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Evans Data, an analyst firm based in sunny Santa Cruz, California, has completed their North American Development Survey for 2006. As part of the study, developer programming language use is measured and trended for C, C++, C#, Java, VB, VB.Net, and XML. The outcomes are a bit surprising and certainly not great news for Microsoft.

SmartPart v3, also known as the “SmartPart for SharePoint 2007” has been released. This is a container WebPart that can host any ASP.NET 2.0 Web User Control (ASCX). If you ever needed an excuse to get started with MOSS development, this is certainly it.

Czech Republic-based Kentico just released Kentico CMS 2.0, an updated version of their existing web content management system that enables the creation of dynamic websites through a browser interface, without having to write custom code. Kentico focuses primarily on ASP.NET developers and on making it easy to develop ASP.NET websites quickly and without significant coding.

Enterprise Search and Analytics software maker Mondosoft has been recogized by Gartner as a visionary in enterprise information access and related business intelligence. As a horizontal service, Mondosoft continues its push, and its success, into the Microsoft Server space as well as with leading mid-market CMS vendors.

Writing code that functions to spec is one thing. Writing performant code that demonstates a solid understanding of the route from CSharp to MSIL to JIT to machine code is another thing. Thankfully, there are number of solid (and free) resources out there to help engineers seeking to advance in this area.

The latest release of the Kentico Web CMS now supports both ASP.NET 1.1 and the emerging Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 platform, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005.

The platform options support both developer preferences and migration status as well as the potential to take advantage of Microsoft’s free Express Editions of Visual Web Developer and SQL Server 2005.

Kentico Software, a Czech Web Content Management (Web CMS) software vendor, has updated their Kentico ASP.NET CMS product to v1.7, adding Web Forms and Staging capabilities. The new version allows business users to create, publish, and generate reports from on-line forms without any programming.

Czech Replublic based CMS vendor, Kentico, has released version 1.0 of their Web CMS product.

Kentico CMS for ASP.NET was designed for Web developers. Kentico was conceived as a tool for technical integrators who wish to rapidly deploy custom solutions with sophisticated CMS functionality. Affordable and accessible, licenses start at USD 499.

ASP.NET 2.0 (Whidbey) is coming sometime in early 2005. The update to the .NET platform and tools is not insignificant.

On the tools side, there are both new tools (e.g, Visual Web Developer 2005 Express) and a broad set of enhancements.

On the platform side, there are numerous enhancements to the architecture and a host of new features that better facilitate development, deployment and maintenance.

The overall sense is that MS has really tuned into developer needs and that Whidbey is going to be a big step forward.

The landscape of inexpensive .NET Web CMS products is warming up. Kentico have recently announced the availability of their v1.0 beta.

Kentico is a native .NET CMS that is geared towards the technically minded and designed with the assumption that an integrator will be implementing the final solution.

If you are one of those who tinkers, head on over to www.kentico.com, pop the hood, and earn yourself a 30% discount via the provision of insightful feedback.

In the mix with a number of recent enhancement to the WebSphere development tools is one that targets less sophisticated Java programmers. Presumably with the two-fold intention of staying cutting edge and and fighting off the ASP.NET threat, IBM have added Java Server Faces (JSF) support to WebSphere Studio Application Developer and Site Developer versions 5.1.2.

JSF support will better enable developers to create complex J2EE applications in an environment similar to Microsoft's Visual Studio.

New Hampshire-based Web Content Management player Ektron has presented Microsoft with a direct challenge. By adding a native .NET Web CMS to their product lineup, Ektron has provided the answer for those who've been waiting for an MCMS 2004 or an MCMS 2003.

This week at Fawcette TechnicalPublications' VSLive! San Francisco, Ektron Inc., will unveil a content management solution developed in a "native" .NET Framework-based environment. Ektron CMS400.NET, built on the Microsoft .NET Framework, is an evolutionary step in content management solutions that delivers advanced security, scalability, and interoperability to mid-sized enterprises.