IBM Rational invites you to participate in the Open Beta program for Rational Software Architect V7 and Rational Functional Tester V7. By participating in this program, you will have the opportunity to provide feedback to the development teams on the latest versions of these products. Your early feedback is very important to the development process of the latest version of these products, so register today to get involved: more>

Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) is a software library of performance-optimized functions for digital media and data processing applications. more>

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Download a free evaluation version of IBM Rational Rose® Technical Developer. IBM Rational Rose Technical Developer, formerly Rational Rose RealTime, is a Model-Driven Development (MDD) solution devised to ease the development of complex systems. Rational Rose Technical Developer leverages the industry standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) to provide a reliable and highly automated solution for the challenging problems of distribution and concurrency. more>

Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server—DevPartner Studio extends the capability and value of Visual Studio Team System with the most advanced diagnostics, distributed analysis capabilities and work item integration with Team Foundation Server. more>

DB2 UDB Database and Visual Basic .NET Tutorial: Check out this free IBM tutorial that goes through how to create data entry and retrieval form database applications using DB2 UDB and Visual Basic .NET programming in the Microsoft environment. The tutorial discusses application development for Linux/Unix and Windows platforms. more>

IBM Rational invites you to participate in the Open Beta program for Rational Software Architect V7 and Rational Functional Tester V7. By participating in this program, you will have the opportunity to provide feedback to the development teams on the latest versions of these products. Your early feedback is very important to the development process of the latest version of these products, so register today to get involved: more>

The tutorial is geared toward the Visual Studio and Visual Studio .NET developer, so it assumes you will be running on Windows®. (This tutorial will use the term Visual Studio to refer to both Visual Studio and Visual Studio .NET.) However, because Java™ technology and Eclipse are available for many platforms, the tutorial can easily be followed for non-Windows platforms. The tutorial also assumes a basic knowledge of object-oriented concepts, such as inheritance, interfaces, and classes. more>

The technology of computer gaming is undergoing a major conceptual shift: a shift to multi-threaded engines running on multi-core processors. Multi-core processors are powering the next generation of PCs and gaming consoles, and game developers want to target as many of these platforms as possible. Unfortunately, threaded execution and cross-platform support are non-trivial, and many developers find it difficult to get these features into their own code. more>

Using a code template for VB and VC++ classes in IBM Rational Rose, developers can capture code constructs containing common class members and their derived behavior. more>