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Visual Studio Discounts Available Through Resellers
You may have read the blog I posted earlier this week, Discounts Offered in Visual Studio 2008 Price Promotions , that explains serveral programs that offer ISVs discounts on tools. If a you're looking for a reseller, we would recommend the following: Read More...
Deep Visual Studio Team System Discounts for Partners with ISV Competency
Special Offer to Streamline your development process . ISV partner contributions are a critical factor in the overall success of Microsoft in the marketplace and we want to help you get the most from your application development process. Between October Read More...
.NET Framework 4, Visual Studio 2010 Boasts New UX Features
Support for the empowering innovative user experiences in applications, such as Windows 7 multi-touch, ribbon controls, and taskbar extensibility features are being added to .NET Framework 4 accroding to S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President Developer Division Read More...
Discounts Offered in Visual Studio 2008 Price Promotions
Microsoft has announced a set of discounts for Visual Studio purchasers in the Visual Studio 2008 Price Promotions. There are promotions for First time purchasers. Current customers without MSDN subscriptions Current customers with MSDN subscriptions Read More...
Windows Azure Services Platform Starts Next Generation Software Development for ISVs
Microsoft has announced the Azure™ Services Platform . Azure offers independent software vendors (ISVs) the ability to provide their customers a range of choices in user experience over the Web or on connected PCs, servers, and mobile devices. ISVs can Read More...
Silverlight 2 Release Updates Now Available
Silverlight 2 has been released to the Web. You can download Silverlight 2 and the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it from Get Started . Silverlight 2 is small in size (4.6MB) and takes only 4-10 seconds to install on Read More...
Silverlight 2 Boasts New Features for Rich Internet Application Development, Streaming Media
So what do you get in Silverlight 2? Here are some highlights of new Silverlight 2 features: .NET Framework support with a rich base class library. This is a compatible subset of the full .NET Framework. Powerful built-in controls . These include DataGrid, Read More...
First Oslo CTP Ships at PDC
The first bits for Oslo should be available around the time of Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) . Oslo will be available as an add-on to Microsoft's Visual Studio development suite. It includes a new programming language, a visual modeling Read More...
Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 Roadmaps
Gunther and I have been blogging about several of the new features that are coming in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. So far, we've mentioned: Enhancements to connected systems . Visual Studio Team Architect Enhancements . And how the Visual Read More...
Next Version of BizTalk Server Named
The name of the next major release of BizTalk server has changed from BizTalk Server 2006 Release 3 to BizTalk Server 2009 to indicate that it is a major release. The new version is slated to ship during the first half of next year. BizTalk Server 2009 Read More...
New Release of F# Includes Visual Studio Integration
The September community technology preview (CTP) of F# marks an important step along the path to integrate the F# language into Visual Studio. F#, a functional programming language for the .NET platform, combines the strengths of functional programming Read More...
MSDN Academic Alliance Offers Affordable Software for Higher Education, High Schools
Know of a college or high school that might want to teach developer, designer skills? MSDN Academic Alliance is the easiest and most inexpensive way for students and faculty in the technology and design fields to get the latest Microsoft software they Read More...
Developers Share Tips, Best Practices on Visual Studio Extensibility at Microsoft VSX Developer Conference
Come join the first open developer conference focused on Visual Studio extensibility . The Microsoft VSX Developer Conference is September 15 -16 in Redmond, Washington. Whether beginner or expert, you’ll learn tips and tricks, best practices, and meet Read More...
Team Foundation Server Works with Other Tools
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) offers source control, data collection, reporting, and project tracking, and is intended for collaborative software development projects. It sits on a server in your organization as a project repository. It works Read More...
Visual Studio Team System Database Edition CTP Available
The latest community technology preview of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition is now available on our download site . In addition to providing support for SQL Server 2008 database projects, this release incorporates many previously released Read More...
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