.NET and AI meet at virtual .NET Conf Focus on AI
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced an upcoming virtual event, .NET Conf: Focus on AI, set for August 20th. This event will explore the integration of AI into .NET applications, providing developers with valuable insights into leveraging AI libraries and features for smarter application development, enhanced productivity, and improved user experiences.
The event, part of the &qu...
AI UI designer OpenSilver 3 launches for NET developers
Monday, July 15, 2024 by Richard Harris
Userware has announced the release of OpenSilver 3.0, a significant update to its open-source platform for developing .NET web applications in C# and XAML. This latest version introduces a drag-and-drop user interface designer with AI functionality, aimed at simplifying the creation and customization of user interfaces for developers.
AI UI designer OpenSilver 3.0 la...
App Builder new controls in Blazor and more launch in Ultimate 23.1
Friday, July 21, 2023 by Richard Harris
Infragistics announced the launch of Infragistics Ultimate 23.1. This latest iteration of Infragistics Ultimate, the company's flagship UX and UI product, introduces significant enhancements in three key areas: App Builder, next-generation visualization experiences, and new controls in Blazor and Web Components. With Ultimate 23.1, developers can expedite project de...
Telerik developer tools get many new .NET components
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 by Richard Harris
Progress announced the latest release Telerik tooling for .NET developers. With the new release, Progress now offers over twenty new Telerik components and expands the most popular components, including Grid and Charts. It also adds new themes including a Material inspired theme and a Mac inspired Crystal theme.
Progress has released new components including:
Web:...
Analytics and data SDK released by 1010data
Friday, April 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
1010data, Inc. just released its improved application development Software Development Kits (SDKs), designed to support application development and integration across enterprise operations. With enhancements to its .NET and Java SDKs, as well as a new Python SDK, 1010data’s new tools enable developers to build powerful and scalable applications on top of the 1010data In...
Progress Telerik UI goes open source
Thursday, February 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
Progress has announced that it has open sourced Progress Telerik UI for Universal Windows Platform (UWP), a set of native UI controls for building Windows apps, and is in the process of donating to the .NET Foundation in an effort to help foster the open development of the .NET ecosystem. Progress Telerik UI for UWP is popular within the 2.1 million strong Progress deve...
Why software is no longer being written from scratch
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Application developers are increasingly reliant on open source component parts because pre-fabricated components speed up innovation and save developers the time (and money) of having to write code from scratch.But with 6.1% of component downloads containing a known security vulnerability it’s inevitable that defective parts will make their way into production – especia...
Looking at the Future of .NET
Friday, August 12, 2016 by Ed Charbeneau
Exciting times lie ahead for .NET developers. Earlier this year during Build, Microsoft’s biggest developer event, clear roadmaps were given on the future of .NET and C#. Microsoft is re-positioning .NET to be a platform that can be written anywhere and run anywhere, which is a big departure from its long history of proprietary technologies.
Microsof...
Typemock Releases Unit Testing Tool That Uses Artificial Intelligence to Offer Test Suggestions for Specific Code
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Typemock has released Isolator V8 for .NET developers that offers Typemock Suggest, a feature that uses artificial intelligence to generate suggestions to test the validity of the code as its written. This feature uses static and dynamic analysis to suggest code that covers the parts and logic of any pre-existing code that does not have unit testing including legacy cod...
Microsoft Announces New Developer Tools at Build 2016
Friday, April 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
Microsoft made several announcements at Build 2016, the company’s annual developer conference. Among the announcements were improvements to the Cortana Intelligence Suite, previews of new cloud services and toolkits, and the release of Windows 10 Anniversary Update which will offers new functionality for the Universal Windows Platform.Cortana Intelligence SuiteMicrosoft...
C++ Developer Tools From JetBrains
Friday, October 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Many of you are familiar with JetBrains, which provides the development community with a myriad of tools that automates common, repetitive tasks as well as help developers explore and familiarize with code bases faster.JetBrains has tools for a number of environments including Android, iOS, Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, C++, and many more. From IDEs, Code Editing Tools, Iss...
Embarcadero Releases New AddOns UI for Delphi and C++Builder Developers
Wednesday, July 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero Technologies has released two new add-on solutions for developers -CodeSite and Konopka Signature VCL Controls. These product introductions are a result of Embarcadero’s recent acquisition of Raize Components.The Embarcadero CodeSite is a developer logging solution for Delphi, C++Builder and Visual Studio that helps developers debug deployed Windows applicat...
What is New in the Recent Release of Visual Studio 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft just released the highly anticipated Visual Studio 2015 just in advance of the impending Microsoft 10 release. Here is a rundown on what’s new for VS 2015:Cross-platform mobile device support - Android, iOS, and WindowsOut of the box, Visual Studio allows developers to use web technologies to build production quality mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows us...
Progress Releases Latest Version of Telerik DevCraft Toolset for Developers
Friday, February 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Progress has made available the latest release of its Telerik DevCraft suite, an end-to-end toolset for professional .NET developers. The new release introduces new document and report management capabilities, new controls for building responsive web and native mobile applications, and increased productivity in Visual Studio. With the new release the platform offer...
Esri’s ArcGIS Runtime SDK Offers Online and Offline Mapping Functions for the Microsoft .NET Framework
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Richard Harris
Esri has announced the release of its first commercial version of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for the Microsoft .NET Framework. This software development kit joins Esri's line of runtime products, including iOS, Mac OS X, Android, Java, Qt, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET has been built as a new, shared API across native app platforms ...
GrapeCity Updated Wijmo 5 Expands Line of HTML5 and JavaScript Products
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
GrapeCity Developer Tools has released its latest version of Wijmo 5 expanding GrapeCity's line of HTML5 and JavaScript products for enterprise app development. The Wijmo family offers JavaScript Controls (Wijmo 5), classic jQuery Widgets (Wijmo 3) and a spreadsheet component (SpreadJS)."Touch First, Mobile First, was our mantra when setting out to create a set of true ...
New Telerik DevTools Update Focuses on ASP.NET Developer Productivity
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Telerik has made new mobile advancements to its DevCraft suite of UI controls. Telerik is now optimizing mobile development for ASP.NET projects by providing responsive, adaptive and elastic capabilities which mitigate the challenges of developing for multiple devices and screen sizes. The release also includes document processing and cloud capabilities for UI, as well ...
Kinvey Integrates Gizmox's Visual WebGui HTML5 Platform
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kinvey has announced its integration with Gizmox's Visual WebGui HTML5 platform which allows developers to build apps using familiar languages and tools like C#, VB.net, and Visual Studio. These apps can then be deployed as native, cross-platform HTML5 or hybrid apps that run on any device. With Kinvey’s platform integrated with Visual WebGui, enterp...
Amazon Web Services Announces SDK Support for Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps
Saturday, July 27, 2013 by Richard Harris
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced its developer preview of the next version of their SDK for .NET. The release of the SDK adds two upgrades for .NET developers.
The first is support for the Microsoft Windows Store and Windows Phone apps. With the new SDK, developers can connect Windows Phone or Windows Store apps to AWS services and build a cross-targeted a...
You can now build iOS apps using Visual Studio
Thursday, February 21, 2013 by Richard Harris
Developers using Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE on Windows will now be able to build native Apple iOS mobile apps via version 2.0 of the Xamarin development platform. You can already build Android apps using Xamarin, but with this latest announcement Windows programmers can use C# (.NET bridge) to create iOS apps too!The "head-fake" in this might be that enterprise ...
