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Blogs by Microsoft Switzerland

mepprecht — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:12:44 GMT

Sometimes you get so busy at work and at home, that you don’t have time to find the optimal resources you need for your daily job. Microsoft Switzerland has a number of blogs that may be of interest to you and your colleagues.

Swiss IT Professional and TechNet Blog (English)
http://blogs.technet.com/chitpro-en
This blog. Covering aspects that a IT Professional, from system- to database administrator, needs to know about. Covers Microsoft Technologies. A German version of this blog is also available.

Schweizer IT Professional und TechNet Blog (German)
http://blogs.technet.com/chitpro-de
The same content as this blog, but in German.

Microsoft Switzerland Security Blog (English)http://blogs.technet.com/ms_schweiz_security_blog
A Blog covering Security, not only Microsoft centric.

Microsoft Switzerland Academic Team Blog (English)
http://blogs.msdn.com/swiss_academic_team
Information for Students and other Academics at High Schools, Universities and Technical Schools in Switzerland.

Swiss MSDN/Developer Team Blog (English)
http://blogs.msdn.com/swiss_dpe_team
Development topics; Web, RIA, .NET, Mobile, Silverlight, Azure and Partner information.

Visual Basic 6 Runtime - Support on Windows 7/2008 R2

mepprecht — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:17:08 GMT

The existing Support Statement on the Visual Basic version 6 runtime for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has been updated to include Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

So, the VB 6 runtime will continue to be shipped with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, exactly the same way it was with Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server. Beyond that, there no plans to ship or support the VB6 runtime on future Operating Systems.

SharePoint Guidance – November 2008

mepprecht — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:25:23 GMT

The SharePoint Guidance has just been published on Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices Developer Center.

This guidance helps architects and developers build SharePoint intranet applications. The guidance contains a reference implementation (RI) that demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and lifecycle management challenges. This guidance discusses the following:

Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging.
Design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter.
Implementation examples demonstrated in the RI and in the QuickStarts.
How to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration.
Set up of development, build, test, staging, and production environments.
Managing the application life cycle including upgrade.
Team-based intranet application development.

The following areas are not discussed in this version of the guidance:

Content-oriented sites that use Web content management.
Internet and enterprise-scale SharePoint applications.
Multilingual SharePoint applications.
Scale or security testing of SharePoint applications.

MSDN site: SharePoint Guidance
Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/spg
Community Forum: http://www.codeplex.com/spg/Thread/List.aspx