Microsoft said on Monday it will release the latest version of its flagship development tool Visual Studio 2008 by the end of November.
The company also announced that it has changed the licensing terms for Visual Studio 2008 to allow its partners to build add-on products that work with operating systems other than Microsoft Windows.
It is also allowing its Premiere-level partners to view the source code of Visual Studio 2008 for debugging.
Also, Microsoft announced the community technology preview of its Sync Framework, a software kit designed to make it easier to build peer-to-peer applications.
It also released Popfly Explorer, a tool to integrate Silverlight gadgets built with Popfly into Web pages built with Visual Studio.
Microsoft started an open beta program for its consumer-oriented mashup builder Popfly on Thursday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Popfly is a hosted application that enables people to assemble mashups by dragging and dropping components, rather than writing code. It's built with Microsoft's Silverlight Web browser plug-in.
With Popfly, people assemble mashups by connecting blocks.
(Credit: Microsoft)When Microsoft released the alpha in May, it had prebuilt "blocks," or connections, to popular Web sites Flickr and MySpace.
Now it integrates with Facebook and people can create gadgets (also called widgets) that run on Windows Vista or Windows Live.
There are a growing number of these do-it-yourself Web authoring tools, including Google Mashup Editor and Yahoo Pipes. Here's a link to a review of three of those.
For business users, IBM has developed QEDWiki and Coghead, and other companies have created hosted application development services.
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