PowerDesigner and Visual Studio 2005

31Jul07

PowerDesigner 12.5
PowerDesigner, a model driven approach to align business and IT, is an enterprise modeling and design solution that helps implement effective Enterprise Architecture and brings a powerful meta-data management environment to your application development life cycle.
PowerDesigner uniquely combines several standard modeling techniques (UML, Business Process Modeling and market-leading data modeling) together with leading development [...]

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Visual Studio 2008 Shell

18Jul07

If you create software development tools, you’ll want to consider building on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell.

A streamlined Visual Studio development environment, the Visual Studio Shell provides the core foundation so you can focus on building your application’s unique features. Flexible customization options help you deliver optimized experiences for specific markets.

Key Benefits:
- Faster [...]

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Windows Live ID for Client Applications

18Jul07

Windows Live™ ID for client applications is a managed API that enables client applications to access Windows Live sites and services.

This API is intended for use in developing.NET Framework applications that run on end users’ desktop computers, more specifically Windows® Forms applications.

Included in Windows Live ID for client applications is a Sign In [...]

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Build Your Own Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget

17Jul07

You’ve probably heard a lot of buzz lately about gadgets—these are the lightweight applications that you’ve seen, for example, sitting on a Windows Vista™ desktop. There are actually three different types of gadgets supported by Microsoft.
Sidebar gadgets are the ones that run on the Windows Vista desktop. Web gadgets are similar, but run on Live.com [...]

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An Overview of Microsoft® Visual Studio® code name "Orcas" White Paper

12Jul07

By Tony Goodhew [April 2007]
Microsoft® Visual Studio® code name “Orcas” delivers on Microsoft’s vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality rich user experiences. With Visual Studio code name “Orcas”, organizations will find it easier than ever before to capture and analyze information so that [...]

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Microsoft Code Name "Acropolis" July Community Technology Preview (CTP) 1

12Jul07

Microsoft Code Name “Acropolis” is a set of components and tools intended to make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client applications for Microsoft Windows on the .NET Framework.
Building on the vision of software + services, Microsoft Code Name “Acropolis” makes it easier to build and manage modular, business-focused, client [...]

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Microsoft Silverlight

12Jul07

Microsoft Silverlight (formerly known as code name “WPF/E”).
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.
Silverlight offers a flexible and consistent programming model that supports AJAX, Python, Ruby, and .NET languages such as Visual Basic and C#, and integrates with existing [...]

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SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (July 2007)

12Jul07

Download SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (July 2007)
The SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) gathers data from Microsoft Windows and SQL Server configuration settings. BPA uses a predefined list of SQL Server 2005 recommendations and best practices to determine if there are potential issues in the database environment.
For support, questions or comments on [...]

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10 ways to make your Web site ’sticky’

04Jul07

By Joanna L. Krotz
If you’ve figured out the kind of Web site your business needs, a question I address in a separate article, it’s time to discuss how to attract visitors to your site and to keep them around long enough to develop a relationship.
Back in the 20th century, we surfed for the joy of [...]

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