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Gunther and I have been blogging about several of the new features that are coming in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. So far, we've mentioned: Enhancements to connected systems . Visual Studio Team Architect Enhancements . And how the Visual
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The name of the next major release of BizTalk server has changed from BizTalk Server 2006 Release 3 to BizTalk Server 2009 to indicate that it is a major release. The new version is slated to ship during the first half of next year. BizTalk Server 2009
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The September community technology preview (CTP) of F# marks an important step along the path to integrate the F# language into Visual Studio. F#, a functional programming language for the .NET platform, combines the strengths of functional programming
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Know of a college or high school that might want to teach developer, designer skills? MSDN Academic Alliance is the easiest and most inexpensive way for students and faculty in the technology and design fields to get the latest Microsoft software they
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Come join the first open developer conference focused on Visual Studio extensibility . The Microsoft VSX Developer Conference is September 15 -16 in Redmond, Washington. Whether beginner or expert, you’ll learn tips and tricks, best practices, and meet
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) offers source control, data collection, reporting, and project tracking, and is intended for collaborative software development projects. It sits on a server in your organization as a project repository. It works
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The latest community technology preview of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition is now available on our download site . In addition to providing support for SQL Server 2008 database projects, this release incorporates many previously released
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eWeek.com provides an insight into the Oslo and how the initiative relates to cloud computing. You can read the article at Oslo: Road to Microsoft's Cloud . But I'll summarize key points of interest to ISVs here. Oslo is built around service oriented
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Testing applications has often been an after-thought when building applications. But now many leading software companies build unit tests and are building applications using test-driven development. While these are not new ideas, this month's Visual Studio
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If you're using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) , you're invited to share and download templates that share your process templates. Creating new process templates can be a significant undertaking. It's way easier if you can start with a process
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The ability to model architecture of an application and validate it against application code will be added to the next version of Visual Studio Team System, code named Rosario . A new feature will allow you to create a visual map of your application's
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The first three components of Oslo , the model-driven connected systems software development initiative from Microsoft, was announced at TechEd . The components are: Modeling tool Repository Declarative programming language The community technology previews
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The first beta release of Service Pack 1 for both Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 are available. With Service Pack 1, Visual Studio 2008 introduces a large assortment of new features for targeting Windows, Office, and the Web. Developers building
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I would guess, that as an architect the answer to such a general question would be "it depends" . Obviously Software Factories are no "silver bullet", but they might have the potential to elevate software development to the next maturity level, at least
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