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US ISV Developer Evangelism Team

Posts helpful to US-based ISVs implementing products on the Microsoft platform

August 2006 - Posts

Go-Live Licenses Available
.NET Framework 3.0 Runtime components http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/downloads . Go Live Licensing available with March ATLAS CTP http://atlas.asp.net Read More...
Code-Signing Best Practices
At WinHEC' 06 Microsoft released an important whitepaper that provided insites and best practies for Code Signing. This paper includes Code-Signing Bacics, Signing Technologies in Windows, Digital Signatures in Windows, and a comprehensive view of Code-Signing Read More...
New Tools for Database Professionals
Late last week the Visual Studio team released the latest CTP for Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals . This is a new Visual Studio product that is meant to allow DBAs to utilize Visual Studio 2005 for common tasks like data comparisons, Read More...
2007 Microsoft Office System End User On-Demand Webcasts
Don’t miss out on our first end user webcasts for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Check them out for yourself. A First Look at the 2007 Microsoft Office System http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032290359&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Read More...
Best Practices for Globalization and Localization with WPF
You can make the most of the globalization and localization functionality that is built into Windows Presentation Foundation by following the UI design and localization-related tips that this section provides. Follow this link for a useful set of Globalization Read More...
New Logo Program for Windows Vista
Currently we are in the “Early Adoption” phase of the Window’s Vista Quality Program. In the “Early Adoption” phase Microsoft would like to invite you to review the 1.0v of the technical standards of the program. The Windows Vista Quality Program standards Read More...
ISV Touchdown Training Event: Hands-On Development For The 2007 Microsoft Office System
You are invited to this two-day, hands-on lab to learn how to take advantage of the enhanced intuitive design and improved features of 2007 Microsoft Office system- at no cost (a $550 value). The 2007 Microsoft® Office system is an advanced solution that Read More...
Announcing the Windows CardSpace Sandbox
Try out CardSpace now! Recently we launched the Windows CardSpace Sandbox. The Sandbox ( http://sandbox.netfx3.com ) is area within the NetFx3.com site where users can try out Windows CardSpace from within their browser. The Sandbox allows developers Read More...
Application Compatibility with Windows Vista
To help ISVs get ready for Windows Vista, Microsoft has created the Innovate on Windows Vista portal which will determine application compatibility status with Windows Vista and step you through the Windows Vista application testing process such that Read More...
Line of Business Interoperability (LOBi) for Office SharePoint Server 2007
During his presentation at TechEd, Chris Caposella announced Microsoft’s Office Business Application Strategy. As part of the overall strategy, Chris announced LOBi for Office SharePoint Server 2007. LOBi will deliver specific functionality for surfacing Read More...
Going ....... Windows Vista
I really like this article when I talk with ISVs about Windows Vista and how to get the most bang out of their development efforts in supporting Windows Vista. This article walks you through where we think the "Light Up" scenarios are in Vista. http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/prodinfo/top10/default.aspx Read More...
Announcing CodePlex
This exciting new ‘Shared Source’ facility provides a venue to bring together developers and provides them tools, source code and an advanced platform for designing and building software. CodePlex is just one of the ways in which Microsoft is fostering Read More...
Security Development Lifecycle
Following are the development resources referenced in the Security Development Lifecycle breakout at the ISV CTO Summit: • Overview of SDL http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/sdl • Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vs05security.asp Read More...
ISV Q&A with Brian Keller of Visual Studio Team System
So recently we reached out to Brian Keller , newly minted Technical Evangelist for Visual Studio Team System. We appreciate Brian taking the time to answer a few questions for the ISV Community. The following are the questions we forwarded to Brian. He'll Read More...
UPDATE: TFS Benefit for Certified and Gold ISVs
The July Partner Program Kit included a new benefit for Certified and Gold level ISVs who hold either the ISV or CDS competency. It has come to our attention that the disk labeled TFS actually has a Windows installation on it and not TFS. We have been Read More...
Windows Vista Developer Workshop
There is a series of high value Vista Developer training sessions that are being run in major cities across the US this month. These two-day sessions are a combination of presentations that focus on new development tools for partners, and a series of Read More...
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