June 2007 - Posts
Several of my ISV's have expressed a need to support operations. They want to be able to report to operations how their application is performing, whether it needs fixes or some configuration setting is failing. These forward-looking ISV's know that supporting
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One of the features I have missed most in SQL Server is the ability to pass multiple "rows" of data to a stored procedure. This is especially useful in the canonical Order/Order Line Items scenario where you want to insert a header row and multiple child
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Visual Studio Available via ISV-Royalty Licensing Program Effective July 1 Effective July 1, 2007 customers who would like to distribute the volume licensing SKUs of Visual Studio will be able to order the product via Microsoft's Independent Software
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If you are a .NET Developer and want to create workflows, but have no where to host them then this may be for you. You create your WF in Visual Studio using some WCF constructs, you run a tool to create a BizTalk orchestration wrapper, and then deploy
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If you are developing web applications, you may be interested in Fiddler . Fiddler is a HTTP debugger that can proxy all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. This freeware tool allows you to inspect incoming and outgoing HTTP traffic from
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The Microsoft ESB Guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns, practices, and a set of BizTalk Server and .NET components to simplify the development of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) on the Microsoft platform and to allow Microsoft customers
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This is the result of a team of 5 (designers, developers, animators/artists) using Expression Design, Expression Blend 2 and Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1. The game was developed in 4 week by this team. http://www.ltbennett.com This is a lab project for them
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In my travels amongst ISVs, I find very technical folks who find search in Vista a little, well…, rudimentary for their needs. I.e. those who still prefer dir /s *foo*.xml in some directory tree where we know there *should* be an xml file that contains
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Watch Ted Kummert, Corp. VP explain SQL Server 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/all_up/msh.htm -Suresh
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Another of the new features that shipped with SQL Server 2008 in the June CTP is called "Change Data Capture". This feature is designed to be used in data warehousing / ETL scenarios where a read-only snapshot of data is maintained. The feature enables
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One of my fellow Architect Evangelist has been working with Clarity Consulting who has begun posting free screencasts on new Microsoft technologies. If you are hungry for more information about all the new stuff coming in Visual Studio 2008 or perhaps
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We are proud to announce the ENU (English) release of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 CTP3 software! This release contains new, updated Monitoring and Analytics functionality. See the “ What’s new from PerformancePoint Server CTP3” document
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Take advantage of special offers and new training opportunities from Microsoft Learning. Microsoft Office 2007 - http://www.microsoft.com/learning/office2007/digdeep/dev/default.mspx Windows Vista - http://www.microsoft.com/learning/windowsvista/digdeep/dev/default.mspx
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Top 10 Security Concerns in Windows Mobile Jason Langridge, a business manager with the Microsoft mobile device group, gave an excellent presentation at MEDC 2007 on the Top 10 Security Concerns in Windows Mobile. Jason has been gracious enough to make
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The Windows Mobile Developer "How Do I" Video Series Is Now Online The Windows Mobile "How Do I" video series contains short videos that focus on achieving one specific developer task. Some of the videos currently available include "How Do I create a
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Stand-Alone Windows Mobile 6 Emulators Available in 24 Languages Download localized Windows Mobile 6 emulators today so that developers can test their applications across a wide variety of form factors and against different languages. These emulator packs
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That's right, if you are building an application that will run on Windows Server 2008 you should begin looking at certification now! There is a ton of information on www.invoateonwindowsserver.com , so much so that we've turned the certification test
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Microsoft across America is an engine, web portal for all businesses, IT pros and developers to empower them with the interactive education needed to make the right technology decisions. Through a broad range of offerings including live events, webcast
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ComputerWorld recently released a pretty interesting article on RightSizing and the use of virtualization technology at Microsoft. First off, I didn't know Microsoft has over 17,000 servers running internally but it's definitely cool to see how we experience
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If you are ready to take the plunge like Microsoft did for microsoft.com (the #5 most popular site on the Internet), wait no longer. The IIS7 Go Live license was recently announced which enables customers to deploy IIS7 in production environments. This
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Microsoft recently converted all its web servers for microsoft.com to IIS7 except one. You can read about it here and confirm it via Netcraft . Given the enormity in terms of requests handled and unique visitors to the site, it is a great testimony of
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Find the latest developer content on our community blog site. You will be able to interact directly with Microsoft's product managers, top developer trainers, and technical and marketing experts here. We have also included links to upcoming training events,
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Launching a software application? LAUNCH PAD can help you! Now there's a tool to help you successfully launch new products without missing a step! Launch Pad is an online kit full of practical guidance to help ISV's successfully launch a product, implement
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Do you find that training on the latest software development platform is a hassle? Tired of hunting for the right developer training? Well, we've tried to make it simple for you. With ISV Innovation, you can check out all the training available for the
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One of the common questions I am getting from many of our ISVs, who are adopting Microsoft Dynamics CRM “Titan” as their choice of development platform , is how to improve Go-To-Market (GTM) further in time and cost. I am working with several SI Partners
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Take our vendor-agnostic assessment and measure the effectiveness of your current development processes. Aggregated results from your team will provide you with a comprehensive snapshot of your organization and help you to prioritize your IT investments.
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Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, by Patrick Tisseghem, is now published on MSDN. Part 1: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530302.aspx Part 2: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530301.aspx
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Upcoming Visual Studio Team System Chat - July 3rd Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System product group – July 3rd Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server,
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MSN mobile launched on 6/18. If you aren’t already using the service, you need to visit mobile.msn.com on your phone’s Internet browser to visit the MSN mobile. -Suresh
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Mike Walker has just released the Enterprise Architecture site on MSDN . Over the coming months you will start to see more articles, webcasts, blogs, and architecture guidance around this subject. Come and check out the latest addition to the MSDN Architecture
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Project Codename “Astoria” - http://astoria.mslivelabs.com . Microsoft Codename Astoria enables applications to expose data as a data service that can be consumed by web clients within a corporate network and across the internet. The data service is reachable
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The patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance Project is designed to help you improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your performance testing, learn expert techniques for performance testing, and apply those techniques using Visual Studio.NET
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The eScrum 1.0 project management tool has been released for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. It provides for a repository for all Scrum artifacts, such as product backlogs, sprint backlogs, task management, retrospectives, and reports. Scrum is
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The beta of our connector between Outlook 2003/2007 and Windows Live Hotmail (mail.live.com) has been released. The software synchronizes mail & contacts between the online service and your Outlook client, while keeping your existing Outlook configuration
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There's been a lot of buzz in the blogosphere ever since a tiny image of three guys was discovered on the front of the Windows Vista DVD. You really can't see it without magnification. Although news of the image emerged about a month ago, speculation
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We are pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server – Project Server 2007 Connector which is available at http://www.codeplex.com/pstfsconnector . The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - Project Server 2007 Connector is designed
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Many have never heard about a Microsoft program called DevCares. DevCares is a broad reach developer readiness program delivered and hosted monthly by Partners in cities across the United States. DevCares is a FREE half-day training series presented by
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Our colleagues in Microsoft Switzerland developed a Hands-On Lab that replicates the Outlook 2007 UI using Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2005. Learn how to do it step by step. You can find links to download the lab manual as well as the Visual Studio
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Windows Server 2008 helps IT professionals maximize control over their infrastructure with increased security, reliability, and flexibility. Microsoft Learning helps you develop expertise in this next generation of Windows Server technologies with a broad
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The Virtual Earth Map Control SDK, version 5.0 , has been updated and released on MSDN. The update includes new code samples for version 5.0 and additional details in the conceptual topics. In addition, the Virtual Earth Articles area on MSDN has been
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On Monday, we released Virtual Server R2 SP1 and its available here . Ben (aka Virtual PC Guy ) has blogged about it here . Why is this noteworthy of our ISV blog? There are 2 key enhancements I want to highlight: I know of many ISVs that are running
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Software factories provide a way to Handle cross-cutting concerns such as authentication, instrumentation, exception handling, logging consistantly. Train developers on how to correctly use best practices, patterns, and technologies. Increase developer
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I wanted to take a few moments to chat about a new technology that I'm very excited about. Acropolis was announced last week at TechEd and as revolutionary as Acropolis is, I'm surprised it's not getting more air cover. Acropolis is important in several
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The Visual Studio Team System Rangers, in conjunction with the community, have released a connector allowing you to use Project Server 2007 with Team Foundation Server. Future versions of Team System will have native integration with Project Server, in
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A couple of weeks ago Linedata asked me to present at their annual user conference . I was excited to do so because they've been doing such cool work with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) in the financial industry. Linedata really recognized the
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Webchat with the SQL Product team - June 11 th 11:00am PDT SQL Server product team wants to listen and help answer your questions about the recent SQL Server 2008 June CTP. Here is your opportunity to chat with the team directly and get your questions
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Additional information about Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 readiness events is available at www.msreadiness.com/ampitup . June 18 th – 12:00-1:00PM PACIFIC Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 and Office 2007 integration – The Right User Experience What if business
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The Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog has a wealth of information regarding Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007. One interesting thread is a three part seriies on Building a Real World Extranet Application with MOSS 2007, of which the
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There has been an overwhelming response to our recent two-day course on utilizing Open XML (the course sold out in record time). Unfortunately, we cannot create more seats in this class; however, there are some great self study resources we can point
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Exclusive to Ascend and Touchdown partners, Windows Server 2008 training is now available on-line in an interactive, guided virtual lab environment. You can choose from 9 sessions that meet your training needs; and you can participate right from the comfort
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June 5 th -June 26 Attend this demo-driven one-day course and explore the techniques used to create next-generation applications on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Topics covered include Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows
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The Microsoft Office system evolved from a suite of personal productivity products into a comprehensive, multifaceted, and integrated system. Building on a solid foundation of familiar tools, the Microsoft Office system today includes applications, servers,
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Ashish pointed you at the Windows Live Dev center, so I thought I would give you an idea how easy it is to use the web services in your own applications by showing you how to leverage Windows Live Search to provide search functionality on YOUR web site.
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