July 2008 Entries
I came across this great Webcast on running test with Visual Studio 2008. It's definitely worth checking out and on the top 10 webcast list for MSDN. MSDN Webcast: Running Tests with Visual Studio 2008 (Level 200)
I read a great article a few days ago on "How Bill Gates Redefined Application Development" here http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Ap... It's definitely worth a read. With Bill's departure from Microsoft last Friday. I can't help but reminisce...
I found a great powerpoint presentation, by Martin Woodward, on what's new in VS2008. You can download it here (Powerpoint 2007 format (zipped) - 2.80 MB)
I recently read "Microsoft Silverlight to back Ruby, Python in browser" at http://www.infoworld.com/ar... I'm very curious to see whether Ruby and Python, as alternatives to JavaScript, will have a serious impact in the ISV community. I definitely think the capabilities extended by these two additions will definitely feed the community and drive for the addition of Perl and PHP support within Silverlight...
I recently read through the Microsoft "Oslo" Strategy backgrounder at http://www.microsoft.com/pr... I really think that the technologies that will surface out of this strategy will provide a shorter path for ISV that need create and maintain complex Line of Business (LOB) applications. Check it out for yourself and tell me what you think
I read a couple blogs recently that discussed whether multi-tenancy is a prerequisite for SaaS. (Why multi-tenancy matters and Many degrees of multi-tenancy). Gianpaolo Carraro from Microsoft does a great job shedding light on the topic on his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/gianp...
I recently came across the Microsoft ISV Buddy Program at the ISV Zone Home on http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... If you are an ISV. You should seriously check it out
I recently had an very large ISV that was looking to return search results from their application within Windows Search for Desktops. As I was looking for a solution to this challenge I came across this great article on the topic by fellow ISV Architect Evangelist, Bruce Kyle (View article...) Here's the key links from the article: Windows Search 4.0 for Developers Description of Windows Search 4.0 and the Multilingual User Interface Pack for Windows Search 4.0...