December 2007 - Posts
Here comes the holiday SDK release! What's in it? .NET assemblies for interacting with the HealthVault platform sample applications that you can run from your development machine device simulators that can upload data to a HealthVault account documentation
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Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29 ; enabled by Windows Live Writer ! On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Seven IE plus one, Six free e-learning , Five BizTalk VLabs , Four Demystifying
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Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29 ; enabled by Windows Live Writer ! On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Six free e-learning, Five BizTalk VLabs , Four Demystifying Programs , Three Products
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Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29 ; enabled by Windows Live Writer ! On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Five BizTalk VLabs, Four Demystifying Programs , Three Products Launching, Two cool
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Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29 ; enabled by Windows Live Writer ! On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Four Demystifying Programs, Three Products Launching, Two cool industry conferences
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Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29 ; enabled by Windows Live Writer ! On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Three Products Launching, Two cool industry conferences , And the source code to
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Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29 ; enabled by Windows Live Writer ! On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Two cool industry conferences, And the source code to Tafiti . :) Our team is gearing
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Inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_%28song%29 ; enabled by Windows Live Writer ! On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me The source code to Tafiti (part of Live Quick Apps - cool stuff!). :) Great screenshots
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Have a fantastic 2008! Watch this space for my version of the 12 days of Christmas starting 12/25/2007!
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Overview This event will offer developers, architects, technical and business decision makers in the healthcare industry a chance to learn how Microsoft is making a big bet in the enablement and delivery of Software + Services in Health & Life Sciences.
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In case you missed it, Daniel Chait of Lab49 did a great job of hitting on some of the key themes that we will cover at our upcoming Financial Services Developer Conference . Worth a listen. http://cid-868323e9083a1958.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/IndustyChats/IndustryChat002.mp3
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Want more? Join us for our next HLS Industry Council *or* at our Health and Life Sciences Developer & Solutions Conference in Atlantic City, April 22-24, 2008
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You've got the ppts and the videos and now...the VPC! Thank you Neil Hutson , we've got until March 8, 2008 to play with a fully configured VPC. Stop reading, go get it :)
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Please join us as we celebrate the sixth year of the Financial Services Developer Conference! This year promises to be one you will not want to miss!! Come listen to presenters across a wide spectrum of organizations – including Microsoft Product
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“Scientist Workbench”–Harnessing the Power of Today’s Information Tsunami Information management is critical to stay competitive in many industries. This is especially true in the Health & Life Sciences Industry where increased competition, profitability
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I think they heard you :) OK, OK. We are delighted to announce the date and location of the next Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC): October 27–30, 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. PDC is the definitive Microsoft event for software
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This is so nicely done, I thought I'd gush to anyone listening. TechNet Edge rocks! Q. I'm a developer, anything worthwhile at the Edge? A. Oh yes! Check out the media section , some great screencasts on Hyper-V and HPC (hey that rhymes!) Bookmark! From
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Company urges employees to use Facebook - http://video.msn.com/video.aspx/?mkt=en-US&brand=msnbc&vid=dde32280-142d-4e72-a6ba-80c2475b5a9f Hmmm.... What am I doing now? Facebook :) See you there: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=65866730
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Thank you Connecticut Access Users Group for a very interactive session. In prepping for our session, I got to learn about the great abilities Access 2007 brings to the overall ecosystem that is WSS/MOSS. As promised, here are some resources to jumpstart
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Girls Dominate the Siemens Competition - For the first time in the prestigious national math and science contest's nine-year history, girls were awarded both grand prizes. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2007/tc2007123_368568.htm Nice!
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Did you get Visual Studio 2008 at an InstallFest ? Some lucky folks in the Hartford, CT area did... I know this has been showcased before, but I just wanted to remind folks of this great resource that our Developer and Platform Evangelism team put together.
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Eight weeks ago, we launched HealthVault . Dr. Crounse, our worldwide industry director, uncovers how HealthVault is doing today in this great video . I've used HealthVault already to learn about Croup (ugh!). Around 7:45 into the interview, Dr. Crounse
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As always, Crispy Bone is first on the block with the good news: we'll be having local launch parties for "Longhorn", "Orcas" and "Katmai" - quiz: which one is SQL 2008? More details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/cbowen/archive/2007/12/07/save-the-dates-northeast-2008-launch-events-announced.aspx
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"Likely the best free MS technology that you’re not using today…shame on you!" -- Jim has a great way of driving home a point :) I first met Jim at our Financial Developer's Conference in April 2007 (P.S. our next event is on March 12-13, 2008 - more
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If you missed this event that was held in Redmond in November 2007, all the keynotes and informational sessions (slides, transcripts and video) are available for download here . Some of the sessions have very intriguing titles... Changing the World with
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As a follow up to ScottGu's announcement , the Astoria team sets the record straight...new name, same goal ! If you are looking to understand Project Astoria, er, um ADO.NET Data Services, view the slides, video and transcript of Pablo Castro's talk at
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ScottGu announced that ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Preview is ready. I'm excited about the MVC infrastructure and the ADO.NET Data Services. Got it yet?
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If it does, let Aaron Ruckman know :) Well, he asked, in fact, he's asked if there are better/cooler ways to get Visual Studio installed. It would be great if we flooded him with what works, what doesn't, and how it should work! Hmmm, what if we turned
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MSDN magazine October 2007 had a nice little gem tucked away in an article about Parallel LINQ [1] (emphasis mine): Compelling Scenarios (from http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/10/PLINQ/ ) "While reading this article, you have probably
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We were very fortunate to host Don Canning [1] at a customer visit last week. We were talking about innovation+insurance+what Microsoft is doing to enable our customers and partner ecosystem (very cool stuff!). Don is currently the world wide director
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Hey Albany, thank you for hosting me at the MSDN Event with Lindsay . Looking forward to connecting with the local .NET User Group. Hope you got a taste for how exciting Entity Framework/Project Astoria is. In the next few weeks, I would bookmark the
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