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Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:54 PM

Microsoft Applications using .NET Framework

Two of my ISVs were asking about Microsoft applications which use the .NET Framework. When I had a quick look on the web I found a very good but quite old post from Daniel on this area (still very much worth a read) http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2004/11/02/251254.aspx
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:14 PM

Download Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 RC0 (and .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2)

The latest Windows SDK is now available for installation as an ISO download. The SDK release supports: Windows Server 2008 RC0 Windows Vista SP1 Beta .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2. and is compatible with the RTM release of Microsoft® Visual Studio 2005 SP1
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:23 PM

One step closer - Windows Server 2008 RC0 is out

It also includes a CTP of Windows Server Virtualisation - yay! http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/sep07/09-24windowserverrc0.mspx
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:53 AM

Links and answers from Developing Great Server Applications, Sept 13th

Last Thursday we delivered a day briefing on developing server applications with IIS7, WCF, WF, MSMQ as well as a swift look at Designing For Operations. The "official" followup email should happen in the next few days with details of how to download
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Monday, September 10, 2007 9:47 AM

Interesting slides on the changing landscape

And why we need to be thinking about it... http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/shift-happens-33834
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:22 PM

Technology Areas covered by my team this year

These are exciting times - lots of new technologies which will be useful to UK ISVs. The following is a list of just how broad our remit is right now - and in case you were wondering. We are a team of.... 8 :-) Visual Studio 2008 – great new development
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 9:07 PM

Silverlight - should an ISV care?

The choice of technology for delivering UX is getting wider. Three years back it would have been (in most cases) a simple choice of Windows Forms or HTML+JScript. Today ISVs are trying to pick a UX technology which will serve them well for the next 5
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 9:04 PM

Silverlight 1.0 Released - and Linux support announced

Today we released Silverlight 1.0 for Windows and Mac and announced Silverlight for Linux (working in partnership with Novell). Silverlight is a cross platform, cross browser plug-in that enables designers and developers to build rich media experiences
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 6:31 PM

Windows Server 2008 - not until Q1 2008

Firstly some good news ;-). We have been saying we would Release to Manufacturing (RTM) Windows Server 2008 by the end of the calendar year. This is no longer the case. We are instead intending to RTM in the first quarter of calendar year 2008. The change
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 6:26 PM

Blimey - that was a corking holiday (and 40 isn't that old)

Had a great time in Yorkshire staying near Scarborough. Every morning (pretty much) we woke up to find our cottage in a cloud and every day we went on to have a great time despite the weather. The only "challenge" - my wife loves the place so much she
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