March 2007 - Posts
I stumbled across some information on "Sandcastle" this morning. Sandcastle creates documentation for any managed class library. There is a lot of good information on the Sandcastle teams blog . For internal documentation, or for documenting your APIs
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Well, another fiscal year, another ISV CTO Summit. Here are some completely random thoughts about the event as I sequester myself around the one of the few remaining power outlets in the black hole of airline travel that is otherwise known as O'Hare Airport.
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In the East Region, Bob Familiar and Chris Bowen periodically host events for software architects on the Microsoft platform. Below is Bob's personal invitation to the event, which is scheduled for the full day and comes complete with dinner and a movie
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For those of you digging into our dev tools, you might want to take a look at the latest public builds of Orcas. The preview is available as Virtual PC image, and major technologies therein include: LINQ ADO.NET enhancements WPF Form Designer ("Cider")
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Continuing my coverage of integration related talks, I popped in on the CRM Analytics session yesterday. There’s quite a bit that can be done with a base analytics platform, but there are even more compelling scenarios built around predictive analysis.
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Covergence is an aptly-named conference, especially this year’s edition. Today, we announced several Dynamics related products, including Dynamics Client for Microsoft Office. This technology will bring business data in our ERP and CRM products to the
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Well, I made it to the conference… Convergence has a different feel to it than the TechEds or the PDCs I’ve attended. For one thing, the attendees seem to be much more international, and for another thing, there seems to be a much better gender balance
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The final release of the VS 2005 update for Windows Vista is available for download . Windows Vista improves overall quality, security, and reliability from previous versions of Windows. While there were many investments to ensure backward compatibility
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For those of you who are Dynamics inclined, I'll be heading out to Convergence to hear plans for our CRM and ERP product lines (AX, GP, NAV, and SL.) For those of you who aren't familiar with our Dynamics products, you might be surprised to hear that
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Microsoft just released a few cool new gadgets for your Windows Vista Sidebar. Live Search Gadget You can now search directly from the Sidebar. This gadget uses web services to retrieve the search results and displays them in the gadget. Live Search Traffic
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I'm going to be hosting a webcast on April 24th on Debugging Crashing Applications. This is a follow-up to my first webcast on the Microsoft Debugging Tools for Windows Package. The webcast will begin at 10am Pacific time and last for 1 hour. Here's a
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So, about a week ago I posted an article about our ArcReady & ArcCouncil events. This got me to thinking, what really does make a good architect? Every organization is different for sure, but I believe that there are some common skills that an architect
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