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 IDE (integrated development environment) to compete with Microsoft’s Visual Studio .Net, Borland Software elaborated this week on its intention to ...

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 ...

Rational Software has updated its development tools to support Microsoft's .Net software strategy. Rational on Monday spruced up its XDE Professional tool with support for Microsoft's Visual Basic.Net ...

Creating any kind of software application is difficult enough, but in the cloud things only get harder when complexities like microservices, distributed teams and so on are thrown into the mix.