October 2007 - Posts
Several folks on our team have done a great job in blogging about features in SQL Server 2008 "Katmai" betas as they explore this exciting new release, but sometimes you find a gem, a diamond in the rough. For me that diamond in the myriad of the internet
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Time is running out to sign up for these great events. Choose a location and sign up soon to avoid dissapointment! Microsoft Dynamics CRM “Titan” CTP3 Developer Training Microsoft Dynamics CRM “Titan” CTP3 Developer Training This is your opportunity to
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I wanted to let you know that the MSDN Developer Center for Windows Server 2008 is now live. You can find it here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/default.aspx . The site provides infromation about The latest beta of Windows Server 2008.
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On October 30 th at our 5 th annual SOA & Business Process Conference we will unveil the future direction of our SOA and business process platform with the public announcement of Oslo. Oslo is a set of technology investments across our Application
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Windows Presentation Composite Client For those ISV's who have been looking forward to a way to combine WinForm controls within a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client, Glen Block has announced the Windows Presentation Composite Client in his blog,
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The PerformancePoint Planning & Architecture Guide is now complete and live! Updates have also been made to the Deployment Guide and are now reflected out on TechNet. The next refresh of the documentation will be in November. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb794633.aspx
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Ever heard of a "Dev Camp"? Well, we're gearing up to host a MOSS Camp for all of you Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 followers. That's right, on Friday November 9th at Clarity Consulting we will be hosting MOSSCamp . The
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I have been asked, "How can I really count who has watched my Silverlight video or application?" The answer comes from the field of web analytics. One of the challenges of Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) today is figuring out how the traditional
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I know everyone is getting excited about SQL Server 2008 , and who shouldn't be :-)? However, I know that there are a few ISVs that are still interested in moving their database from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005, which will put them in an even better
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Hosting Partners At the Convergence 2007 Copenhagen customer event, we announced some of the leading hosting firms from around the world committed to delivering on-demand customer relationship management (CRM) solutions based
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We have published a whitepaper showing how to scale to 6000 users on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 and support a sub second response time under heavy load. While attention is now shifting to the next release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM it is good to see how
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I was fortunate enough to attend the recent Platform Strategy Review in Redmond, WA last week. In between cellphoneemails (is that a word?), I managed to glean a pearl of wisdom from the presenters (especially Craig Mundie.) The message is very simple:
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How many times have you stored a file in your database? You may have stored it as a blob, which had performance problems. Or you may have had to figure out how to store a link to the file in the database, then figure out how to back up and restore that
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The Visual Studio team is looking forward to the next version of Visual Studio 2008 later this year. Even with all of the excitement about Visual Studio 2008's upcoming release later this year, the team is looking to Roasrio as the next version. You can
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One of the great things about working with ISVs is that we get to see Microsoft technology leveraged to do cool and innovative things. As you may have noticed, we recently started a webcast channel to highlight some of these examples and this week my
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If your an ISV thinking about building on top of Dynamics CRM please reach out and talk to us. As we get closer to an RTM release of Dynamics CRM Titan the excitement among the Dynamics CRM Partner community is quickly increasing. Now is the time to get
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Visual Studio 2008 continues its thrust in helping you write secure and better code according to Somasegar's Weblog . The Visual Studio code analysis team is adding some new features, including Code Metrics to VS 2008. The tool allows you to get an overall
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One of the most common questions we get from ISV's is about which client technology (WPF, WinForms, Silverlight, AJAX, etc.) from Microsoft is best for their scenario. David Chappell has written a great whitepaper posted at www.windowsclient.net that
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Many ISVs wondering about the pricing of SQL Server 2008 will be happy to know that there will be no pricing increase over the last released version, SQL Server 2005. The announcement, made in front of SQL Server enthusiasts at PASS , drew cheers and
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I am getting asked by ISVs (not part of early adopter programs) on how to ramp up on upcoming CRM 4.0 Platform. Here are the resources to consider. Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Partner Readiness Tour Get ready to grow your business! The new version of Microsoft
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Today we have launched the next wave of Titan workshops world-wide for managed ISVs. We’ve revised the content to reflect CTP3 functionality and added several modules to bring this up to a 3-day deep dive instructor-led workshop-style training with 12
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Ben Riga highlighted on his blog that you can now download a VPC image of Dynamics CRM 4.0. This is only available if you have access to PartnerSource but it is exciting all the same as we are getting closer to an RTM release of Dynamics CRM 4.0 Bens
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Most ISVs have had a chance to dabble with WPF and Silverlight by now, but some are still wondering what the fuss is all about or why it's important to them. I was lucky enough to spend 20 minutes with Brad Abrams to talk specifically about these technologies
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I've found that living life as an evangelist for Microsoft is generally an easy thing to do. Sometimes the work life balance isn't exactly where I'd like it to be, but for the most part the products and technologies we evangelize are truly great and our
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We are pleased to announce that registration for the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 is now open! The event will showcase Microsoft’s market-leading SharePoint Products and Technologies, solution expertise and customer successes and will be held
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We are pleased to announce the dates and location for the 2008 Office Developer Conference ! When: February 10-13, 2008 Where: San Jose Convention Center , San Jose, CA Who: 2000 developers and architects who build solutions on the Office platform (Office
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With lots of great options to represent data on maps using Virtual Earth or MapPoint, Microsoft ISV Development Evangelist Warren WIlbee sits down with Steve Milroy from Advaiya Milroy, a software architect, shares his insights on the different classes
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I posted a screencast on Channel 9 today that walks through using a spreadsheet you download from the Microsoft Download center to identify an Office 2007 icon and then use that same Icon in your own Office 2007 add-ins. In the screencast I use 'Orcas'
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Source code to .NET will be available to ISV's when Visual Studio 2008 ships later this year. Scott Guthrie has posted an entry on his blog release of .NET Source code for ISV's who want to step into the code for debugging. His entry entitied, Releasing
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I have ISV's ask me from time to time how they might be able to try out the latest Microsoft products. Virtual hard disks (VHD) provide a great way to get started. VHD's are available for many products. You can find all of them at Run IT on a Virtual
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