With the release of SharePoint 2010 came a truck load of new features.  It can be a lot to digest.  In this post I am going to highlight the top features that I see for ISVs.  A lot of ISVs look to SharePoint to help with visualization...

In the May 2009 issue of the MSPA Newsletter , read about: Deliver Solutions Faster with Windows HPC Server 2008. SIMULIA delivers simulation solutions faster with Windows HPC Server 2008, and sees the advanced programming tool set as a critical...

In the March 2009 issue of the MSPA Newsletter , read about: Move to the Front of the Line. The Frontline program is a wonderful and unique opportunity to work face-to-face with Microsoft product groups. Read more about one such experience an MSPA...

ISVs should be excited with the release of two tools to the SharePoint community.  SPDisposeCheck provides a static source code analysis tool to check for leaks that may be caused by not disposing of SPSite and SPWeb objects properly.  While...

There are a couple of items that have recently been released that are important to the SharePoint ISV community and to those that may become part of that community.  An article referencing the 10 Best Intranets of 2009 show the growing trend around...

In the January 2009 issue of the MSPA Newsletter , read about: Performance Challenges for a Social Networking Application. A partner who is developing a social networking application on MOSS 2007 to serve hundreds of thousands of customers around...

For those developers in the ISV community out there working with SharePoint the SharePoint team has recently made a significant announcement.  A static source code analysis tool, SPDisposeCheck, will be made available to the public in order to help...

In the October 2008 issue of the MSPA Newsletter , read about: Helping Partners with Architecture and Design Challenges . Whether our partners are building a new solution or updating an existing one, they usually face critical architectural decisions...

Last week was a busy one regarding announcements and updates to SharePoint.  Below is a quick summary of each of the announcements. Using SharePoint in a Hyper-V environment August Cumulative Updates for WSS and SharePoint .  Language specific...

Welcome to the first volume of the Microsoft Services Partner Advantage newsletter. The objective of our newsletter is to provide our partners with information about our services and to tout the great work that the ISV Practice does every day to empower...

As an ISV you may be asking yourself why to integrate with SharePoint.  Aside from being one of the hottest products in Microsoft history there are benefits outside of the market adoption. Windows SharePoint Services is not only a collaboration environment...

One of the challenges of developing in the Software + Services/SOA world we now live in is creating a developer environment that mimics a real-world network. This is especially important for ISVs that need to deploy onto a variety of client and server...

Alok Srivastava, Solution Architect ISV Practice, Microsoft Corporation During all my years in the software Industry, I have architected, designed, developed and managed many applications. Many of these projects started from concepts and many were...

Just a quick link to the new Microsoft Partner Advantage site. Think of Partner Advantage (or "MSPA" because we, of course, have to have an acroynm) as the counterpart for Premier. Instead of an IT focus for the enterprise, MSPA offers developer focused...

As discovered and documented by Daniel Larson, SharePoint MVP, the SharePoint Infrastructure Update changes the availability of SPContext.  Previously one could leverage the IHttpHandlerFactory in order to obtain a reference to SPContext.  Now...

An infrastructure update for SharePoint 2007 was released yesterday.  This post will be number 10,001 on the topic, as I am sure it will be blogged about heavily.  This update includes several things that are of interest to ISVs, especially...

With the imminent release of SQL Server 2008 it is important to understand what possibilities it can offer when we talk about using it as a data store for SharePoint 2007.  While nothing will actually change in the SharePoint platform, having a different...

This blog will hopefully have many authors but I'll get us started. We are a group of consultants who work with our ISV (Independent Software Vendor) partners on technology enablement. My name is Jeremy Rule and I manage the Application Development Consultants...