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

Back in April I blogged about our initial thoughts on the future of Visual C++ . Soma shared some more information on this earlier this month. The team is working on a significant update to the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) due as an update to Visual...

Then check out this short paper created by IDC http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/f/f/1ff030a1-7351-46f4-bee4-14e506be2b7b/207571.pdf . This IDC study provides a review of the new features and functionality in Microsoft Windows Server 2008, along...

Shameless copy and paste - but great stuff nevertheless. The Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit has been updated for the RTM and has been released on the Microsoft.com Download Center for anyone to download and use.  The Visual Studio 2008 Training...

Well - US$ prices anyway. I will have a dig for UK. Details can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-12HyperVPR.mspx The headline stuff: Pricing for all Windows Server 2008 products will be increasing by approximately 1 percent...

Last week we had a 3 day Windows Server 2008 Tech Reviewers Workshop.   One of the presenters has taken three of the demos presented and released them as new screencasts on Channel9.   Each screencast has an accompanying demo script for...

When I started working with UK developers many years back, one of my focus areas was ASP vs PHP. 10 years on from those days and both technologies are very successful with huge fans of each technology (ASP becoming the much more powerful ASP.NET). But...

Great job by the product group. Now I just need to find the time to unwind a bunch of betas off this machine (Visual Studio 2008 plus lots of betas dependent on it) and put on the final code and then try and get it all to work again. Or maybe - I will...

My colleagues in the US have struck up a deal with Total Training where we can offer a discount of 25% off a year’s training subscription on MS developer products. The series range from 4 hours to 8 hours and are project oriented - they cover SQL...

You are an ISV looking at on-demand delivery of your application - good for you! But... once you have sorted out scalability, configurability, tackled multi-tenancy and packed it full with cool features, be prepared to keep developing as your Hoster may...

We have a great example application called LitwareHR that (amongst other things) demonstrates how to design a highly multi-tenant database - where the data of tenants exists in the same tables and SQL views are used to project out only the data for an...

Still comes up in discussion - therefore to avoid all confusion... hold this picture in the back of your mind.  

Acropolis was a project to make building LOB applications using Windows Forms or WPF much easier than it is today - by moving away from the "blank canvas" approach we currently have in Visual Studio. An early CTP build was released and a lot...

Mark Quirk in our team is a top chap - he is also over at TechEd in Barcelona this week and has just sent back a great report. I don't think Mark blogs so I have taken the liberty of posting on a slightly edited version. Well worth a read. Thanks Mark...

The ingenuity point is an international contest that invites you, a software development company (ISV), to share your innovative solution(s) within one of these 3 Verticals: Healthcare, Education, or Clean Technology (Environment). It invites the rest...

A small point but useful to know. Starting with RC1 and going forward, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 will have to be downloaded separately. More information can be found on the Windows Server Division blog.

On October 30th we announced Oslo . This is a very positive statement of commitment and direction for companies that have identified SOA and BPM as a critical element of their future. Oslo is not one product, it is a set of products across a number of...

My colleague and mate David Gristwood owns the Office and Unified Communications track at Tech Ed and is buzzing about how it is looking and the opportunity Office 2007 presents to developers of business applications. He also let slip that there are a...

You can find it over at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/default.aspx . We are currently working on getting some refreshed content up to the site - but for the moment it represents a great starting place before moving on to other sites such...

Apologies. This was a really important announcement at the start of October which I completely forgot to blog about! Many ISV have asked me over the years for access to the source code for the .NET Framework to help them resolve complex development and...

I bumped into an ISV last week that relies heavily on the Microsoft JVM for their solution. The end of life date has been public for sometime - which is probably a good enough reason in itself for a gentle reminder. The End of Life for the MSJVM is December...

If you are an ISV interested in Microsoft technology, then: Keep visiting here :-) And secondly, check out the very promising blog from my American colleagues at http://blogs.msdn.com/msftisvs I particularly liked Nat Natarajan discussing the “Rock and...

I was asked to summarize what is interesting in SQL Server 2008. With a little help from Keith I came up with the following. What am I missing? What new features in SQL Server 2008 are you excited about? I would love to know...