
Welcome to the next installment of As the Interop World Turns, in which Ted Neward looks
at commercial tools that provide a binary RPC-based interop approach. Read more on RPCs … 
Borland Software Corp said it will separate its Developer Tools Group into a wholly-owned
subsidiary. This comes six months after the company announced plans to sell its IDE tools
business … 
Windows PowerShell 1.0 was officially announced at ITForum in Barcelona. This command-line
shell was once known as Monad. The plan is to release Windows PowerShell 1.0 by January
31st, 2007 … 
Sister site SearchVB.com recently posted a learning guide devoted to ASP.NET AJAX, a.k.a.
Atlas. View it here … 
With the recent Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Extensions release there has been a lot of
feedback, including criticism of changes made to UpdatePanels … 
This week: Peter van Ooijen discusses the merits of Virtual PC for VS 2003. Rob Walling
offers nine things developers want more than money. And Jim Allchin discusses the sound … 
The Genome 3.0 object-relational mapping tool, supporting the Microsoft .NET 2.0
Framework, provides O/R mapping features for .NET that include continuity for
encapsulation in data access query logic that allows … 
In the latest version of TeamCity we added several features: Support of TestNG tests,
Stacktrace navigation, and VCS improvements. Now TeamCity works under Internet Explorer
7.0 and Firefox 2.0 … 
de Icaza goes over common questions arising out of Microsoft and Novell's historic Linux
deal last week. The stacks will remain separate, he notes … 
The performance of a Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) application depends on many
different factors, including persistence pattern, activity complexity, tracking usage, and
so on. There are important modeling approaches that … 