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Silverlight and Java Interoperability: Providing the Next Generation Web User Experience

Posted by Robert Bell, Senior Solutions Architect One of the areas that team our assists GISVs (Global Independent Software Vendors) is with interoperability between .NET and Java. A particular area of interest of both .NET and Java developers is using

Lessons learned migrating UNIX-Favored programming idioms to Windows

Grzegorz shared one of his findings from an architecture review that he did some time ago for a global ISV for a product with components that originated on UNIX. You can read it on his blog here .

How To: ClickOnce deployment for unmanaged app with COM component in managed assembly

Grzegorz, one of Senior Solutions Architects on our team, recently worked with a global ISV in Europe on re-architecting some of their products from competitive platforms to Microsoft platform and he plans to write some posts on solutions architecture

Biztalk Reference Architecture: Composite Application Engine

Hello, I’m Charles (Charley) Fichter , a Snr. Solutions Architect on the GISV Architecture team. Thanks for dropping by our team blog. We’ve seen an uptick in interest for Microsoft Biztalk Server in recent months. This may be due to the new Microsoft

Interesting Exception with CRM 4.0 Custom Security Roles and Reporting

Trent worked through an interesting issue with CRM 4.0 reporting throwing a "CRM_CalendarType parameter is missing a value" exception for users of a custom role. You can find more details on his BLOG entry here ( http://www.trentswanson.com/post/2008/03/CRM-40-CRM_CalendarType-parameter-is-missing-a-value.aspx

Software + Services - Opportunities and Challenges for Global ISVs

A number of the GISVs we work with have been listening to the ‘ Software + Services (S+S )’ strategy that Microsoft has been spearheading, and have themselves embarked on creating hosted versions of their solutions. I have been assisting some of these