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Friday, January 02, 2009 3:29 PM

Are you an ISV in the UK who could benefit from a free design review with Microsoft?

You may recall that my previous role was working with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to help them explore and adopt the latest technologies from Microsoft. In that role I introduced something called a Technology Roadmap Review . Many years on and
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Monday, July 07, 2008 10:20 PM

Building a "brand new application" - WPF, ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ to Entities with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

At the end of June I run workshops with 2 ISVs both looking to completely re-develop their applications. One is entirely VB6, the other a combination of VB6 with C++. The beauty of "starting from scratch" with a one to two year development plan
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Friday, June 20, 2008 2:31 PM

Top 5 questions in my last year working with ISV early adopters

As I get ready to transition role, I find myself increasingly thinking "what happened in the last 12 months that would be useful to take into the next 12 months". One of the great bits about my current role is I spend a lot of time 1:1 in day
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Friday, May 30, 2008 11:19 AM

Microsoft HPC Pack Beta 2 Released

Whoops - nearly forgot this one. We released Beta 2 of the HPC pack earlier this month. I am a fan of HPC - even if I have no dev skills in it :-) Head over to the connect site (and sign up if necessary) to gain access to the download.
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Friday, May 30, 2008 11:12 AM

Enterprise Library 4.0 - May release

I have mixed emotions about the Enterprise Library. When I was last doing development (a few years back) I concluded it was: Big. Which meant it took a lot of time and effort to understand and benefit from it. Inconsistent. The library was a "collection"
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Friday, May 30, 2008 10:06 AM

More bits and bobs - just for partners

The following need a little air time - enjoy! A lot of partners have shown interest in CRM Live (Which is really called Dynamics CRM Online - which isn't quite as catchy). You can try it out free for 30 days at http://offers.crmlive.com/thirtyday I know
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:46 AM

UK ISV interested in a half day 1:1 technology review?

Something we have been looking at recently is taking an approach we use frequently with our managed ISVs and make it more broadly available - with a twist. I am speaking of technology reviews - half day 1:1 technical sessions. During a technology review
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Friday, May 23, 2008 4:42 PM

Are you a UK ISV writing .NET applications in Visual Basic?

Then I would like to hear from you . We are trying to a) better understand how UK ISVs are deciding between C# and Visual Basic and b) I am personally interested in exploring how we can give some recognition to UK ISVs using Visual Basic rather than C#
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Friday, May 23, 2008 4:26 PM

The "refactoring" of this blog has started - pink or red?

The observant amongst you (i.e. those who don't use a rss reader and actually visit this site) will have spotted I have changed the theme and removed a number of ISV links etc. More to do - but I am getting there. In the meantime, you will find all those
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:04 AM

Time to "refactor" this blog...and announcing a new UK ISV Technical Blog

Executive summary :-) If you are technical within an ISV, subscribe to http://blogs.msdn.com/ukisvdev/ The Detail... This blog originally started back in July 2004 (wow - 4 years back!) with an initial focus in SQL Server 2005 early adoption for ISVs.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:05 AM

Load Balancing WCF - summary of resources

I have gathered together some useful resources in one place to cover of the interesting topic of how to load balance requests to a service implemented using WCF - in response to a request from a UK ISV doing some interesting .NET 3.0/3.5 work. Frankly
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:25 AM

Do you share code/publish and wonder about which license to use?

Then you are probably not alone - sharing code appears to be more popular than ever (thanks all!). There are many different licenses out there which you may wish to take advantage of - and the answer really does depend on exactly what you hope to achieve.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:35 AM

Best Silverlight LOB application demo yet

This impressed me so much when I first caught a glimpse of it earlier this year. I have previously posted about the importance of Silverlight as a technology and this demo really shows the huge potential of Silverlight for building RIAs . Enjoy!
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:21 AM

Have you met the UK Partner Bot?

You would remember if you had :-) The UK Partner Bot ( 'partnerbot@hotmail.com' ) is an IM Bot similar to the Encarta bot (" encarta@botmetro.net ’") except for one slight difference - Partner Bot doesn't actually know that much and seems
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:50 AM

A year on: I surrender - I am no longer an Architect...

On May 7th 2007 (a little over a year ago) I posted "I surrender - I am no longer a developer...". The problem I was trying to solve was simple enough. I was trying to be helpful/valuable in too many areas which was leading to problems with work/life
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