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BlackBerry Tools Update – May ’09 | In this Issue
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With so many options available for development on the BlackBerry® platform, we wanted to take the opportunity to outline each of the different tools that are available today and the use cases for those tools.
Read more on the following tools:
• BlackBerry® Plug-in for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 1.2
• BlackBerry® Web Development Plug-in for Eclipse™ 1.0
• BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse 1.0
• BlackBerry JDE
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Developer Tips and Best Practices Support and Trouble Shooting
  Here is the first of five tips for
each of the tools outlined above.
BlackBerry BlackBerry Plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.2

Use profiling to optimize the amount of data transferred and length of download time for your mobile web pages. Profiling will ensure that your web page is optimized for mobile consumption.
Click here for more tips.
1 How To – Use the preprocessor  
2 Support – Unconnected sockets
not implemented 		 
3 What Is – Appropriate version of the
BlackBerry JDE		  
4 Support – Signing does not apply the
Research In Motion (RIM) Runtime signature key		  
Resources available:
• Interact with fellow developers in the
BlackBerry Development Community 		 
• Check out the wide range of Developer Knowledge Base articles  
     
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