Improvements to the user experience around Microsoft’s MSDN Web site and developer anticipation of the Visual Studio 2005 new team system may have propelled Microsoft ahead of the pack, but its ...

I am in Tokyo Japan for my daughter Molly’s graduation from International Christian University (ICU). While I am in town, I am meeting with members of the Japanese developer press to talk about the ...

Historically, development tools have been tied to a specific operating system. Yet, some vendors have seen success in building products that target multiplatforms. A new phenomenon, a modular ...

In context: The .NET Framework technology has been part of the Windows platform since the NT 4.0/XP era, providing developers with an integrated environment (class library, language interoperability, ...

When I first heard about Mainsoft Corp.’s Visual MainWin for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), I thought the concept was a harebrained idea. Just skimming some of the product’s help topics sent me ...

New licenses make JetBrains’ JavaScript/TypeScript and .NET/game development environments free to use for open-source projects and other non-commercial purposes.

Integrated development environments help bring products to market faster and in a disciplined manner. IDEs typically consist of a code editor, a compiler, a debugger and a graphical user interface ...