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Visual Basic Use May Be Declining
News Microsoft sells a Java tool, called Visual J#, but it can only be used for development of applications that run on Windows. Market researcher Evans Data on Tuesday said 52 percent of software developers surveyed use Visual Basic today, but 43...
[May 7, 2003, 10:55]
Switch To Sun ONE To Boost Efficiency
News The days are gone when most Java developers, as much as they like to hate Microsoft, were left amazed at the ease of development that Visual Basic had to offer. However, things have changed, and the new breed of Java IDEs can match the best of...
[November 29, 2002, 19:57]
Second Beta Of Visual J# Released
News Microsoft has released the second beta of Visual J#, the Java language designed for its Visual Studio .Net development environment. Microsoft counters that J# has a far smaller user base to worry about; the company plans to support both Visual...
[March 20, 2002, 10:48]
BEA Touts 'Visual Basic For Java'
News Analysts say BEA's new technology solves two problems: It plugs a hole in the company's product family and answers the Java community's need for an easy-to-use development tool to combat Microsoft -- and its recently released Visual Studio.Net...
[February 25, 2002, 15:27]
Where Will The Visual Basic 6.0 Developers Go?
News In subsequent columns I'll recount interviews with former Visual Basic developers and development teams that have made the transition to Java, Visual Basic .Net, or C#. The move from a Microsoft to a Java development organisation is a major...
[July 12, 2002, 13:12]
Microsoft To Debut Developer Tools
News Visual Studio.Net includes development tools such as Microsoft's popular Visual Basic tool, Visual C++, and its new Java-like language called C#. With Web development exploding, programmers gravitated to other technologies, such as Java, because...
[February 13, 2002, 12:32]
Latest VisualStudio.Net Tools Revealed
News The Everett release will include a Java development tool called Visual J#, along with Visual Basic.Net, Visual C++.Net and Visual C#.Net tools. Visual Studio.Net, originally released in February, serves as Microsoft's chief weapon in the battle for...
[August 22, 2002, 13:47]
Microsoft Hopes To Catch Java Developers In .Net
News Microsoft customers who bought Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net package of development tools can download for free the final version of the Java tool on Microsoft's developer Web site. At its Tech Ed 2002 Europe developer conference on Monday...
[July 1, 2002, 13:45]
Rational Updates Modelling Tool For .Net
News Rational has released three editions of the XDE tool: one that supports Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net tools suite, another that supports IBM's WebSphere Studio Java development tool, and a third that combines both the Java and .Net editions.
[August 20, 2002, 9:09]
Microsoft Teases New Visual Studio.Net
News The Everett release will include a Java development tool called Visual J#, along with Visual Basic.Net, Visual C++.Net and Visual C#.Net tools. Visual Studio.Net, originally released in February, serves as Microsoft's chief weapon in the battle for...
[November 11, 2002, 8:08]
Microsoft To Offer Peek At New Tools
News The Everett release will include a Java development tool called Visual J#, along with Visual Basic.Net, Visual C++.Net and Visual C#.Net tools. Visual Studio.Net, originally released in February, serves as Microsoft's chief weapon in the battle for...
[November 8, 2002, 16:38]
Microsoft Hopes To Lure Java Developers
News The XML Web services capabilities we built into .Net solve one of the major challenges that developers face, and that applies across all programming languages: Visual Basic, C#, and J# in particular as the Java language environment.
[March 26, 2002, 12:11]
Sun To Take Java 'to The Masses'
News Sun Microsystems will show off a new, simplified Java development tool next month intended to steal programmers from rival Microsoft's camp. Sun's quest to simplify Java development is important to expanding the population of programmers that use...
[May 23, 2003, 7:43]
Visual Studio Develops .Net Strategy
News Tue 16 Oct 2001: Visual J#.Net is designed to help migrate older Java applications to .Net, but will not allow developers to create standalone Java applications Microsoft tests Java-to-C# conversion tool
[February 13, 2002, 11:07]
Visual Studio.Net review
Reviews In fact, most Visual Basic 6.0 developers would find it just as easy or difficult to make the leap to the more powerful C# -- or, for that matter, to Java. Will developers be wowed by the improvements, or -- faced with an unexpected learning curve...
[February 17, 2002, 23:00]
Microsoft Targets Undergraduate Developers
News Visual Studio.Net includes updates to programming languages Visual Basic, Visual C++, as well as the first version of Microsoft's Java-like language called C#. The software maker, which competes against Sun Microsystems, IBM and other Java...
[February 28, 2002, 15:50]
Java Allies Ape Microsoft's Methods
News We got a lot of feedback from companies that they would like to use Java if the productivity and simplicity could be mirrored with what they experienced with Visual Basic," said Richard Green, vice president of development tools at Sun.
[September 22, 2003, 12:05]
Borland Takes On Microsoft With Developer Tools
News Borland intends to be a sort of development tool Switzerland, supporting the two major programming models, the Java and Microsoft.Net development camps. The company is now the market share leader in Java tools, and is also building tools for the...
[August 23, 2002, 11:45]
Sun Simplifies Java Tools
News Sun Microsystems, hoping to build support for its Java software, on Wednesday announced new tools and a plan to simplify software development. The company launched Sun ONE Web Services Platform, a suite of applications that includes the Sun ONE...
[March 20, 2003, 11:11]
Sun To Give StarOffice Java Flavour
News Sun Microsystems is building a Java-based development kit for its StarOffice software to help corporate programmers customise desktop applications, a move that puts it on better footing against Microsoft's dominant Office.
[November 28, 2002, 7:55]
