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

A few weeks back I spotted an internal slide deck covering the performance of WCF compared to existing technologies such as .NET Remoting. I really wanted to share this with one of my ISVs - but have been waiting for a "public" version. That public version...

I suspect this is old news for many but for the ISV I met just before my holiday it was new - hence I felt I should share more widely. In brief - NDoc was awesome for producing MSDN style documentation for your code - but didn't work with .NET Framework...

I presented and attended SPA 2007 ( http://www.spaconference.org/spa2007/index.html ) this year and also attended SPA in 2006. It is an event that brings together academia with industry, java developers with .NET developers (not to mention Smalltalk)...

Many of my current ISVs use C# and VB.NET as their main development languages but there remains a huge base of Visual C++ code deployed as part of ISV solutions (does this sound familiar?) and in turn there is plenty of Visual C++ development still happening...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/20/desktop_office_suites/ caught our teams eye. It is a survey of desktop software of over 4800 folks and draws a few interesting conclusions. Firstly on SaaS: "The other big news from this chart is that online alternatives...

I have my new notebook - a very nice Compaq nc8430 (very nice gaming box!) with 4GB ram. My first notebook with 4GB RAM. Alas - it admits to having only 3GB which I half expected for 32bit. But turns out (from a colleague) that you might see similar with...

BT has over 500,000 SME broadband customers - and SME is increasingly interested in adopting solutions delivered as software-as-a-service. Hence BT and Microsoft have been working together to address this demand. Out of this work has come the BT Applications...

With Beta 3 of Windows Server "Longhorn" we now have a very stable and complete drop of IIS 7.0 - stable enough for us to offer you a Go-Live license for Beta 3 to allow you to use the product for real in production environments. Details of the go-live...

With Windows Vista we told ISVs "Hey - applications may break on Vista. You should test your application". What some ISVs appear to have heard is "Hey - other ISVs application may break on Vista. They should test their application". I am going to try...

My "target audience" for this blog is Developers Based in the UK Who work for ISVs My job (not too surprisingly!) is to work with developers in the UK who work for ISVs. There is a certain symmetry to this :-) But - what if you work for an ISV and you...

We are looking nicely on track to ship "Orcas" by end of year - giving us: a great development environment for native C++ applications a great development environment for .NET 2.0 applications a great development environment for .NET 3.0 applications...

I was speaking with a friend from a UK ISV and we were discussing the pace of technology releases from Microsoft - why it is in sometimes very good, why it is sometimes bad, why it is never, ever boreing! It has certainly been a busy 3 years of major...

I liked this article over at Devx which demonstrates how to "convert" over to LINQ http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/33959 - but before you get stuck into that, check out the following videos from Mike on LINQ (Mike clearly is Mr LINQ in the team currently...

As a team we have been waiting until Beta 3 before we really get stuck into helping ISVs understand the value of our next server release and help them begin to take advantage of the new features. Beta 3 is now with us - and to celebrate I have a brand...

I am just back from a great weeks break in sunny Cornwall - which included some great "accidental" finds such as the cream teas at Goonhilly earth station , the cream teas at Pendennis castle, the cream teas at Mevagissey and...tbh, cream teas everywhere...

Given you can Go-Live with Beta 3, the next obvious question to a developer should be "Why would I bother?" We have a new Developer Center which attempts to answer that very question - with lots of detail about how you will get the best out of IIS 7....

I have not had a chance to blog much of late as I have been "on the road", firstly at SPA 2007 (which I really enjoyed) and then with a number of ISVs talking about a range of topcs - from Windows Server "Longhorn" to SQL Server 2005 BI with a smattering...

There is no shortage of high quality events these days aimed at developers using .NET - but the following stuck out for a variety of reasons. 23rd May: First up, NxtGenUG are famous (at least in my team!) for their inventive approach to events - and the...