By Wylie Wong, 20 August 2002 10:24
NEWS Rational Software has updated its development tools to support Microsoft's .Net software strategy. Rational' XDE Professional tool will support Microsoft's Visual Basic.Net language and ASP.Net class library technology, which makes it easier to build complex Web-based business systems by handling much of the underlying plumbing. XDE Professional, originally released in February, is a tool that allows software developers to "model" - or create graphical representations of - their software, so they need to write less code to build applications. Rational has released three editions of the XDE tool: one that supports Microsoft's Visual Studio.Net tools suite, another that supports IBM's WebSphere Studio Java development tool, and a third that combines both the Java and .Net editions. .Net is Microsoft's overarching strategy for software design and Web services development. The original version of XDE for .Net edition supported Microsoft's C# language. The new XDE - with the Visual Basic.Net and ASP.Net support - will ship within 30 days. Wylie Wong writes for News.com
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