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Welcome to the Microsoft Financial Services Newsletter for Developers. At Microsoft, we’re committed to serving the needs of developers and architects in the financial services industry. This newsletter will give you links to the latest resources, tools and technologies to help build fast, scaleable, secure enterprise level solutions in Financial Services.
Letter from the Editor
Greetings and welcome to the Spring Edition of the Developer Newsletter. I am sure that you are as excited as I am that Spring has finally arrived. With Spring comes a refreshed time of the year with renewed excitement, enthusiasm and anticipation…and here at Microsoft we have some great updates to share with you on the latest products and technology to help you leverage that enthusiasm while developing and deploying enterprise level solutions.
This Spring Edition includes a series of new articles on Regulatory Compliance, using alerts in the Banking industry, showing Windows Vista in action in Financial Services, and some great new code snippets for Visual Studio 2005. Also we are please to announce a great new Security guide known as "The Developer Highway Code". In addition we are very pleased to announce the new Windows Live Developer Center. You’ll also find links to the latest white paper for building connected systems in Financial Services and to four new case studies highlighting the use of the Microsoft products and technologies to enable priority solution scenarios in the Banking, Capital Markets, and Insurance industries. I would also like to encourage you to take a moment to view the “At the Whiteboard” series featuring Asli Bilgin of Microsoft. I think you’ll see great returns from this short investment of time.
Finally, the 4th Annual Financial Services Developer Conference in late April will be the best ever (I am sure you expected me to say that). We have 34 sessions scheduled that will be hosted by industry experts, and Frank Schiler, VP and Distinguished Analyst of the Gartner Group, will give a keynote address focused on "Architecting the Financial Institution of the Future." The response to the 2006 Developers Conference has been overwhelming and I am pleased to share that the event has *sold out*. For those of you that cannot attend this years event please watch the Developer Connection site for posting of presentations, videos, and other key resources.
Enjoy the spring and I look forward to seeing many of you at the Developers Conference.
Thanks,
Michael K. Wons, Technology Strategy Director, World-wide Financial Services Group
Mikewons@microsoft.com
Inside Information for Financial Services Developers
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This article will help you begin to make sense of regulatory compliance from a developer's point of view. It examines the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA, and other regulations, and covers the most important best practices that are common across multiple pieces of legislation.
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Get a basic picture of the purposes and functions of the Banking Alerts reference application, which is a simplified illustration of an alert-driven, Web-based, speech-enabled banking application in the Microsoft Speech Application SDK Version 1.1.
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Watch a video that covers how Windows Vista technology can be used to coordinate end-to-end business processes across organizations and systems as investors and brokers identify the best properties, negotiate over purchase documents, perform due-diligence, obtain financing, and close escrow.
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IntelliSense Code Snippets are reusable, task-oriented blocks of code. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 box includes a set of Visual Basic and Visual C# Code Snippets that cover tasks ranging from creating a custom exception to sending an e-mail message. You can download additional snippets.
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Choose from a wide range of live and on-demand SQL Server 2005 webcasts. Or take part in a virtual lab, which allows you to cut your teeth on the new platform by experimenting with its different capabilities.
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The Microsoft Application Verifier (AppVerifier) can play a critical role in understanding how applications will work when deployed into production. The AppVerifier assists in finding subtle programming errors, security issues, and user account privilege problems that can be difficult to identify during a typical test pass.
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In this on-demand webcast from MSDN TV, Israel Hilerio explains the configuration you need to host the workflow runtime in your applications and create long-running workflows with persistence, tracking, communications, and event handling.
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This handbook captures and summarizes the key security engineering activities that should be an integral part of your software development processes. These activities include identifying security objectives, applying design guidelines for security, threat modeling, security architecture and design reviews, security code reviews, and security deployment reviews.
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Every other week, the MSDN Flash newsletter delivers the latest news on developer resources, SDKs, downloads, security news, partner offers, webcasts, and national and local developer training opportunities. After you sign up, or if you already receive MSDN Flash, you can customize your own version to receive the information that's most important to you.
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The Windows Live Platform puts a deeper level of control into your hands by offering access to core services and data through open, easily accessible APIs. Start building applications and mashups today with Windows Live.
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Updated White Paper
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The 2006 edition of the Building Connected Systems in Financial Services -- the .NET Framework and the Microsoft Enterprise Application Development Platform white paper has been updated and posted for customer use. It focuses on Microsoft’s connected systems strategy, which centers on the .NET Framework development technologies as the common development framework for interoperability with components and services provided by other vendors. The developer community, fast facts, and customer case studies sections have also been updated.
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Customer Case Studies/Power of the Platform
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Smart client technology runs on Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition devices, which will be rolled out to more than 2,500 insurance agents in the field. Visual Studio 2005 synchronization keeps the Tablet PCs constantly updated with the latest products, enhancements, and customer information, and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 manages message queues to and from the Tablet PCs. Transactions that used to take at least five days can now be completed in as little as a few minutes.
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RSM EquiCo Capital Markets used the predefined NASD 3010 evidentiary reports in the Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive service to show that the broker/dealer communication with clients was in accordance with the stated rules. With Exchange Hosted Archive in place, the auditors experienced a painless process when sampling, flagging, and reviewing messages based on keywords.
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Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) developed an e-commerce application framework called the Presentation Services Framework (PSF) by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Developers worked with the Microsoft Visual C# development tool to create the PSF in seven months. Since the launch of PSF, HBOS has developed and deployed new online banking applications running on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
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With help from technology integrator Avanade, Wachovia deployed a flexible, self-managed collaboration solution based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Wachovia’s financial product developers, sales professionals, support staff, and team leaders manage critical information more effectively with Windows SharePoint Services.
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Events
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.NET Unwrapped II for Financial Services was a weeklong webcast series focused on real-world developer solutions for the financial services industry. View the on-demand version of the .NET Unwrapped for Financial Services I and II webcast series.
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Due to very high demand, the 4th annual Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference in New York City is sold out. However, you can view the presentations after the event by visiting the Web site in early May.
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CNET and Microsoft have just launched a series of videos entitled "At the Whiteboard -- Experts in Your Face in 3 Minutes Flat." The videos extol the benefits of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Team System in the enterprise. CNET will offer the editorial-style videos in both a streaming and downloadable format for video-enabled devices.
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Visual Studio 2005
Whether you're a project manager, a developer, an architect, a tester, or a roll-out manager, Visual Studio 2005 can help you be more productive in your job.
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Visual Studio Team System
Find out how Visual Studio Team System facilitates collaboration within the software development team.
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Attend Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2006, May 8-11 in Las Vegas, and get the latest on building and bringing to market the next wave of devices, applications, content, and services for the Windows Mobile and Windows Embedded platforms.
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Later in April, Virtual MIX will offer a deeper look into the range of Web technologies from Microsoft, including videos of partner and customer participants, audio, photos, and more. For now, you can view a Day 2 Recap from Tim O’Brien and a conversation between Tim O’Reilly and Bill Gates.
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