Programming software reviews

Visual Studio 2005 Express

The latest release of Microsoft's Visual Studio has come with a surprise: a release of separate Express editions of its main development tools that are available for…

23/05/2006

Free

Adobe AIR 1.0 review

Adobe AIR 1.0 shines with light technical requirements and good features, but security and OS integration could go deeper.

22/04/2008

Free

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 review

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VS08) Service Pack 1 (SP1) took eight months to arrive. Considering the capabilities that have been added, eight months might not seem…

26/08/2008

£199 inc VAT

Adobe AIR 1.5 review

Adobe AIR 1.5 adds impressive new features to the desktop extension of Adobe's Flex RIA (rich internet application) platform.

16/12/2008

Free

Microsoft Windows Azure CTP review

Microsoft's Community Technology Preview reveals in the Windows Azure Services Platform a thoughtfully designed cloud-computing architecture where seasoned .Net…

17/12/2008

Free

AptEdit Pro review

AptEdit Pro is not the Swiss Army Knife of code editors.

30/12/2008

£30 inc VAT

FireDaemon Pro review

FireDaemon Pro allows you to take your PC a step closer to a server (or further configure your server) by running programs, scripts or batch files as Windows services.

03/01/2009

£27 inc VAT

AppToService review

AppToService is software that makes any Windows application a service.

07/01/2009

£17 inc VAT

Porta review

If you'd like to create photo albums on the web, you won't find a simpler way to do it than using Porta.

20/01/2009

Free

JavaRebel review

Edit-compile-test-edit-compile-test. This is the "software development cycle" all programmers know well, from "Hello World" onwards. JavaRebel is a JAR file which…

23/04/2009

£102 inc VAT

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 review

Although not without problems, Microsoft Visual Studio is the premier IDE for developing applications with the Microsoft .Net Framework and at least a contender for…

09/06/2009

Free

Microsoft Silverlight 3 review

Microsoft Silverlight 3, Microsoft's much-enhanced rich internet application platform runs on Windows or Mac desktops, online or offline

15/06/2009

Free

Adobe Flex 4 SDK beta review

Adobe has shrunk the distance between design and development with its latest batch of RIA tools: Adobe Flex 4 SDK, Adobe Flash Builder 4 (the Flex Builder IDE…

18/06/2009

Free

Take Command review

Take Command is an excellent tool for anyone who regularly has to interact with the Windows command line (You know, that little window with the "C:\" prompt).

23/09/2009

£61 inc VAT

ConnectedText review

ConnectedText is a personal wiki program.

03/11/2009

£24 inc VAT

pTerm for iPhone review

pTerm is an in-your-hand way to VT-100 happiness.

24/01/2010

£3 inc VAT

NSIS 2.46

Build professional Windows installers with this fast, efficient development tool

04/02/2010

Mozilla JetPack 0.8.1

Develop your own Firefox addons using nothing more than web code

12/02/2010

Twistpad 2.2

Speedy text editor that comes packed with developer-oriented functionality

19/03/2010

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express (ISO)

Get all four Visual Studio 2010 Express products in one ISO image file

13/04/2010