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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, deployable Web solutions.
Letter from the Editor
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Welcome to the summer edition of the newsletter. In this edition we'll present some of the latest thoughts from Microsoft around interoperability. In order to create compelling applications, developers shouldn't have to access each of a variety of application services with a different set of tools and with incompatible interfaces. Developers can use the Microsoft .NET Framework to access all the core application services provided by Microsoft Windows Server 2003 through a common, well-defined interface. Moreover, developers can create new business services that can be exposed through industry standard interfaces (such as SOAP, UDDI, and WS-I standards), which allow other enterprise applications using non-Microsoft platforms to interoperate seamlessly. This edition also highlights the new WSE 3.0, which you can download today. Release 3.0 has some great new features to help developers specifically in the security space. You also will find a case study about Fidelity developing Streetscape for Windows, a solution with a great story around platform interoperability.
Enjoy this edition, and of course enjoy the summer.
Michael K. Wons, Technology Strategy Director, World-wide Financial Services Group
Mikewons@microsoft.com
What's New
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This white paper discusses how Microsoft has created several different integration technologies, each targeting a particular group of scenarios. Together, these technologies provide a comprehensive, unified, and complete integration solution.
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Inside Information for Developers
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Web Services Enhancements for .NET (WSE) is a product that enables you to build secure Web services quickly and easily. This article describes the driving goals behind the latest WSE 3.0 release, focusing on the major feature highlights and how these can be used to develop distributed applications based upon the Web service specifications.
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Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET is the complete technical guide to upgrading Visual Basic 6 applications to Visual Basic .NET, covering all upgrade topics from APIs to ZOrders. It shows how to fix upgrade issues with forms, language, data access, and COM+ Services, and how to upgrade applications with XML Web services, ADO.NET, and .NET remoting.
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Case Study
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Streetscape for Windows, a system developed by Fidelity Investments, gives brokers using Fidelity services the ability to easily manage customer accounts while gaining real-time access to Fidelity financial products. Drawing on the flexibility and power of Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET and smart-client design, Streetscape for Windows is an easily deployed, powerful system that enables Fidelity and its brokers to better serve customers while improving the sales of financial products.
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Events
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Plans are underway for .NET Unwrapped II for Financial Services, a webcast series focused on real-world developer solutions for the financial services industry. Visit www.financialdevelopers.com for updates or email fsmkt@microsoft.com to receive your personal invitation. In the meantime, tune in to the on-demand version of the first .NET Unwrapped for Financial Services webcast series.
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July-September, Nationwide
Get the facts about migrating to SQL Server 2005. SQL Server experts will present real-world information about administration, development, and business intelligence to help you implement a best-practices migration to SQL Server 2005 and improve your database computing environment. You'll also receive a one-year membership to PASS and a one-year subscription to SQL Server Magazine.
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September 13-16
Los Angeles, CA
Register now for a 15 percent discount
Join developers at PDC 05, where the next waves of Microsoft Windows "Longhorn" features and Microsoft Office System developer capabilities will be unveiled. Go deep with the community on building new applications from the ground up or taking advantage of new features from existing applications.
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Free E-Learning provides a focused, hands-on environment to experience the new features and functionality related to building data components in Visual Studio 2005, implementing data access and security in ASP.NET, building managed code for SQL Server 2005, and an introduction to Visual Studio Team System. Each module includes six hours of training. More titles are being added throughout July.
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Take as many developer exams as you'd like before August 31, 2005 -- and should you need it, we'll give you an extra chance to pass each one. Just make sure to register for this offer.
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Take your development skills from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET, and then on to Visual Basic 2005, with free online books from Microsoft Press. Visit the MSDN VBRun Developer Center and download Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers.
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Webcasts
Tablet/Mobile PC Webcast Series 2005
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