A new beta shows off new Home & Hub pages for MSDN. The focus is to build a better developer on-ramps for each platform with several important realizations in mind.

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ISV Architect Evangelist Patrick Foley talks with Dewey Hou and Dean Craven from TechSmith about how TechSmith uses Windows 7 jump lists and task bar progress in Camtasia Studio, the popular screen recording and production software. Snagit, and Morae are also discussed, along with what to expect next from TechSmith.

ISV Video: TechSmith Lights Up Windows 7

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Pervasive Software(R) Inc. ( NASDAQ: PVSW ), a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and recent “ Best of SaaS Showplace ” award winner, enables the integration and connectivity to the Open Data Protocol (OData) using the Microsoft Dynamics certified Pervasive Data Integrator ™. Pervasive Data Integrator Universal CONNECT! has an unparalleled range of connectivity and integration capabilities to a variety of on-premises, on-demand and cloud-based applications and sources, including the...

Episode7 is now available! In episode 7 I cover the Developer Dashboard.  I’ll show you how to turn it on and off for your site, as well as at the page level.  I also show how you can add code to your projects that exposes information through the Developer Dashboard to make troubleshooting issues easier. What's New: SharePoint 2010 is a series of screencasts centered on what is new in SharePoint 2010 for developers. My goal is to highlight a majority of the major new features that are of...

Recently I sat down with Jim Brown, Manager – Solution Center for Equaterra, via live meeting to discuss their SharePoint 2010 offering “Equaterra Direct”.  Equaterra Direct makes extensive use of the Business Connectivity Services to bring data from external systems into SharePoint.  Jim also shared a short demo of the product during our discussion.   Video: John Wiese Talks with Jim Brown, Manager of Equaterra's Solution Center about their SharePoint 2010 Offering   John Wiese...

Recently I sat down with John Wethington, Sr. Account Engineer with BinaryTree via Live Meeting. During our discussion we talked about BinaryTree’s SharePoint 2010 offering, CMT for SharePoint. CMT for SharePoint is a tool that allows you to easily migrate your existing Domino applications over to SharePoint. John was also kind enough to give a thorough demonstration of the product in action. Video: John Wiese Talks with John Wethington, Sr. Account Engineer from BinaryTree about their Domino...

SQL Azure Service Update 3 has arrived in six datacenters worldwide, including data centers in East Asia and Western Europe. The update and is now available with the promised new features, such as: 50 GB Database Support – You can now store even more data in a single SQL Azure database as the database size has been increased to 50 GB. Spatial Data Support - SQL Azure now offers support for the Geography and Geometry types as well as spatial query support via T-SQL. HierarchyID Data Type Support ...

Everyone has an opinion, but Dotfuscator with Runtime Intelligence inside Visual Studio 2010 can give you the “facts” on stability, performance and usage of all your .NET applications (desktop, web, Silverlight, mobile). This video shows you in 90 seconds how to get this valuable runtime intelligence. See Dotfuscator Runtime Intelligence in 90 seconds .   Bruce D. Kyle ISV Architect Evangelist | Microsoft Corporation

Corporate VP of Corporate Communications, Frank Shaw , has posted Microsoft by the numbers in which he provides some valuable insight into Microsoft state of business. And he compares the numbers with many of Microsoft competitors. The blog posts also include source information. For example: 150 million Windows 7 licenses sold in 8 months. 96% of US netbooks running Windows in 2009. 10,000 paying customers running on Windows Azure in June 2010. For those interested in the competitive landscape, check...

Dayforce , an industry pioneer of Workforce Performance Management solutions, uses Microsoft Windows 7 Multi-touch capabilities in their Web Clock to deliver more usable, flexible and interactive experience to enterprise business clients. The Web Clock lets enterprise clients set up machines without the need for keyboard hardware or mouse hardware. Employees can then use the Dayforce Web Clock without any external peripherals to perform key work time-related tasks, including logging in, recording...

Pervasive Software(R) Inc. ( NASDAQ: PVSW ), a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and recent “ Best of SaaS Showplace ” award winner, selected the Microsoft Windows Azure platform for Pervasive BusinessXchange™ WebDI®, its hosted business-to-business data interchange service (see PressRelease ). Pervasive tells us the Azure features it likes on the Windows Azure platform include elastic computing, reliable storage and dynamic service management components – which make for...

Changes are being made as the Microsoft Partner Program completes its evolution to the Microsoft Partner Network in October 2010. Beginning in October, the Certified and Gold Certified Partner designations will be retired. In their place will be Communities, Partner Competencies and Subscriptions.

This blog post summarizes the changes for ISVs. Get details about the changes at Prepare for Upcoming Changes to the Microsoft Partner Network on the Microsoft Partner Network site.

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CloudPoll attracted over 5,000 individual users last month , but did you create or answer a poll on CloudPoll and shared your poll on Facebook?! No? Then check it out now, on http://bit.ly/CloudPoll ! Our very own CloudPoll http://bit.ly/CloudPoll reference application, hosted in Windows Azure, enables any Facebook user to answer, create, customize, share, and evaluate polls on Facebook. We got great traction with Outback hosting a poll on CloudPoll weekly and the Windows Azure FB team lets Facebook...

Internet Explorer Platform Preview 3 has been released. The Internet Explorer Platform Preview allows developers to test the new Internet Explorer 9 web development and design capabilities including our new JavaScript engine – codename Chakra – as well as our support for standards like HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1 and DOM.

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Microsoft's new Envisioning Lab shows off technology that provides a vision into the future.

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Video Link - http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/jodonnell/Enterprise-mobility-with-Windows-Embedded-Handheld/ On June 17th at a joint press conference with Steve Ballmer and Motorola , we announced a new software platform called Windows Embedded Handheld. This platform is designed to deliver a mobile operating system to meet line of business scenarios in the enterprise. I talked with Rene Bernier, account manager for Motorola to get his take on what this means for our mobile partners and where this...

This five part video series chronicles the migration of the MSDEV Web sites from a traditional, third party hosted, terrestrial infrastructure, to its new home in the cloud using Windows Azure. See this real world project through the eyes of the MSDEV team and their partners at Slalom Consulting as they take you through the process from planning to completion. The series is available at msdev Cloud Migration . Episode 1. Planning. MSDEV team members discuss the reasoning behind moving the msdev...

Episode 6 is now available! In episode 6 I cover using the Word Automation Services to convert files as they are dropped into a document library.  For this demo I’ve chosen to use a workflow associated with the document library and have the code convert the document to a PDF and save it to a different document library, something you may need to do for compliance reasons. What's New: SharePoint 2010 is a series of screencasts centered on what is new in SharePoint 2010 for developers. My goal...

Episode 5 is now available! In episode 5 I cover searching external data sources using the Business Connectivity Service (BCS).  What's New: SharePoint 2010 is a series of screencasts centered on what is new in SharePoint 2010 for developers. My goal is to highlight a majority of the major new features that are of interest to developers and help you get started building solutions on those features.  What better place to start that at the beginning, building your dev box.   Episode...

Recently I sat down with Guy Mounier, CEO of BA-Insight via Live Meeting.  During our discussion we talked about BA-Insight's SharePoint 2010 product and their use of Silverlight to create a compelling user interface.  Guy also gives us a short demo of their product in action. Video: John Wiese Talks with Guy Mounier, CEO of BA-Insight, about their SharePoint 2010 Search Enahancements   John Wiese ISV Architect Evangelist Microsoft Corporation john.wiese@microsoft.com

We want to hear what emerging Technology gets you excited :-). Vote for your favorite emerging Microsoft technology on Facebook http://bit.ly/FavMSTech : or go to CloudPoll to see all polls @ http://apps.facebook.com/CloudPoll ISV Architect Evangelist | Microsoft | blog http://blogs.msdn.com/glenz | team-blog http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde | ISV Concierge http://www.isvconcierge.com/

Repost from Paul Andrews' blog : We completed and published the SharePoint VSeWSS Import tool . This tool is an add-in to Visual Studio 2010 and it adds a new SharePoint project template for importing a VSeWSS project. VSeWSS or the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services are the Microsoft tools for creating SharePoint 2007 projects on Visual Studio 2008. In Visual Studio 2010 we have built in tools for creating SharePoint 2010 projects. This import tool takes a VSeWSS...

Datacastle uses PowerShell to work with Hyper-V for quicker tests across many configurations and for quicker and improved deployment at customer sites.

ISV Video: PowerShell Automates Datacastle Testing with Hyper-V, Reduces Deployment Costs

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New Windows Server 2008 R2 Developer Training Kit are available on MSDN Code Gallery as hands-on-labs specializes in parallel computing.

Sample are now available on MSDN Code Gallery (hands-on-labs).

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Please join us in Washington, D.C to hear the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Guest Speaker President Bill Clinton, Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States on Wednesday July 14. He's speaking on In addition to this fantastic reason to attend the conference this year, you won’t want to miss the following tracks, which will provide insight into Microsoft's vision and product roadmap.

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