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Get your code ready: Windows Vista is just around the corner

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Microsoft has put together an online developer readiness community to help organizations get Windows Vista 10.jpgready for Windows Vista. Anyone can visit this site at http://devreadiness.org, and anybody who’s planning to build code for or migrate code to the Vista platform should probably do so some time soon. You’ll find a large amount of content on this site, with a lot of useful documentation, educational material and even software to help you assess your readiness for Windows Vista and get ready for a new target platform for development.

Among the many items available through this site, here’s an important smattering of items worth further investigation:

* The Windows Vista Jumpstart toolkit: white papers, presentations, tools and videos designed to assist independent software developers (ISVs) as they decide how their Windows XP applications are likely to be affected by the move to Windows Vista.
* Top 10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Apps: a series of pointed advice and reminders about what it takes for developers to get ready for Windows Vista. Covers Windows Vista style guidelines, Windows Presentation Foundation, use of metadata, security topics, design changes to improve manageability and reliability, customer feedback mechanisms and more. Get your code ready: Windows Vista is just around the corner

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