the M language and .NET

Yuval Shavit — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:38:21 EST

Microsoft's Oslo modeling platform aims to shift development practices away from low-level implementation and toward business' data. The relationship between Oslo and the .NET Framework isn't fully clear yet, but some hints are out.

Microsoft releases new CTP of Oslo SDK

Yuval Shavit — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:57:53 EST

The January 2009 release is giving developers a better idea of how Oslo's tools and languages will look, but its relationship to Windows and the .NET framework is still up in the air.

VBScript Tutorial

Jerry Lees — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:13:55 EDT

VBScript (Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an interpreted scripting language from Microsoft. It is a subset of the Visual Basic programming language and follows the same syntax. Learn more in this introductory tutorial.

Printing in Windows Presentation Foundation

Mark Shurmer — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:57:37 EDT

Learn how to use PrintDialog, PrintVisual and DocumentPaginator to print in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Infragistics Silverlight 2.0 chart and gauge components released

Jack Vaughan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:42:36 EDT

Infragistics unveiled chart and gauge components for Microsoft Silverlight beta 2. The company also released Web Slider and Web Hierarchical Data Source controls for ASP.NET AJAX. The 2.0 version of Silverlight is much more usable for developers, according to an Infragistics evangelist.

Dundas Map for .NET kicks up geographic visualization

Ed Tittel — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:29:15 EDT

Internactive map controls speed up the development process in Dundas Maps, a development toolset that works with both Windows Forms and ASP.NET to integrate map- and geographic-based visualizations with data-driven applications.

.NET 3.5 SP1 set to arrive - offers ADO.NET updates, ease-of-install

George Lawton — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:26:23 EDT

Microsoft's .NET 3.5 SP1 framework, due this month, includes a reworked ADO.NET that can speed up development. Its new Entity Framework Developments will get the once-over from developers already versed in WCF and the fairly ubiquitous NHibernate. Easier installation is also in store for the important part of Visual Studio.

A look at concurrency constructs and primitives in .NET

George Lawton — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:22:47 EDT

Parallel and concurrent programming has gained new importance in .NET with the advent of parallel extensions for .NET 3.5. These are designed to take advantage of some of the new features in multi-core processors.

Silverlight at Beijing Olympics

George Lawton — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:49:09 EDT

Microsoft Silverlight deployments are likely to get a major leg-up this month as the rich Internet application (RIA) framework of choice for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. NBC has chosen Silverlight as the media player to drive what is anticipated to be one of the most popular Internet media projects to date. Microsoft expects it to be the biggest ever live streaming effort.