May 2007 - Posts
Mobility Touchdown for Architects and Developers Three more Mobility Touchdown events have been added: · Irving, Texas: May 31 - June 1 · Washington, D.C.: June 4 - June 5 · New York City, New York: June 18 - 20 This is a worldwide 22-city Touchdown workshop
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Download the Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh Today The Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh together with Visual Studio 2005 has everything you need to build and test applications for both Windows Mobile version 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6. This version of the SDK
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Microsoft today announced a new class of hardware called Surface. Surface is a coffee-table shaped PC with a 30" touchscreen. The table allows for a multi-user and multi-touch experience, enabling some exciting possibilities for shared experiences and
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Last week I got an opportunity to host and co-present Microsoft Dynamics CRM “Titan” developers workshop with Ross Lotharius of Invoke Systems in Charlotte, NC from 5/22 to 5/24. This event was oversold and to accommodate extra participants we have added
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The Microsoft Partner Program provides ISVs with many valuable resources. I am always surprised at how few of our ISV partners are aware of and utilize the ISV Advisory Service. This service provides proactive support beyond your break-fix product maintenance
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Based upon your industry domain and/or technical expertise, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Platform opens up many growth opportunities for ISVs . We are seeing a growing trend of success stories where our ISV partners could leverage one or more following paths
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In case you haven't seen it, MSDN has a new look. The new interface should make it easier to find what you are looking for, and incorporates some great new search technology into the site as well, it's now running on Live Search!!! Content has also been
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To fuel further our rapidly growing ISV eco-system around Microsoft Dynamics Products and Platform , we are expanding our US ISV Evangelism team. If you know a good candidate please feel free to drop a line or visit the details . Sanjay Jain Microsoft
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Hi! About 3 times per week I have ISVs calling me or emailing me with miscellaneous questions. How much does this cost? How do I get a hold of resource materials on this? etc. I am guessing that there are a lot of you out there with questions and nobody
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Several weeks ago I wrote a brief post detailing a special licensing program for ISVs who sell their Software as a Service. Since that time I have had a number of inquiries regarding licensing programs for traditional 'installed software' ISVs. So, I
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The patterns & practices team has just released a new guide aimed at helping you get started using TFS and making the most of it. This looks to be a really good guide for anyone using TFS, or wanted to see what it can do for that matter. Here's how
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Silverlight is a hot topic and we're getting really great questions daily. Questions like what OSs are supported, which browsers are supported, what tools are available and what languages you can develop in. Thankfully, Microsoft put together a great
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John has been doing some great posting on WPF & Silverlight and I just wanted to make ISVs aware of partner training that is coming up in a bunch of cities across the US. The cities and dates are listed here with the first one beginning May 29 th
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Sometimes stepping away from a problem and returning to attempt a solution at a later time provides the clarity needed to overcome obstacles and drive to resolution. When that fails, a desperate email to a smarter colleague often does the trick. My first
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Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism division and the Mobile and Embedded Division (MED) will be running a series of Mobility Touchdown workshops in over 12 cities in the United States and would like to invite you to attend. This workshop is open
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Well, before I get to my adventures with slwsdl.exe and making web service calls, I'd like to discuss controls in Silverlight 1.1. The good news is that (unlike Silverlight 1.0) there is indeed a control model in Silverlight 1.1 - you can find the supported
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I love maps and mapping applications. As I was digging into WPF, I became aware of the MapPoint Web Service SDK and thought it would be a nice idea to put them together. I started by having the MapPoint Render Service plot pushpins on a map and return
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Well, my adventure in learning Silverlight development began with some quality time spent up on the MIX 07 site . In poking around a bit, I found that all the sessions from the conference were posted and available for on-demand playback, and even better,
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Popfly is the first of a new generation of web tools that enables users of all skill levels to create or edit their own mash-ups for use within applications or to simply spice up their web sites or socials sites. On Friday May 18 th at 9am PST, Microsoft
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As I'm sure many of you have come to realize, there is a lot of great info out there that could help you develop your solutions faster...but you just don't know where to look. One of my co-workers here at Microsoft, Asli Bilgin (.NET Developer Evangelist),
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Subject: Microsoft Training Opportunity: Integration with Office 2007 Made EZ! Have you considered how to integrate your solution with Microsoft Office 2007? Open XML represents an exciting advance toward achieving the ease of integration with Microsoft
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When I discuss Silverlight 1.1 with ISVs, they almost universally ask what WPF can do that Silverlight 1.1 can't. Right now, it's hard to provide a straightforward answer to this question, so I'm going attempt to clear up some of the mystery by porting
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Hi! I have been wanting to open a discussion with the ISV community for quite some time on the topic of user experience. In my role as an ISV Architecture Evangelist at Microsoft, I have the great privilege of working with many ISVs. Over the last year
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Your developers can jump-start that approval process in your applications. It comes in the form of a starter kit for Windows Workflow. This starter kit is a Visual Studio 2005 project that demonstrates Windows Workflow Foundation for simple task oriented
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I was recently tasked to understand and explain the SPLA licensing model to an ISV, and thought that the experience would be worth sharing. Since folks love to read about licensing about as much as they love, say, root canals, I'll be as brief as I can
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I know Mix was a full two weeks ago, but I thought it might still be worth sharing my trip report for those of you who didn't make it. I should have posted this earlier, but after Mix I spent an additional week in deep-drive training up in Redmond. It
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Earlier in my post I outlined the key announcements we made at MIX07. I would like to elobrate on that little bit. The announcement were around API suite for Windows Live Space API Windows Live Contacts API Windows Live Presence API Windows Live Messenger
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By now most of you may heard of Silverlight. In case you haven't "Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET–based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web." Here
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I know term Web 2.0 is way over-hyped and way over-loaded, but I recently got pressed by an ISV asking about how MOSS supports Web 2.0 type functionality. When I asked for clarification, I was told "you know, blogs and wikis and communities and ratings
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Microsoft will be offering a complimentary two-day Open XML Technical Deep Dive in San Francisco, CA on June 18-19, 2007. If you are a developer and interested in the practical details of Open XML schemas, architecture and programmability, this is the
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Over the last couple days, I've had the pleasure of speaking to the customers of an ISV that offers applications which perform deep analyses of massive bodies of data harvested from scientific lab equipment (like mass spectroscopy and liquid chromotography
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As a newcomer to the Dynamics world 18 months ago, I was at once impressed and bewildered by what I could do as a developer with these technologies. I took a special interest in CRM, and read all about its extensibility model, envisioning all kinds of
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As you've seen from various postings to this blog, the Orcas wave of our development technologies is rapidly maturing and is nearing readiness for mass consumption and uptake by our ISV partners. However, I'd like to point out that the June 2007 MSDN
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Microsoft made some significant announcements around the Live platform. Incase you didn't have a chance to attend MIX or hear about it here are the key announcements we made: Simple and consistent new business terms for our services platform New Free
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Continuing my previous post on the topic, a couple days ago I discovered that at the Gold Certified level, a partner with the ISV Competency is entitiled to the following: + 3 full MSDN subscriptions (I believe they call this level Premium now) + any
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So you heard about Silverlight and want to get started. Here are some places to begin: Silverlight main page includes downloads, information about streaming, news, blog posting (and there is a bunch of blogs talking about Silverlight), tools and resources,
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Microsoft has many great events. Next week for example, is the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference in Seattle. And there are events sponsored by industry groups and product group such as Health & Life Sciences Developer Conference . In additon,
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Windows Vista brings host of features to market that are waiting to be utilized by enterprising ISVs in their apps. Yes, I know you've heard that before, but I think it's worth repeating and directing your attention to the peer networking capabilities
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a complete CRM Suite of Sales, Service and Marketing modules but the most attractive part to ISVs is its rich Platform capabilities. As more and more ISVs are adopting this as a platform of choice , they are able to build their
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An interesting theme of MIX for me was the blurring of lines between various media and technologies. Is it TV or web? Is it a web page or an application? Is XBOX really a platform for your software product? What about for marketing your product? Burger
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Our team encourages ISVs to enroll in the Microsoft Partner Program as a means of establishing a closer relationship with us. We're often asked "great, but what's in it for me?" Well, I've stammered over my response to that question enough to actually
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The Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft has been putting Microsoft's recommendations for how to design, develop, deploy, and operate architecturally sound applications for the Microsoft application platform. The team incorporates: Software Factories
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I've waxed poetic about the virtues of Windows Mobile in this space before, but I think I've neglected to mention a nice Windows Mobile application that shows off platform features and ease of deployment while providing some truly useful features. The
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Bob Familiar and Chris Bowen are two guys who love to write code and can’t stop talking about it. And now they’ve decided to take their long winded rants and questionable demos to a city near you. And if you were at our last event, you know the line about
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