June 2008 - Posts
In my last post , I mentioned that I might have some info on how to do client side mapping over Virtual Earth in Silverlight. I’m pleased to inform you that I do indeed, thanks to Adam Eversole and Jared Bienz. Adam had developed a prototype called VIEWS,
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Well, I've had a blast with this blog over the past couple years, and hope it become a source of useful information for ISVs. My style was to let the team find its own style, but to also help guide posters to understand and respect the medium. I hope
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When I'm not doing mapping, I occasionally digress into other application scenarios. Of late, tag clouds have been all the rage, and yet, when recently faced with the challenge of implementing one, I realized that the layout algorithm is non-trivial.
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I realize that I had forgotten to cover geocoding, so I’ll discuss it here now. Geocoding is simply the process of assigning latitude+longitude(+altitude) to geographic features. Many times when building apps of this type, you’ll be provided with
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While the MapPoint Web Service SDK is highly cool and nice and lightweight, I gotten lots of requests about using this technique with Virtual Earth. At first I thought “sure – no problem – I’ll just grab a VisualBrush from the .NET Web Browser control
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In my last post , I mentioned the MapPoint Web Service SDK as one of the options for rendering maps for usage in applications that do client-side plotting. In case you’re not familiar with it, this is a web service with absolutely no client footprint.
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In the previous posts in this series, I showed how to retrieve spatial data from SQL 2008, transform it into pixel coordinates, and to construct a shape from it which could be added to a WPF or SL canvas. Even though you could produce a recognizable
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In my last post , I showed how to process WKT emitted by SQL 2008 spatial types in WPF/SL. The next step in turning our freshly parsed lat+long pairs into System.Windows.Shapes. private static List<System.Windows.Shapes.Polygon> CreateMapPolygons(MyModel
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In my last post , I introduced the SQL 2008 spatial data types and scratched the surface of their features and power. While those types work great within SQL 2008 (either in T-SQL or in SQL CLR methods), I haven’t yet found a way to consume these
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Sorry I've been away from this, but time to get back at it. There have been a number of highly positive developments on this topic in the interim - can't wait to share them with you. In my first post in this series, I motivated why you might want
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I was fortunate enough to have participated in 2 Incubation Weeks at the Microsoft Technology Centers in Boston and Silicon Valley , and would like to personally thank everyone who participated in and supported the events. If you're not familiar with
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We have posted the VPC image for Dynamics AX 2009 to Partnersource which includes many additional software components to use in sales demonstrations. You can get the link from this url - http://blogs.msdn.com/controlpanel/blogs/posteditor.aspx?SelectedNavItem=Posts§ionid=9654&postid=8658378
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We recently put this list of resources together for an ISV. Here's some great info, if you are in the process of evaluating or trying to bring Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) into your organization. These links provide great support when you are creating
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Bill Gates last day is tomorrow. A lot of people have a Bill Gates story. And I welcome that you add your favorite Bill Gates story as comment to this blog entry. My BillG story is unremarkable, but he nevertheless made a place for me in technology. I
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The highly anticipated Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V is now shipping! ISVs use virtualization as a way to ship fully configured applications to customers and develop and test their applications. Customers can use virtualization as a way to consolidate servers
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Pier1 is one of Microsoft's NXT Partners (specialized in S+S). They are offering a FREE webinar on Software + Services. Though the event has passed, you can still check out the recording. As some of you might know, an estimated 25 percent of all
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This was a cool little drop that seems to have flown under the radar. If you have a Vista laptop (and if you don’t then there’s something wrong) and a Windows Mobile Smartphone (see last comment) and they are paired via BlueTooth then this is for
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Testing applications has often been an after-thought when building applications. But now many leading software companies build unit tests and are building applications using test-driven development. While these are not new ideas, this month's Visual Studio
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Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President at Microsoft, explores the plans for Windows XP, progress with Windows Vista , and the view toward Windows 7 in an open letter to Windows customers. Security and other critical updates continue for Windows XP through
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Microsoft Security Advisory (954462): Rise in SQL Injectsion Attacks Exploiting Unverified User Data provides advice and tools to protect against a rise in SQL injection attacks. A recent escalation in attacks on Web sites exploits unverified user data
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In this Microsoft Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…
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Building Software-plus-Services (S+S) applications is getting easier with S+S Blueprints. S+S is about providing your customers with choices of on premises or hosted applications. The S+S Blueprints are a series of open source frameworks and guidance
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A week-long event that supports startups and students has begun at the Microsoft Technology Center in Silicon Valley. You can view the progress in action at the Incubation Week Facebook site. Participants receive one day of training and three days of
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In this Microsoft Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…
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For those of you in the Southeast who spend a lot of time at local .NET Community Events, thought I would let you know that Glen Gordon will be taking over Doug Turnure. Doug Turnure has accepted a job offer in Redmond. It will be his job to provide all
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In this Microsoft Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…
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A new site shows how software can technology can help people and businesses foster environmental sustainability. The site, Microsoft Environment: Innovating to Improve Our Planet , includes a white paper showing Windows Server 2008 power savings, a video
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For developers who write software for in health and life science ISVs, you'll be interested in V4 of Consumer Engagement Reference Architecture (CERA) and how you incorporate HealthVault , Windows Live, and other online services. HealthVault helps consumers
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In this Microsoft Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…
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The server you are accessing at Microsoft may already be virtualized. So far, about 25% of the production servers are running on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V . About 80% of all new servers at microsoft.com and others will be virtual. This includes about
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In this Microsoft Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…
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The public beta version of Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) “2” was unvelied at TechEd. ILM “2,” the codename for the successor to ILM 2007, delivers an integrated identity management (IdM) solution that extend new identity management capabilities to
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Industrial designers have been competing for the Microsoft-sponsored Next-Gen PC Design Competition. Inspiration for the award-winning design separates the interface from the PC. And it looks like a napkin holder. In popular imagination, the humble napkin
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Many ISVs are asking me for more details about how to support the business decisions to go with Windows Mobile. And there are several resources available that can help an ISV in making the case to your enterprise customers. You can start with the Windows
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It turns out that less than 10% of vulnerabilities disclosed through June 2007 were targeted at Operating Systems. More than 90% of vulnerabilities targeted at the application layer. In his blog entry How Vulnearable are Software Applications? , S. Somasegar
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I found an interesting article, Five Things the Boss Should Know About Microsoft's LINQ , written by John Paul Mueller who talks on CIO about LINQ from the developer manager point of view. LINQ provides general-purpose query facilities that have been
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In this Microsoft Dynamics Platform Adoption Stories series, I will continue to share success stories of my managed ISVs, highlighting their platform adoption experience, their Aha moments and advice to newer ISVs to be successful. Enjoy the next one…
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We are pleased to introduce the Silverlight Community Recognition Program for the Silverlight Developer site. In the Silverlight community we have a number of people whose contributions help developers from all over the world. As the site continues to
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We're very excited to share with you the news of a huge achievement for the Microsoft’s HPC program using Windows HPC Server 2008 when competing with the worlds-fastest super computers. The HPC Performance Team recently completed a Top500 run on the fastest
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An alliance of partners has joined Microsoft to unveiled a comprehensive, multivendor connected health and human services (HHS) technology architecture. The architecture connects disparate state and jurisdictional human services systems to give providers
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Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 has released Microsoft’s first embedded operating system designed specifically for OEMs building handheld portable navigation devices (PNDs). Windows Embedded NavReady 2009 delivers innovative technologies to help developers
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The first version of the software developer kit (SDK) for Open XML has been released to the web. The Open XML document standard is awaiting publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The SDK is designed to help you produce
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There’s a Microsoft Architecture Journal available, and this time looks like the team wanted to generate some synergy with the community. They launched a new forum, whose subject is the Journal topic: The Architect Role Instead of the regular discussions
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As many of you know, Microsoft has been working on a new version of LitwareHR that uses SQL Server Data Services instead of SQL Server as the store. This was first presented in MIX by SSDS Architect Nigel Ellis (see session here ). Microsoft hasn't released
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Microsoft project code named "Velocity" provides a highly scalable in-memory application cache for all kinds of data. By using cache, your application performance can improve significantly by avoiding unnecessary calls to the data source. By
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As one of my colleagues put it, "We all struggle to stay up to date on our new technologies." To that point, he let me know about a goldmine resource for learning ADO.Net Data Services quickly: Great Screencasts ADO.NET Data Services - Surfacing
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I recently had a couple ISV's that wanted to leverage Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) together to implement their own internal CodePlex ( www.codeplex.com ). My ISV's wanted to be able to share code
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SharePoint inventory assessment for the enterprise will be getting easier a SharePoint assessment tool for IT Pros that has entered testing phase of development. This is important for you ISVs building and deploying efficiently to enterprise sites. IT
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Mobile devices can help people become more respectful when a patent filed by Microsoft comes to cell phones near you. Digital Manners Policy (DMP) address some of the security and privacy concerns resulting from mobile devices, such concerns ranging from
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You can script documents and spreasheets creation and proecessing on the server. A new open source project, PowerTools for Open XML , is now up on Codeplex. Processing Open XML documents server-side using PowerShell is a powerful approach for creating,
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