Several months after announcing plans for a .Net IDE (integrated development environment) to compete with Microsoft’s Visual Studio .Net, Borland Software elaborated this week on its intention to ...

Microsoft, in its quest to encourage developers to build software for its services plan, makes key development tools available online. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' ...

Several months after announcing plans for a .Net integrated development environment (IDE) to compete with Microsoft Corp.’s Visual Studio .Net, Borland Software Corp. elaborated this week on its ...

Avanade on Monday is partnering with Microsoft to release Enterprise Library, which features reusable code, tools, and guidance intended to make it easier to develop in the .Net environment. Expected ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...

The SourceID project on Monday released an early version of the group's developer tools for integrating the Liberty Alliance's authentication protocols into Microsoft's .Net development framework. The ...

Microsoft on Wednesday posted to its Web site new software development tools key to its .Net software-as-a-service plan. The company said its Visual Studio.Net development tool package is available to ...