September 2007 - Posts
I had the good fortune of attending a lab with the WPF team on campus last week, and came away with some information I'd like to share with you all. For those of you developing on the .NET 3.0 version of WPF, you should strongly consider a port to .NET
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The latest version of the Power Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server is now available for download . This release of the Power Tools includes to new features: Team Foundation Server Best Practice Analyzer - This diagnostic tool helps a
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Register now for the patterns & practices Summit - A full week of unique enterprise-scale technical presentations featuring keynote speakers Andres Hejlsberg, Steve McConnell, Scott Guthrie, Scott Hanselman, & John Lam. http://www.pnpsummit.com/_practices.aspx
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On October 4th 2007 designers, students and businesses decision makers come together in 10 cities around the world to learn what can be done when you design with the Microsoft platform and tools for UX. Visit the site for more details: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/events-training/globalevent/default.html
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Microsoft is eager to announce availability of the Go Live release of Microsoft FastCGI Extension for IIS 5.1/6.0 as a free download from the IIS community site, www.iis.net . The Go Live release is the last step in the Microsoft beta process and represents
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The second Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Astoria web data services technology is due around Christmastime. The Astoria project is focused around merging web technologies and concepts with the Microsoft data platform. The goal is to provide
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Want to learn about high availability features in SQL Server? Are you interested in hearing about upcoming features in SQL Server 2008? Tune into this Videocast and hear the perspectives of a member of the ISV community who has been involved in the early
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We are very happy to announce that we released Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007. PerformancePoint Server (PPS) allows to monitor, analyze and plan their business goals and performance against those goals. PPS builds on top of and requires SQL Server
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Hoopla is surrounding the Microsoft blogosphere on yesterday's milestone release of Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 (RC0). While this is a great achievement in itself, I want to call out the fact that included with RC0 is the first public preview
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Are you trying to access your TFS installation over the web? Microsoft today released a new Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio Team System Web Access. Advances in this CTP include: Built against the TFS 2008 object model - In previous versions
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We've heard feedback from ISVs evaluating Silverlight that the control set just isn't enough for building the apps they'd like to build. Of course our feedback has been that things will continue to improve as we progress toward Silverlight 1.1 and that
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If you've been wanting to get acquainted with Windows Live applications, Visual Studio 2008 will include controls that help you connect with Live. A public beta of the toolkit for developers is expected in October or November. The details are part of
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If you didn't know already, the Visual Studio Team System "Rosario" bits are available for download (including a VPC image). One of the major features many of my ISV partners have been waiting for is the hierarchical work items. Grant Holliday, a VSTS
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My independent software vendors (ISV's) are looking for ways to differentiate their products from their competitors. One way is to provide maps and location information. The Virtual Earth platform is an integrated set of services that combines unique
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So what are the key technologies in Windows Server 2008 that independent software vendors (ISV's) can use right away to gain strategic advantages? And once I figure out how they fit into my product, how do I go learning about them? And after that, how
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One of the biggest concerns/fears that developers new to object relational mappers (ORMs) have is "but what SQL code is it actually executing?" One of the really nice things about LINQ to SQL is that there's a way to see exactly what SQL code it is executing
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Ben Riga blogged about some of the early adopter ISVs showcasing their solutions. You may see here for more details. If you are a Titan early adopter ISV participating in our Metro program, may want to get your cool solution profiled then please drop
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If your application supports Windows Mobile , you'll be interested in Rob Tiffany's latest endeavor. His next book will show you how to put together your own scalable rack of servers that can support tens of thousands of Windows Mobile devices. The book
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Many ISV's are interested in surfacing data in your appliation into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). MOSS introduced the Business Data Catalog (BDC) for you to do just that without code. The BDC bridges the gap between the portal site and
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I have been using the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Virtual PC version to test out the new features. I get the VPC to save install time and configuration. I get it and go. But on my home connection, it took a long time to download. Brian Keller has written
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We have released Microsoft Dynamics CRM “Titan” CTP3 (Community Technology Preview 3). Early adopter ISVs can access the bits from MS-Connect site ; for more details please see here . Sanjay Jain Microsoft Dynamics ISV Architect Evangelist
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