<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from .NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from .NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>.NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:06:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from .NET DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/9/dndj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Viewpoint: Not Every ColdFusion Developer Should Be A Flex Developer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/551125.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/551125.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/551125_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I am going to go ahead and contend that although a good number of ColdFusion developers can grasp and understand Flex very well, there are also a good number of ColdFusion developers who have no business going anywhere near Flex. Why do I say this? I am a big fan of Flex. I use it daily to create, what I think are, some kick-ass applications. It is a powerful tool that really changes the game on the web and the desktop. That being said, it is not a tool that every ColdFusion developer can grasp.]]></description></item><item><title>OpenOffice 3.0 Goes to Public Beta</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563151.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563151.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/563151_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[OpenOffice.org is publicly beta testing OpenOffice 3.0, which is not recommended for production use. General release is expected in September. Aside from cosmetics, it will support the upcoming OpenDocument Format 1.2 and is capable of opening Office 2007 and 2008 for Mac OS X files.]]></description></item><item><title>db4o Open Source Object-Oriented Database Supports LINQ</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/564247.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/564247.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/564247_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[db4objects has announced that its db4o object database is now optimized for Microsoft's LINQ. With the new support, developers can choose an object-oriented optimized engine without changing the API or compromising performance. db4object's db4o database offers a persistence solution to store objects of any complexity natively with a single line of code.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft-Yahoo - Yahoo Dodges the Takeover Bullet As Microsoft Calls Off Bid</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558497.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558497.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 17:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558497_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['I hereby formally withdraw Microsoft's proposal to acquire Yahoo,' writes a disgruntled Steve Ballmer in this letter to Jerry Yang. Yang's tactic of cosying up to Google seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back. As a service to SYS-CON.com readers we bring you the full text of the letter]]></description></item><item><title>EFF Faults Microsoft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558147.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558147.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 02:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558147_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Electric Frontier Foundation (EFF) has put an open letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on its site complaining that Microsoft has 'betrayed MSN music customers' and urging him to fix the problems Microsoft will cause when it turns off its Music validation servers at the end of August. It says the move will make it impossible for users to transfer their DRM-protected music files if they buy a new computer or upgrade their operating system or if their disk crashes.]]></description></item><item><title>Vendors Keep On Selling XP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558041.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558041.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 19:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558041_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft claims to have sold 140 million copies of Vista. Ah, but, in an effort to scratch the widespread 'Save XP' itch, Dell, HP, Sony and Lenovo all say they are going to supply XP past June 30 when large OEMs are supposed to stop supplying it.]]></description></item><item><title>CLINQ v1.1.0.0 Released</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558405.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558405.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/558405_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[CLINQ v1.1 has been released. Some of you may have already downloaded some of the new builds, but here's a rundown of what the new release includes: Support for Continuous Aggregation. Now, in addition to being able to have your result sets automatically update themselves in response to changes in the source set as well as changes to items in the source set, you can have aggregate scalar values that continuously update in the same fashion. The following is a list of the supported aggregation types that can now be done continuously:]]></description></item><item><title>No Decision Yet: Ballmer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/557635.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/557635.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/557635_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is on the horns of dilemma about what to do about Yahoo! since Yahoo! ignored his Saturday deadline to deal or be acquired by force at a lower price. And a meeting of Microsoft's board to debate the issue Wednesday apparently didn't find a way around his problem. His problem is money. He simply doesn't want to pay what Yahoo! wants.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft May Shatter the Silence Today, Wall St. Journal Predicts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/555554.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/555554.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/555554_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal thinks that Microsoft is about to break the break the deafening silence that has hung in the air since Yahoo! ignored Microsoft's Saturday deadline to deal or be acquired by force at a lower price. The Journal thinks that Microsoft could nominate a proxy slate of directors to replace Yahoo!'s board but hold off on going directly to Yahoo!'s shareholders and say nothing about the price, a move that could let its shares recover from their 12% decline since Microsoft went public with its Yahoo! lust.]]></description></item><item><title>New Version of ESB Software Extends the Microsoft .NET Platform</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/554945.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/554945.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/554945_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Neudesic announced the release of version 2.0 of Neuron-ESB. Neuron-ESB is an Enterprise Service Bus that extends the Microsoft Platform by providing real-time messaging, integration and web service management. Neuron-ESB accelerates SOA adoption by helping companies successfully implement real-time integration across their enterprise, allowing timely response to changing events within their business.]]></description></item><item><title>Europen AJAX Technology Leader Telerik Announces .NET Components and Reporting Tool</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553627.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553627.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553627_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Telerik announced the landmark release of its Q1 2008 RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX and WinForms, and Telerik Reporting. The new release represents a final touch in Telerik's goal to offer a comprehensive and mature toolset of next-generation web and desktop components.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Experiments with Subscription-Based Office</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552196.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552196.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552196_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is going to experiment with subscription-based software that as near as we can figure out won't be on-demand or web-based - or even available as a download - so it's hardly a retort to Google Apps and its ilk like people thought. This is the stuff that's code named Albany that Microsoft started admitting to last Friday after being caught a month ago signing up closed beta testers under NDA.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Disappoints; Windows Sales Off</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552194.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552194.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/552194_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[After three strong quarters and against a backdrop of heady expectations, Microsoft came in with lighter-than-expected fiscal Q3 revenues of $14.45 billion Thursday, earnings of $4.38 billion, or 47 cents a share, and operating income of $4.41 billion. Earnings were off 11% against a hard compare. Last Q3 they ballooned because of Microsoft recognized $1.67 billion in revenues and profits deferred by delays in releasing Vista.]]></description></item><item><title>BluePhoenix Expands Modernization Collaboration with Microsoft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553510.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553510.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/553510_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[BluePhoenix announced that it has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft on legacy modernization projects. The collaboration provides customers moving their applications or databases to .NET-based environments the best in both modernization services and technical support. BluePhoenix enables organizations to modernize their legacy data stores such as ADABAS, IDMS, IMS and VSAM to SQL Server, and from application languages such as COBOL, Natural, RPG and PowerBuilder to .NET.]]></description></item><item><title>Xceed to Embrace Microsoft&apos;s Silverlight in Upcoming Product</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547790.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547790.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/547790_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Xceed is poised to launch Xceed Upload for Silverlight, its offering in support of Microsoft's promising new Silverlight technology. Slated for release in May or June 2008, Xceed Upload for Silverlight provides programmers with HTTP upload capabilities for C# and VB.NET development using Silverlight. Whether client software needs to upload single files, groups of files, or strings to Web servers, Xceed Upload for Silverlight makes implementation fast and easy. In batch mode, file transfer is deferred, letting the application gather data from different sources, such as form controls, performing the actual transfer when it is ready. Uploads are asynchronous for optimum performance, so the client software remains responsive throughout the operation.]]></description></item><item><title>DataDirect Builds Custom ADO.NET Providers for Pervasive Software&apos;s PSQL Summit v10 Database</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544736.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544736.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544736_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DataDirect and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation announced Pervasive Software has embedded custom engineered DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET providers from DataDirect Technologies into the Pervasive PSQL Summit version 10 relational database. Microsoft .NET Framework users now have reliable, secure and high-performance access to application-critical data residing in the PSQL database.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft and EBSnet Collaborate on the .NET Micro Framework</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/545966.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/545966.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/545966_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft announced that the EBSnet Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack is included as a component of the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework 2.5. With TCP/IP, the .NET Micro Framework is delivering on the vision of helping to create new business opportunities for developers that build solutions for small network-enabled devices, by allowing them to communicate with the Internet.]]></description></item><item><title>Jury Tells Microsoft To Pay Alcatel $367m</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/540656.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/540656.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/540656_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Remember that swat of 15 infringement complaints that Lucent made in 2003 against Dell and Gateway? A couple of which, concerning MP3 audio technology in the Windows Media Player, resulted in a record $1.5 billion decision against Microsoft that subsequently got overturned? Well, the court has been working its way through the charges and on Friday a San Diego jury awarded the French company $367.4 million in damages, finding that Microsoft infringed two patents named in the latest case - one charge concerning the DVD video decoding technology in Windows was thrown out; a fourth was only asserted against Dell, which is now supposed to pay the French $51,000.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Posts More Protocol Documentation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/540620.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/540620.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/540620_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft posted 14,000 pages of what it called 'preliminary versions' of technical documentation covering the protocols in Office 2007, SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. The move is Microsoft's latest step since some bright Microsoftee realized the company could move the control point off trade secrets and back to patents and perhaps save itself some aggravation with the European Commission, while impressing its US regulator with its newfound openness.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft .NET Feature &amp;mdash; Comparing Migration Methodologies</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/346924.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/346924.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/346924_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The programming language dictates how developers can describe data structures, interfaces, and algorithms. The libraries provide an extensive array of advanced services to the program such as data access, communications, and graphical user interface. The language and libraries are called the platform. The platform sets the rules and makes the system possible. However, over the course of a system's lifespan, the platform can and will change: languages and libraries inevitably evolve and are replaced by next-generation technologies. Usually, the changes are gradual with an appropriate measure of backward compatibility, so we can adapt through standard maintenance activities. Sometimes, however, the changes are more radical and disruptive, so a more focused effort, called a migration project, is called for.]]></description></item><item><title>PowerBuilder Takes You To .NET</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/522253.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/522253.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/522253_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In June of 2007, Sybase released PowerBuilder 11. PowerBuilder developers can now deploy PowerBuilder components as .NET Assemblies or as .NET Web Services. A PowerBuilder developer can now create these .NET resources so that those who develop .NET solutions can benefit from PowerBuilder and DataWindow productivity regardless of what development tool they use. PowerBuilder 11 also gives its users the ability to deploy entire applications as ASP .NET Web Forms applications (WebForm) as well as to deploy entire applications as .NET Windows Forms (WinForm) applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Gomez Announces Web Performance Testing Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544947.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544947.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/544947_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Gomez announced support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) 8 beta 1. Using the Gomez ExperienceFirst platform of on-demand web application experience testing and measurement services, developers can quickly understand how existing and new applications will look and perform in IE8, as well as the impact of IE8 on their infrastructure.]]></description></item><item><title>Mainsoft Announces ASP.NET AJAX on Linux</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/538036.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/538036.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/538036_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mainsoft announced that its latest release of Mainsoft products provide full support for Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions and AJAX Control Toolkit. Mainsoft for Java EE, version 2.2, allows Visual C# and Visual Basic developers to use ASP.NET 2.0 components from Microsoft to create Java pages with sophisticated, responsive user interfaces and efficient client-server communications by adding a few server controls to their ASP.NET pages. Ported applications deliver equivalent performance and scalability on Java as the original application delivers in .NET.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Threatens Yahoo! with Hostile Takeover &amp; Lower Bid: WSJ</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/535910.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/535910.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/535910_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has given Yahoo! three weeks to come to terms or suffer a proxy fight for control of its board and a hostile takeover according to a Wall Street Journal report. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reportedly sent Yahoo's board a letter today, a few days after Microsoft's second go-nowhere meeting with Yahoo since it publicized its $44.6 billion stock-and-cash bid for the company over two months ago.]]></description></item><item><title>ASP.NET &amp; the .NET Framework</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/531936.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/531936.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/531936_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[ASP.NET is part of the Microsoft .NET Framework. To build ASP.NET pages, you need to take advantage of its features. The .NET Framework consists of two parts: the Framework Class Library and the Common Language Runtime. The .NET Framework contains thousands of classes that you can use when building an application.]]></description></item><item><title>WebORB 3.4 for .NET Now Cost-Free</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/535690.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/535690.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/535690_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['We are very excited about this release and can't wait to see what you will build with it,' said WebORB's Mark Piller as he announced recently the release of WebORB 3.4 for .NET as a free product. 'You do not need any license keys and can use the product without extra license cost for development, staging and production purposes,' he added.]]></description></item><item><title>Publishing .NET Web Services Using SQL Anywhere 10.0.1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/531750.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/531750.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/531750_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In this article we're going to take a database and create our own mini version of an 'Amazon-like' item lookup. That is to say, any .NET or .NET-compatible client will be able to look up items in our database via the Web by simply providing a UPC. This article will show you how. To complete this project, you'll need a few items...]]></description></item><item><title>Codice Software Unveils Plastic SCM 2.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/533703.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/533703.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/533703_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Codice announced Plastic SCM, a cross-platform software configuration management solution that streamlines how software applications are assembled. Application development teams use Plastic SCM to manage parallel development, where multiple developers work on building software at once, even from geographically dispersed locations.]]></description></item><item><title>Windows Server 2008 for .NET Developers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/531746.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/531746.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/531746_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Unless this is the first thing on technology you are reading in the last six months you will know that we are seeing a new server being launched by Microsoft.  After the ups and downs of Vista (many love it and many hate it) I expect that Windows Server 2008 will be something we can all agree is a real bonus for .NET Developers.  Whole issues can (and will) be done on the benefits that Internet Information Server 7.0 (IIS7) brings including really cool support for web farm (read highly scalable) and shared (read highly configurable) scenarios.]]></description></item><item><title>SaaS - A Software Application Delivery Model</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526730.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526730.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526730_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In traditional software development, companies were required to buy, build, and maintain their own IT infrastructure despite exponential costs. Even an SME needed an IT manager who was responsible for managing all type of IT-related work - installing applications, maintaining software and systems, backup management, patch management, disaster and recovery management, security systems, licensing issues, hardware procurement and upgrades. All this resulted in significant overhead for organizations of all sizes and needed a dedicated team.]]></description></item><item><title>Taking Advantage of the Partial Class with the ADO.NET Entity Framework</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/527501.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/527501.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/527501_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[So you're building your data-driven application and you've got an ADO.NET Entity Model that represents an abstraction around your database. Maybe you're even pretty savvy and you've used inheritance and some filters to enhance the entity model so that it really is an entity model and not just a raw translation of your database schema into objects. One thing that I have noticed is that in a lot of sample code, a lot of utility functions end up being put in inefficient locations because people forget that the entity model is a partial class. This means that you can extend the model with your own properties and methods.]]></description></item><item><title>Migrating to Microsoft SQL Server</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526729.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526729.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526729_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Val Morgan Cinema Network is a provider of screen advertising, with operations in Australia, New Zealand and a joint venture in the UAE. In Australia and New Zealand Val Morgan holds the advertising rights to virtually all cinemas, including those operated by the major cinema exhibition chains and independent operators. The company's attention is focused on the national advertising market with approximately 80 employees based in offices throughout Australia and New Zealand.]]></description></item><item><title>XNA, Game Development for Everyone</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526728.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526728.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526728_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Maybe some of you remember a time when we created a sprite on a piece of graph paper and afterwards hacked zeroes and ones in so we could see something eventually move on a TV screen. I have to admit that those days have been gone for a long time and a lot of things have happened in IT since I developed simple games on my C64. And one of these new things is XNA Game Studio (the current version is 2.0).]]></description></item><item><title>OPNET Releases Panorama 5.0 with Enhanced Support for Microsoft .NET</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/528668.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/528668.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/528668_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[OPNET announced the availability of Release 5.0 of OPNET Panorama, its solution for real-time application monitoring and analytics across complex, multi-server infrastructures. This latest release extends Panorama's deep instrumentation to .NET applications, delivering full life-cycle application performance management for .NET and Java environments in a single solution.]]></description></item><item><title>Alaska Airlines Takes Off with AccuRev</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526698.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526698.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526698_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air together serve 92 cities through an expansive network throughout Alaska, the Lower 48, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico. Known for embracing innovative technology to improve the customer experience, Alaska Airlines has won numerous awards for its frequent flyer program and eCommerce Website.]]></description></item><item><title>Where&apos;s i-Technology Headed in 2008?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526697.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526697.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526697_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[2007 was undoubtedly the year of Social Networking, but what of 2008? Will '08 be the year of 'Unified Communications' or the year when CMS comes to stand for 'Community Management System' - or even 'Collaboration Management System'? Or will it be the year of the giga-merger, to beat the mere mega-mergers of 2007?]]></description></item><item><title>IBM Buys into EnterpriseDB</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526182.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526182.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/526182_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IBM has taken a piece of open source database start-up EnterpriseDB, a relatively odd thing for IBM to do considering its DB2 interests - unless, of course, it wants to throw sand in Oracle's eyes - since EnterpriseDB can replace Oracle for vastly less money - or it wants to have an impact on the PostgreSQL database that underlies EnterpriseDB so it can migrate Postgres users to DB2 - anything else and it probably would have done more than simply take part in EnterpriseDB's $10 million third round along with existing VCs.]]></description></item><item><title>US Supreme Court Won&apos;t Hear Microsoft&apos;s Novell Appeal</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/524605.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/524605.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/524605_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The US Supreme Court has refused to hear Microsoft's appeal of Novell's multibillion-dollar antitrust suit against it. The news hit just as Novell's annual BrainShare user conference was getting starting. Basically a private replay of the Justice Department's suit against Microsoft, the case involves Novell's claims that Microsoft targeted WordPerfect and QuattroPro to protect its operating system monopoly.]]></description></item><item><title>Son of Classmate Finds its Way to US &amp; Europe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/524583.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/524583.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/524583_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The other shoe has dropped - not that it's that unexpected - just that it could screw up some economic models. See, the general manager of Intel's emerging markets unit Lila Ibrahim told Reuters Wednesday that Intel was going to see to it that a second-generation version of the cheap Intel-designed Classmate PC, the widget Intel used to fight back the altruistic One Laptop Per Child effort, makes the great leap from the third world to the first.]]></description></item><item><title>.NET Features Analyzer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/522255.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/522255.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/522255_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The release-defining feature of PowerBuilder 11 is its ability to deploy existing applications as .NET Windows Forms and Web Forms applications and components of business logic, namely custom-class user objects (NVOs), as .NET assemblies and Web Services. Although PowerBuilder's adoption of the .NET Framework represents a great leap forward for application developers, the implications of converting a desktop, client/server application to an ASP.NET Web application are significant.]]></description></item><item><title>Visionet Announces the Availability of ESF.NET Development Toolset</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/523052.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/523052.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/523052_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Mortgage bankers now have a new tool to re-engineer their Microsoft technology based applications. Visionet's Enterprise Systems Framework (ESF.NET) enables re-engineering using built-in database and servicing system connections, single logon capability, SOA based architecture, and ready-to-use components. The platform provides all the needed utilities to manage the presentation, business, and database layers separately. ESF.NET extends its capabilities through tight integration with Microsoft BizTalk and SharePoint. Visionet has utilized this platform to develop a number of applications during the last year.]]></description></item><item><title>Brad Abrams on Using Silverlight 2 on a Production Web Server</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/519840.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/519840.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/519840_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Brad Abrams, a popular keynote speaker at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo in 2007, recently ran into an issue with using Silverlight 2 on a production web server. Basically the Silverlight 2 application worked great on his dev machine, but when hit from the production web server he found 'the page has the Silverlight control, but just a white canvas, nothing else.' He recently blogged about how to fix it.]]></description></item><item><title>PreEmptive Solutions Launches &quot;Real Time&quot; Application Tamper Defense</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/515365.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/515365.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/515365_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[PreEmptive Solutions announced the availability of Dotfuscator Professional 4.3. This release includes enhanced application tamper defense and heuristics that automatically extend protection to applications that incorporate advanced Microsoft .NET Framework components and programming techniques.]]></description></item><item><title>Ray Ozzie: Microsoft and Yahoo! Would Not Just Be Smashed Together</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/515578.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/515578.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/515578_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Speaking to the Financial Times, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Raymond Ozzie commented last week when asked about the likely trajectory of any Microsoft-Yahoo! integration, if the companies did indeed ever merge: 'Technology companies, if they dive in and just smash things together for smashing them together's sake, it's reckless, it's just simply reckless.']]></description></item><item><title>Mesh - Microsoft &amp; the Big Sync</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/514469.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/514469.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/514469_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In the bowels of the great Microsoft machine a team has been working on something that may or may not be called 'Mesh,' something that Microsoft chief architect Ray Ozzie hintingly described the other day during his keynote at Mix '08 as a 'kind of universal file synch' with the web as its hub.]]></description></item><item><title>USA.NET Announces Release of Fully Integrated Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Windows Sharepoint Hosting Services 3.0</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/511772.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/511772.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/511772_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[USA.NET announced that it is using the advanced features and capabilities of Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1, SharePoint Services 3.0 and other software applications and utilities to provide its clients with a more fully integrated eMessaging experience. 'Our latest expanded integration is part of our commitment to provide our clients with the best solutions and service available on an ongoing basis,' said USA.NET President Doug Howard.]]></description></item><item><title>We&apos;re Four Computing Revolutions Down, Says Ballmer, With One To Go</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/511558.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/511558.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/511558_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA['As computing continues to become more powerful, more affordable and more connected it will give billions more people around the world a chance to take advantage of incredible new social and economic opportunities so they can lead better lives. And that will truly be revolutionary.' With those words, Steve Ballmer has been telling attendees at CeBIT in Germany about what he calls the 'Fifth Revolution' in computer technology. But what were the first four?]]></description></item><item><title>Java &amp; .NET: SOAP Over JMS Interoperability</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/502488.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/502488.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/502488_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Web Services are becoming the chosen way of exposing interoperable units of work as services. Today consumers and providers of software services talk different languages, and SOAP makes them understand each other. SOAP can be transported via almost anything, and we sometimes joke that we can even do SOAP over FedEx if necessary.]]></description></item><item><title>Xceed Releases New DataGrid</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/509343.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/509343.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/509343_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Xceed unveiled an upgraded Xceed DataGrid for WPF. Version 2.0 of Xceed DataGrid for WPF Professional Edition features the addition of hierarchical master/detail. Xceed's support for WPF will help facilitate adoption of Microsoft's next-generation platform, which lets developers create desktop and rich client applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Ballmer Unveils Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/508542.htm</guid><link>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/508542.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/508542_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 to an audience of 4,000 customers and partners at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, CA, yesterday. The top four benefits of Server 2008, Ballmer stated, are virtualization, more server roles like Server Core, embedded high availability, and new energy-efficient features.]]></description></item></channel></rss>