August 2007 - Posts
Microsoft announced on July 10, 2007 at Worldwide Partner Conference a new suite of products called Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLP Services for short). The products comprise a set of tools designed for companies that develop
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Microsoft today announced the availability of Tafiti , a Silverlight-based search tool on top of Microsoft's Live Search engine. Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, enhances searching on the web by allowing users to store and share search results
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We are pleased to announce the August Community Technology Preview (CTP4) release of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. For details on new features and functionality, see the documents under “What’s new for PerformancePoint Server CTP4,” which
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Now that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available, I wanted to share how we will be able to use Table Valued Parameters (TVP) from ADO .NET. TVP is a new feature of SQL Server 2008 that I discussed in a previous post . The core new idea in ADO .NET that
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A good friend and former team member James Vastbinder has recorded an interview with Jack Gudenkauf and has been gracious enough to share it with the larger ISV community: Jack talks about the BCL team and how they work within the larger Server and Tools
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Wondering where to start with Virtualization? Want to know the difference between presentation virtualization, application virtualization, desktop virtualization? Checkout this new area on Microsoft.com dedicated to Virtualization here .
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Enterprise mobility is the wave of the future and this future is now! Connections brings you all the latest in mobility development technologies ready for prime time today. Train with Microsoft architects and top notch industry speakers and also network
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As a few users in this thread experienced that WPF can stop working after installing VS 2008. You might see a message such as: MissingMethodException was unhandled Method not found: ' System.Guid MS.Utility.EventTrace.GuidFromId(MS.Utility.EventTraceGuidId)
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We have recently released two industry vertical templates ( Manufacturing & Municipal Government ) for Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a part of Microsoft's shared source initiative. These templates include reference data models, pre-defined workflows,
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As our ISVs continue to gain interest in virtualization, we are frequently asked about Microsoft virtualization products and software virtualization with SoftGrid. Until recently there has been relatively little information available on SoftGrid, but
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Some of my colleagues will be more than a little surprised to see me blogging about Silverlight… It's a great technology, don't get me wrong, but on my team I'm better known for my passion of PowerShell and things plumbing related… certainly not web,
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I wanted to alert you to some publicly available Virtualization videos that may be of interest to you. Also, check out Jeff Woolsey's blog . Mike Neil, General Manager Virtualization in Windows Server Alex Balcanquall, Product Manager Application and
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Asli Bilgin has put together a great list some VSTO resources (by no means comprehensive so please comment with any other resource not here that you like): bits & bytes · Get Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System
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The fresh bits continue to flow out of Redmond, this time with a new Community Technology Preview of SQL Server 2008. The download and more information about what is new in this CTP are available again via the connect site (you will need to register first).
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