Windows Vista Beta 2 Public Release Today Microsoft Windows formally announced public availability of Windows Vista Beta 2. The beta is build 5384 f or those of you keeping track. O n the GetReady site you can use the Upgrade Advisor to see if your...

The trinity team(VSTO/VSTA team in MS) announced "Cypress", a fully-supported add-on to Visual Studio 2005 which will give developers the ability to build applications targeting the 2007 version of Office. Specific Cypress functionality includes: ...

Microsoft is announcing a new product, Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. This new offering expands Visual Studio 2005 Team System to include the Database Professional role and enables software teams to collaborate more effectively...

We have been running Vista live meeting sessions which covers various topics around Vista. Here is the link to recorded Vista live meeting sessions. Vista Overview for Developers A Lap Around Windows Presentation Foundation...

Next week I am delivering a Office 2007 webcast. Office 2007 provides a tremendous opportunity for developers to provide rich client solutions to solve business problems. You can register for the webcast and attend it from the link below: http:...

The WCF (Windows Communication Foundation / “Indigo”) and WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) have announced Go Live licenses yesterday morning, which allow customers to use the January Go Live releases of WCF and WF in your deployment environments. (Note...

Happy New Year 2006. I wanted to let you know about an exciting opportunity for exposure at the MEDC 2006. If you are an ISV working on the mobile and embedded space, this may be a great opportunity for you to get very good exposure. Microsoft...

For those of who playing around with WinFX, the WinFX Runtime components December CTP is now live and available online. WinFX Runtime Components: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BD3BA2D5-6ADB-4FB2-A3AA-E16A9EA5603F&displaylang...

I wanted to provide an update on the availability of VS 2005 team edition for Software developers and Team foundation Server workgroup edition. The MSDN subscriber download has been updated with these product updates.This means that Gold Partners and...

The patterns and practices group has released the Composite UI application block. Click here to access this application block. This application block helps to build smart client application based on composite pattern, which is based on creating complex...

I am an ISV Developer evangelist with Microsoft and I spend lot of my time talking to ISVs about architecture and how Microsoft solutions can fit their product architecture. In case you don't know Microsoft publishes a quarterly architecture publication...