Development News & Articles

Telerik (news, site), the well-known provider of development tools and the Sitefinity content management platform, has announced the release of two new products: JustDecompile, an assembly browsing and decompiling tool, and JustTrace, an application profiler.

If you listen to some experts, apps are the way of the future. Mobile applications and web applications will rule the world.

At Liferay (news, site) West Coast Symposium, LEVEL Studios' Technology Strategist Chris Stavros shared strategies for building dynamic, successful web sites and applications.

If you were one of the lucky ones, you had some really good SharePoint training from the likes of the Ted Pattison Group on how to do some advanced SharePoint development. Maybe you learned to create Features that can be easily installed within SharePoint to provide some cool new functionality. But even with all that great training, you still find it's quite a manual process to develop, package and deploy new functionality for SharePoint.

Well Microsoft has been listening to your frustrations and has done something about it. Want a sneak peak at the tools that will be available for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010? Yeah, we did too.

When Visual Studio 2008 came out last November, it was packed with a lot new functionality and features that made many a Microsoft developer’s heart go a flutter.

This month, Microsoft unveiled the future of Visual Studio and it’s called Visual Studio 2010. To along with the new version, the .Net framework is being upgraded to version 4. There are tons of new improvements expected, along with a rumor that SharePoint development will get much easier.

We took a peek at the changes coming and wanted to fill you in.

The Imaging Source, a Microsoft partner focusing on solutions for Visual Studio, has come out with an update to their product TX Text Control that enables developers to add functionality to their applications for creating PDF/A documents.

Betas are always a joy. They give you the opportunity to review new and upcoming products prior to actual release. You get the opportunity to see what new features are available and help work out bugs in programs to ensure proper functioning when they are actually released. We took the opportunity to try out the new Adobe betas released by Adobe Labs last week — starting with Dreamweaver CS4.

Interested in learning more about Google’s developer products? Maybe you just want to understand basic web application development as it exists today? Google is holding a developer event you need to attend. Called Google I/O, you will learn everything you need to know about developing web applications with Google and open web technologies in just two days.

Two days….wow…if I’d have known that’s how long it took to be a good Google developer, I’d have done it long ago…

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.

Don’t know where to start with Drupal 5? Confused about whether or not you are using Drupal to it fullest? Don’t want to hands-on train the deodorant deficient newbie in the next cubicle? No worries, put your order in for the April 2007 release of Pro Drupal Development by John VanDyk and Matt Westgate.