Microsoft innovation days 2007 @ karachi

Microsoft innovation days 2007 was a an effort to bring new technologies like vista and .Net 3.0. first of the three events was in islamabad( which i missed). secound event which i attended was in lahore. Third event i speak Vista and infocard, waqar kamisani spoke on new offering by Microsoft. great tele marketing tools have been offered by microsoft for the ISVs. got great feed back from the attendees on the event :)

Microsft innnovation days 2007 @ Lahore

Microsoft innovation days 2007 was a an effort to bring new technologies like vista and .Net 3.0. first of the three events was in islamabad( which i missed). I was invited to speak at Lahore event. I spoke on WCF, waqar kamisani spoke on new offering by Microsoft.

Two great features of vista

I was exploring vista and came across two great features of vista. I hope I’ll be able to speak on them soon in some MS event
· P2P / People Near Me: The P2P platform comprises powerful native APIs that help you build peer-to-peer applications. The functionality in the Vista platform takes care of the infrastructure for discovery, connection, and communication between applications, whether we’re talking about two parties or on a multi-party mesh. The P2P functionality transparently plugs into DNS, so peers can easily find and communicate with each other across the internet. And the People Near Me feature locates other users on the same Internet access point. The platform can even create an ad-hoc network directly between users who aren’t connected to the Internet.
· RSS Platform: the RSS platform lets you build RSS-enabled applications without rewriting the basic building blocks of RSS infrastructure. The Common Feed List, Feed Synchronization Engine, and Feed Store in Windows Vista give you support for all major ATOM and RSS formats, background scheduled updates, and APIs that expose a simple object model for feeds. Including RSS support in your application has never been easier.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for Partners

The term Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is widely used in the context of implementing the messaging capabilities of a service oriented infrastructure. An ESB is one of many building blocks that make up a comprehensive service oriented infrastructure. Microsoft provides a comprehensive ESB offering through its large network of partners.
You can find a list of the partners in the early access program on the Microsoft SOA/ESB Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/solutions/soa/esb.mspx

Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate ready for download

The Release candidate includes new features (e.g. PXE Boot) and addresses several of issues including installation on Windows 2003 as a host; Audio in Vista; DVD support for Vista installation; binding to wireless network cards etc.