Perpetuum Software LLC starts the development of a new reporting tool supporting Microsoft Silverlight. This technology will provide developers with the ability to create really functional and effective reporting systems providing no limits in use via Web interface.

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The software maker puts the “D” in declarative programming as a key part of its larger Oslo model-driven development strategy.

Microsoft, which in October officially announced its intent to support model-driven development in a broad strategy known as “ Oslo,” is beginning work on a new declarative programming language, a supporting editing tool and other components of the initiative, according to sources close to the company.

Microsoft announced Oslo as part of an amorphous vision for simplifying application development, design, management and deployment. Company officials said Oslo will represent a core set of technology investments that will encompass both a services infrastructure—spanning server, client and the Internet “cloud”—and an executable modeling platform that will include a general-purpose modeling language, tools and repository.

However, the sources said that at the heart of the Oslo initiative lies a new declarative programming language currently known simply as “D.” If, as the code name implies, Oslo were a city, D would be the key to Oslo.

According to the sources, D is a new language under development at Microsoft aimed at building applications and components for the Oslo repository. However, D is but one piece of a much larger puzzle that will include graphical modeling tools and other components. D is expected to be a textual modeling language suitable for use by business professionals and domain experts.

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New Jersey, US: TeachMeIT, a leading provider of online courses in IT and desktop applications, has launched the introductory course on Microsoft VB.Net.

Titled Fundamentals of Microsoft VB.NET the course is principally designed for VB developers and other programmers who plan to use Visual Basic .NET for future application development.

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iOpus Software has released Version 5 of iMacros, a unique family of HTML based WEB macro recorders that run on the Windows desktop or server and automate all web-related routine tasks.

The Web browser is probably the most frequently used software today, and many tasks are highly repetitious.

iMacros relieves the repetition of checking on the same sites every day, remembering passwords, submitting to search engines and testing web sites over and over. With Internet Macros, you record these tasks once and then let Internet Macros execute them whenever you need them.
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Set a few properties and WebGrid will generate a browser friendly data form, and handle all database interaction and a user-friendly system message is being generated if user input is not valid.

WebGrid has been in development since 2002 and have been used in hundreds of projects, during this time we have created a fast and all-purpose program to generate browser-friendly HTML from your data sources, now we feel the program is mature and flexible enough to be released on Internet as a tool for web development.

Visit our homepage http://www.webgrid.com and re-discover how datagrid programming on the web should be done.

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Pune, INDIA Viklele Associates announces release of Form Designer.Net 1.0, an advanced, easy to use runtime form designer component for .Net. Build a full featured form designing application with minimal coding effort with Form Designer.Net.

We were the first to offer a form designer component for Visual Basic classic edition, said Amit Kokate, Project Manager for component products group at Viklele Associates. He adds, True to our philosophy of delivering components that are easy to use and program, we are offering .net version of our form designer that goes well beyond the high standards that we had set with VLFormDesigner, a form designer for VB classic.
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VB programmers, long the scourge of the programming world, may finally get some respect. Not that they are singing the Aretha Franklin song, but thanks to a new software tool, they can convert their VB source code automatically to something respectable: C#.

VBConversions has released version 1.51 of their award winning VB.Net to C# converter, a fascinating and incredibly accurate programming tool that converts whole VB.Net projects, even groups of projects, to C# with incredible accuracy.

What is unique about the VBConversions VB.Net to C# Converter is not only it’s incredible accuracy, but the dozens of conversion options and fine grained control it gives the programmer.

For example, programmers can choose if they want their C# code to reference the VB namespace when converting traditional VB functions like “Mid$”, “Left$, or “Right$”, or whether to use .Net official functions like .Substring() instead.

There is a free download available at http://www.vbconversions.com and the purchase price is only $99.00. VB programmers, if you finally want some respect, check it out.

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Catalyst Development Corporation, publisher of the popular SocketWrench and SocketTools lines of software, today announced the release of SocketWrench .NET, the first managed code class addition to its Internet software development components for the Microsoft Windows platform.
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