June 2008 - Posts
I came across the "ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence" at http://efvote.wufoo.com/forms/ado-net-entity-framework-vote-of-no-confidence/ today and thought this was something worth commenting on. Background I happen to find out about
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We recently put this list of resources together for an ISV. Here's some great info, if you are in the process of evaluating or trying to bring Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) into your organization. These links provide great support when you are creating
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Pier1 is one of Microsoft's NXT Partners (specialized in S+S). They are offering a FREE webinar on Software + Services. Though the event has passed, you can still check out the recording. As some of you might know, an estimated 25 percent of all
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Here's a great blog post on the US ISV Developer Evangelism Team blog that talks about Best Practices Security Tools that help ISV's Protect Against Web Attacks . http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2008/06/25/best-practices-security-tools-help-isvs-protect-against-web-attacks.aspx
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I conducted a Webcast last week on Thursday, June 19th 2008, with Gunther Lenz . Some of you might have been able to make it. We had a great turnout for the event. Here's the info... Webcast Title: "Composite Rich Internet Applications"
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For those of you in the Southeast who spend a lot of time at local .NET Community Events, thought I would let you know that Glen Gordon will be taking over Doug Turnure. Doug Turnure has accepted a job offer in Redmond. It will be his job to provide all
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There’s a Microsoft Architecture Journal available, and this time looks like the team wanted to generate some synergy with the community. They launched a new forum, whose subject is the Journal topic: The Architect Role Instead of the regular discussions
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As many of you know, Microsoft has been working on a new version of LitwareHR that uses SQL Server Data Services instead of SQL Server as the store. This was first presented in MIX by SSDS Architect Nigel Ellis (see session here ). Microsoft hasn't released
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Microsoft project code named "Velocity" provides a highly scalable in-memory application cache for all kinds of data. By using cache, your application performance can improve significantly by avoiding unnecessary calls to the data source. By
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I recently had a couple ISV's that wanted to leverage Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) together to implement their own internal CodePlex ( www.codeplex.com ). My ISV's wanted to be able to share code
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If you are interested in using BizTalk Server with the launch wave of 2008 products like the latest .NET Framework, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, you will need to wait just a little longer. BizTalk Server 2006 R3 will be
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