February 2008 - Posts
Convergence is the premier Microsoft Dynamics event, bringing customers, partners, team members and industry experts together in an environment created for you to discuss solutions, address business needs and establish a true community that can be leveraged
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Microsoft Dynamics™ is a great and largely untapped opportunity for the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) community. This half day will provide an overview of the Microsoft Dynamics™ Products and Platform and will provide a clear view of how your ISV
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The Windows Live Messenger Library allows third parties to securely provide web based instant messaging to their users. The WLML is a JavaScript client library; thirdparty.com has full control over the user experience. The library exposes the core text-based
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Silverlight 2 will be a major update that focuses on Rich Internet Application (RIA) development where developers can write in any .NET language. Scott Guthrie announced the First Look at Silverlight 2 on his blog. The upcoming Beta 1 release will include
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We are very excited to host several of Launch Tour events (22 Microsoft Hosted + 44 Partner Hosted) throughout the US starting this week. Please see the details and register here . I will be presenting at the following four events and look forward to
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We've been video podcasting for a few months now, but since we have various hosters and outlets for this content, it's been a challenge to keep these links findable to readers of this blog. I had tried doing this via a custom page, but the list quickly
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The last CTP of SQL Server 2008 is now available. This CTP is feature complete with all the new and updated features from SQL Server 2005. Using this interactive feature matrix, you will find 17 new improvements in this CTP. Also new in this release is
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For ISVs who support financial services, a new Office Business Application (OBA) reference architecture has been released. The Financial Services OBA Component Library is a comprehensive set of 90+ OBA components that span across key areas in the banking,
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Scott Guthrie has updated our developer road map. In his blog entry, .NET 3.5 Client Roadmap , Scott describes the future of the .NET Framework for later this summer. A new setup framework for .NET that will make it easier to build optimized setup packages
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One of my managed ISVs, Logotec Engineering , recently announced their mobile solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. Some of the key points are: · Access your CRM data from any Windows Mobile Device (Pocket PC or Windows Mobile Smartphones) · Supports
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How would you like a free copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 ? How about the entire Microsoft Expression Studio ? Not enough...... how about Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and more? Today, Microsoft announced an unprecedented software program that we
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The Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) expands the capabilities of Visual Studio by allowing architects and developers to run guidance packages, such as those included in Software Factories, which automate key development tasks from within the Visual
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As promised, Brian Jones has announced the posting of the Microsoft Office Binary Format specs in this blog posting . Along with these formats we have also provided a few additional format specs: Windows Compound Binary File Format Specification PDF |
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There's a new site for Software + Services (S+S) architects . The site will be valuable whether for those of you who have a software product, a services product (SaaS), or both. The site is part of MSDN's Architecture Center . The site covers several
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Several developer technologies have been announced this week at the Office Developer Conference that ISVs can use to extend the familiar 2007 Office System user interface. Office Live Small Business Winter ’08 edition. New Office Business Application
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For those ISVs who have been wanting to get a hold of Windows Vista SP1 for testing, you can find on MSDN later this month. There will be two versions, an update and a full install. The announcement will be made on the Windows Vista Blog in the next week
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So, this past week I'm sure many of you have been wondering where your ISV AE has been. Perhaps you called and got a voicemail message telling you they were out, or you've emailed and gotten back a nice OOF message. Well, we've all been holed up in Seattle
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My ISVs have been talking about how to expose methods in their application to sorta process data similar to batch processing. PowerShell can be used to help batch process your applications through scripting. This has a couple steps. First is seeing how
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been released to manufacturing. Although the primary purpose of SP1 is to provide improvements to Vista there are some new features including: Bitlocker can now encrypt all local hard disks on a PC (instead of just
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The Solution Accelerator Communications and Collaborations group is pleased to announce the availability of the SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool for download on TechNet. Are you planning a SharePoint installation for a customer? Chances are, you have
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Virtual Machine Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Virtual Machine is a one computer setup with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and associated Microsoft Dynamics CRM clients for Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Included
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Windows Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing along with tools and training resources for developers and ISVs. Windows Server 2008 is part of worldwide launch events that highlights the wave of new products that also include SQL Server 2008 and
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Two tools to help with your development efforts are now available. Visual Studio® 2008 Web Deployment Projects - RTW Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects provide additional functionality to build and deploy Web sites and Web applications in Visual
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A while back I did a series of postings on the Silverlight developer experience (back when it was still Silverlight 1.1.) While I was able to get some basic features of a mapping app I wrote for WPF ported, I quickly ran into the limitations of the small
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