Auf der neuen Webseite http://www.microsoft.com/web erhalten Sie einen sehr guten Überblick zur aktuellen Microsoft Web Plattform. Themen wie IIS, .NET Framework, Visual Web Developer, SQL Server Express, usw. werden ausführlich beschrieben. Besonders hilfreich ist sicherlich der Bereich "jump start...

Silverlight 3 Beta is now public and with many new and exciting feature. As you may know I'm a big fan of the DataGrid control in Silverlight. It is already very powerful and is improving every day. So I have asked Yifung Lin, one of the developer of the DataGrid control, to provide a quick overview...

And now for something completely different. Out of curiosity on the subject and because I wanted to see Chris Sells and Douglas Purdy live, I attended their session on “Developing RESTful services and client using “M” (Oslo). A very intense talk on “M”, a language for specifying data. Their demos in...

Internet Explorer 8 and Industrial Design The keynote today was all about Internet Explorer 8 and a wonderful piece on industrial design by Deborah Adler talking about the prescription drug container she designed for Target. Get Internet Explorer for your computer today and the great video on internet...

Here is a short summary about my key takeaways from the Mix 2009 conference in Las Vegas. Expression Web 3 Besides support for the latest web standards and various languages including PHP, the new “Super Preview” feature of Expression Web 3 really stands out. It allows web developers to preview their...

Today at MIX09 in Las Vegas, we rolled out the beta of Silverlight 3, a preview of the most powerful platform for creating and delivering rich Internet applications (RIAs) and media experiences on the Web . This new version contains more than 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight...

Zum Thema Application Lifecycle Management hat Microsoft ein neues Dokument publiziert. Auf Basis eines Praxisbeispiels wird aufgezeigt, wie das Visual Studio Team System, insbesondere der Team Foundation Server, optimal im Zusammenhang mit einem SharePoint Entwicklungsprojekt genutzt werden kann. Artikel...

Since yesterday evening the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 is available!!! The goal of this Kit is to simplify the process of building RESTful services with WCF, without having to wait for .NET 4.0. Just to be clear there is no guarantee that what you can find today in the starter kit will end up...

If you are a software developer new to a specific Microsoft technology, Innovate On provides you one-stop online resource to speed-up your development. Innovate On getting started resources include help for learning, building, testing and go-to-market*. Innovate On includes technology based sub...

Recently Microsoft announced that the VB6 runtime will ship and will be supported in Windows 7 for the lifetime of the OS. Developers can think of the support story for Vista being the same as it is for Windows 7. However there are no plans to include VB6 runtime in future versions of Windows beyond...

Last year, at TechDays 2008 in Basel, Ronnie Saurenmann held a session on introducing Silverlight 2. During this session (which is available here ), he showed how you can build from scratch a Silverlight 2 PhotoBrowser application using Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend. If you are new to Silverlight...