On March 30th 2010, we released the Feature Builder Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 Preview for RC on the Visual Studio Gallery .  This power tool helps you easily create rich Visual Studio extensions which you can share with others on the Visual...

Today we announced that the upcoming release of BizTalk (BizTalk Server 2009 R2) has been renamed to BizTalk Server 2010. BizTalk Server 2009 R2 was planned to be a focused release to deliver support for Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 and...

Tune in to Channel 9 Live – immediately following the keynotes – for live, unscripted and 100% interactive coverage of MIX10. Tweet your comments and questions to @ch9live and we’ll ask them on your behalf live on the air. WHAT: The Channel 9 crew will...

Today at the MIX10 conference in Las Vegas, we unveiled more details of the Windows ® Phone 7 Series by announcing Silverlight as the primary platform for developing applications on the device platform. The combination of the Silverlight platform, Visual...

Recently Bob Familiar had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Iantosca, CEO of eDefine , Paul Hamnett, VP of Engineering at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI.org), and Kerri Sweeney, Director of Development at IHI, to learn about a new...

Just wanted to let you know that we announced the General Availability of ASP.NET MVC 2 for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 via a post on Scott Guthrie’s blog recently. To give you a quick brief, ASP.NET MVC is a free, fully-supported...

  What is Microsoft Tech·Ed India 2010 TOP ARCHITECT? It is a contest based on your architectural skill. We give you a challenge - details on a system we'd like you to architect. In the allotted period you work out the architecture in line with the...

Because you will return to your office with knowledge and expertise that only the three days at Tech.Ed-India, the largest technology conference globally this year – can offer. You will learn about today’s cutting-edge trends, helping make life easier...

I have had some of my ISV / SI partners asking questions around if it were possible to install their MOSS 2007 32 Bit solutions on Windows Server 2008 R2 (which only supports 64 Bit). Simple and straight answer to this questions is NO.   If you try...

I often get asked by a number of developers on how can they run SilverLight applications on Linux and / or Mac. Hence I thought of making this no-brainer information as a post here. For Linux: Moonlight is an open source implementation of SilverLight...

Just learnt that Micro Focus has announced four major product integrations, which will simultaneously ship with Visual Studio 2010. The following products are expected to be released with Visual Studio 2010 integration before the end of May 2010: Visual...

ARCast.TV - Architects? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Architects! Are software architects necessary? Nobody denies the need for software architecture, but many challenge the idea that you need a dedicated software architect to get it. Michael Stiefel compares...

Wanted to let you all know that we announced availability of the Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 for download on March 1st 2010. You can refer to the official announcement here . Download is available from the AppFabric Developer Center on MSDN . I would...