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Microsoft spruces up HTML capabilities in Visual Studio

Microsoft says it will make it easier to deal with HTML in the planned next release of its Visual Studio IDE, dubbed vNext, but it won't say when vNext will come out.

By Paul Krill | 10 September, 2011 07:15

Tags: application development, Microsoft, Microsoft Visual Studio, software, web development

New NetBeans offers Java 7

Developers will be able to test-drive the next generation Java programming language by using the new version of Oracle's NetBeans IDE (integrated developer environment), released Wednesday.

By Joab Jackson | 20 April, 2011 22:01

Tags: application development, Development tools, Languages and standards, oracle, software

NetBeans IDE drops Ruby on Rails backing

Citing low usage trends and a priority on Java, builders of the NetBeans IDE have killed off Ruby on Rails support in a planned upgrade, the NetBeans community announced on Thursday.

By Paul Krill | 28 January, 2011 06:51

Tags: application development, Developer World, Development Environments, oracle, ruby on rails, software

James Gosling praises Oracle's Java technology updates

Although Java founder James Gosling has left Oracle apparently under less-than-cordial circumstances, he still can be found championing Java technologies now sponsored by Oracle.

By Paul Krill | 04 May, 2010 09:21

Tags: James Gosling, Java, javafx, oracle

Visual Studio 2010 release ups testing tools ante

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2010 with a big emphasis on collaboration, extensibility and more rapid testing, which is winning fans among developers.

By Rodney Gedda | 12 April, 2010 13:01

Tags: Access Testing, Microsoft, Red Lizard, software development, software testing, Visual Studio 2010

JetBrains adds to Java IDE

JetBrains is offering a milestone release of the upcoming IntelliJ Idea 9 IDE for Java application development, featuring capabilities ranging from OSGi backing to improved performance and PHP support.

By Paul Krill | 30 June, 2009 12:33

Tags: ide, Java, JetBrains

Microsoft heralds Silverlight-Eclipse link

Microsoft is touting support for its Silverlight multimedia application technology in the Eclipse open source tools platform.

By Paul Krill | 10 March, 2009 08:35

Tags: eclipse computing, silverlight

Qt 4.5 released under LGPL, new IDE

Qt Software, a division Nokia, has released Qt 4.5.0, the first major release of the cross-platform GUI toolkit to be licensed under the LGPL and it ships with a new IDE for a complete SDK.

By Rodney Gedda | 04 March, 2009 09:53

Tags: kde, Nokia, Qt, sdk

Microsoft files suit to defend Visual Studio users

In a new lawsuit, Microsoft asks a San Francisco court to declare invalid several patents assigned to an online transactions company in hopes of defending customers who have been sued by the patent holder, WebXchange.

By Nancy Gohring | 18 November, 2008 08:34

Tags: legal, WebXchange

Komodo IDE for dynamic languages gets faster

ActiveState Software on Tuesday is releasing Version 5.0 of its Komodo IDE for dynamic languages, offering more speed, more support for distributed version control systems, and improved code-sharing across a team.

By Paul Krill | 05 November, 2008 07:27

Tags: ActiveState, ide

Google API allows creating apps that can track laptops

Google has enhanced its Google Gears Geolocation API so that developers can build applications that can track the location of laptop users within 200 meters.

By Heather Havenstein | 23 October, 2008 08:58

Tags: google gears

Microsoft unveils new Visual Studio version

Microsoft Monday unveiled the next version of its Visual Studio IDE, and detailed new features of its Visual Studio Team System (VSTS).

By Heather Havenstein | 30 September, 2008 07:26

Tags: visual studio 2008

Cloned code finder offered for Visual Studio

An open-source technology has been launched to help developers using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 find duplicated code in their software projects.

By Paul Krill | 28 August, 2008 09:49

Tags: .net, opensource, visualbasic, visualstudio

Sun releases beta of NetBeans IDE

A beta release of the open source NetBeans 6.5 IDE is being offered by Sun Microsystems on Wednesday.

Curl completes embrace of Eclipse IDE

Rich Internet application vendor Curl will announce Tuesday that it has completed its initial transition over to the Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment) with a set of Eclipse plug-ins, Curl Development Tools for Eclipse (CDE).

The A-Z of Programming Languages: D

In this interview, we chat to Walter Bright about D and his aim to improve on C++. According to his home page, Bright was trained as a mechanical engineer, and has worked for Boeing on the 757 stabilizer trim system. Ever since this experience however, he has been writing software, and has a particular interest in compilers.

By Naomi Hamilton | 22 July, 2008 08:07

Tags: a-z of programming languages

Python backing eyed for NetBeans

In a not-so-surprising revelation, Sun plans to support the Python and Jython scripting languages in future releases of the open-source NetBeans IDE, which has been expanding beyond its Java origins lately.

Quest joins Eclipse, Java profiler now a plugin

Quest Software today announced is has joined the Eclipse Foundation and the latest release of its Java profiler, JProbe 8.0, is now available as a plug-in to the Eclipse Java IDE.

Embarcadero buys CodeGear

CodeGear, the development tools unit of Borland Software, has been acquired by Embarcadero Technologies.

OpenSolaris OS officially debuts

Sun and the OpenSolaris community are this week launching the official first version of the open-source OpenSolaris operating system, which has only been available in pre-release versions for developers until now.