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Nvidia on Tuesday will unveil upgrades to Parallel Nsight, a toolkit for building GPU-accelerated applications from within Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE, and Cuda Toolkit, for leveraging massively parallel processing capabilities of GPUs (graphics processing units). Nvidia Parallel Nsight 1.5 features support for the Visual Studio 2010 software development platform released in April. [ Also on [...]

While Apple has been unequivocal in banning Java and Adobe’s Flash from the iPhone and related devices, third-party iOS application development tools have been allowed to flourish. Uncertainty over Apple’s stance toward third-party toolmakers, however, has left at least one such vendor — Novell — anxious about the future of its iOS development platform. At [...]

Offering Windows developers an alternative to Microsoft’s rival Silverlight rich Internet technology, SapphireSteel Software on Monday is releasing an IDE providing Adobe Flash capabilities for Microsoft’s Visual Studio software development platform. To be formally launched Monday, Amethyst is an IDE with Flex, Flash, and ActionScript development capabilities for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Microsoft-based developers [...]

Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a Microsoft official said this week. ASP.Net is a Web framework. SQL CE is an embedded database engine enabling easy database storage, said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice [...]

SAN FRANCISCO–Google’s pitch for the enterprise continued Wednesday at Google I/O, as the search giant attempted to make the case that businesses should be considering Web-based technologies for their own applications–not just Google’s. Day One of the Google I/O show was a disappointment to anyone looking for news about Google’s Android mobile operating system or [...]

Embarcadero will offer next month an upgrade to its Delphi Prism platform, enabling Object Pascal-based development in Microsoft’s newly shipping Visual Studio 2010 IDE. Delphi Prism 2011 is built on top of the Visual Studio shell and can be used either with Visual Studio 2010 or independently. The Visual Studio shell features the Visual Studio [...]

Declaring that software runs the world and developers are the engine behind software, a high-level Microsoft official Monday unleashed the company’s latest software development platform, Visual Studio 2010 and the accompanying .Net Framework 4. The two technologies became available Monday after a long preview period for developers. [ Also on InfoWorld: While Microsoft updates its [...]

Microsoft is offering its own version of technology acquired last year that offers cross-platform access to the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) application lifecycle management (ALM) platform. The beta technology, based on the Teamprise software Microsoft bought from SourceGear in 2009, is called Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010, said S. [...]

Beset by performance issues, Microsoft has decided to extend the beta testing period for its upcoming Visual Studio 2010 software development platform and will postpone the planned March 22, 2010, launch date by a few weeks, a Microsoft executive said in a blog on Thursday. Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and the accompanying .Net Framework [...]