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Collaboration with Mono Yields Mainsoft for Java EE
Today, Mainsoft, a leading .NET-Java EE interoperability company, announced Mainsoft for Java EE, Version 2.0. The 2.0 product suite enables .NET developers to produce .NET Web and server applications that run on Linux and other Java-enabled platforms, without having to rewrite code or learn new development skills.
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Ruby.NET 0.8 release
While IronRuby will make its debut in late July 2007, another Ruby implementation for .NET has been available for a year: the Gardens Point Ruby.NET compiler. The project has an interesting relationship with IronRuby - it provides its parser. Its latest release adds improved interoperability with other .NET languages.
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Article: Interview with EFx Software Factory creator Jezz Santos
In this InfoQ interview Jezz Santos talks about the Microsoft Software Factory Initiative. Jezz talks about his view of Software Factories and describes how they will change the way we develop software today. He also explains the anatomy of a Software Factory and how Software Factories relate to Domain-Specific Languages.
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JRuby Team members doubtful about IronRuby
Two members of the JRuby core team, Ola Bini and Charles O. Nutter, wonder whether Microsoft's IronRuby could possibly be a fully compliant Ruby implementation and run Rails, given Microsoft's policies. A viable alternative to IronRuby, the Ruby.NET compiler, is suggested.
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ReSharper 3.0 with full VB.NET Support
Full-featured support for Visual Basic .NET, including complete cross-language functionality with C#, will be available in ReSharper 3.0, a powerful add-in to Microsoft Visual Studio from JetBrains.
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Microsoft Grants Xandros Intellectual Property Assurance
Today Microsoft and Xandros announced an agreement similar in terms to the one announced last fall with Novell. This brings the number of Linux distributions with IP assurance to two and while JBoss is mentioned in the article, noticeably missing is Red Hat. The last commitment by Microsoft is striking, as it will now endorse Xandros as the preferred Linux distribution.
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Friend Assemblies and Unit Testing
A little known C# feature known as friend assemblies will be making its way to VB 9. This feature allows an assembly to grant access to its internals to another assembly.
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The Story of TestDriven.NET and Visual Studio Express
When we first reported on Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.NET, it sounded like the classic big company bullies the little one. But as the full story was been revealed, sentiment has begun to swing from die-hard support for Jamie Cansdale to a call to boycott TestDriven.NET . InfoQ looks back at how this unfortunate incident came to pass.
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Presentation: NET Windows Forms Tips and Tricks
Ken Getz demonstrates several different techniques you can use when building Windows applications (recorded at DevLink), including: Creating owner-drawn controls, binding controls to just about anything, exposing protected information with inheritance, exposing new control behavior using inheritance, handling thread synchronization with Windows forms, and creating your own property grid.
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VB Breaks Its Runtime Chains
In order to support more platforms, Visual Basic 9 will have to the option to exclude the VB Runtime.
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IronRuby Release Planned for OSCON
According to John Lam, the first public cut of IronRuby is slated to be released at OSCON in July.
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Google Gears: Industry Reactions The Day After
As part of their developer days activities this week Google announced a new offline web application API Google Gears.
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Google Developer Day 2007
The Google Developer Day 2007 took place in 10 cities spanning the globe beginning in Sydney, Australia and ending in Mountain View, California. This is a report on some of the sessions at the event in Hamburg, Germany, on May 31, 2007.
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Deploying Rich Client Applications with Firefox
Firefox now supports ClickOnce deployment for .NET applications via an add-on by James Dobson.
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Two New Microsoft Compilers Written in VB
Microsoft is planning on releasing two new compilers, both of which are written in VB. One will be for Visual Basic 10, the other for the SilverLight's implementation of JavaScript.