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Developers rejoice! Today The Mono Project has released Mono 2.0 out into the wild which will enable you to build that dream application cross platform with the latest and greatest features in Microsoft's .NET runtime library. Sponsored by Novell, the Mono open source project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications says the projects website. The latest grand release of Mono v2.0 includes the following new Microsoft compatible features: ADO.NET 2.0 API for access to databases. ASP.NET 2.0 API for developing web-based applications. Windows.Forms 2.0...
Today, Microsoft announced SearchPerks, a new program aimed at trying to increase their search engine market share. And while they aren't actually "buying" your searches, they are rewarding you with some "prizes" from points (or tickets) you accumulate by making searches. But after an analysis of what they are actually paying you, you may be surprised at how cheap you work for. So, here's how it works: You get 500 tickets just by signing up and downloading the Perk Counter for Windows. You start searching using Live Search at Live.com and MSN.com (or on Windows Live Hotmail...
I was trolling through my feeds this morning and saw the post "Developers Will Find C++ Applications Playing Surprisingly Strategic Role in 2008 with Multi-Core and SOA" Oh Realy? Not if Microsoft, Sun, IBM, BEA, Apache, or any other mainstream development platform vendor/org has anything to say about it. We'll start with this: While developers often think of developing new applications on Microsoft's .NET or a variety of Java platforms, C++ remains one of the most widely deployed development languages for mission critical applications. Define "Mission Critical" here. If they mean, legacy systems then I wouldn't disagree. ...
When we shipped DC4, we started looking at Windows PowerShell and how we could build some integration points with our products. The first pass was a set of PowerShell script files that we introduced in the PowerShell Labs section of DevCentral. No soon after we posted them, the requests started pouring in on when we would provide some native PowerShell CmdLets in addition to the function scripts.
Well, I spent a little bit of time working some out and whipped out a good first rough draft. I've been holding on to these for a while now but figured they would...
