Adventures In SoftwareLand : Blueprints

Update on Microsoft Blueprints

Michael Lehman — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:01:00 GMT

Most of you who read this blog know that for the past 3 years I’ve been driveing a project that was first called Project Glidepath, then Software + Services Blueprints and finally Microsoft Blueprints.

You may have also noticed recently that the Codeplex project where we were distributing the bits has been closed and wondered what’s up.

We are making some changes around Blueprints. Blueprints were an important incubation whose purpose was to explore process guidance and automation. They helped us gain a better understanding of requirements for this kind of technology through customer and partner feedback.

Recently, however, we took down the Blueprints project on CodePlex and the Blueprints home page on MSDN. We did this in order to focus on the incubation internally. This work includes determining how best to support process guidance and automation capabilities in a manner aligned with Visual Studio Team System product direction.

Since February, I also have moved from focusing on evangelism to spending my time working more closely with the Visual Studio team and am looking forward to seeing what comes from that collaboration.

Multi Tenant Data Access (MTDA) S+S Blueprint Now Available

Michael Lehman — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:53:00 GMT

The MTDA (Multi Tenant Data Access) S+S Blueprint is now online.

You can get more details by watching the Channel9 interview I did with Eugenio Pace: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MichaelLehman/MultiTenant-Data-Access-MTDA-SS-Blueprint-Released/

Download either using the S+S Blueprints Manager or from codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/mtda

Silverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint (Beta 2) available

Michael Lehman — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:51:00 GMT

The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is now online on Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/sl4sp

This latest update works with Silverlight 2 Beta 2.

Planning for TechEd Developers US - June 3-6

Michael Lehman — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:54:00 GMT

UPDATE: S+S Blueprints and Software Factories Focus Groups annoucement. Come help us plan the future!

Today I'm finalizing my plans to bring S+S Blueprints to the US version of TechEd 2008 for Developers which will be in Orlando, Florida on June 3rd through June 6th. It will be one of your last chances to see Bill Gates before he moves on to working full-time at the Gates Foundation starting July 1st.

There will be two new blueprints (and maybe more) to introduce at TechEd and I'd love to connect with developers and architects who have used the existing S+S Blueprints and talk about what you like, don't like and would like to see in future blueprints.

Use the email link to contact me to setup a meeting.

See you in Orlando!

Headed out to Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco

Michael Lehman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:18:00 GMT

I'm working on the next wave Software+Services Blueprints and I want to understand both the developers who will use them and the kinds of applications they build so tomorrow I'm headed to San Francisco to attend the Web 2.0 Expo.

If you're going to be at Web 2.0 and want to help influence the content of our Software+Services Blueprints drop me an email.

The Silverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint - samples/docs/videos now live!

Michael Lehman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:33:00 GMT

The Silverlight Blueprint for Sharepoint was announced on Monday but we had to hold back the sample source code and videos until today when Scott Guthrie announced the Silverlight 2 SDK.

You can now head over to http://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint and download the sample source code, documentation and screencasts and also head over to Channel9 and watch the interview with Rob Barker, the Technical Evangelist who drove the creation of this blueprint. Why not give it a whirl!

In the coming weeks we will also be releasing the full Silverlight Bluepring for Sharepoint in S+S Blueprint format (including VS2008 templates, integrated guidance, etc.) which you can get either via the S+S Blueprints Manager (a free Visual Studio add-in) or by downloading it from Codeplex (http://www.codeplex.com/blueprints).

Office Developers Conference 2008 here we come...

Michael Lehman — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:16:00 GMT

If you're attending the the Office DevCon (http://www.odc2008.com) in San Jose, California on February 11th, be sure to check out the VS2008 version of the Outlook + Services Blueprint

As part of the on-going Software-plus-Services Blueprints Program, we will be releasing the VS2008 version of the S+S Blueprints Manager.

The Outlook + Services Blueprint is an open source framework, workflow-based guidance and tooling enabling the building of complex Outlook 2007 add-ins in a very short period of time.

To get an idea of what the O+S Blueprint can do, check out the screencast and watch an Outlook add-in being created in under 10 minutes!

See you in San Jose.