IUpdateable from Eric Nelson (http://ericnelson.wordpress.com)

Are you a MicroISV (< 10 employees, no VC funding) and do you have an application that you believe runs well on Vista? If so, then read on. The Project Glidepath site ( www.projectglidepath.net ) has been updated to feature the Windows Vista Spotlight...

Coming back from an Achilles operation has given me a chance to pause and reflect on which tools I use in my job. These are not dev tools but tools that are just proving very useful to help get things done. In no particular order: RESEARCH: Onfolio (Beta...

I rarely post "none work stuff" - but this is one of those posts I simply must do. At the weekend we watched "An Inconvenient Truth" - a documentary about Global Warming. We got it on DVD rental, primarily for the kids to watch - my wife and I confident...

I am pleased to say that we have released our sample application for SAAS. Using the latest Microsoft technologies such as .NET Framework 3.0 and SQL Server 2005, LitwareHR implements single-instance multi-tenancy patterns. I haven't yet started to dissect...

When we said to application developers "You need to test your applications with Windows Vista", we were: NOT saying it because we had nothing better to do NOT saying it because we just wanted you to install Visa We were saying it because we knew that...

Matt offered up the following opinion in SAAS: for Dummies : "SaaS, at best should be viewed as a metaphor for the state of software delivery at a particular point in time (ie. now) ... SaaS is a fad; it is a metaphor that encapsulates the evolving software...

One of my early adopters was trying to play with the SAAS Litware sample - but didn't have a Windows Server 2003 machine "handy" which is required for Litware. After a bit of searching I found just what he needed - a downloadable Windows Server 2003 Image...

Just come off the phone chatting to Richard Costall , who besides his real job, runs the rather splendid Next Generation User Group . He mentioned he had posted up a very recent interview with Scott Guthrie that touched on Orcas, Atlas (now ASP.NET AJAX...

It is funny how things work out. My post on an opportunity for MicroISVs led to some very good constructive feedback from a UK MicroISV (which I will pass on to the ProjectGlidepath team) which in turn lead me to find, download and try FeedGhost RSS Reader...

Our team has spent the last year helping ISVs evaluate and develop solutions which take advantage of Vista, .NET Framework 3.0 and Office 2007. The challenge has been we have needed to do all of this work with Visual Studio 2005. The good news is we now...

I noticed today that the address bar in IE was a rather fetching green when I used IE7 to go to http://www.paypal.co.uk At the back of my mind I remembered that IE used colour in the Address bar to help users identify "dodgy" sites. The help explains...

This is a thing of beauty. My old friend and colleague Richard has been working for many months with the British Library and the partner Armadillo to get this WPF application ready for the consumer launch of Windows Vista and flat out over the last couple...

Toms and a couple of others asked the same question - hence I thought I would raise this to its own post. Back at PDC 2005 we demonstrated WPF gadgets. Reason - we love WPF as its extremely powerful for building UI - especially UI that needs to cleverly...

Spotted this new little beast - the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool. The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool is an inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that will find computers on a network and determine if they are ready to run the Windows...

The March CTP of Orcas has lots of goodness in it and is available to download from msdn (very large download!). This CTP includes: New VB 9.0 Language Support New C# 3.0 Language Support LOTS of LINQ stuff (a big build for the LINQ team) ADO.NET vNext...

Ok - I don't really have a "tool of the week" post, nor is Play Speed really a tool in its own right - but I am sure pleased it exists. I set myself a task of watching a number of Webcasts this afternoon - then Dynorod turned up to unblock the drains...

There is a new KB article listing 800 or so applications that work with Windows Vista. Check out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933305 . Obviously lots more work - but for these 800 the development company has take the time to "tell us". Another useful...

22nd Feb DAY 3 of 7 This continues on my series of posts about how we are pulling together the SAAS workshop for the UK Architect Insigh Conference. Today was a day of SAAS stuff - admittedly plenty of it was not directly related to the session - but...

Two announcements from ISVs caught my eye in the last week. Firstly UK based Sage announced Sage 50 Online . Excitedly I wondered "wow - is this a full-on SAAS application rearchitected explicitly for multi tenancy and the efficiencies of scale?". Alas...

DinnerNow is an application I expect to be spending a fair bit of time mulling over in March as I will be using it as part of my session at SPA 2007 . Version 1.2 has just been released (FYI - DinnerNow is getting a lot of interest over at codeplex -10000...

As part of the DinnerNow work, the team released this month the QuickStart Labs for three of the technologies used in the DinnerNow sample. In a couple of weeks time I will be having a good dig into DinnerNow - but why wait for my ramblings! From the...

I have been attempting to maintain my own list of WPF Applications which also tries to call out UK efforts - but a more complete list can be found over at http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/WPF.ApplicationPortfolio I think the list deserves a...

Fred and Gianpaolo "do their thing", talking about SAAS and the creation of Litware sample SAAS application - and the video editor has some fun along the way! Video: Architects in Action - The Making of LitwareHR

Very pleased to see that on Saturday Valentin updated his samples for the final version of .NET 3.0. We certainly used the Chess sample a lot in the early days of WPF evangelism to show the 3D possibilities. You can download Chess and others from http...

20th Feb DAY 2 of 7 On the 15th I wrote a blog entry about the SAAS workshop we are running after I realised I had at best 7 days . Doesn't time fly! Unfortunately lots of other stuff is getting between me and SAAS - and therefore I haven't made anything...