Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - Posts

Robotics Studio 1.0

Microsoft Robotics Studio Now Available to Provide Common Development Platform

Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.0) Now Available! - Tandy Trower, General Manager of the Microsoft Robotics Group,

Robotics has long been an area of technology that has captured the attention and expectations of many. We think robotics is poised to take off rapidly, and there are solid indications that this is true! With component hardware costs coming down and computational capabilities increasing, the robotics industry appears to have the right conditions to really grow quickly.

Microsoft Robotics Studio Blog    

Microsoft Robotics Studio Released!

Download Microsoft Robotics Studio Non-Commercial Version now for FREE

The goal of the Microsoft Robotics Studio is to supply a software platform for the robotics community that can be used across a wide variety of hardware. The platform will enable third parties to supply support for new hardware, technologies and tools as Microsoft Windows provides a platform for products and technologies for the PC.

If you wish to distribute commercial applications or run your business operations based on Microsoft Robotics Studio , you must purchase a commercial license via the online store for $399.

Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals

Yesterday we Launched Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals in NYC.

Forty developers labored for one calendar year on this tool to improve the lives of Data dudes everywhere. Richard Waymire the PM Architect on the Team in his Keynote yesterday discussed the three personas of Mort the VB guy, Elvis C# dev and Data dude - he writes the stored procs because no one else can. 

RTM Download Available on MSDN

.NET Rocks! - Cameron Skinner and Gert Drapers on DataDude

Schema Source and Version Control, Gert Drapers - Webcast

Database Testing and Refactoring, Gert Drapers and Sachin Rekhi - Webcast

Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals Overview, Thomas Murphy and Matt Nunn - Webcast

Managing and Deploying SQL Server 2005 Schemas, Mairead O'Donovan and Richard Waymire - Webcast

Here is a video of Sajee Mathew's presentation of how Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals fits into Visual Studio Team System.
 

PDC 07

PDC 07 | Los Angeles | Oct 2nd - 5th


It's official, the PDC is back in LA.... Hope to see you all there October 2 - 5, and at the Pre-con September 30 - October 1.

PDC is ten months away, ten months of anticipation - what's going to be the Next big announcement in the exciting world of software development?