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Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Released
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (RDS) was released this week at the RoboDevelopment Conference. It is a Windows-based environment for hobbyist, academic and commercial developers to create robotics applications for a variety of hardware platforms. Read More...
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...
Microsoft Robotics - On to Mars!
If you attended PDC2008 recently you could not have missed that NASA was there along with guys from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to talk about the great work they do. The tie-in of course if that we recently launched the next challenge at http://www.robochamps.com Read More...
Parallel Computing Features Added to .NET Framework 4.0, Visual Studio 2010
The increase in speed at computers has shifted from ever increasing clock speed to the addition of multiple processing cores. The manycore shift presents an unprecedented business opportunity for developers to take software experiences to the next level. Read More...
Download Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
With the new Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio , we make it easy for Visual Studio and .NET developers to build, debug, test, and deploy Web applications for our cloud platform. You can build an ASP.NET Web application using the same tools Read More...
Windows 7 Beta To Ship Early 2009
Early version of Windows 7 was unveiled at Professional Developers Conference . Windows 7 extends developers’ investments in Windows Vista and encourages the creation of new applications and services for the Windows platform. Attendees receive a pre-beta 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...
Must See PDC Sessions for ISVs
Microsoft PDC is coming next week. I've spent several days in the last couple weeks watching many of the practice sessions. Here's my list of must-see sessions that apply to ISV decision makers and architects. In my opinion, there are several important Read More...
ASP.NET MVC Goes Beta
ASP.NET MVC , the model view controller architecture for Web applications based on .NET 3.5 Framework, is now available as a beta release. The release supports both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative, 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...
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