Metro Early Adopter Program -ohjelma on tarkoitettu yritysasiakkaille, integraattoreille ja ohjelmistotaloille, jotka haluavat tukea Microsoftin uusien teknologioiden soveltamiseen. Metro-ohjelma edellyttää että teknologian soveltamisesta voidaan laatia julkinen referenssi. Tukimateriaalin lisäksi ohjelman kautta saa teknologia-alueesta riippuen luokkamuotoista koulutusta (Euroopassa tai Redmondissa) ja ongelmanratkaisutukea.

Jos haluat ohjelmaan, ota yhteyttä allekirjoittaneeseen (yritysasiakkaat, integraattorit) tai Juhani Vuorioon (ohjelmistotalot). Yhteystietomme löydät Microsoft Suomi Developer & Platform -ryhmän sivulta.

Esimerkkejä Metro-ohjelman portaalin kautta tarjolla olevasta sisällöstä:

Client

AJAX
Name Description Type
New AJAX Support For Data-Driven Web Apps AJAX is an exciting Web platform for many reasons. Using AJAX, many tasks that w... Whitepaper
Programming AJAX with ASP.NET Partial Rendering The heart of AJAX is the XMLHttpRequest object. The user experience opportunities that AJAX offers are contingent on the availability of this o... Whitepaper
Building A Secure AJAX Service Layer A major advantage of AJAX and Silverlight™ applications is that they can transparently and continuously interact with a back-end service. Whitepaper

IE8
Name Description Type
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Whitepapers This is the developer overview for Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers. This new version of the popular Web browser is a major step forward in security and privacy protectio... Whitepaper
CSS Improvements in Internet Explorer 8 Internet Explorer 8 is the most Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)-compliant release yet. This topic is composed of a comprehensive list of the changes to CSS support in Internet Explorer 8 Bet... Other
Privacy Features in IE8 New Beta 2 release of Internet Explorer 8 includes some new features to help protect your privacy?  There are some similarities to the privacy features of Safari, but some interesting new... Other
First Look at IE8 Activities and Webslices Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8.  Watch Jane Kim explain how these features bring the power of... Other

Silverlight
Name Description Type
Silverlight 2 Transforms And Clipping Regions Silverlight is the revolutionary platform from Microsoft for creating highly functional, immersive, interactive browser-based applications. Sil... Whitepaper, Other
Browser Interoperability In Silverlight 2 You can use Silverlight 2 to build full-page Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)-like Web applications or to enrich HTML-based pages with add... Whitepaper, Other
Cloud Gazing From Silverlight 2 Developers who use Silverlight have their heads in the clouds, but can you blame them? Obtaining data for rich Internet applications (RIA) from... Whitepaper, Other
Light Up SharePoint With Silverlight 2 Web Parts In the world of Web-based applicatio... Whitepaper, Other

Windows 7
Name Description Type
Windows 7 Developer Guide Build applications on a solid foundation; enable richer application experiences; and integrate the best of Windows and web services. The features and technologies of the Windows 7 operati... Whitepaper, Other
Windows 7 Training Events Coming Soon Metro team is working on 3-day instructor-led training class for Windows 7 for developers. Please watch this space for Windows 7 Training Events announcements in early 2009.

Windows Mobile
Name Description Type
Getting Started with Windows Mobile  Collection of resources intended for developers new to the Windows Mobile platform. The... Lab, PowerPoint, Video/Webcast, Whitepaper
What's New for Developers in Windows Mobile 6 The Windows Mobile® 6 developer platform release focuses on a few core goals: simplify line of business (LOB) application development and deployment, make the task of building a sing... Whitepaper
Windows Mobile Training Events for Developers Coming Soon! Metro team is working on 3-day instructor-led classroom-based developer trainings for Windows Mobile. Please watch this space for Windows Mobile Training Events announcements in De...

Windows Presentation Foundation
Name Description Type
Code reuse in WPF and Silverlight 2 In Silverlight 2, you use Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) to design and render the user interface. At the same time, you leverage the built-in core CLR to process managed co... Whitepaper
Patterns For Building Composite Applications With WPF Technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight™ provide de... Whitepaper
Understanding Routed Events and Commands In WPF One of the most daunting things about getting up to speed on Windows® Pr... Whitepaper
WPF Technical Overview Find attached a PowerPoint deck that provides a great technical overview of WPF. PowerPoint
How to Create multithreaded UI application in WPF  Sometime application has to perform long-running tasks. In a typical application, tasks ar... Whitepaper
What's new in WPF 3.5 SP1 Please find attached a power point presentation to see what's new in WPF 3.5 SP1. PowerPoint

Server Technologies

Hyper-V
Name Description Type
Hyper-V News: Issue 1: Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™: What has changed? Virtualization is on everybody's mind — and with good reason. It's a critical, sea-changing concept with wide-reaching implications. The idea that you can make pools of dynamic resource... Whitepaper
MSDN Virtual Lab Express: Dynamically Increasing Web Site Capacity  Overview: After completing this lab you will be better able to:
- Dynamically add capacity to a web site
- Configure IIS 7 shared configuration
- Configure a web server to use that 		 Lab

Windows HPC Server 2008
Name Description Type
Windows HPC Server 2008 Resource Kit is now available online! The Windows Server Evangelism Team in DPE has assembled The Windows HPC Server 2008 Resource Kit. The technical resource kit i... Lab, PowerPoint, Video/Webcast, Whitepaper, Other
Parallel Computing Platform - Overview and Future Direction The Parallel Computing Platform team's David Callahan (Distinguished Engineer) and Keith Yedlin (Product Unit Manager) sit down with me to discuss Microsoft's vision for general p... Video/Webcast
Back To Basics - Race Conditions, Part 1 Microsoft Technical Evangelist Jason Olson has unveiled a new screen cast series entitled Back to Basics. Video/Webcast

Windows Server 2008 R2
Name Description Type
What's coming in Server 2008 R2 with Bob Visse - Edge Video Now that word is out about Windows Server 2008 R2, I sat down with Senior Director Bob Visse to talk about the new features we can expec... Video/Webcast
Windows Server 2008 R2 Reviewers Guide (Beta) Windows Server 2008 R2 Reviews Guide (Beta) Whitepaper
Windows HPC Server 2008 Resource Kit is now available online! The Windows Server Evangelism Team in DPE has assembled The Windows HPC Server 2008 Resource Kit. The technical resource kit i... Lab, PowerPoint, Video/Webcast, Whitepaper, Other

Services Technologies

Windows Azure
Name Description Type
Introducing the Azure™ Services Platform  Using computers in the cloud can make lots of sense. Rather than buying and maintaining your own machines, why not exploit the acres of Internet-accessible servers on offer today? Get an... Whitepaper
Soma on Visual Studio for Windows Azure, Concurrency, and Windows 7 - Channel 9 Video Soma on Visual Studio for Windows A... Video/Webcast
Azure Services Training Kit – Now available Today we are making available the first preview release of the Azure Services Training Kit.  The Azure Services T... Lab, PowerPoint, Video/Webcast, Whitepaper, Other

.NET Services
Name Description Type
Metro for Azure Services Training - Nov 18-20, 2008 Redmond, WA Metro for the Azure Services Platform Instructor Led Training

SQL Services
Name Description Type
Microsoft SQL Data Services – Under the Hood  Microsoft SQL Data Services (SDS) is a cloud-deployed database service from Microsoft. SDS provides a web-facing database, retrieval, and manipulation features in a hosted, Web-facin... Whitepaper
Getting Started with Microsoft SQL Data Services – A Developer’s Focus  Microsoft® SQL Data Services (SDS) offers highly scalable, Internet-facing, enterprise-class database and advanced query processing for customers who want to build new applications or ext... Whitepaper

Framework & Tools

.NET 4.0 & Visual Studio 10
Name Description Type
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit for Metro Participants Just released - the first preview of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit for Metro Part... Lab, PowerPoint, Other