A significant number of our ISV early adopters are interested in hosting the designer in their own applications. We now have a great article on just that http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/WFDsgnRehst.asp . ...

Many of our UK ISVs are hoping to deploy their solutions live to customers before we RTM in November of this year. In January we created a go-live license for the January CTP of WinFX - specifically for Workflow and WCF. With Beta 2 we now have a go-live...

Back in Feb 2006 I was asked by a number of ISV about what are the "gotyas" for applications built for Framework 1.1 running on a machine with 2.0 installed. I had a trawl and found we were weak on information in this area. Whilst for many apps there...

I first introduced my family to Windows MCE back in 2004 - and quite frankly, the family virtually took a slegde hammer to the box. My selected hardware vendor sucked. It took pretty much a year, the release of MCE 2005, 3 machines from the manufacturer...

Microsoft is increasingly working on helping Architects (of all types!) be successful with Microsoft technologies. I think we have advanced significantly in this space in the last 5 years and now we have an additional focus - helping folks to move into...

Its 11pm and I was just off to sleep when I decided to take a quick peek at http://msdn.microsoft.com - and there it is - Beta 2! Excellent stuff. This is a major step for many of the UK ISVs we are engaged with. Check it out http://msdn.microsoft.com...

We are running a 2 day WinFX lab for our ISV early adopters - and the area I agreed to become a SME in (subject matter expert) was WPF Navigation. Well - I am no SME (yet) but it proved to be an interesting exercise. WPF navigation turned out to be...

We have a schedule of activities we are delivering to our UK early adopters of Vista and WinFX over the coming months. One of these is 3 days of training. We thought it would be fun to offer two seats on this training in Maidenhead to UK ISVs we currently...

We are currently engaged with many UK ISVs to help them take advantage of the great new features in Windows Vista and WinFX. These ISVs are normally companies well known to us. However - we have just agreed to open up our work to a broader set of UK ISVs...

We have been working with marketing to help improve the Microsoft UK website for ISVs. Still early days - but we are heading in the right direction. Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/partnering/isv/ I am very aware of how much further...

Great diagram at http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif/archive/2005/12/29/508066.aspx