NetStone Global was selected from fewer than 40 companies worldwide to become a member of Microsoft .NET Early Adopter Program (.NET EAP) launched in November of 2000. As part of the .NET EAP program, NetStone Global had access to the latest software development tools within Microsoft .NET framework, including beta versions and knowledge base information, and participates in various Microsoft educational events for selected partners. Starting with Microsoft .NET Beta 1 version, NetStone Global has invested into the sample development based on the new platform.

NetStone Global has been repeatedly noted by Bill Gates, in his keynote presentation of Microsoft .NET Visual Studio global launch in February 2002, and during regional launch events in Russia.

Dedicated .Net R&D Team

Microsoft .Net

NetStone Global’s dedicated Microsoft .NET R&D team is responsible for research of the latest software releases, testing new technologies and knowledge sharing with the rest of the team. Members of this group have attended numerous technical seminars organized by Microsoft in Russia and the U.S., and possess years of expertise developing on this platform. The dedicated Microsoft .NET development team enjoys full support by Microsoft through our dynamic partnership program.

Technical Capabilities

Software Design and Development Lifecycle
Agile Software Development
Team Development
Continuous Integration using Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Unit-testing: MSUnit, NUnit
Model Driven Development
UML modeling

Enterprise Applications

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) & SOA
Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF)
Enterprise Services
Microsoft Enterprise Library
Windows Services
Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS)
Component Load Balancing (CLB)
Microsoft Network Load Balancing Services (NLB)

Distributed Applications

Windows Azure Cloud Applications
Distributed Transactions
Web Services
Web Service Extensions, SOAP customization, XSD usage
Remoting
Custom Remoting: marshaling, channeling, security
BizTalkv
MSMQ

Web-Based Applications

ASP.NET
Third party controls
Custom controls
AJAX
XML/XSLT
Master Pages
ASP.NET MVC
Silverlight
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)
Microsoft SharePoint Server (SharePoint 2010)
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

Desktop Applications

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
WinForms
Third party controls
Custom controls
Asynchronous data and message processing
Custom designers
Smart Clients
Composite Application Blocks (CAB)
Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF)
Microsoft Surface
2D Graphics
GDI+
Font management

Mobile Applications

Windows Phone 7
Compact Framework
Web services collaboration
SQL Server CE

Data Access, Management, Reporting and Analysis

RDBMS
Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, SQL Express
ORM
LINQ
Entity Framework
NHibernate
Data Access and Management
ADO.NET, DataSets
MSSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Reporting
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
Crystal Reports
Analisys
OLTP
OLAP
Multi-dimensional Data Processing

Advanced Development Technologies

Reflection (dynamic emitting of assemblies, CodeDOM, custom attributes, auto generation of Web Service proxy)
AppDomain management (custom assembly resolving), Garbage collection, GAC
Security (windows authorization, code access permissions, cryptography usage)
COM interop/Platform interop
COM Interop, PInvoke, IE, MS Office and shell integration
Multithreading (synchronization, thread-safe UI, thread pooling, com interop apartments management)
Serialization (custom, selective, versioning support)
Deployment (web deployment, Click Once)
Globalization (multi-language application support)