About one month ago at TechDays 2009 in Bern, Microsoft Switzerland has honored 4 brilliant solutions with the This post introduces the following 4 ones that describe the award-winning projects. Please note that the next Innovation Awards will be assigned at TechDays10 in Basel (Congress Center...

The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit help you understand how to build web applications which deeply exploit the rich data types, programming models and new development paradigms in SQL Server 2008. The training kit offers the following benefits: Learn how to build web applications that...

Today I found an excellent guide on Entity Framework written by Zeeshan Hirani. The PDF document contains examples of various mapping scenarios and concepts Zeeshan learned about Entity Framework. It's really a wonderful collection of tips and tricks that may be useful if you are within a project using...

Don't miss on this unique opportunity to learn WCF from Juval Lowy who has been part of the strategic design effort for WCF from the beginning, and who offers a profound insight on the technology and its applications. You will see how to take advantage of built-in features such as service hosting...

Vincenzo Stefanelli (Bixi Systems AG) and Peter Kämpf (Trivadis AG) have won the Innovation Award 2009 for their The currently 8-man-years project is in an advanced pilot phase and it is planned to go live mid of FY10. “ATLAS” has been developed jointly by Trivadis and Bixi Systems for Bixi Systems...

Altran AG, represented by Frederic de Simoni and Dieter Werner, have won the Innovation Award 2009 for their The Altran Information Manger (AIM) is a resource planning system that is currently used by the “Führungsunterstützungsbasis der Armee”. Being the resource planning a typical process...

Mit der sofortigen Verfügbarkeit von Windows 7 RC für Kunden und Partner mit MSDN und TechNet Zugriff, steht dem Testen Ihrer (Standard-) Applikation auf Windows 7 nichts mehr im Wege. Applikationen, welche auf Windows Vista funktionieren, sollten auch "automatisch" auf Windows 7 laufen, dennoch sollten...

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. By enrolling your solution to Innovate On (at no cost, non-publicly), you will qualify for related benefits: • Centralized resources for solution...

Microsoft has just announced the availability of the beta 2 of Geneva : Microsoft open platform that dramatically simplifies user access and secure collaboration across organizational boundaries. Within Beta 2 the following components are now available for public evaluation: · "Geneva" Server security...

Glaux Soft AG, represented by Beat Kiener, have won the Innovation Award 2009 for their evidence nova is a Client Relationship Management system that has been developed by Glaux Soft AG and it is currently in an advanced pilot phase at Swiss Olympic. The next figure illustrates the technologies...

Hier finden Sie eine Liste der häufigsten Kunden-Fragen. 1. Wo kann ich eine aktuelle Liste von Entity Framework-Anbietern/Provider finden? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/dd363565.aspx 2. Wie kann man ein LINQ To Entities query schreiben, das in ein SQL "in" statement übersetzt wird? ...

Christian Strauch and his team at F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG have won the Innovation Award 2009 for their The Sample Management Module (SMM) of the Clinical Information Management system it is used for so-called “Items lifecycle tracking” and it has several amazing peculiarities: Flexibility...

After the announcements of the availability of Windows 7 RC and Windows Server 2008 R2 RC , it’s now time for the Beta1 of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 . In order to learn how to utilize Visual Studio 2010 features and .NET 4.0 technologies, a new version of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework...