Scott Guthrie today announced that the "Atlas" code name for the ASP.NET team’s rich client framework and set of server controls and JavaScript extensions will be retired and replaced with not one, but three separate names: As part of releasing “Atlas”, we have also finally locked on an official set of product names that we [...]

Extending its support for scripting and dynamic languages, Microsoft is hosting a project on its CodePlex site to deliver a PHP language compiler for the .Net Framework. Known as Phalanger, the project reached Version 2.0 Beta 2 on July 30. The primary goal of the project, released under Microsoft Shared Source Permissive License, is to [...]

A Web site is up and running intended to offer a Visual Studio 2005 add-in called the Project Glidepath Software Factory. Promoted by Microsoft evangelist Michael Lehman, the site will let small software companies download workflow-based guidance, code, content and templates to ease Windows Vista app building using .NET Framework 3.0. Word is that Microsoft [...]

Customers and partners are keen to understand Microsoft’s strategy for model-driven development and its support in Visual Studio Team System. When we explain our strategy to them, they frequently express interest in some of the same topics, and raise some of the same concerns. In this document we set out our strategy for model-driven development [...]