(August 8, 2002) - It has 204 volumes, 50 titles, 28 subtitles, 375 chapters, 799 subchapters, 7,400 parts, and 181,500 sections and appendices. It's the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). And it's a part of the reason why OakLeaf Systems was announced yesterday as one of the firs...

CyberSource, a leading provider of payment processing and fraud detection services, has recently announced their release of a .NET component to provide developers with access to their services' proprietary API. The service uses a micro-payments system that is very much in keeping with...

(February 11, 2003) - Microsoft today released a full set of ASP.NET Starter Kits for unrestricted use by the worldwide .NET developer community. These starter kits are comprised of entire Web sites applications that have been written completely in ASP.NET. Best of all, Microsoft ha...

(April 29, 2003) - On April 25, the DotGNU project announced that their 'pnetlib' library is now 100% signature-compatible with version 1.1 of Microsoft's own 'mscorlib' library. What this means is that executables compiled for execution using Microsoft's commercial .NET implementatio...

(June 24, 2003) - Microsoft-watchers, -haters, and -lovers alike were able this week to bid welcome to the latest incarnation of Pocket PC 2003: 'Windows Mobile.' Based on Windows CE .NET 4.2, and including the .NET Compact Framework in ROM, this latest version is Microsoft's launch-p...

The .NET architecture has yet to be fully released, but already a virus, called W32/Donut, has been targeted to .NET, indicating that virus writers have interest in the new framework. Originating in the Czech Republic, the virus is not considered a serious threat by Microsoft or by se...

(June 4, 2002) - Verizon Wireless and Microsoft Corp. forged a groundbreaking strategic alliance to deliver co-developed and jointly marketed wireless data services featuring MSN® services and content, Windows® Powered devices, and enterprise solutions. As a result of the agree...

(August 9, 2002) - In an announcement made on August 5 by Brad Smith, Microsoft senior vice president and general counsel, the Redmond, Washington-based software company said it would release a set of 272 Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) which are currently hidden within their ...

(November 20, 2002) - On an average day, journalists at USATODAY.com serve up news to more than 800,000 readers, who churn through online content at the rate of 8 million page views daily. On a heavy news day, traffic can spike to double that level. That's a lot of text, interactive f...

(February 11, 2003) - Borland Software Corporation has launched Optimizeit Profiler for the Microsoft .NET Framework, strengthening the company's support for developers building .NET applications. Optimizeit Profiler provides comprehensive insight into performance issues and accelerati...

(April 29, 2003) - Microsoft and Accenture have co-developed a .NET-powered version of the Accenture Communications Solutions, a set of Web services-enabled pre-configured applications for wireline and wireless carriers, Internet service providers, cable providers, and other communicat...

(June 24, 2003) - Agilent Technologies Inc. and SoftWIRE Technology will integrate the Agilent T&M Toolkit into SoftWIRE's graphical programming interface, providing the industry's first graphical test and measurement (T&M) solution for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. By using T&M Toolki...

Microsoft .NET is the key enabling technology for Microsoft's vision of software as a service. The .NET Framework is the overall infrastructure that provides developers with a platform to create programs that transcend device boundaries and fully harness the connectivity of the Interne...

(June 18, 2002) - Rational Software has expanded its 'Extended Development Experience' to architects and designers with the introduction of Rational® XDE™ Modeler and added more power for Java and .NET developers by enhancing Rational® XDE™ Professional and Rational® PurifyPlus, the fi...

(August 19, 2002) - Compuware Corporation has recently introduced DevPartner Studio 7.0 Professional Edition, a comprehensive suite of tools for developers building applications and Web services using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio 6.0. DevPartner Studio 7.0 incorporate...

(November 20, 2002) - Anders Hejlsberg delivered a speech to the attendees of the recent OOPSLA conference in Seattle in which he described four new features to be incorporated into the C# programming language. These were: generics, Iierators, anonymous methods, and partial types.

(February 14, 2003) - What do the following phrases all have in common: 'Arctic Exposure,' 'Java Jam 4,' 'Perl Whirl '03,' 'Mac Mania 2,' and '.NET Nirvana 2'? No idea? Here's a few clues: it lasts a week, always includes a Saturday night…and owes its entire existence to a longtime pr...

(April 29, 2003) - Do consumers want hands-free communication, real-time traffic updates and turn-by-turn directions in the car? According to a recent survey, three out of five consumers are on board.* Responding to industry needs, Microsoft Corp. has released its fifth-version softwa...

(June 24, 2003) - At TechEd 2003, sembleWare, a business unit of Objecutive Inc., demonstrated their new Visual Welder for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. The product is a high-speed application construction and assembly tool that extends Microsoft's .NET strategy to change the way scala...

(January 17, 2002) - Microsoft's putative software platform for developing and running e-commerce Web sites, Commerce Server 2002, has been released this week in a public beta version so that developers can see for themselves whether MS delivers on its promise of tight integration with...

(July 2, 2002) -Microsoft Corp. has launched Microsoft Visual J#TM .NET, a development tool for Java-language developers building applications and services on the Microsoft .NET Framework. The launch of Visual J# .NET signals the completion and availability of all the Microsoft program...

(August 20, 2002) --Infragistics, the world's largest publisher of reusable presentation layer components, today announced that Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics, has been named as a member of the Editorial Board of .NET Developer's Journal, a soon-to-be launched publication from SYS-CON...

(November 20, 2002) - Late last month, the Middleware Company published a report called 'The Petstore Revisited: J2EE vs. .NET Application Server Performance Benchmark.' This report marked the first time that a non-vendor and J2EE expert has attempted to objectively compare and contra...

David Stutz has left Microsoft's Shared Source CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) team!

(April 29, 2003) - Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo! have announced a commitment to work together and with other industry stakeholders to help fight spam. The announcement is a first step toward a broader online industry effort to address the problem of unsolicited commercial e-mail. The grou...

(June 24, 2003) - Altova showcased their XML development tools - including a sneak preview of the new XMLSPY plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET - at Microsoft's TechEd 2003. The new integration features XMLSPY's XML editing views and development utilities directly accessible with...

(January 22, 2002) - First Microsoft launched its .NET Alerts service, then AOL Time Warner quickly replied with AOL Alerts. Now it seems that the two giant companies may be on course to start facing off in an arena even larger than that of instant messaging.

(July 10, 2002) - The beta version of Microsoft® Content Management Server 2002 is now available for download. Content Management Server 2002 will provide customers with a faster, easier, and more cost-effective way to create, deploy, and maintain mission-critical, content-rich Web...

CyberSource Corporation, a leading provider of risk management and electronic payment solutions for enterprise businesses, has introduced a new native C# component designed to simplify integration of CyberSource electronic payment processing services into a Web services environment bui...

(February 27, 2003) - The IBM DB2 Universal Database .NET Enablement beta program is now underway with the IBM DB2 UDB .NET Data Provider as the first technology available for preview. This beta program is open to all programmers interested in developing applications that use the Micro...

(June 24, 2003) - Computer Associates (CA) has introduced Unicenter ServicePlus service aware, patent-pending technology that enables developers to embed self-management capabilities into applications built with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.

(February 5, 2002) - Cape Clear Software, a leading provider of Web services technology, has announced full support for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET in the latest release of its CapeConnect Web services platform. CapeConnect 3.5 extends Cape Clear's existing support by including native...

(July 10, 2002) - DataDirect Technologies Inc. has announced the introduction of DataDirect Connect® for .NET, new data connectivity components that enable software developers to access enterprise data using .NET.

(August 21, 2002) - Speaking to developers in Canada this week, after a four-year hiatus from speaking publicly north of the border, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates appropriately made the crossing of boundaries one of the themes of his remarks.

(December 19, 2002) - As a followup to the recent announcement of IBM's intent to buy Rational Software, Rational has affirmed its continued support for Microsoft technologies, including the .NET development platform. 'Rational Software has been an early and ardent supporter of Micro...

(March 4, 2003) - During her keynote address at the eighth annual BEA eWorld conference, HP chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina focused on the critical role Web services management will play in overcoming IT complexity, unifying systems, and accelerating a return on IT investments

(June 25, 2003) - Infragistics is shipping NetAdvantage 2003 Vol. 2, featuring components for Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET 2003, .NET Framework and COM.NetAdvantage 2003. New components shipping with this presentation layer component toolset include: Windows Forms .NET Tab and Tabstr...

(Lexington, MA) -Rational Software announced Rational XDE Professional v2002, the first product to close the gap between design and development in industry-leading Java and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). Until now, IDEs and design tools have be...

In this article, we'll spend some time going over the 70-310 exam, XML Web Services and Server Components Development with VB.NET, although most of what I have to say applies equally to the 70-320 exam (C#). As is always the case, I do not know if I passed the beta version of this ex...

(August 28, 2002) - Microsoft Corp. has outlined the road map for future versions of its flagship development tool, Visual Studio .NET, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. By providing details on the direction of its development products, Microsoft is helping its customers plan future in...