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PDC Preconference Offers 11 Reasons To Come Early
The Professional Developer Conference (PDC) agenda will feature sessions on software modeling, agile development, cloud computing, Silverlight and a whole lot more. Information Week has a great article that pulls together the topics entitiled What to Read More...
Oslo Roadmap Described in eWeek Article
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 Read More...
Introduction into Testing Your .NET 3.5 Applications
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 Read More...
Develop Real World Apps with S+S Blueprints
Building Software-plus-Services (S+S) applications is getting easier with S+S Blueprints. S+S is about providing your customers with choices of on premises or hosted applications. The S+S Blueprints are a series of open source frameworks and guidance Read More...
Security Development Lifecycle Resources Help ISVs
It turns out that less than 10% of vulnerabilities disclosed through June 2007 were targeted at Operating Systems. More than 90% of vulnerabilities targeted at the application layer. In his blog entry How Vulnearable are Software Applications? , S. Somasegar Read More...
Five Things the Boss Should Know About LINQ
I found an interesting article, Five Things the Boss Should Know About Microsoft's LINQ , written by John Paul Mueller who talks on CIO about LINQ from the developer manager point of view. LINQ provides general-purpose query facilities that have been Read More...
Architecture Explorer Validates Application Code in Next Visual Studio Team System
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 Read More...
First Oslo Early Bits to Ship at PDC
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 Read More...
Big Picture of .NET Framework 3.5
Each release of .NET Framework adds to previous releases of .NET. And as features come out, they are slowly evolving the architecture for new applications and for updating applications in production. It's no longer about stitching together a set of libraries Read More...
Mythbuster -- Software Factories for ISVs
In this post I address, and clarify, the top 5 myths that I often hear about Software Factories, especially in regards to small software development projects and organizations! When talking to friends, colleagues, and customers about Software Factories Read More...
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