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Microsoft's "online" future a step closer?

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pledged to open up Web services this year, however, full details are still up in the clouds. Read more »

Microsoft launches Aust .NET developer program

Microsoft Australia has this week launched a new .NET developer recognition program to entice developers to contribute more to the Microsoft development community. Read more »

Microsoft taps JQuery for Visual Studio

Microsoft said Sunday that it plans to ship the JQuery JavaScript library with its Visual Studio developer tool suite. Read more »

Sun tinkers with its programming tools

Sun Microsystems is seeking to build momentum in its programming tools business with updates to its different products. Read more »

Open source fans offer differing views of MS move

Open source developers and users have always been a sceptical group, but their opinions can shift — for example, their loathing of Sun Microsystems diminished as Sun stopped attacking Linux and started moving towards open source software. Read more »

Oracle joins IBM's Java project

Oracle will join the board of the Eclipse consortium, an IBM-sponsored project to develop an open-source tool for developing Java applications. Read more »

Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun

After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris. Read more »

Sun reveals Rave date

Java Studio Creator, previously known as Project Rave, will have its debut in early April. Read more »

Court curbs Microsoft Java distribution

Federal judges in the US have dealt a legal blow to Sun, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's version of an interpreter for the Java programming language. Read more »

XML: Extremely critical or exhaustingly complex?

Could the myriad standards and specifications surrounding XML seriously discourage users in the short-term? Read more »

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.NET attributes are more than decoration

Among the most confusing and misunderstood elements of the .NET framework are the purpose and uses of attributes. Read this article to see why attributes are a good thing. Read more »

Alternate .NET languages

.NET development gives you a choice of languages, as long as you choose C#, C++, or VB, right? Not exactly. See what other options are available. Read more »

The .NET Common Programming Model (CPM)

The basic principle of .NET is object-oriented development. The driving force behind it is the Common Programming Model (CPM). Read more »

How my memory of Ada code influences my current .NET code

The following is not a recommendation on how to perform this type of concurrent programming. This is more of a meditation on how my early programming experience has shaped the patterns that I use today. Read more »

How do I ... make C# or .NET Framework applications accessible in the system tray?

A great way to insure that your program is easily accessible to the user is by putting an icon for your application in the system tray. This article shows you how to use the system tray with C# and the .NET Framework. Read more »

Under the covers of the .NET CLR

.NET promises to let developers write code in numerous compliant languages, but exactly how does the CLR accomplish this feat? Read more »

Achieve pure .NET development with VB.NET

Are you confused by the choice of C# or VB.NET for .NET development? Most, mistakenly, think C# is the only viable choice. Read more »

.Net standards

The .NET environment is built on a series of templates and scripts that you can modify to let developers start from a known state. ZDNet Australia looks at the structures of these environment assets and how they may be modified. Read more »

.Net develops advantages over Java

Developers have a number of reasons for favouring one programming environment over another. For those attracted by good technology, .NET is worth a look. Read more »

Architectural standards in a .NET environment

One of the most challenging aspects of being an architect is implementing your architectural designs in the development environment. Luckily, the .NET environment is built on a series of templates and scripts that you can modify to let developers start from a known state. Read more »

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Discussing IronPython

IronPython is an implementation of Python on the .NET platform. Lead Program Manager, Mahesh Prakiya talks about the future of IronPython and how they work with the Python community. Read more »

Blog (12)

NICTA: Aussies should focus on embedded programming not VB

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- The CEO of the national ICT research centre says the future of Aussie developers should focus on building better embedded and wireless applications and focus less on technologies such as Visual Basic. Read more »

Aussies bringing Ruby to .NET

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Developers at the Queensland University of Technology are currently working on an innovative project to create a compiler for the Ruby language that runs on the .NET Common Language Runtime. Read more »

Top 25 open source projects at Microsoft

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft has consistently lowered the bar for developers, and Codeplex seems to be doing a good job of doing the same thing for open-source development on the Microsoft platform. Read more »

Flash in the pan

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. Read more »

Windows 7 is Vista--

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The prevailing consensus is that Windows 7 will be Vista++, but it may actually be Vista--, as Microsoft confirmed that they would be removing the built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing and movie making Read more »

Picnik online photo-editing spreads its wings

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Picnik, an online photo-editing service, has released specifications that will let other Web sites use its tools. Read more »

Wireless theft -- what's the harm?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Hand up if you have logged in to use some poor schmuck's unprotected wireless connection to overcome a bandwidth drought? Read more »

Mono a Mano

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- While the world has been heralding the release of Visual Studio.NET 2005, another project on the back-burner has been bubbling along. Read more »

Microsoft imagines a better world.

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Fresh off the wires from Microsoft comes reassuring news that their international student software design and programming competition, the Imagine Cup, is heating up. Read more »

The most interesting Web OS experiment yet

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- I still don't fully get the whole Web operating system concept. Why run an OS inside a browser when your browser is running in an OS to begin with? But AjaxWindows, a Web OS and application suite that launched today, makes a very good case for the Web OS. Read more »

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