On 26 November, Shape - The Web Conference will deliver a series of technical breakout sessions around topics that have been announced at PDC this week. Silverlight 2.0 is one of 10 sessions waiting for you, next to Cloud Computing, Internet Explorer 8, Live Mesh and many more. Try out the DeepZoom Application...

REST with WCF REST is gaining popularity and in WCF 3.5 we added REST support through WebGet and WebInvoke attributes and the UriTemplate. Now we just made available the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) REST Starter Kit CTP 1 that you can find it here www.msdn.com/wcf/rest The WCF REST...

“Dublin” it just works “Dublin” is an application server that sits on top of IIS/WAS and offers the management and monitoring tools for WCF and WF. It will ship as free add-on for Windows Server 2008 and included in future server OS releases. Dublin will also deliver: - message correlation and...

WPF The first good news is that we are shipping (RTW) a bunch of new controls for WPF. The most notable of course is the DataGrid that I had a chance to try in the CTP stage and is quite powerful but also quite performing on large datasets. This enables LOB application to be done in WPF without the...

I’m in LA for the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference and I will write a daily resume on this blog about what I have found interesting on the visited sessions. Windows Azure The big news today is the announcement of our cloud strategy and in particular our first cloud offering. The key...

Falls Sie Zeit haben klinken Sie doch in die Live Keynote von Ray Ozzie und Bob Muglia ein. Der Live Stream kann unter www.microsoftpdc.com angesehen werden. Im Zentrum der heutigen Ankündigungen stehen die neue Windows Cloud Plattform (Name wird heute auch angekündigt) und die Cloud Services. Zwei Schweizer...

Das nächste Service Pack für 2007 Office system wird zwischen Februar und April 2009 veröffentlicht werden. SP2 wird wesentliche Verbesserungen im Bereich Interoperabilität enthalten. So werden die Formate ODF, XPS und PDF besser unterstützt werden. Weitere Highlights Im Bereich der Office Desktop...

Last week the Swiss MSDN Team hold once again a Hands-on Lab here in Wallisellen. This time the topic was Entity Framework, the new Microsoft’s technology for bridging the gap between data structures and objects in your applications. The lab was divided into 4 parts. In the first part of the lab attendees...

Am Swiss Software Solution Center in Rapperwil bieten wir erneut die beliebten 2tägigen Hands-on Workshops für ISVs an. 4./5.2.2009: SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence inkl. dem neuen Report Builder 2.0 21./22.1.2009: SQL Server 2008 Development inkl. ADO.NET Sync Services und Administration...

Das kürzlich fertiggestellte Update zum .NET FW 3.5 bietet auch einige Neuerungen im Bereich von Office Development (Visual Studio Tools for Office). Dabei handelt es sich um die folgenden Neuerungen: Software Vorausetzungen auf der Ziel Client-Maschine Mit dem SP1 ist auch eine neue Version...

After yesterday’s official announcement of the availability of Silverlight 2, you can now download the Silverlight 2 Release and accompanying Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 support for it here . Silverlight 2, Microsoft cross-browser and cross-platform technology for building .NET Rich...

Since the release of the Entity Framework, Microsoft got a number of requests for details and best practices from customers who are looking at migrating their LINQ to SQL based applications to the Entity Framework. In order to address this topic, the ADO.NET Team Blog started a new series of blogs posts...

Friday, last week, the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft announced that the Parallel Extensions will be part of the .NET Framework 4.0. Not only will be part of it, but it will be a core part of it. So you will find the Task Parallel Library sitting in mscorlib.dll and PLINQ in system...

Die swissbox ermöglicht es, innerhalb von 1 Stunde, Unternehmenssuche Realität werden zu lassen. Die swissbox ist ein Windows Server inkl. Hardware, auf dem Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express (MSSE) installiert ist. MSSE erlaubt es, mehrere bestehende Fileshares und SharePoint sites zu indexieren...