Visual Studio 2010
Partner Press Reference and Quote Sheet
April 2010
/n software Inc.
/n software is a leading provider of software components and enterprise adapters for
communications, security, and e-business integration. Our products enable a wide range of
Internet technologies from File Transfer capabilities to Internet Email, SSL and SSH security,
S/MIME encryption, Secure Network Management, Digital Certificates, Credit Card Processing
& ACH Payments, Compression, Instant Messaging, Shipping and Tracking, and e-business
(EDI) transactions. As one of the first companies to provide fully-managed commercial
components for the .NET Framework, /n software continues to innovate by now offering
comprehensive support for the .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 across our entire
suite of developer components. All products fully-integrate with the Visual Studio 2010
development environment and include productivity features such as visual designer support,
integrated help, and a complete array of extensible sample application.
“Our customers expect that they will be able to use their favorite connectivity tools and
components with the latest Microsoft developer technology releases from day one. We continue
to invest early in Microsoft technologies, simultaneously shipping alongside Visual Studio 2010
and Microsoft’s next-generation application development platform. We are excited about the
opportunities this creates for our mutual customers.”
— Eric Madariaga
Vice President of Marketing
/n software
AccuRev Inc.
AccuRev offers comprehensive solutions for successfully scaling Agile processes across the
enterprise. These solutions optimize and automate the software development process, and allow
organizations using Agile or other development process models to accelerate their throughput
and release higher quality software. AccuRev is a full-service partner for Agile software,
consulting and training solutions. AccuRev offers AgileCycle, the first fully-integrated best-ofbreed Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution incorporating Software
Configuration Management, Agile Lifecycle Management, and Build and Release Management.
AccuRev is used by over 600 global enterprises including Ford Motor Company, Texas
Instruments, American Airlines, Orbitz, Thomson Financial, Verizon Wireless and Lockheed
Martin. AccuRev, Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts and is privately held. More
information about AccuRev can be found at http://www.accurev.com, or by calling 1-800-3838170 (US and Canada), and 1-781-861-8700 (Outside North America).
“With AccuBridge for Visual Studio Professional Edition 2010, developers now have the ability
to access virtually all AccuRev SCM and issue tracking functionality from their browser or
directly within Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Our customers have told us that their developers
and managers want access to important SCM information through Microsoft Visual Studio, and
now they have the full power of AccuRev at their command.”
— Damon Poole
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Chief Technology Officer
AccuRev
Actipro Software LLC
Actipro Software is a leading provider of .NET user interface controls for the WPF and Windows
Forms frameworks. They have been making .NET UI controls since the inception of .NET and
were the first vendor to release a commercial WPF control. Their WPF Studio suite contains
everything a WPF application developer needs, including docking windows, MDI, ribbons,
property grids, gauges, editors, and much more. Actipro is most well-known for their robust
SyntaxEditor syntax-highlighting code editor control, which allows developers to easily bring a
Visual Studio-like code editing experience into their own applications. They are currently
working on adding new WPF controls to WPF Studio, and bringing to market their first
Silverlight control bundle.
“Visual Studio 2010 is the ideal development environment for creating WPF and Silverlight
applications. Microsoft’s decision to begin migrating a good portion of the product to be WPFbased shows the commitment they have toward pushing the WPF and Silverlight technologies
further into the mainstream. Actipro is extremely pleased to have our WPF Studio user interface
control products integrate with the Visual Studio 2010 design-time experience in a number of
ways, from designer surface extensibility to item templates. As we move forward into Visual
Studio 2010, our upcoming Actipro Silverlight Studio control suite will take advantage of similar
design-time integration. It’s certainly an exciting time to be an application developer, with
quality tools like Visual Studio 2010 at our fingertips.”
— Bill Henning
President
Actipro Software
Alchemy Solutions Inc.
Alchemy Solutions (www.alchemysolutions.com) is a leading provider of technology solutions
that help organizations integrate legacy applications with the latest Microsoft technologies,
including Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. The company’s technology enables
significant cost savings by moving applications and data from expensive mainframe platforms to
cost-effective Windows environments. The Alchemy Solutions suite includes NeoKicks™,
NeoBatch®, NeoSort™, NeoData™ and NeoServices™ enabling the modernization of mission
critical CICS and batch applications within the Microsoft .NET environment. Additionally,
Alchemy Solutions, and its worldwide network of partners, distribute the Fujitsu NetCOBOL
family of runtime-free COBOL compilers outside of Japan. Alchemy Solutions, Inc. is a
privately held corporation with headquarters in Bend, Oregon. The company resulted from the
2008 acquisition of the Legacy Modernization Group of Fujitsu Computer Systems. Fujitsu is a
leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately
175,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of
systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and
advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu
Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the
fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com. Billions
of lines of COBOL are executing over 50% of the world’s business applications and are being
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maintained by millions of COBOL programmers. Visual Studio 2010 and NetCOBOL for .NET
give these applications and programmers a bright future.
“Visual Studio is an essential tool for our customers who report productivity gains of 20 percent
to 50 percent when they come to this environment. We are excited to see many great
productivity-enhancing features in Visual Studio 2010, which will make the COBOL
development experience even better. We are proud of our decision to build all our products
around the Visual Studio development environment, knowing that we are giving the best to our
customers.”
— Ron Langer
General Manager
Alchemy Solutions
AppDev Products LLC
AppDev is an award-winning technical learning company providing in-depth, real-world content
to developers, IT professionals and computer users worldwide. AppDev offers learning solutions
for individuals and teams of all sizes, and provides content in these formats: AppDev
OnDemand™, DVD-ROM, KSource Online Learning™ and instructor-led courseware. AppDev
has been consistently voted the best by industry editors and developers, and has been awarded
the Visual Studio Magazine Editors Choice and Readers Choice (7 years in a row), Windows IT
PRO Editors Best Gold and Readers Choice, The Code Project Members Choice and more.
AppDev offers learning for the latest Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Visual Studio,
Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Business Intelligence, ASP.NET, AJAX
and more. Our new AppDev Learning Engine (ALE) 3.0 Add-in allows seamless accessibility to
our award-winning learning content from within Visual Studio 2010, enabling developers to get
solutions quickly and maximize their efficiency.
“The new WPF capabilities within Visual Studio 2010 have made it possible for us to take our
award-winning learning solutions to the next level. Now our customers can quickly get the
answers they need about Visual Studio 2010 features and functionality — including step-by-step
demonstrations, hands-on labs and sample code — directly within the integrated development
environment. As a result, our customers will be able to leverage the power of Visual Studio 2010
more quickly and effectively than has ever been possible with previous versions of Visual
Studio.”
— Craig Jensen
President and CEO
AppDev
ArtinSoft Corp.
With over fifteen years of experience, ArtinSoft has proven to be a key player in software
transformation, by allowing customers from all over the world to ensure business continuity and
compliance through migration solutions and developer tools. Created upon principles of artificial
intelligence and a relentless passion for innovation, the company is now the de-facto leader in the
VB6 application renewal space, holding an exceptional record of real world migration projects
while in constant growth through a strategic partner network.
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ArtinSoft is the leading company in software transformation to the .NET platform, and it now
aligns with Microsoft on the release of Visual Studio 2010. Its flagship product, the Visual
Studio Upgrade Companion, allows upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 applications to .NET 4.0,
enabling organizations to leverage years of intellectual and financial investment in the most costeffective way. Furthermore, not only can this product be thoroughly customized, but also
complemented with different training and technical support.
“With Microsoft being a key partner for ArtinSoft, we are pleased to announce that the latest
release of our Visual Basic Upgrade Companion will simultaneously ship with Visual Studio
2010, allowing our customers to upgrade their business-critical Visual Basic 6.0 applications to
.NET 4.0 and take advantage of the latest technologies.”
— Federico Zoufaly
Marketing Director
ArtinSoft
Black Duck Software Inc.
Black Duck Software is the leading provider of products and services for automating the
management, governance and secure use of open source software, at enterprise scale, in a multisource development process. Black Duck™ enables companies to shorten time-to-market and
reduce development costs while mitigating the management, security and compliance challenges
associated with open source software. Black Duck Software powers Koders.com, the industry’s
leading code search engine for open source, and is among the 500 largest software companies in
the world, according to Softwaremag.com. The company is headquartered near Boston and has
offices in San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners
throughout the world. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.The Black Duck
Code Search Plug-in enables developers to search for reusable code from within the Visual
Studio 2010 environment. The plug-in allows searching the billions of lines of open source code
cataloged by Black Duck’s Koders.com or in-house developed code. Inside the firewall, the
plug-in works with Black Duck’s Code Sight search engine to bring transparency and easy
access to an enterprise’s vast and often distributed code assets house in TFS, SourceSafe or other
code repositories. With an organization’s code base at developers’ fingertips, they can find code
to re-use and easily assess the impact of a change. For example, they can find a bug once and fix
it everywhere that it appears. Code Sight provides developers with one place to access the
numerous (and often heterogeneous) source control management systems that are distributed
throughout a company or organization.
“Microsoft made it easy to port our code search capabilities to Visual Studio 2010. The plug-in
enhances productivity for Visual Studio developers by helping them find, understand and fix
code all within the IDE. Most organizations today are mandating code re-use and many have
policies to encourage the use of open source components; the combination of Black Duck and
Visual Studio 2010 supports both.”
— Phil Odence
Vice President of Business Development
Black Duck Software
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Code Architects S.r.l.
Code Architects produces and sells application frameworks and enterprise-level software for
Microsoft .NET Framework developers. Its founders, Francesco Balena and Giuseppe Dimauro,
are Microsoft Regional Directors, renowned authors of best-selling programming books for
Microsoft Press, and frequent speakers at IT conferences. Code Architects is the only Microsoft
ISVNXT partner specialized in conversion of Microsoft Visual Basic 6 legacy applications
Code Architects’s VB Migration Partner allows developers to successfully convert their
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 legacy applications to Microsoft .NET Framework. It supports all the
main Visual Basic 6 features and controls, and allows refining the converted application while
keeping it in sync with the original project, thanks to migration pragmas and proprietary converttest-fix methodology.
Companies can now jointly use Visual Studio 2010 and VB Migration Partner to convert their
Visual Basic 6 applications and take advantage of .NET Framework 4.
“VB Migration Partner 1.30 adds many compelling features, such as effortless smooth
conversion from ADODB to ADO.NET, and makes the migration experience even simpler and
more cost-effective.”
— Francesco Balena
Chief Software Architect
Code Architects
CollabNet Inc.
With 1.5 million users, CollabNet leads the software industry towards a new era of collaborative
software development. By connecting remote teams and integrating disparate development tools,
the CollabNet platform simplifies distributed development, reduces infrastructure costs by more
than 50 percent, and eliminates silos between isolated teams to speed innovation by 20 percent
and more. CollabNet is the company behind Subversion, the world’s best version control and
Software Configuration Management solution for distributed teams. More than 600 industry
leading companies use CollabNet’s solutions today, including Reuters, Philips Medical Systems,
Capgemini, and Barclays Global Investors among others. Visit CollabNet at
http://www.collab.net. Visual Studio Edition 2.0 features substantial ease-of-use innovations and
deeper integration between IDEs and the CollabNet products than ever before. This new version
of the desktop increases developer productivity with seamless integration and an all-new
graphical point-and-click interface. Associations between pieces of code, or between code and
defects are now made with drag-and-drop precision, eliminating the need for error-prone retyping or cutting and pasting of defect numbers. Multiple issue and bug trackers are also
supported for end-to-end collaboration between developers and testers for defect management.
The AnkhSVN component of the Visual Studio desktop solution enables developers to perform
common Subversion-related tasks without leaving Visual Studio, including viewing the status of
source code, updating a Subversion working copy, committing changes, and browsing
repositories.
“CollabNet Subversion and TeamForge integration with Visual Studio 2010 brings the power of
our award-winning application life-cycle management platform to Visual Studio users around the
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world, right from within their IDE of choice. With flexible support for methodologies ranging
from Agile to Waterfall, CollabNet Desktop — Visual Studio Edition is perfect for software
development teams leveraging Microsoft technologies.”
— Jim Ensell
Vice President, Business Development
CollabNet
ComponentOne LLC
ComponentOne has been a leading vendor in the Microsoft VSIP program and provider of thirdparty development tools supporting all of the major Microsoft application platforms since VB1.
The company’s product lines encompass custom Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight,
Mobile, and COM components, documentation tools, and Web Parts for Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. ComponentOne’s development tools
integrate with Visual Studio 2010 in ways that make them a seamless part of the application
development and testing process. Studio Enterprise 2010, ComponentOne’s flagship product,
utilizes powerful new .NET 4.0 features and improves the design-time experience enabling
developers to do more with less code in Visual Studio 2010.
“ComponentOne’s development products are built solely to enhance the developer experience
for Microsoft’s application platforms. As such, our brand is and has been closely associated with
that of Microsoft and the ISV community at large. Integration with Visual Studio 2010 is
necessary, and leveraging its new capabilities is imperative, for ComponentOne to continue to be
a leader and retain its high degree of brand awareness in the marketplace.”
— Sunny Wong
Managing Director
ComponentOne
Devart
Devart is a software development company specializing in native connectivity solutions and
development tools for the most popular databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL,
PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, and SQLite. Devart is dedicated to providing the fastest
available data access and the broadest database support to industry professionals. Our
dotConnect product line provides an enhanced database connectivity solution built over
ADO.NET architecture and a development framework with a number of innovative technologies.
With state of the art ORM solutions such as Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL, dotConnect
introduces new approaches for designing applications and boosts productivity of database
application development with Visual Studio. We also provide Entity Developer — a powerful
modeling and code generation tool for LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Entity Framework. It allows
you to easily design or reverse engineer a model for your application, set up inheritances,
complex types, methods with a convenient user interface, eliminating the need to edit XML code
manually. Entity Developer is seamlessly integrated to Visual Studio, allowing you to design
your model in your favorite IDE.
“Our products now support the newest features of Entity Framework 4. For example, we have
supported the DDL script generation for Entity Framework models in dotConnect for Oracle,
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MySQL and PostgreSQL, and supported most of the Entity Framework 4 canonical functions
and server-specific functions.”
— Alexander Hyrniy
Product Manager
Devart
Developer Express Inc.
Build Your Best – Without Limits or Compromise
DevExpress engineers feature-complete Presentation Components, Reporting Systems, IDE
Productivity Tools and Business Application Frameworks for Visual Studio .NET. Our
technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your
productivity and create stunning applications for Windows and Web in the shortest possible time.
Windows, ASP.NET, WPF, and Silverlight Controls by DevExpress
To address customer needs and deliver elegant solutions, you need components and presentation
controls that work as expected — each and every time. Learn more about the complete range of
DevExpress presentation controls, including grids, editors, schedulers, pivot tables, OLAP cubes,
toolbars, charts, tree and list views.
DevExpress Reporting
XtraReports by DevExpress is a next generation Reporting platform for quickly creating elegant
reports while maintaining all the capabilities you expect from today’s most powerful reporting
solutions.
IDE Productivity Tools by DevExpress
Today, software consumers demand more than ever from developers. The pressure to deliver
more features with higher quality in less time has never been greater. Developer Express created
CodeRush and Refactor! to help developers and managers meet increased demands for quality
and functionality, boosting productivity while eliminating repetition that erodes creativity.
“Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 form an important evolutionary step in the developer
ecosystem. Creating high-visibility WPF and Silverlight applications is easier than ever before,
and DevExpress is ready with its full range of user interface controls and developer tools to
speed the process.”
— Julian Bucknall
Chief Technology Officer
Developer Express
dynaTrace software Inc.
dynaTrace is the innovator and emerging leader in application performance management (APM).
The company offers the only continuous APM system on the market — one that can monitor all
transactions at all times and one that is used by all key contributors to application performance
— architects, development, test and production. Industry leaders such as UBS, Salesforce.com,
EnerNOC, Fidelity, and Thomson Reuters use dynaTrace’s patent pending technology to gain
deep visibility into application performance identify problems sooner and reduce the mean time
to repair issues by 90%. Leading companies rely on dynaTrace to proactively prevent
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performance problems from happening and quickly resolve those that do occur — saving time,
money and resources. dynaTrace provides seamless integration into existing Microsoft .NET
development, testing and production environments to accelerate time to value.
Visual Studio IDE: Review the dynamic behavior of your .NET application architecture and
optimize .NET application performance already during coding. Accelerate applying necessary
code changes to identified performance bottlenecks using dynaTrace CodeLink.
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, MSBuild and NAnt: Catch .NET performance problems
early on through continuous integration performance management with your daily builds.
Visual Studio Test Load Agent: Eliminate manual problem reproduction and rapidly isolate and
diagnose .NET performance issues down to code-level.
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and MOM: Ensure proper delivery and handling of
incidents in large scale IT environments.
“With recent advances in Visual Studio we are seeing a growing number of our customers move
their test solution to Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. These advances, combined with the growth in
the Visual Studio partner ecosystem, have created an environment where we believe Visual
Studio 2010 will be rapidly adopted by customers. As a result, dynaTrace has chosen to tightly
integrate our application performance management system with Visual Studio 2010 right from
the beginning. Moreover, the latest release of the dynaTrace continuous APM system extends the
core capabilities distinguishing our third-generation approach to application performance
management and delivers a broad set of capabilities for Microsoft-oriented enterprises.
Traditional APM tools designed a decade or more ago treat Microsoft applications as an
afterthought. Our approach has been to create a purpose-built agent for the .NET platform that
enables dynaTrace to trace all transactions in depth, across Java and .NET, and in the most
complex, high-traffic applications. This is what enterprises that rely on Microsoft applications
and technologies need to ensure their performance, scalability and stability.”
— Bernd Greifeneder
Chief Technology Officer and CoFounder of dynaTrace
dynaTrace software
eDev Technologies
eDev Technologies inteGREAT Requirements Studio™ is an Automated Requirements
Development platform that supports requirements definition, analysis, validation, simulation,
automated diagramming and documentation for the business system analyst, developer, tester
and project manager. Use inteGREAT Requirements Studio™ to develop business, user and
system requirements including, Goal, Objective, Success Criteria, Risk, Migration, Glossary,
Stakeholders, Functional and Non-functional Requirements, Business Rules, Constraints, and
Assumptions, Process, Use Case, Data Requirements, Reporting requirements, Actors, Events
and System/Network context of deployment & integration. inteGREAT is a knowledge
management system that provides comprehensive traceability & impact assessment across the
entire requirements knowledge base. InteGREAT normalizes (eliminates duplication) the
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requirements knowledge base by enabling reuse of information within and between projects. It
repurposes information as documents and diagrams. Thus inteGREAT can be use to define the
organizational knowledge architecture.inteGREAT Enterprise 2010 provides bi-directional
integration with Visual Studio Team System, SharePoint Server, Word, Excel, Visio and Project.
inteGREAT uses Team Foundation Server as the database of requirements therefore keeping
inteGREAT in synch with the tools used by developers. inteGREAT publishes generated
documents to SharePoint Server for workflow and collaboration and test cases to Team
Foundation Server for testers to get a jump start.
“inteGREAT with Visual Studio provides the first comprehensive application life-cycle
management solution for Microsoft developers. Never before were requirements definition,
simulation and test document automation easily accessible for Visual Studio developers and
testers. This is a major milestone in the ALM space. We are so pleased with the fantastic work
Visual Studio 2010 team has done with this latest release.”
— Asif Sharif
President and CEO
eDev Technologies
Ekobit d.o.o.
Ekobit is an independent software and consulting company specializing in providing ICT
services and solutions using Microsoft technologies and platforms. Founded in 1992, Ekobit has
gained considerable international experience in consulting, project management and application
development in various vertical industries. The Ekobit portfolio includes products, consulting
services, technology workshops, and custom development. Ekobit flagship product
TeamCompanion is an Add-In for the Microsoft Office Outlook that integrates e-mail and
Outlook with the Visual Studio 2010. Consulting services and technology workshops are
delivered by our world class technology experts. We provide top level consulting services for
Microsoft technologies, such as Visual Studio ALM Platform, BizTalk Server, .NET and
ASP.NET. In order to enable our customers for prompt technology evaluation in their business
environment, we have developed a series of “proof-of-concept” projects named Ekobit Services
In a Box. With the Ekobit Services In a Box, customers can, in a short time and with low budget
requirements, examine whether specific technology can be successfully implemented in their
environment. Ekobit suite consists of the following “in a box” projects, Visual Studio ALM
Platform In a Box, Enterprise Integration In a Box, Portals In a Box. Ekobit also delivers highprofile technology workshops targeted at IT professionals who want to quickly adopt complex
EAI and ALM platforms which include, Advanced BizTalk Training and Visual Studio Team
System Mini Bootcamp.
“Ekobit TeamCompanion v3.0 is a dream come true for all stakeholders in the software
development process. If you are using Outlook (as I am) on a daily basis to conduct your
business, with the TeamCompanion it has never been easier to monitor your ongoing
development projects. Every e-mail, attachment, etc., that is relevant to the project can be saved
to the Visual Studio 2010 project repository from Outlook, thanks to the TeamCompanion. Every
report regarding development progress can be accessed within Outlook, making
TeamCompanion simply the must-have tool for all development project stakeholders.”
— Vedran Brnicevic
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Member of the Board
Ekobit
Flexera Software Inc.
Flexera Software™, the leading provider of strategic solutions for Application Usage
Management; delivering continuous compliance, optimized usage and maximized value to
application producers and their customers, announce the general availability of InstallShield
Limited Edition 2010 within Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Through this collaboration,
Microsoft and Flexera Software are delivering developers a simple, modern experience and a
clear and smooth path to advanced software installation capabilities that scale along with their
applications. For more information, please go to: http://www.flexerasoftware.com/.
InstallShield Limited Edition 2010 is a Visual Studio extension that can be used to build
Windows Installer-based deployment packages for applications deployed on the Windows
platform. The software provides an easy to use, modern, graphical development environment and
the ability to build deployment projects using Microsoft Team Foundation Server. InstallShield
Limited Edition 2010 replaces Visual Studio Installer (VSI) as the preferred MSI installer
development tool.
“For over 20 years, InstallShield has been the gold standard for Windows software installations,
used by virtually every major software company and enterprise in the world. Through our close
collaboration with Microsoft, we continue to provide innovative solutions supporting the latest
Windows enhancements. Visual Studio customers can now use an InstallShield product to get a
professional installation software solution whether their needs are basic or they require more
advanced installation authoring capabilities.”
— Randy Littleson
Senior Vice President, Marketing
Flexera Software
GamCom Solutions Ltd.
GamCom has a proven track record in designing, implementing, and supporting systems built
using the latest Microsoft technologies. We are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a Premier
Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP), and members of the exclusive Microsoft Visual Studio
Inner Circle. Talmia is an innovative software solution that provides process automation and
reporting capabilities for the Microsoft Team System platform. Talmia makes it easy to bring
your ALM processes to life — whether agile, traditional, or bespoke. By implementing Talmia,
you can benefit from consistent and reliable process enforcement, improve project visibility and
predictability, and reduce overheads, rework, and waste. GamCom’s own quality management
system — implemented using Talmia — is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 27001:2005 certified.
“Since implementing our own ALM processes using Talmia and Visual Studio 2010 we have
noticed a significant improvement in developer efficiency and reduction in project time scales.
The facilities provided by Visual Studio 2010 give the entire team better tools to work with and
our stakeholders improved visibility into project progress. Talmia builds on Team Foundation
Server to ensure that all required quality steps are met with the minimum of overhead. Together
these tools help us to consistently deliver our projects on time, and to standard.”
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— Lalji Gami
Head of Development
GamCom Solutions
Gizmox Ltd.
Gizmox is the company behind Visual WebGui, a new Web and Cloud platform. Visual WebGui
(VWG) provides a form based development framework to develop web or cloud core line of
business (LOB) applications, or migrate and modernize such applications to web or cloud. VWG
platform also provides a new Ajax empowered running environment, that enhances application
to run at least 5X faster and secured by design.
“With Visual WebGui integration into Visual Studio 2010 we provide our customers a unique,
simple and fast way to develop line-of-business applications that otherwise would require timeconsuming practices with AJAX-specific skills. VWG attributes, integrated into the best-ofbreed 2010 Visual Studio IDE, offer .NET developers a valuable edge in line-of-business
application Web and cloud enablement.”
— Navot Peled
CEO
Gizmox
GraFX Software Solutions
GrafX Software has been providing Xbase compilers for the last 20 years. Vulcan.NET is the
next generation of the xBase family of languages. Vulcan.NET provides a high level of
backwards-compatibility with the Visual Objects language, while at the same time bringing it
into the 21st century with all the features you would expect in a modern programming language.
In addition, Vulcan.NET brings all the benefits of the .NET platform to the Visual Objects
language, opening up a whole new world of opportunities for xBase programmers.
Vulcan.NET is fully CLS compliant and supports the vast majority of features available to .NET
languages, including method and operator overloading, strongly typed arrays, reference and
value types, enumeration types, low level pointer operations, and more.Vulcan.NET is integrated
into Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 with project and file templates, a highly customizable code
editor with syntax highlighting, and advanced editing features, a full-featured debugger, a
Windows Forms designer, and other tools.
“Vulcan.NET 2.0 allows developers to write .NET applications with the xBase-like Vulcan
language, including applications using Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation.
This enables developers coming from xBase languages such as dBase, Clipper, FoxPro, xBase
and Visual Objects to produce latest-technology solutions whilst using a familiar programming
syntax.”
— Brian Feldman
President
GraFX Software
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Infragistics Inc.
As the world leader of user interface development tools and User Experience experts, Infragistics
empowers developers to create UIs that are the foundation for developing killer apps —
applications with extreme functionality, complete usability and the “wow-factor!”
No .NET platform is off-limits — we have UI component toolsets for Windows Forms, WPF,
ASP.NET and Silverlight. Our superior support, UI testing tools, training and consulting services
ensure your success like no others. Your ideas, our powerful tools, great killer apps.
Infragistics NetAdvantage 2010 Volume 2 will have a host of new controls that take advantage
of Visual Studio 2010 and CLR 4. As always, Infragistics gives developers good reasons to grow
their UI toolset beyond what comes in the box. The company plans to leverage ASP.NET Client
Templates (or Client Binding) in ASP.NET Ajax Library to give developers a client side data
access and data binding experience in line with the familiar architectures they’ve grown
accustomed to building Web Forms applications on over the years. Infragistics will also leverage
CLR 4 Silverlight-WPF Compatibility to deliver more controls on both platforms to the market
faster.
“With NetAdvantage for .NET 2010 Volume 2, Infragistics will full support the improved
productivity experience that Visual Studio 2010 brings. Each platform brings exciting
opportunities to enhance the developer productivity experience through our controls and
components.”
— Jason Beres
Vice President of Product Management
Infragistics
Innovasys Ltd.
Innovasys has supported developers and technical authors since 1998 by providing
documentation and help authoring tools that integrate directly with Visual Studio. The new help
format introduced with Visual Studio 2010 provides new challenges for developers and technical
authors who want to deliver documentation integrated with the Visual Studio help system.
Document! X 2010 addresses those challenges by providing a comprehensive documentation
authoring environment that produces output to target Visual Studio 2002 through 2010.
Authoring tools are available from directly within Visual Studio for source comments and
externally for additional conceptual or supporting documentation. Single sourcing ensures that
existing content can be used to target Visual Studio 2010 whilst still enabling output for older
Visual Studio versions too. Innovasys believes that producing accurate and consistent
documentation is a key part of any great development process, and can be something that is
integrated seamlessly with other development tasks with minimal effort. Document! X 2010
brings that vision to Visual Studio 2010.
“At Innovasys we have a history of being among the very first to support developers looking to
create documentation for new Microsoft technologies. We are therefore excited to announce full
support for Visual Studio 2010 in Innovasys Document! X 2010. With Document! X 2010 we
make it easy for developers and technical writers to create documentation for their .NET 2.0
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through 4.0 assemblies, including support for the brand-new help format introduced with Visual
Studio 2010 and an XML source comment editor integrated directly into Visual Studio 2010.”
— Richard Sloggett
Technical Director
Innovasys
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation pushes the boundaries of innovation to make people’s lives more productive,
exciting and fulfilling. For over 30 years, Intel has been a software industry leader helping
worldwide software development communities in industry and academia. Intel’s Software
Network provides unique communities to assist developers in all phases of their code
development. Intel offers a broad offering of development products that help software developers
make their applications more reliable, secure and efficient. For more information please visit:
software.intel.com/; www.intel.com/software/products; www.go-parallel.com;
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d61ebebe-6cdf-4693-8cfa-f498c69adfec.
“Visual Studio 2010 adds key capabilities to bring parallelism to developers. Intel Parallel Studio
extends Visual Studio for parallel programmers to make for very productive programming for
multicore processors. We are especially pleased with the concurrency runtime in Visual Studio
2010 that makes it well suited for parallel programming tools, and Intel Parallel Studio is set to
take full advantage of that.”
— James Reinders
Director
Intel
Intersoft Solutions Corp.
Intersoft Solutions is the industry leader in Rich Internet Application components, providing a
broad range of innovative, high performance ASP.NET and Silverlight tools for professional
developers, independent software vendors, and enterprise technology partners. With the vision to
create a better web experience, Intersoft Solutions has built over 30 state-of-the-art components
since 2002 — empowering millions of users with richer, more intuitive web applications, while
giving developers and users the benefits of easy-to-use software and enhanced productivity. Our
key Visual Studio 2010 release will offer 50+ new components for Silverlight and WPF 4
application development. The interesting part is that these Silverlight and WPF components will
work under the same hood, and provide rich designer capabilities that are identical in both
platforms. As the result, it will dramatically reduce the learning curve and improve productivity
when using our toolset to develop either Silverlight or WPF 4 applications.
“We’re very excited with the Visual Studio 2010 release, which finally includes complete tooling
support for Silverlight application development. We’ll also simultaneously release our 2010 UI
Suite, which will include over 50 new components for Silverlight and WPF 4 that takes
advantage of new designer capabilities introduced in Visual Studio 2010. With our new products
deeply integrated into Visual Studio 2010, our customers can now enjoy the same rich and
streamlined development experiences as they have been familiar with in ASP.NET
development.”
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— Jimmy Petrus
CEO
Intersoft Solutions
Ivar Jacobson International
Ivar Jacobson International is a global services company that focuses on helping software
organizations manage the expectations of the business. We introduce a proven Practice approach
that is goal oriented, incremental and measureable and is highly successful with either an
existing software project or the implementation of new systems. These Practices provide a basis
for your way-of-working and there is support to generate corresponding process templates to be
deployed in Microsoft Visual Studio. The process template provides support for the most widely
used core practices: Use Case, Iterative, and Unified Process Lifecycle. This is a ready to use
way of working for agile use-case driven way of development. It is an excellent support for those
customers who would like to get the structure from the unified process yet in an agile fashion
integrated with the Microsoft development environment, http://www.ivarjacobson.com/vs2010.
“We are excited about the fact that the power of innovations from Dr. Ivar Jacobson, UML and
Use Cases, now can seamlessly come alive in Visual Studio 2010 and help customers around the
world improve their ability to build good software.”
— Pernilla Ramslöv
Vice President of Business Development
Ivar Jacobson International
JCX Software Corp.
JCX Software is a PHP tools provider for the Microsoft platform. VS.Php is a native PHP IDE
for Visual Studio 2010. With VS.Php you can design, develop, debug and deploy PHP
applications within the Visual Studio IDE. VS.Php key features are around providing rich PHP
editor as well as Smarty editing capabilities. Also is the ability to debug PHP scripts locally as
well as remotely. VS.Php also provides many unique features by leveraging the Visual Studio
IDE like PHP/Javascript debugging.
“VS.Php for Visual Studio 2010 provides PHP developers the ability to use the most advanced
integrated development environment to develop native PHP Web applications. With tight
integration with IIS7 and Silverlight 3, VS.Php provides unique solutions not found in any other
PHP IDE in the market.”
— Juan Rivera
Founder
JCX Software
JetBrains s.r.o.
JetBrains (http://www.jetbrains.com) is a technology-leading software development firm
specializing in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing software. The company is
widely known for its innovative, award-winning Java integrated development environment,
IntelliJ IDEA; ReSharper and dotTrace Profiler for .NET developers; TeamCity — a continuous
integration and build management environment; RubyMine — a Ruby and Rails IDE; YouTrack
— the keyboard-centric issue and bug tracker; and MPS — Meta Programming System for
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creating and extending programming languages. JetBrains maintains its headquarters in Prague,
Czech Republic, with its R&D labs located in St. Petersburg, Russia and Boston, Massachusetts.
JetBrains releases ReSharper 5.0 simultaneously with Visual Studio 2010. In addition to
supporting the new Microsoft IDE and .NET Framework 4.0, ReSharper 5.0 provides multiple
new features covering ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC development, code quality analysis,
project maintenance, and localization.
“As always, JetBrains is committed to making the latest and greatest productivity support
available to all .NET developers. During the past year, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 has been
gaining ground, and ReSharper is right behind it. We’ve got ready-to-use support for new
language features and code editor updates you are looking forward to in Visual Studio 2010 —
plus a whole lot of new productivity and usability enhancements.”
— Valentin Kipiatkov
CTO
JetBrains s.r.o.
JNBridge LLC
JNBridge is the industry’s leading provider of interoperability software that connect Java and
.NET framework-based components applications together with simple-to-use tools and adapters
remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability and generate high performance
communications. The company’s core product, JNBridgePro, and its JMS adapters for .NET and
for BizTalk Server are uniquely designed to enable enterprises to quickly and easily integrate
between heterogeneous infrastructures. JNBridge was founded in 2001 in Boulder, Colorado as a
privately held company and boasts more than 400 customers in 40 countries. Customers include
leading Fortune 500 companies and organizations in financial services, insurance, media,
manufacturing and other industries. For more information, please visit www.jnbridge.com.
JNBridgePro version 5.1 is the latest version of JNBridge’s flagship .NET/Java interoperability
tool. It contains new components specifically targeted to .NET 4, which will allow .NET
developers using .NET 4 to access Java code, and allows Java developers to access .NET code
running under .NET 4. JNBridgePro 5.1 includes an extension for Visual Studio 2010 that
enables developers to develop .NET software accessing Java code from directly within Visual
Studio 2010, thereby simplifying the development cycle and increasing developer productivity.
JNBridgePro 5.1 is the leading .NET/Java interoperability solution, and is the only one to
provide direct integration with Visual Studio 2010. The JNBridgePro 5.1 Visual Studio extension
also adds a multi-targeting capability; users will be able to generate interoperability solutions
targeted toward .NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0, respectively.
“JNBridge’s mission is to ‘bridge anything .NET to anything Java.’ Consequently, it’s very
important to us and our customers for us to support the latest .NET and Visual Studio features,
and to work with the latest releases of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio. We’ve supported
every .NET version since the beginning, and every version of Visual Studio since 2005, and
we’re proud to be releasing our new JNBridgePro 5.1, with new components specifically
targeting .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010.”
— Wayne Citrin
Chief Technology Officer
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JNBridge
K2
K2 offers a complete software platform for automating enterprise business processes, building
SharePoint workflows and integrating Microsoft solutions into SAP. All kinds of organizations
are using K2 workflow and BPM tools to streamline operations, save money and reduce risk. K2
Designer for Visual Studio 2010 is a component of K2 blackpearl, our most comprehensive
workflow and BPM software with industry-best integration into Microsoft technologies. K2
Designer for Visual Studio 2010 enables developers to create or extend sophisticated
applications while remaining in their favorite environment — Visual Studio. K2 blackpearl is
fully integrated into the Visual Studio 2010 project system, featuring seamless integration with
Team Foundation System and MSBuild. It utilizes a Windows Presentation Foundation-based
canvas that allows power users and developers to visually design processes. The K2 wizards
generate Windows Workflow Foundation schedules and activities, which can be customized in
the Visual Studio environment. Finally, K2 developers can customize any process by
incorporating .NET 3.5 and .NET 4.0 code into the same process definition, providing significant
application longevity and leveraging the latest Microsoft platform technologies.K2-based
solutions are deployed by a growing number of the global Fortune 100. K2 is a division of
SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc. based in Redmond, Washington, and has offices all over
the world.
“Many of our users are proficient with Visual Studio. The K2 Designer for Visual Studio
eliminates a lot of code work and enables these users to be significantly more productive creating
rich process-driven applications. K2 software significantly lowers the learning curve, speeds
adoption and lets users get down to the business of streamlining their organizations.”
— Olaf Wagner
Senior Vice President for Product
Management
K2
Kentico Software
Kentico Software (www.kentico.com) helps clients create professional Web sites, online stores,
community sites and intranets using Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. It’s committed to deliver a fullfeatured, enterprise-class, stable and scalable Web Content Management solution on the
Microsoft .NET platform. Kentico Software is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Kentico CMS
is an affordable Web content management solution providing a complete set of features for
building Web sites, community sites, intranets and on-line stores on the Microsoft ASP.NET
platform. It supports WYSIWYG editing, workflows, multiple languages, full-text search, SEO,
on-line forms, image galleries, forums, groups, blogs, polls, media libraries and is shipped with
200+ configurable Web parts. Kentico CMS is currently used by more than 4,000 Web sites in
83 countries. The clients include Microsoft, McDonald’s, Vodafone, O2, Orange, Brussels
Airlines, Audi, Mazda, Ford, Subaru, Samsung, Gibson, Bayer, ESPN, Guinness, DKNY, Abbott
Labs, Medibank, Ireland.ie and others. Kentico CMS is available at http://www.kentico.com.
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“We always keep Kentico CMS updated to be integrated with the latest version of Visual Studio,
to allow the Web developers to leverage its newest improvements, while developing Web sites,
community sites, intranets or online stores using Kentico CMS.”
— Martin Hejtmanek
Chief Technology Officer
Kentico Software
LEAD Technologies Inc.
Established in 1990, LEAD Technologies is the developer and publisher of LEADTOOLS, the
award-winning line of imaging development toolkits. LEADTOOLS is designed to help
programmers integrate raster, document, medical, multimedia, vector and mobile imaging into
their applications quickly and easily. LEADTOOLS gives developers the most flexible and
powerful imaging technology, offering development support for 150+ File Formats, Image
Compression, Image Processing, Color Conversion, Image Display, Special Effects,
Scanning/Capture, Common Dialogs, Printing, DICOM, Annotations, Forms Recognition,
Document Clean-up, PDF, OCR, Barcode, Database, and more. The result of 20 years of
development, a LEADTOOLS toolkit literally puts millions of lines of code at the fingertips of
application developers.
“LEAD is pleased to be leveraging Microsoft’s latest development innovations to be included
with the greatly anticipated Visual Studio 2010 release. LEAD will be releasing powerful new
LEADTOOLS for Silverlight SDKs as part of the Visual Studio 2010 release event. With
LEAD’s new imaging tools for Silverlight, our customers can rapidly develop image-enabled
Web applications, with robust and high-speed client-side image processing, support for over 150
image formats, recognition, markup, conversion and display capabilities.”
— Rich Little
President
LEAD Technologies
Micro Focus
Micro Focus® is the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and
management solutions. Micro Focus provides a number of developer tools directly integrated
with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 IDE that can significantly benefit developers to meet the
ever-increasing challenges faced today. Micro Focus Visual COBOL™ provides a complete
environment for quickly building and modernizing COBOL enterprise components and business
applications. DevPartner Studio is the industry standard for building code quality into Windows
applications during the development process. SilkTest provides powerful test automation
capabilities make it the perfect solution for regression, cross-platform and localization testing.
Analyzer Express for Visual Studio 2010 gives developers instant-access to data flow analysis
for their applications.
“We are delighted to be offering customers the ability to develop and deliver higher-quality
products. Our presence in the rollout of Visual Studio 2010 demonstrates both the relevance of
core COBOL assets within global organizations’ IT infrastructures and the demand from the
developer community to exploit them on Microsoft platforms. As we look forward to the future,
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Micro Focus will continue to work closely with its customers to provide them with tools,
applications and software to support their business and vision for success.”
— Peter Duffell
Vice President, Strategic Partners
Micro Focus
NDepend
NDepend (http://ndepend.com) is a Visual Studio tool that makes it easy to manage complex
.NET code base. With NDepend, hundreds of standard and custom rules are continuously
checked in Visual Studio with no performance cost. Hence, the design remains clean, large
refactoring are seamless, code reviews are effective and evolution is mastered. Benefits are better
communication, improved quality and faster development. NDepend supports the Code Query
Language (CQL) for maximum flexibility. CQL will help you answer in seconds your questions
about your code base. NDepend provides you with a large number of software metrics
(Cyclomatic Complexity, Afferent and Efferent Coupling, Relational cohesion, Google page
rank of your types, Percentage of Code covered by tests, etc.), dependency graphs dependency
matrix, declarative code query, integration with build servers (CI), code constraints directly in
your source code using .NET attributes, compare 2 versions of an assembly: what types were
added, removed, and more.
Our goal is to empower our customers with powerful tools to visualize, to measure, and to
enforce software quality. We are extremely proud to be trusted and acknowledged by a large
number of influential members of the .NET community. http://ndepend.com/Testimonials.aspx.
“NDepend is 100 percent integrated in Visual Studio. It is fast and can handle a very large code
base. Just try it out! There’s a trial edition that you can download now at http://ndepend.com.”
— Patrick Smacchia
CEO
NDepend
Nema Labs
Nema Labs is a privately held company founded in 2006 with the mission to provide
programmers with powerful and easy-to-use threading tools for multi-core platforms. The
technology base originates on world-class research by Professor Per Stenstrom and his research
team at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Developing programs that
execute in parallel is very hard and error prone. Nema Labs has developed a product called
FASThread that can automatically transform C++ programs to unlock the potential of multi-core
CPUs to achieve faster execution while preserving the correctness of the original code. Since
FASThread guides the programmer through the process it will more efficient than modifying the
code manually for multi-core systems.
“Visual Studio 2010 is the ideal platform for developing parallel Windows applications for
multicore systems. Nema Labs has been able to develop its product FASThread to leverage
Visual Studio 2010 and its rich IDE and guide the developer through the difficult process of
turning a sequential C++ program into a version that can take advantage of more than one core.
The process of parallelizing a program can easily introduce new bugs. FASThread uses patented
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technology to preserve the correctness of the original program. With FASThread all
programmers can make their applications multicore ready — easily and efficiently.”
— Per Stenstrom
Chief Technology Officer
Nema Labs
Object Consulting Pty
For over 20 years, Object has delivered innovative and quality solutions to organizations
throughout Australia from our major operations in Melbourne and Sydney. Our 200 strong team
delivers services and projects, ranging from Development projects, Consulting, Technical and
specialized Training services supported by best practice tools, processes and methodologies.
Process Mentor is the embodiment of Object’s experience over 17 years of successful software
delivery. Object uses Process Mentor on all commercial engagements, to consistently deliver
projects on time and to budget. Process Mentor is also sold as a commercial product and is used
for software development by more than 7000 users in 50 other organizations throughout
Australia. Within Process Mentor, Quality Assurance is a ubiquitous process that spans the entire
Software Lifecycle for individual projects — while also promoting an overall quality assurance
program for the organization. The Project Quality Plan provides a framework for documenting
the standards, processes and plans to be undertaken and monitored during the project. Process
Mentor’s foundation on practical project experience provides a pragmatic, realistic framework
for identifying, managing, reporting and mitigating project risk. The activity centric and
deliverable focused nature of Process Mentor provides a high level of control and visibility of
project progress. Process Mentor’s TeamGuide integration with Visual Studio 2010 provides
organizations with the ability to Out Of The Box kick-off development in a controlled and
visible manner. By providing the platform to build methodologies Process Mentor delivers
flexibility in executing development projects. Additional to Visual Studio 2010 TeamGuide
provides the roll-up of work items into summary tasks, greatly enhancing the ability to track and
control development within the Visual Studio environment.
“The integration of Process Mentor with Visual Studio 2010 provides a dynamic, flexible and
scalable platform, which binds the disparate application delivery pieces together, ensures
alignment to business strategy, and improves team productivity and quality assurance across the
software development life cycle. This integration benefits both products in the following ways:
Process Mentor has the process-driven development methodology, and now the tools for
automating and tracking the development process. Visual Studio 2010 has all of the tools for
application life-cycle management, from capturing requirements through to project management
and application testing. This solution provides CIOs and application development managers with
a set of executable process templates that extends the value of Visual Studio 2010’s application
life cycle management.”
— Brent Cahill
Product Manager
Object Consulting
Odin Technology Ltd.
Odin Technology is an industry expert in the design, development and implementation of
automated software testing products and solutions. In its 10th anniversary year, Odin has
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provided test automation products and solutions to clients in the UK, Europe, the US and
Australia. The company aim is to empower its clients to build better software through the use of
successful test automation. With the Axe product range, Odin has provided a toolset that has
consistently proven its success in that aim. Axe is a test automation platform that greatly
increases productivity and drastically reduces maintenance overheads for test automation. It uses
simple Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as a means to define and model test scenarios and code
generation techniques to rapidly generate robust, self-documented automation code. Axe is
interesting because it is the only proven solution that bridges the gap between generalist testers
and test automation, enabling generalists to define and maintain automated tests without needing
to learn technical skills.
“The integration of Visual Studio with Axe will allow clients the ability to increase their
automated testing productivity and subsequent maintenance by at least a factor of four as
opposed to traditional automation approaches. This combination will allow not just skilled
automation practitioners to carry out automation but also the experienced generalist testers who
before this announcement were unable to carry out any test automation of significance. Above all
it will allow clients to maximize the return on investment by using the Visual Studio and Axe
integration. As a long-term Visual Studio partner and user of the product, we are delighted to be
able to apply the Axe platform to integrate with the Visual Studio Coded-UI functionality. We
had previously established Axe’s platform integrations with the current set of leading test
automation tools, and the addition of Visual Studio with Microsoft’s commitment to innovation
positions Axe as the leader in the new generation of test automation platforms. This alliance and
opportunity clearly shows the symbiotic relationship and benefit between Microsoft and its
partners; we look forward to reaping the mutual benefits that the Visual Studio launch will give
both Microsoft and ourselves.”
— David Tracey
Managing Director
Object Consulting
OpenMake Software Inc.
OpenMake Software is the Build Management Authority, providing enterprise scale continuous
integration, distributed workflow and dependency based software build control. These solutions
enable customers to reduce software development cycle times, increase developer productivity,
and provide management with actionable audit and traceability reports. Over 100,000 users at
400 companies worldwide use its two principal products, Mojo and Meister. Mojo provides a
scalable distributed platform for continuous integration and workflow processing. Meister adds
dependency based standardization, acceleration, and audit capabilities to the software build
process. OpenMake also provides expert consulting to assist customers in implementing SCM,
build, test and deploy processes. OpenMake provides a Visual Studio Add-in that enables access
to our build management platform from within the Visual Studio 2010 environment. We also
enable cross platform and cross language builds in conjunction with the recent Microsoft
acquired TeamPrise software. It is useful and interesting to our customers, since they require
support for both their Windows and other programming environments.
“OpenMake Software is very excited about both the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 launch and
Microsoft’s new focus around ALM. As a company who has provided ALM solutions in the area
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of build-to-release management for heterogeneous environments over the last 15 years,
OpenMake Software is well positioned to be part of Microsoft’s team of experts in the area of
multi-platform ALM.”
— Stephen King
CEO
OpenMake Software
PreEmptive Solutions
PreEmptive Solutions produces the Dotfuscator and DashO application protection, monitoring
and management product families and the Runtime Intelligence Service. With more than 4,000
corporate clients, 40,000 registered installations in 100+ countries and inclusion with Microsoft’s
6,000,000+ Visual Studio seats, PreEmptive Solutions is the clear choice for every organization
serious about protecting, measuring and managing their application investments. With Visual
Studio 2010, PreEmptive Solutions offers the only application analytics solution able to support
cloud, mobile, rich Internet, and traditional client-server deployments. For more information,
visit www.preemptive.com or call +1 440.443.7200.
“Visual Studio 2010 represents one of the most significant advances in software development in
many years. The combination of extensibility features and application analytics offers developers
the first IDE truly built to support user-centered design and development.”
— Gabriel Torok
President
PreEmptive Solutions
Pyxis Technologies
Pyxis Technologies offers a unique set of products and services to help our customers
consistently improve their software development productivity through the use of Agile
development methods. At Pyxis, Agility guides our practices every day which makes us the
reference in Agile software development in Quebec and France. Pyxis Technologies also
develops its own tools that help Agile teams deliver successful projects.
“Urban Turtle developed by Pyxis is an intuitive agile project management tool (plug-in) for
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server built to simplify software development cycles. Pyxis uses
Visual Studio 2010 to build its software. We estimate that Visual Studio allows us to reduce our
production time by at least 20 percent. Furthermore, continuous integration and source control
built in the same platform greatly improves the traceability and follow-up of our work. Having
all these essential tools included in TFS simplifies the development cycle and reduces the time
wasted on assembling pieces from different environments. By adding Urban Turtle, we are
providing the missing piece for agile development, making it faster and easier.”
— François Beauregard
CEO
Pyxis
Quest Software Inc.
Now more than ever, organizations need to work smart and improve efficiency. Quest Software
creates and supports smart systems management products — helping our customers solve every
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day IT challenges faster and easier. Visit www.quest.com for more information. Quest Software,
Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Toad® Extension for Visual Studio — an Oracle
Database Schema Provider for the upcoming release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Quest’s
new tool provides Oracle support for Visual Studio, enabling Oracle developers to fully
participate with other Visual Studio team members throughout the entire application lifecycle.
Previously, Oracle development in Visual Studio was very limited, involved time-consuming
manual processes, and did not support the system’s new offline database development and design
paradigm. With Quest’s new tool, Visual Studio can now support both Oracle and SQL Server
databases. Toad Extension for Visual Studio enables Oracle developers to perform offline
design, development and change management in Visual Studio, and integrate their changes into
the application’s automated build schedule. This capability ensures that all database changes are
managed and tracked in the system, unifying Oracle professionals with the rest of their
organization’s Visual Studio team. To find out more about Toad Extension for Visual Studio,
visit www.quest.com/toad-extension-for-visual-studio. Additional information may also be found
at www.TeamFuze.net, the community for Oracle professionals working in Visual Studio 2010.
“We see a real need in the developer community for Oracle support on Visual Studio. The
release of Toad Extension for Visual Studio will bring value to this market, and underscores
Quest Software’s continued support for Oracle database professionals.”
— Billy Bosworth
Vice President and General Manager of
Database Management
Quest Software
Red Lizard Software
Red Lizard Software is the first company to combine model checking with static analysis to
create a fast and automated source code analysis solution. Its flagship product, Goanna, detects
bugs, crashes and other software vulnerabilities at the desktop during development. This helps
keeping product development timetables on track and on budget, creating better software faster
with increased code confidence.
“Red Lizard Software is proud to cooperate with Microsoft for simultaneous shipment of its
Goanna static code analysis extension with Visual Studio 2010.”
— James Campbell
CEO
Red Lizard Software
“Goanna detects C and C++ software source code ‘bugs’ in the earliest stages of the software
development life cycle, providing automated code analysis, increased code confidence and
improved productivity in the creation of better software faster.”
— Ralf Huuck
Chief Technology Officer
Red Lizard Software
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Rhea NV
Rhea has been developing products since 2001 to greatly increase the productivity of developers
while keeping them on the edge of technology. With Vidyano integrated into the Visual Studio
2010 environment, developers can build applications even faster than before. Applications will
run faster and take advantage of a lot of the new features that version 4 of the .NET Framework
brings.
“Our customers have come to us for cutting-edge software for the last nine years. By working
with Microsoft, we feel confident that Vidyano will provide users of Visual Studio 2010 with
enhanced functionality and significant value.”
— Johan Van Casteren
Managing Partner
Rhea
RSSBus
RSSBus Inc. is the leading provider of integration tools for creating, managing, and consuming
‘Simple Services’. Our flagship product, the RSSBus Server, is a standalone integration server
that provides flattened web-service interfaces to local and remote data through multiple open
protocols like REST, RSS, ATOM, SOAP, JSON etc. Through an extensive library of dozens of
RSSBus Connectors, RSSBus can easily connect to and interact with data from many databases,
applications, or services. Our latest release, the RSSBus Data Provider, enables developers using
Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 to interact with applications, databases, and
services with unprecedented simplicity. Combining the extensive library of RSSBus connectors
with the well understood interface of the .NET Data Provider enables software developers to
virtually “Databind” to anything, without additional code. Supporting both the Microsoft
ADO.NET and the WCF Data Services interfaces, the RSSBus Data Provider offers .NET
developers easy access to data through familiar tools.
“The support for WCF Data Services in our new RSSBus Data Provider was an essential feature
that had to be implemented before launch. The improved tooling for WCF Data Services in
Visual Studio 2010 goes a long way toward making these services more accessible to .NET
developers. By supporting WCF Data Services and the OData protocol we were able not only to
bring our integration capabilities to the Silverlight platform but also to integrate with other
OData-capable producers like SharePoint Server 2010, Windows Azure, SQL Server Reporting
Services, etc.”
— Amit Sharma
CEO
RSSBus
Steema Software SL
Steema Software is a privately held company founded in 1996 and has been providing software
tools for application developers ever since. Steema authors, distributes and supports all its
products. Steema’s flagship product, the TeeChart Charting Library, is widely acknowledged as
an industry standard. Steema is pleased to be able to offer its products for Microsoft’s new
Visual Studio .NET 2010 IDE.
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“Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 coincide well with Steema’s own new version of
TeeChart for .NET 2010 release, allowing it to take advantage of the new features available. We
think our customers will be happy to migrate to Visual Studio 2010 as soon as practically
possible.”
— Marc Meumann
CEO
Steema Software
Syncfusion Inc.
Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion, Inc. provides the broadest range of enterpriseclass software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion,
developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering real business innovation
— the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that
today’s business users need, in the formats they demand. Our award-winning .NET components
and controls are designed to meet your evolving development needs, whether you’re working in
Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, or Silverlight. At Syncfusion, we
uncompromisingly strive for excellence in order to offer the very best value to our customers,
from small ISVs to Fortune 100 companies. What sets Syncfusion apart? Breadth: UI, reporting,
business intelligence on any Microsoft .NET platform, all from one vendor; Quality: an almost
brutal QA process makes our products truly enterprise-quality; Licensing: no royalties, run-time,
or server deployment fees — no surprises; Transparency: product roadmap, feature requests and
dev builds are all available online; Support: our team is in-house, accessible, and fast. The online
forum, knowledge base, and Direct-Trac support system provide 24/7 access. Syncfusion can be
reached at info@syncfusion.com, +1 919.481.1974, toll-free in the U.S. at 1.888.9DOTNET or
www.syncfusion.com.
Essential Studio Enterprise Edition (http://www.syncfusion.com/products/whatsnewSyncfusion)
provides a comprehensive library of components and controls for building user interfaces,
reporting, and business intelligence apps on any .NET platform. With Visual Studio 2010 in
combination with Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise Edition, developers can now provide
the fastest Silverlight and WPF grid on the market, allowing end-users to quickly load and scroll
through over 100 million rows of data. New enhancements also make Syncfusion’s tools the only
ones on the market that can produce native Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, and Microsoft Word
reports in Silverlight. Developers can empower end-users to make custom changes to reports on
their own, greatly freeing up a developer’s time.
“We are very excited about the tight integration of the WPF, ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight
platforms into the Visual Studio 2010 IDE. These platforms have seen tremendous growth over
the past year. Our products on these platforms have been very well received. We expect that the
great integration provided by the Visual Studio 2010 IDE will substantially increase the adoption
of the powerful platforms, enabling our customers to deliver truly innovative .NET applications.”
— Daniel Jebaraj
Vice President
Syncfusion
Synergex
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For over 33 years, Synergex products and professional services have enabled companies in a
broad range of industries to develop and use applications to their fullest potential. Today, we
offer the latest technologies and broad expertise that enable companies around the globe to
continue to advance their applications and be successful. The Synergy/DE Data Provider for
.NET is an ADO.NET data provider that enables developers to create Visual Studio data
connections to our Synergy DBMS databases via ODBC. It is unique in that it gives .NET
applications access to the power, scalability, and reliability of non-relational data files.
“It is because of our close collaboration with Microsoft on this product that we will have a new
version ready for release simultaneously with Visual Studio 2010. As a result, our customers will
get to immediately take advantage of the latest and greatest technologies from both Synergex and
Microsoft, letting them increase productivity while developing powerful applications.”
— Roger Andrews
Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer
Synergex
TeamSolutions LLC
TeamSolutions provides enhanced visibility and communication by tightly integrating Outlook
and Word with Visual Studio Team System. TeamSolutions TeamSpec™ provides a rich project
requirement management experience directly inside Microsoft Word. By making Team
Foundation Server (TFS) project artifacts such as Scenarios, QOS Requirements, Risks, Issues,
Bugs, Tasks, among others, first class citizens inside Microsoft Word, TeamSpec enables
Application Lifecycle contributions by the Business Analyst, Project Manager, and Executive
roles. TeamSolutions TeamLook™ extends Microsoft Outlook and TFS so that all stakeholders
in a software project can communicate more effectively and gain accurate visibility into project
status. TeamLook™ connects to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) and enables users
to view Work Items, Reports, and other artifacts stored in their Visual Studio Team System
installations. With constant synchronization TeamLook™ functions in a similar manner to other
Microsoft Outlook features, reducing training costs and enabling organizations to realize
immediate productivity gains.
“TeamLook and TeamSpec were born out of necessity for our own company. The idea behind
the project was to enhance visibility into the consulting activities our company was undertaking
and to provide easy ways to manage those projects. Everything from the requirements gathering
to status e-mails to reporting needed to be at our fingertips. After embarking on these ideas, we
discovered that this would be highly useful for everyone in the community to benefit from —
and TeamSolutions was born. Finally after five years, with the newly released Visual Studio
2010, our vision for requirements management, traceability and management solutions is finally
coming to fruition. We are proud to be releasing our best tools in conjunction with Visual Studio
2010.”
— Joseph Buys
Principal Partner
TeamSolutions
Telerik
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Telerik is a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, Windows Forms
and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM , .NET CMS, TFS,
Code Analysis and Automated Testing Tools. Building on its expertise in interface development
and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled
richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products take advantage
of the Visual Studio 2010 innovations in core areas critical to developer productivity, such as
code quality; new prototyping, modeling and visual design tools; the first interactive design
experience for Silverlight, as well as new drag-and-drop bindings for Silverlight and Windows
Presentation Foundation.
“Telerik’s products are designed to leverage and support the latest Microsoft technologies, and
we work closely with Microsoft to ensure we synchronize our product development with
Microsoft’s release schedule. Our concentrated focus on innovation and commitment to
customers translates into timely delivery of leading-edge updates across the entire Telerik
product portfolio.”
— Svetozar Georgiev
Co-CEO
Telerik
Visual Numerics Inc.
Visual Numerics, Inc. has provided technical software solutions for numerical analysis and
visualization for 40 years and was recently acquired by Rogue Wave Software, a Battery
Ventures portfolio company. Rogue Wave Software provides the most complete C++ technology
stack including C++ components, UI components, Eclipse-based development, run-time
infrastructure and professional services. Written in 100% C#, the IMSL C# Numerical Library
for Microsoft .NET offers developers seamless accessibility to analytic capabilities alongside the
programming productivity and ease of use they enjoy in Visual Studio. The version 6.5 release
includes support for Visual Studio 2010 and the new Task Parallel Library introduced in the
Microsoft .NET Framework 4. The IMSL C# Library has integrated these threading patterns into
dozens of functions, resulting in easy access to parallel-processing performance increases that
take advantage of multi-core hardware. The algorithms available within the IMSL C# Library
cover all of the major categories of functionality commonly used in numerical analysis, from
commonly used math and statistical analysis functions like optimization and regression to
advanced neural network and classification technology. This math and statistical algorithm
functionality can be applied to an unlimited set of applications, such as bioinformatics and life
sciences, fraud detection, risk management and portfolio optimization, manufacturing yield
analysis and more.
“The market dynamic of CPU manufacturers improving performance by making multipleprocessor cores rather than increasing processor clock speeds presents us an opportunity to
utilize parallelization in our products. The built-in support for parallel programming provided in
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 enabled us to not only realize
significant performance increases, but also to reduce the development time required to parallelize
our IMSL C# Numerical Libraries and get them to market.”
— Sean Fitzgerald
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Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer
Rogue Wave Software
“The IMSL C# Library version 6.5 release has been in progress since Microsoft made available
the first preview of its new threading model slated for version 4 of the .NET Framework. We
developed enhancements to our industry-leading set of core mathematical and statistical
functions, which take advantage of the new Task Parallel Library. This integration enables
developers using the library in a pure C# code base to realize performance increases on multicore
machines without additional development effort.”
— Dr. Ed Stewart
IMSL Product Manager
Rogue Wave Software
Whole Tomato Software Inc.
Whole Tomato Software, Inc. is a company focused on increasing developer productivity for
users of Microsoft IDEs through the company’s flagship product, Visual Assist X. Since
introducing the equivalent of IntelliSense to Visual C++ 5.0 users in 1997, Whole Tomato
Software has provided value-added features to each release of Visual Studio, including enhanced
syntax coloring, code outlining and inspection, refactoring and find references for most
languages including C++, suggestions, shorthand and acronyms, and project management tools.
Visual Assist X is currently the only product to provide C++/CLI IntelliSense in Visual Studio
2010.
“We’re excited to see the advances in C++ Intellisense in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, among
other improvements and innovations. Visual Assist X continues to provide significant valueadded features to this increasingly powerful IDE.”
— Kevin Sikes
Marketing Director
Whole Tomato Software
Xoreax Ltd.
Xoreax is a privately held company dedicated to providing high-quality solutions for the
professional software community with a technological emphasis on Grid technology. Our
flagship product, IncrediBuild, utilizes the unique XGE (Xoreax Grid Engine) technology to
accelerate software engineering tasks such as code builds, data builds, simulations, QA scripts
and custom processes on the Microsoft Windows platform. Xoreax is actively working on future
developments and partnerships to enhance its technological platform and grid-enable
applications in various fields. For more information on using the XGE platform to boost your
application’s performance, contact xge@xoreax.com. IncrediBuild for Visual Studio 2010
continues to provide dramatic acceleration of build times, resulting in enhanced developer
productivity.
“The combination of Visual Studio 2010 and IncrediBuild’s grid computing technology
represents a great opportunity to maximize development productivity and minimize delays in
R&D cycles.”
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— Uri Mishol
CEO
Xoreax
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