TechEd is Microsoft's premier technology conference for IT professionals and developers, offering the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft's current and soon-to-be- released suite of products, solutions, tools, and services. This June we celebrate the 20th annual TechEd North America...

Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 is available at the Microsoft Download Center at Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 . First publicized at PDC 2009, Windows Server AppFabric is a set of application services focused on improving the speed, scale, and management of Web, Composite, and Enterprise applications...

The release candidate for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is available for download. The downloadable release candidate was offered to MSDN subscribers on Monday. Non-members can get it on Wednesday. The RC includes a go-live license for people who want to deploy in their production environment...

Windows Workflow Foundation programs coordinate with a minimal ceremony. It provides a programming model, in-process workflow engine and rehostable designer to implement long-running processes as workflows within .NET applications. In .NET Framework 4, Windows Workflow Foundation introduces a significant...

Microsoft’s new Windows Server AppFabric gives you new tools to develop, manage and deploy composite applications, both on premises and in the cloud. Composite applications reuse existing services and business logic to provide new and innovative functionality for end users. You can get started today...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available publicly. You can download the edition you want to try from Download Beta 2 . You’ll have your choice of each edition in Visual Studio 2010 or .NET Framework 4, including the free Express versions. Although this is a community preview, Beta 2 comes with a “go...

Been wanting to get started using the new features in Visual Studio 2010? The Visual Studio Development Center is a great place to start. You can find Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Walkthroughs . SharePoint Development Visual Studio 2010 provides an alternative to creating SharePoint...

A new acronym has been added for ISVs to consider offering your customers. This month Communications as a Service (CaaS) is explained in an article in Dr Dobbs Journal, CaaS: Communications-as-a-Service , by Charles Studt who is vice president of product management for IntelePeer and Joseph Hofstader...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is available to the public. You can download it from the Visual Studio 2010 site. You can options to download either the Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta or the Visual Studio 2010 Team System Beta . There are other download options as well. You can download a datasheet too...

A set of features in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0, improves Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) , collectively known as connected systems . Windows Server extensions for connected systems, code-named "Dublin” ,  provide an improved hosting and management...

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 (Professional, Suite and Team Foundation Server) is available today to MSDN Subscribers through MSDN Subscriber Downloads and to the general public on Wednesday, May 20 th through Microsoft Downloads. MSDN Subscribers can download the beta from here . You can download a datasheet...

The product roadmaps for the coming year were announced at TechEd this past week. The products include lots of important technology for ISVs. Date not announced: Silverlight 3 . introducing more than 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight applications out of the browser,...

Updates to the Azure Services Platform Training Kit and Azure Services Management Tools have been released. Azure Services Platform Training Kit Update Today we released an updated version of the Azure Services Training Kit. The first Azure Services Training Kit was released during the week of...

You can now use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to automate your business processes, build efficient applications on top of the Microsoft SharePoint platform, and tailor your SharePoint site to your needs. And you can do so for free. The Office System team has announced that SharePoint Designer is...

We had a very successful event. Thank you Startup Teams (invited 5 teams out of 50+ teams), Advisors (total 6), Judging Panel (total 6), MTC Reston Team and Snippies (our professional video crew). All teams could convert their dream ideas into a tangible solution using Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform...

Each release of .NET Framework adds to previous releases of .NET. And as features come out, they are slowly evolving the architecture for new applications and for updating applications in production. It's no longer about stitching together a set of libraries together to build an application. It's about...

I mentioned in a previous post that I would post again when I updated my screencast series on Workflow Foundation. Today I submitted the third (and probably final) screencast in this series titled Service Enabling Workflows . Many don't realize that the Workflow Foundation provides an interface-driven...