We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 VSJ Reader Awards, based on votes submitted on the VSJ website.

MDI Browser allows developers to reproduce in the browser desktop-style dropdown menus with moveable/resizable child windows.

HASP SRM v 2.50, Aladdin’s software protection and licensing system, now supports .NET 3.0.

Silverlight is Microsoft’s .NET WPF-based alternative to Flash, which allows you to work in Visual Studio and Expression Studio to create multimedia web pages.

Trolltech’s Qt Jambi is a rich client development framework for Java, which expands the C++ based Qt framework to provide a similar range of facilities for Java developers.

Backbase has released an AJAX Java Edition based on JavaServer Faces (JSF), which integrates with any type of Java technology, such as J2EE, Spring and Hibernate.

All the winners and runners-up.

Sybase has released a long-awaited upgrade to its PowerBuilder 4GL rapid application development tool.

Infragistics has launched NetAdvantage for JSF – a set of Ajax components for building responsive web applications.

The latest release of ComponentOne’s Studio Enterprise suite features Ajax-enabled components, including WebGrid, WebReports, WebTreeView, WebTabStrip and WebTopicBar.

IBM for one seems to think that Ajax is a good idea – it and several other companies are behind a new open-source project to create development tools for Ajax-style web development.

StimulReport.Net is a .NET managed reporting tool written in C# and making use of the .NET framework.

What exactly is XAML all about? Is it a replacement for HTML? Not according to Ian Elliot, who explains exactly what it does.

Delivering on the mobile data access promise with the iPhone/iPod Touch.

Most of the emphasis with AJAX is on how to perform an asynchronous update at the client. Dino Esposito considers the other end of the connection – how exactly does the server provide the data that the client needs?

XML is at the heart of Office 2007, and Mike Ormond introduces its exciting possibilities.

If you think of XML as just being about static data storage, you need to see Windows Live Data in action. It uses XML as an active way of changing stored data, as Martin Parry explains.

If you work with XML, you already know the limitations of DOM and SAX parsers. Overcome these limitations with the new Streaming API for XML – StAX.

Keeping up with C# 3.0 isn’t too difficult, as Granville Barnett demonstrates by exploring LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML and the strange sounding lambda expression

The Spartan Ajax motto is “no more HTML” – can this approach to creating web pages be serious? Mike James explains the idea and the inner workings.

Atlas is Microsoft’s approach to AJAX. Vikram Srivatsa explains what it’s all about, and demonstrates it in use.

With XML as an integral part, SQL Server 2005 has enhanced its status as a natural platform for web-based applications.

How to create, edit, read and integrate XML files into your programs, and implement data-driven programs using XML-defined commands.

SQLX, sometimes refered to as SQL/XML, is an emerging standard that specifies a syntax for returning result sets from relational databases as XML.

XML allows information to be coded in such a way that it's easy to extract, but this is only the case if you use one of the supplied APIs. We take a look at SAX, and in particular how to use it with VB 6.0.

As Microsoft strides on with its .NET vision, developers who don't feel like tagging along are finding their range of options fairly limited. PowerBuilder 9 offers one escape route.

May 2007: Hands-On XML

April 2007: Hands-On Web Services

October 2006: Hands-On Ajax