Well after a bit of extra effort, I managed to get my "cutting edge" laptop configured as follows: x64 Vista Build 5270 x64 SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition Office 12 Beta 1 Visual Studio 2005 Professional Added the Vista WinFx 3.0...

One of the more challenging tasks facing ISVs on the Microsoft platform is navigation of all the technologies new to production and those due to arrive soon. It's often not exactly clear how these technologies are intended to be used and how they're intended...

After reviewing my last post on this topic and reflecting a bit, I realized that my demo app sure sounds a lot like a customer relationship management application. That prompted me to look into our customer relationship management product (MSCRM 3.0)...

Well, my fancy new 64-bit laptop completed its odyssey and finally arrived. I was able to get build 5270 of the 64-bit version of Vista up and running in a partition on the hard drive, and will return to digging into WinFx. It should be quite an interesting...