A feature that's been anticipated for use in Microsoft's Longhorn now appears in a patent application from Apple. Apple has filed a patent for 'Graduated visual and manipulative translucency for Windows.'

Microsoft Corp. and SAP AG today announced a significant expansion of their long-standing relationship based on a shared commitment to Web services as the foundation for the next generation of enterprise software.

NetUnity Software now offers products for developing portal-based business solutions using WSRP and Microsoft's .NET.

At the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's National Show this week, Microsoft Corp. announced it has submitted its initial draft of common language infrastructure (CLI) specifications for the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP), the cable industry'...

Identify Software's AppSight Application Support System for the Microsoft .NET Framework has been selected for use at Microsoft Technology Centers (MTC).

The Middleware Company and DevelopMentor have formed a community and training alliance, combining community and training assets to boost each company's core services.

Motorola, Intel and three venture capital firms have invested $16 million in Seattle-area based Dexterra Inc., whose software runs on wireless devices and connects mobile workers to billing records, parts inventory, and other back-end office information.

Microsoft recently formed a new business unit, called Microsoft U.S. Public Sector, to better work with the public sector and to strengthen customer and partner outreach in the education and government markets. As part of the move, the company named Linda Zecher v...

In his blog (http://weblo gs.asp.net/jeff), .NET guru Jeff Putz weighs in on the culture and experience gap he sees in the .NET community. In the March issue of .NET Developer's Journal (Vol. 2, issue 3) Miguel de Icaza and Rhys Weatherley offered their thoughts on ...

A brief round-up of recent goings-on with BizTalk Server 2004 and the ASP.NET Resource Kit. Word too about migration from ASP and PHP to ASP.NET.

Registration is now open for .NET Technologies 2004, scheduled for May 31 - June 2, in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

According to Microsoft Taiwan's product marketing manager Jacky Hsu, the adoption rate of .NET in Taiwan corporations this year will exceed 35%, overtaking Java by June of 2004.

ASP.NET has overtaken JSP and Java Servlets as the fastest-growing technology deployed by the sites located at the Web's hundreds and thousands of IP addresses, according to the latest figures from Netcraft, the UK company that tracks who runs what on the Web sites of the world.

PreEmptive Solutions, Inc., has released Lucidator. a standalone stack trace and symbol translation tool to debug obfuscated code created with Dotfuscator.

In the high-velocity world of IndyCar auto racing, the rivalries on the track aren't the only racing going on. Behind the scenes, state-of-the-art technology engages in a high-speed race of its own - against time. Indianapolis-based IRL recently developed an app...

Microsoft has added new features and enhancements to theSpoke.net, an online club for students and young technology enthusiasts. Microsoft also is making a call for entries to the You Can Make a Difference scholarship program.

The highly-anticipated releases of the next versions of SQL Server, code-named Yukon, and Visual Studio, code-named Whidbey, have been delayed until 2005.

Neil Davidson's commentary - 'Mono and dotGNU: what's the point?' - questioned the value of these two open source projects and argued that they in fact strengthen Microsoft's position. Here Miguel de Icaza and Rhys Weatherley, the forces behind Mono and Portable ...

Best .NET Books/Training Software Winner: Advanced .NET Remoting, Apress (www.apress.com) A solid tour of basic and expert techniques for working with distributed code on Microsoft's newest platform.

Parasoft, a provider of Automated Error Prevention (AEP) software solutions, has announced the release of .TEST 1.5, a unit testing tool that automatically tests classes written on the Microsoft .NET Framework without requiring developers to write a single test scenario or stub.

Ted Neward, editor-in-chief of TheServerSide.net, has blogged his show report. He seems to have had a good time. 'The material was good,' he writes, 'the vendor exposure was good, and the location - downtown Boston at the Hynes Convention Center - was attractive f...

Developers building Web applications will welcome new tools and resources from Microsoft. The Microsoft ASP.NET Resource Kit provides tools, tutorials, and samples to help new developers learn ASP.NET.

Microsoft has recently made public the beta of the J# Browser Controls v1.1b. The J# Browser Controls provide developers with a way to migrate existing Java applet source code to run within the context of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

To address the growth of mobile Internet devices in the enterprise, DevelopMentor has introduced a comprehensive training course that will enable programmers to build wireless applications using Microsoft's .NET Compact Framework and ASP.NET Mobile Controls.

A San Jose, CA-based vendor is radically shifting its business model and bundling together all its .NET component products and all of its COM components, and doing something its never done before: offering each of the two bundles for a flat fee with full source code.

Past XML-Journal editor-in-chief John Evdemon has blogged a brief comment on the whole issue of IBM calling Sun out on the open-sourcing of Java.

Interested in learning the best practices for creating powerful smart client applications or secure Web applications? DevDays 2004 takes you deep into the entire Microsoft .NET infrastructure with tracks packed full of insights from top developers, code walk-thr...

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, speaking on the RSA security conference this week, demonstrated a Windows Security Center that will become part of a new update to the operating system this summer.

.NETDJ Editorial Board member Scott Hanselman is currently the featured guest on .NET Rocks!, the Internet audio talk show for .NET developers, talking with hosts Carl Franklin and Cory Blyth about ASP.NET, declarative programming, Whidbey, and more!

Infragistics is shipping the Infragistics NetAdvantage 2004 Vol. 1, a complete toolset for developing commercial quality user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Tablet PC, and COM.

Microsoft has introduced its Smarter Retailing Initiative (SRI), created to help retailers improve how they sell and operate, and provide a technology and solutions framework for enabling retail innovation.

ILOG has introduced the industry's first set of C#-based graphics tools for creating rich Gantt charts for Microsoft's .NET development environment.

Microsoft has announced the release of the beta version 3.0 of the Java Language Conversion Assistant (JLCA). The JLCA is a conversion tool designed to simplify migration of existing Java-language code to Visual C#.

The Middleware Company has launched TheServerSide.NET for enterprise .NET architects and developers.

DevelopMentor, the software development education company, will present 'Developing Secure Applications: Web Application Security - Attacks and Countermeasures,' a special webinar event on January 28, 2004 at 11 a.m. PST.

A sampling of .NET Developer's Journal editorial board members and Microsoft Regional Directors offer their thoughts - with varying degrees of seriousness - on what the coming year will bring.

(December 19, 2003) - Have you ever thought to yourself: Why don't any of the magazines that I read cover the .NET topics that I want to learn about? Well, your wish is .NET Developer's Journal's command! SYS-CON Media, in association with the International .NET...

(December 19, 2003) - A sampling of .NET Developer's Journal editorial board members and Microsoft Regional Directors offer their thoughts - with varying degrees of seriousness - on what the coming year will bring.

.NET Developer's Journal Editor-in-Chief Derek Ferguson and members of the .NETDJ Editorial Board teamed up to offer a variety of perspectives on Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference.

Scott Hanselman's coverage of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2003, 'Avalon: Yes, the Picture's Changing,' generated a debate over whether Avalon is 'revolutionary' or 'evolutionary.'