The .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit is now available.  It includes presentations, hands-on labs, demos and event materials.  This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the .NET 3.5 Enhancement features including: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX History, ASP.NET...

When you’re selling your products and services on the Windows Vista operating system, you can accelerate your sales cycle with the Demo Readiness Toolkit.  Windows Vista Ultimate deployment built specifically for demos, the toolkit includes a script, sample content, preinstalled applications like 2007...

Bill Veghte, Senior Vice President at Microsoft, explores the plans for Windows XP, progress with Windows Vista, and the view toward Windows 7 in an open letter to Windows customers.Security and other critical updates continue for Windows XP through 2014.  Although the “end of sales” date is June 30,...

With the end of the fiscal year coming to Microsoft, a new set of emerging technologies will be starting up soon.  The new Rhythm technologies will be announced in June and July with enrollment beginning in August and September.  You will continue to find information, forums, developer training, events...

The May 2008 Preview of .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit covers technologies in .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and other releases that are part of the same wave.  The May 2008 Preview includes updated hands-on labs and new presentations.  The followin

Microsoft Expression Studio 2 has been released to the web adding Silverlight support along with a new product, Expression Encoder.  You can now design user interfaces for both the Windows desktop and the web by utilizing the power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight.  Create experiences...

A year has gone by on Windows Vista and much has changed.  Join us for this series of four webcasts, entitled Windows Vista: One Year Later, as we discuss where Vista stands now, expose the myths in the marketplace, set expectations on the latest service pack and highlight new opportunities.  Webcasts...

Security has become one of the core requirements for software products; secure products increase software reliability and reduce software maintenance costs by minimizing software security vulnerabilities.  The need to protect critical data, infrastructures and the need to build and preserve widespread...

Microsoft’s largest annual technical education event, TechEd 2008 offers the same enriching and informative experiences you’ve come to expect from TechEd but with additional learning opportunities designed to meet the specific needs, interests and priorities of two distinct audiences in two separate...

Microsoft is making a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices that will increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice across the information technology community of developers, partners, customers and competitors.Specifically,...

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been released to manufacturing.  Although the primary purpose of SP1 is to provide improvements to Windows Vista, there are some new features including:BitLocker can now encrypt all local hard disks on a PC (instead of just the one containing the Windows partition).Support...

Virtual training for Windows Vista is now available in three parts:Part 1: Creating a Simple Application with Procedural Code in Windows Presentation Foundation using Windows VistaPart 2: Creating a Simple Sidebar Gadget in Windows VistaPart 3: Developing .NET Applications that Leverage Windows Vista...

Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC) has been posted to Microsoft Downloads. The release includes:RC 1 Public Availability.Deployment planning documentation.The release improves performance and reliability. For more information, see the team’s blog post, Improving reliability and performance: Update preview...

Nominations are now open for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Boot Camp to be held on January 21-23 at the Platform Adoption Center in Redmond.  This boot camp will consist of four days of hands-on training.  Content is expected from top notch speakers, both from the product teams as well as...

One of the hallmarks of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) has been the enhanced collaboration between designers and developers, engendered by XAML. In this whitepaper, best practices and techniques explain how to realize this collaboration. A result o

Microsoft continuously improves Windows Vista by providing ongoing updates while working with software and hardware vendors to deliver application compatibility and device driver improvements.  Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be another vehicle through which Microsoft provides operating system...

Do you want to test your solutions on Windows Vista Service Pack 1?  Microsoft has opened up a limited program for ISVs to preview the beta of Windows Vista SP1.  Enrollment is limited and once capacity is reached nominations will no longer be accepted.  Those ISVs participating in the Windows Vista...

.NET 3.5 introduces some minor changes for Windows Presentation Foundation, but none-the-less, they are worthy of consideration for your WPF applications.  For those of you developing on the .NET 3.0 version of WPF, you should strongly consider a port to .NET 3.5 because:It's quick and painless It provides...

IDC projects that 90 million units of the Windows Vista operating system will ship worldwide in 2007; will your business be ready to take advantage of this opportunity?  Windows Vista takes Microsoft’s client-side platform in a new direction, with new features that will impact how we build and deploy...

Get the developer training you need for your next great Windows Vista™ software application.  Be one of the first 40 partners to register and view the entire series of ISV Web Seminar Deep Dive Series On-Demand Promotion for Windows Vista and receive a "Windows Vista Ultimate DVD" at the end of the...

Find the latest developer content on this community blog site.  You will be able to interact directly with Microsoft's product managers, top developer trainers, and technical and marketing experts through this site.  Included are links to upcoming training events, developer documents, and other resources...

Do your developers occasionally need help with a specific task of a given technology?  Then the How-Do-I video series is here to help!  These short 10 to 15 minutes videos show a developer how to perform certain tasks with some of our coolest technologies.  Videos are available in up to 11 different...