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28 Jul 2009
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has released new tools to aid developers creating applications for its devices using Eclipse or Visual Studio.
Available immediately, the BlackBerry Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio version 1.2 enable developers to target BlackBerry handhelds with these common environments.
Both feature BlackBerry smartphone simulators for testing and debugging projects, according to RIM. Other features include web application profiling that provides information on characteristics such as data traffic, load time and the use of web-based content.
The plug-in for Eclipse is all new, and allows developers to create web applications and content for BlackBerry within the Eclipse 3.4 environment. As well as HTML and CSS content, RIM said that developers can build rich internet applications using Ajax, Silverlight, PHP, ASP, Ruby on Rails, JSP and Python.
Meanwhile, the Visual Studio plug-in provides BlackBerry support for Visual Studio 2008, allowing the creation of simple internet/intranet web pages or the use of Ajax and ASP.Net.
Both plug-ins are free to download.
RIM revealed last week that it will soon extend its BlackBerry App World online application store to more countries.
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