Adventures In SoftwareLand : Software Plus Services

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!

Live Mesh application development

Michael Lehman — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:23:00 GMT

Today at Web 2.0 Expo, Ori Amiga presented the first public view of the Live Mesh developer experience.

Writing code in Iron Python as well as C#, Ori demonstrated, as in his Channel9 video, how easy it is to write apps against the Mesh Operating Environment (MOE).

More Live Mesh - Follow the Live Mesh group blog

Michael Lehman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:16:00 GMT

For great on-going information about Live Mesh follow the Live Mesh group blog.

In particular, I'm keen on the Live Mesh as a Platform post.

Microsoft Software + Services Blueprints

Michael Lehman — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:39:00 GMT

Finally I can talk about what I've been working on for the past 6 months!

Yesterday, Soma delivered a keynote at TechEd Europe : Developers, and blogged about the Software + Services Blueprints!

S+S Blueprints are source code access, guidance and tools that work with Visual Studio to enable you to easily build software + services solutions. Later today (6-Nov) we will be delivring the first in a series of such blueprints that enables you to build an add-in to Outlook 2007 that exposes data and interacts with external services.

Check it out at http://channel9.msdn.com/blueprints