The maybe most asked question from Siemens is “Do you also support C++ / unmanaged code”. This request has really been heard by the Product group and here you see a first result as “Feature Pack” release. If you wonder what a Feature Pack is, read here . And there is much more in the pack: The modeling...

With VS2010 Microsoft made a significant number of platform investments including the new WPF based editor, DGML, UML diagrams, and TFS extensibility.  We took advantage of a lot of these features for building out the final product. But it has always been Microsoft’s expectation that this investment...

This morning at TechEd New Orleans Jason Zandor (Microsoft) announce several new releases.  Here are a set of links to help you get started: AppFabric V1 RTM Windows Server AppFabric makes it easy to create long running services that combine the best of WCF and WF.  You can install AppFabric...

The new Directed Graph Documents (DGML) Rendering Engine enables it to easily show rich graphs on unrestricted relationships. A new free project now enables the visualization of the work item store. Find all relevant details on CodePlex: http://visualization.codeplex.com/

The DPE Team in Corp. has released a Deep Zoom map, that shows the different scenarios we address with Visual Studio 2010 Test Tools. All Scenarios contain small walk through videos showing the different areas in a proactive and easy way. You can find the English version here: http://archive.speakflow...

Spec Explorer 2010 is a tool that automates the creation of test cases for complex systems. It’s based on technology originally developed at Microsoft Research and later transferred to the Server and Cloud Interoperability Engineering team at Microsoft. Spec Explorer 2010 extends Visual Studio, enabling...

This year’ Microsoft @ Siemens Conference in Erlangen was a big success. Siemens and Microsoft are jointly organizing the German edition of the conference for more then 6 years now and every year seems to top the last one again. A few impressions here: Participant voices: „This is my 3 rd Microsoft@Siemens...