Syncfusion, Inc., the developer solutions company of choice, today announced the release of Essential Studio 2015 Volume 1, the first major release of 2015. The release features expanded offerings for Xamarin, new controls and updates for JavaScript, ASP.NET, and WPF, and a presentation library for reading, writing, converting, and rasterizing PowerPoint files. The highlights of … continue reading
Infragistics, a worldwide leader in desktop, Web, and mobile user interface toolsets, today announced the launch of Infragistics Ultimate 15.1. This release includes new UI controls and enhancements that promise to improve the overall development experience, with an emphasis on cross-platform mobile experiences as well as making it easier for users to migrate their applications … continue reading
Google is introducing a new program in order to help developers find families on Google Play. With Designed for Families, developers can designate their age appropriate apps and games as family-friendly. In order for apps to be eligible for Designed for Families they must meet a couple requirements such as app display ads are child … continue reading
Microsoft has announced it has acquired mobile business intelligence and data visualization provider Datazen Software. With Datazen, Microsoft will bolster its Power BI strategy to provide organizations with accessible data tools they can use on any device, anywhere. According to Microsoft, companies need an easier way to gain insight into their data and Datazen is … continue reading
As standardized HTML5 ascends to Web development dominance, developers all across the spectrum are looking for ways to leverage the markup language. Now, a free extension for Visual Studio gives C# and XAML developers a way to code HTML5 apps from the comfort of Microsoft’s IDE. CSHTML5 (also known as C#/XAML for HTML5), a free … continue reading
Percona yesterday announced its acquisition of Tokutek, maker of TokuDB and TokuMX, storage engines for MySQL and MongoDB, respectively. The move gives Percona a wider focus in the database market, bringing in for the first time NoSQL products to the Percona family. Jim Doherty, chief marketing officer of Percona, said, “Tokutek was a partner of … continue reading
The biicode open-source dependency manager for C and C++ has announced it will become an open-source project. The dependency manager, consisting of a client installed in the user’s machine and a cloud populated with C and C++ libraries and frameworks, has released its source code as part of a programmatic open-source roadmap. “One of the … continue reading
Ubuntu has published a retrospective and roadmap of its UI Toolkit (UITK), detailing its various releases and plans going forward. Summaries of the 14.04-15.04 releases can be found in the retrospective. The roadmap for upcoming Ubuntu UITK releases is as follows: 15.10-1.3 release: The upcoming cycle the focus is on convergence, with an emphasis on … continue reading
Nokia has announced it is joining forces with Alcatel-Lucent in an effort to become an innovation leader and provider of technology and services for the IP connected world. The combined company would focus on providing connectivity for people, such as with the Internet of Things. “I am proud that the joined forces of Nokia and … continue reading
The software component vendor Text Control announced the immediate availability of its latest version X12 for all platforms including ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF and ActiveX. The HTML5-based, cross-browser web editor has been extended with full drag and drop support. MS Word DOC, DOCX, RTF and image files can be directly dropped into the editor and … continue reading
JetBrains, a leading maker of smart tools for Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET and other languages, empowers C and C++ developers with two new tools: CLion, a stand-alone cross-platform IDE; and ReSharper C++, a productivity extension for Visual Studio. The two tools target overlapping but different groups of C/C++ developers, since CLion is a stand-alone … continue reading
Since Docker was launched two years ago, it has taken the software development industry by storm. Today, with the announcement of a new round of Series D funding at US$95 million, it is worth about $1 billion, according to Bloomberg. “Our responsibility is to give people the tools they need to create applications that weren’t … continue reading
