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How do you register for the UK Launch of Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008
The UK launch of the "big three" will be held in Birmingham on March 19th. I keep getting...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/17/2008
Five things I am looking forward to in 2008
2008 looks like a good year to me. Admittedly it didn't start that well - I was ill most of last...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/15/2008
I wonder how deep water needs to be to float a Mercedes Van?
I'm working at home today after a late cancellation by one of my ISVs. I rather like late...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 01/15/2008
Windows Vista SP1 RC1 - my early experiences
Last week we announced that RC1 of Vista Service Pack 1 was now available broadly to MSDN and...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/14/2007
UK Partner with an Open XML solution? You could win an Xbox 360
David in my team has been busy being creative and has come up with a nifty little competition for UK...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/14/2007
Does the MSJVM explode on January 1st?
Back in November I posted a gentle reminder about the end of life of the MSJVM. Since then several...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/14/2007
Where is the .NET Framework 3.0 SP1 Redistributable hiding?
The short answer is... it doesn't exist yet. Thankfully things are not quite as bad as that. There...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/14/2007
Links for Architect Forum IIS7 Session
Today I delivered an overview of IIS7 at the Architect Forum held at our offices in Reading. I...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 12/11/2007
Visual C++ Futures - MFC updated in 1st half 2008
Back in April I blogged about our initial thoughts on the future of Visual C++. Soma shared some...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/20/2007
After an overview of Windows Server 2008 and the expected impact?
Then check out this short paper created by IDC...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/20/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit updated for RTM
Shameless copy and paste - but great stuff nevertheless. The Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit has...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/20/2007
Windows Server 2008 Prices Announced
Well - US$ prices anyway. I will have a dig for UK. Details can be found at...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/20/2007
Three new IIS7 screencasts
Last week we had a 3 day Windows Server 2008 Tech Reviewers Workshop. One of the presenters...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/20/2007
A subtle change - we like PHP :-)
When I started working with UK developers many years back, one of my focus areas was ASP vs PHP. 10...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/20/2007
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 is finished
Great job by the product group. Now I just need to find the time to unwind a bunch of betas off this...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/20/2007
25% off developer training
My colleagues in the US have struck up a deal with Total Training where we can offer a discount of...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/15/2007
ISV meet hoster, hoster meet ISV
You are an ISV looking at on-demand delivery of your application - good for you! But... once you...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/15/2007
Multi-tenancy in the data tier - not for everyone
We have a great example application called LitwareHR that (amongst other things) demonstrates how to...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/15/2007
.NET 3.5 is the sum of the parts...
Still comes up in discussion - therefore to avoid all confusion... hold this picture in the back of...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/13/2007
Acropolis is no more... long live the WPF Composite Client
Acropolis was a project to make building LOB applications using Windows Forms or WPF much easier...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/08/2007
It is all about the data :-)
Mark Quirk in our team is a top chap - he is also over at TechEd in Barcelona this week and has just...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/08/2007
Vote for great use of technology by an ISV (and maybe enter?)
The ingenuity point is an international contest that invites you, a software development company...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/06/2007
Windows Sharepoint Services will be a separate download from Windows Server 2008
A small point but useful to know. Starting with RC1 and going forward, Windows SharePoint Services...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/02/2007
Microsoft Oslo - simplification of SOA and BPM
On October 30th we announced Oslo. This is a very positive statement of commitment and direction for...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/02/2007
Tech Ed in Barcelona Nov 5th to 9th - good luck David
My colleague and mate David Gristwood owns the Office and Unified Communications track at Tech Ed...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/01/2007
Windows Server 2008 Developer Center is now live
You can find it over at https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/default.aspx. We are...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/01/2007
ISVs ask - we deliver (eventually...) - Source Code for Framework will be made available
Apologies. This was a really important announcement at the start of October which I completely...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/01/2007
Gentle reminder - end of life for the Microsoft JVM
I bumped into an ISV last week that relies heavily on the Microsoft JVM for their solution. The end...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/01/2007
Very promising Microsoft Blog for ISVs
If you are an ISV interested in Microsoft technology, then: Keep visiting here :-) And secondly,...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/01/2007
SQL Server 2008 - my take on why it is interesting
I was asked to summarize what is interesting in SQL Server 2008. With a little help from Keith I...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 11/01/2007
Links and answers from Developing Great Server Applications, Oct 17th
On Wednesday delivered a day briefing on developing server applications with IIS7, WCF, WF, MSMQ as...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/19/2007
Wish you were here? :-)
In my role of working with UK ISVs I get to stay in plenty of hotels - and hence like to find...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 10/09/2007
Microsoft Applications using .NET Framework
Two of my ISVs were asking about Microsoft applications which use the .NET Framework. When I had a...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/27/2007
Download Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 RC0 (and .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2)
The latest Windows SDK is now available for installation as an ISO download. The SDK release...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/27/2007
One step closer - Windows Server 2008 RC0 is out
It also includes a CTP of Windows Server Virtualisation - yay!...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/25/2007
Links and answers from Developing Great Server Applications, Sept 13th
Last Thursday we delivered a day briefing on developing server applications with IIS7, WCF, WF, MSMQ...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/20/2007
Interesting slides on the changing landscape
And why we need to be thinking about it... https://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/shift-happens-33834
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/10/2007
Technology Areas covered by my team this year
These are exciting times - lots of new technologies which will be useful to UK ISVs. The following...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/06/2007
Silverlight - should an ISV care?
The choice of technology for delivering UX is getting wider. Three years back it would have been (in...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/05/2007
Silverlight 1.0 Released - and Linux support announced
Today we released Silverlight 1.0 for Windows and Mac and announced Silverlight for Linux (working...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/05/2007
Windows Server 2008 - not until Q1 2008
Firstly some good news ;-). We have been saying we would Release to Manufacturing (RTM) Windows...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/04/2007
Blimey - that was a corking holiday (and 40 isn't that old)
Had a great time in Yorkshire staying near Scarborough. Every morning (pretty much) we woke up to...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 09/04/2007
Back in a weeks time...Tuesday 28th August (oh - and Dundas and SQL Server 2008)
I have my final weeks summer holiday starting in 4 hours (actually 3 hours and 45 minutes to be...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/17/2007
Microsoft is leader in Application Server Platforms
I don't track what Analysts are saying about the world as much as I once did - but I was pleased to...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/13/2007
Office 2007 in the UK for £11+VAT
Ok..... I get a lot of SPAM in my email telling me about ridiculous offers like this - but this one...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/13/2007
LitwareHR SaaS Sample gets a smart client
LitwareHR is our sample application demonstrating how to use Microsoft technologies to build a SaaS...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/13/2007
The perils of flying
You might have spotted I was in Seattle in July arriving back Sat 28th. It proved to be a fairly...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 08/13/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is complete and available for download
You can find the details at https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/vstudio/default.aspx. It is feature...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/26/2007
I am part of the problem - I turned off UAC. I feel bad...
I have been using Windows Vista for ....hmmm, a very long time. During that period I have...
Author: Eric Nelson UK Date: 07/26/2007