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Over on the e-commerce blog (owned by the Commerce Server team), they announced the availability of Commerce Server 2009 on MSDN. Excellent!
So why is this so relevant to the SharePoint audience?
Commerce Server 2009 delivers an out-of-the-box shopping site that leverages SharePoint Commerce Services which provides a gallery of 35 web parts and controls that can be assembled within SharePoint.
Here’s a list of some of the functionality provided by SharePoint Commerce Services:
· Virtual Earth Store Locator, which integrates with Virtual Earth mapping software so that shopping sites have detailed maps of store locations.
· Attract a larger consumer base by using Live™ ID, allowing single sign-on to your shopping site.
· Search that searches both the e-commerce site and static content seamlessly.
· Display reviews and ratings for individual products, and ability for shoppers to submit their own reviews and ratings, with administrative workflow for management discretion.
· Display advertisements and discounts that are relevant to both the current shopper and current site context, and that work in conjunction with Marketing Manager and campaigns.
· Shoppers and managers can take advantage of Profile Administration features, including the ability to add and edit addresses, view and launch credit card information, a registration wizard, and the ability to reset passwords.
Mike Swanson hizo una excelente compilación de lagunas sesiones del MIX09, claro esta que aun pueden ir a la Pagina donde están todos los videos del MIX09, pero esto les ahorrara mucho trabajo.
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Day One Keynote (Bill Buxton, Scott Guthrie)
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Day Two Keynote (Deborah Adler, Dean Hachamovitch)
B01M
Scaling a Rich Client to Half a Billion Users (Steve Zheng)
B02M
Software Entrepreneurs: Go Big with BizSpark (Julien Codorniou)
B03M
Copyright Laws for Web Designers and Developers (Jonathan Zuck)
B04M
Enhancing Large Windows Media Platforms with Microsoft Silverlight (Robert Ames, Matt Smith)
B05M
Exposing Web Content to a Global Audience Using Machine Translation (Dr. Neil Roodyn)
C01F
Sketch Flow: From Concept to Production (Celso Gomes, Christian Schormann)
C02F
Improving UX through Application Lifecycle Management (Chris Bernard, Christian Thilmany)
C03F
Microsoft Expression Web: No Platform Left Behind (Steve Guttman, Tyler Simpson)
C04F
The Future of Microsoft Expression Blend (Douglas Olson, Christian Schormann)
C05F
C# for Designers (Fred Gerantabee, Jennifer Smith)
C06F
Ten Ways to Ensure RIA Failure (Anthony Franco)
C07F
Deep Zoom++ : Build Dynamic Deep Zoom Applications with Open Source (Ken Azuma, Allan Li)
C08F
Using Total Experience Design to Transform the Digital Building (Paul Dawson, Daren May)
C09F
A Website Named Desire (Nishant Kothary)
C10F
Design Prototyping: Bringing Wireframes to Life (Dan Harrelson)
C11F
Escaping Flatland in Application Design: Rich User Experiences (Peter Eckert, Jeff McLean)
C12F
Go Beyond Best Practices: Evolving Next Practices to Prosper in the 21st Century (Lou Carbone)
C13F
Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote (and Other HCI Projects) (Johnny Lee)
C14F
Interactive Prototyping with DHTML (Bill Scott)
C15F
Touch and Gesture Computing, What You Haven’t Heard (Joseph Fletcher)
C16F
The Way of the Whiteboard: Persuading with Pictures (Dan Roam)
C17F
Web Form Design (Luke Wrobleski)
C18F
Wireframes That Work: Designing (Rich Internet) Applications (Aaron Adams)
C19F
How Razorfish Lights Up Brand with Microsoft SharePoint (Tony Jones)
C20F
State of the Art in Web Site Design on Microsoft SharePoint (Chris Auld)
C21F
User Experience Design Patterns for Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Corrina Black)
C22F
Creating a Great Experience on Digg with Windows Internet Explorer 8 (Joel K. Neubeck)
C23F
Windows Internet Explorer 8 in the Real World: How Is Internet Explorer 8 Used (Paul Cutsinger)
C24F
Measuring Social Media Marketing (Jason Burby, Ryan Turner)
C26F
Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience (Stephan Hoefnagels)
C27M
Creating Interactivity with Microsoft Expression Blend (Peter Blois)
C28M
Integrating Microsoft Expression Blend with Adobe Creative Suite (Joanna Mason)
C29M
Effective Infographics with Interactivity (Joshua Allen)
C30M
User Experience Design for Non-Designers (Shawn Konopinsky)
T01F
A Lap around Microsoft .NET Services (Todd Holmquist-Sutherland, John Shewchuk)
T02F
Simplifying Distributed Access Control with Microsoft .NET Services (Justin Smith)
T03F
Connecting Applications across Networks with Microsoft .NET Services (Clemens Vasters)
T04F
Mesh-Enabled Web Applications (Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie)
T05F
Live Framework and Mesh Services: Live Services for Developers (Ori Amiga)
T06F
What’s New in Microsoft SQL Data Services (Nigel Ellis)
T07F
Overview of Windows Azure (Manuvir Das)
T08F
Windows Azure Storage (Brad Calder)
T09F
Building Web Applications with Windows Azure (Steve Marx)
T10F
RESTful Services for the Programmable Web with Windows Communication Foundation (Ron Jacobs)
T11F
Developing RESTful Services and Clients with "M" (Douglas Purdy, Chris Sells)
T12F
Principles of Microsoft Silverlight Animation (Jeff Paries)
T13F
Working across the Client Continuum (Laurent Bugnion)
T14F
What’s New in Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Joe Stegman)
T15F
High-Speed RIA Development with the Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit (Shawn Oster)
T16F
Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls (Karen Corby)
T17F
Deep Dive into Microsoft Silverlight Graphics (Seema Ramchandani)
T18F
Delivering Ads to a Silverlight Media Player Application (Nicholas Brookins)
T19F
Creating Media Content for Microsoft Silverlight Using Microsoft Expression Encoder (James Clarke)
T20F
Using Microsoft ASP.NET MVC to Easily Extend a Web Site into the Mobile Space (Jared Eischen, John Stockton)
T21F
Running PHP on Microsoft Servers and Services (Shaun Hirschman, Michael Joffe)
T22F
Using Dynamic Languages to Develop Microsoft Silverlight Applications (John Lam)
T23F
Choosing between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC (Rachel Appel)
T24F
The Microsoft Web Sandbox: An Open Source Framework for Developing Secure Standards-Based Web Applications (Scott Isaacs)
T25F
Web Development Using Microsoft Visual Studio: Now and in the Future (Jeff King)
T26F
<3 the New Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit for Social Websites (Steve Gordon, Keiji Kanazawa)
T27F
Protecting Online Identities (Jorgen Thelin)
T28F
Standards for Aggregating Activity Feeds and Social Aggregation Services (Marc Canter, Monica Keller, Kevin Marks, John McCrea, Dare Obasanjo, Luke Shepard)
T29F
Adding Microsoft Silverlight to Your Company’s Skill Set (Noah Gedrich, Ken Martin)
T30F
Advance Your Design with UX Design Patterns (Ambrose Little)
T31F
Microsoft Xbox "Lips" and "Fable II": Multi Channel Experiences (Charles Duncan)
T32F
Cloud Computing: What’s in It for Me? (John Keagy)
T33F
Customized Live Search for Web and Client Applications (Alessandro Catorcini)
T34F
Introducing the Microsoft Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP (Chris Pendleton)
T35F
Building a Rich Social Network Application (Miho Heo, Gilbok Lee)
T36F
Modeling RESTful Data Services: Present and Future (Pablo Castro)
T37F
Extending Your Brand to the Desktop with Windows 7 (Yochay Kiriaty)
T38F
See through the Clouds: Introduction to the Azure Services Platform (James Conard)
T39F
What’s New in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4 (Kevin Gjerstad, Mark Wilson-Thomas)
T40F
Building Amazing Business Centric Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Brad Abrams)
T41F
.NET RIA Services – Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET (Nikhil Kothari)
T42F
Consuming Web Services in Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Eugene Osovetsky)
T43F
Microsoft Silverlight Media End-to-End (Alex Zambelli)
T44F
Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC): Ninja on Fire Black Belt Tips (Phil Haack)
T45F
Building Out of Browser Experiences with Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Mike Harsh)
T46F
Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 : What’s Next? (Stephen Walther)
T47F
Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 Data Access: Patterns for Success with Web Forms (David Ebbo)
T48F
Microsoft ASP.NET: Taking AJAX to the Next Level (Stephen Walther)
T49F
File|New -> Company: Creating NerdDinner.com with Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) (Scott Hanselman)
T50F
ASP.NET MVC: America’s Next Top Model View Controller Framework (Phil Haack)
T51F
The Microsoft Web Platform: Starring Internet Information Services (IIS) and Your Application (Crystal Hoyer, Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec)
T52F
A Lap around Windows Internet Explorer 8 (Giorgio Sardo)
T53F
Building High Performance Web Applications and Sites (John Hrvatin)
T54F
Securing Web Applications (Eric Lawrence)
T55F
Creating a "Next Generation" E-Commerce Experience (Scott Cairney, Jean-Yves Martineau)
T56F
Delivering Media with Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) Media Services and Microsoft Silverlight (John Bishop, John Bocharov)
T57F
Developing and Deploying Applications on Internet Information Services (IIS) (Thomas Deml)
T58F
Build Applications on the Microsoft Platform Using Eclipse, Java, Ruby and PHP! (Vijay Rajagopalan)
T59F
Building Scalable and Available Web Applications with Microsoft Project Code Name "Velocity" (Murali Krishnaprasad)
T60F
Miss March and Other Distractions (Scott Stanfield)
T61F
Windows Mobile 6.5 Overview (Loke Uei Tan)
T62F
There’s a Little Scripter in All of Us: Building a Web App for the Masses (Rob Conery)
T63M
Building Data-Driven Scalable AJAX Web Pages (Jon Flanders)
T64M
Caching REST with Windows Communication Foundation (Jon Flanders)
T65M
Building Accessible RIAs in Microsoft Silverlight (Chris Auld, Reed Shaffner)
T66M
Building Microsoft Silverlight Applications with Eclipse (Shawn Wildermuth)
T67M
Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application for Microsoft Silverlight (Seema Ramchandani)
T68M
When Errors Happen: Debugging Microsoft Silverlight (John Papa)
T69M
Microsoft Silverlight Is Ready for Business (Ward Bell)
T70M
Optimizing Performance for Microsoft Expression Encoder (James Clarke)
T71M
Going Inside Microsoft Silverlight: Exploring the Core CLR (Brandon Bray)
T72M
Making XML Really, Really Easy with Microsoft Visual Basic 9 (Alex Turner)
T73M
What’s New for Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Developers in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Mark Wilson-Thomas)
T74M
Protecting Against Internet Service Abuse (John Scarrow)
T75M
Five Killer Scenarios for the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit (Chris Parker)
T76M
Lighting Up Web and Client Applications with Microsoft Live Services (Gregory Renard)
T77M
Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit (Tim Aidlin)
T78M
Offline Network Detection in Microsoft Silverlight 3 (Peter Smith)
T79M
How’d they do it? Real App. Real Code. Two Weeks. Nothing but .NET (Scott Hanselman)
T80M
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework (Pablo Castro)
T81M
Using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio to Build Cloud Services (Jim Nakashima)
T82M
Introducing the Microsoft Web Platform (Lauren Cooney)
T83M
Automated User Interface (UI) Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 (Brian Keller)
T84M
A Shot of Windows Live Messenger and a Pint of Microsoft Silverlight (Jordan Snyder)
T85M
Improving Mobile Experiences with the Microsoft Mobile Device Browser File (Chris Woods)
T86M
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Web Developers (Thomas Deml)
T87F
Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF): Sharing Skills and Code (Jeff Wilcox)
Saludos.
Fernando García Loera
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Crytek, the developer behind games such as Far Cry and Crysis Warhead, announced last week that they will be presenting their third generation engine at the upcoming Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. CryENGINE 3 is the first engine for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC (DirectX 9/10) that is "truly Next-Gen-Ready". The engine includes scalable computation and graphics for all major systems, the first development platform to include this feature. A third generation sandbox level editor will also be included that will allow developers to easily test what they have created. Additionally, the engine will come with new features designed specifically for consoles, massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), and next generation game development.
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Building Web Applications with SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step – New Book Released http://twurl.nl/wt5p6u
Looks like Microsoft is doing its usual… monitoring the market for successful products, and then emulating them and making them better.
Furthering its commitment to deliver communications and collaboration software as enterprise-class services, today at CeBIT 2009 Microsoft announced that the Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online Services, is now available for trial to businesses of all sizes in 19 countries. In addition, Microsoft will release Microsoft Office Communications Online, for instant messaging and presence, and the Business Productivity Online Deskless Worker Suite, an extremely economical e-mail, calendaring and collaboration service for the occasional user.
“These services open up new possibilities for businesses to control costs while continuing to enhance the productivity of their employees,” said Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division. “Customers can save between 10 percent and 50 percent in IT-related expenditures as a result of deploying Microsoft Online Services.”
Software-Plus-Services Strategy Reaches Worldwide
Exchange Online and SharePoint Online are available for trial in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Organizations worldwide will be able to trial and purchase the entire Business Productivity Online Suite, including Office Communications Online, in April.
In addition, Microsoft is committed to providing opportunity for a global ecosystem of partners that will sell, customize and provide consulting, migration and managed services for Microsoft Online Services customers around the world.
Solutions for Occasional Users
The Deskless Worker Suite, including Exchange Online Deskless Worker and SharePoint Online Deskless Worker, will also be available to organizations in the 19 countries. The Deskless Worker Suite is a low-cost solution designed for users who don’t have access to messaging and collaboration capabilities today.
The worldwide availability of the Deskless Worker Suite will offer customers an affordable e-mail and collaboration solution for occasional users. By providing a cost-effective subscription rate (currently listed at 2.56 euros or 2.01 pounds per month per user), the Deskless Worker Suite will make it possible for organizations to give all employees access to the same messaging and collaboration systems. Today, in organizations that have deployed e-mail, more than 40 percent of employees do not have e-mail.*
The Deskless Worker Suite will be available for trial and for purchase worldwide in April.
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Just because Office 14 won’t be fully released until next year doesn’t mean consumers will have to wait that long to try out the products.
In an interview this week Senior Vice President Chris Capossela said that Microsoft will offer more details on the beta "relatively soon," noting that Office has traditionally made its products available to millions of testers well before the final version ships.
"That’s been true of the suite," he said. "That will certainly be true of the suite this time and of the Web apps."
With Office 14, Microsoft has said it will offer desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote as well as versions that can run online in a browser, be it Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox. As previously noted, that means that for the first time Office will also work on both Linux and Apple’s iPhone. CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts last week that Office 14 would not come out this year.
Microsoft has already started testing some of the components that make up the Office 14 wave of products. Capossela wouldn’t go into too many specifics about when Office 14 would ship, but said Microsoft hoped not to be too far beyond its typical cycle which sees new versions roughly every three years.
"I don’t think Office 14 is going to be wildly different," Capossela said. "Office has had a pretty predictable ship rate and I think we will continue with that."
The last version of Office, Office 2007 was finalized and made available to large businesses in late 2006 and had its consumer launch with Windows Vista in January 2007.
As for the new Web-based products, Capossela reiterated that they are already being tested "with a small set of people."
"We will look to expand that number relatively soon," he said. The final version, though he said, won’t come until the desktop version of Office 14 is also done. "In terms of when things will be completely done we’ll take the beta name off when the wave is completely done," he said.
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