With first announced at PDC 2009, Windows Server AppFabric is a set of application services focused on improving the speed, scale, and management of Web, Composite, and Enterprise applications. Developers and IT Pros can expect the following benefits from Windows Server AppFabric: Faster Web Apps Made...
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Wanted to update that the FastCGI module v1.5 has been released for IIS 6 and IIS 5.1. A lot more details can be got from Ruslan’s blog on this release: http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2010/01/18/fastcgi-extension-1-5-for-iis-5-1-and-iis-6-0-rtw.aspx Fast CGI Forum with announcement and where...
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As part of getting Interoperability Bridges there is a new post out, Creating PHP CRUD Apps with SQL Server on your Server or in the Azure Cloud that helps PHP web users to build SQL Server, SQL Azure or Windows Azure Storage bound applications via a helper CRUD application that developers can modify...
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I recently wrote a tip around ResourceDB changes with SQL Server 2008. You can read the same on my website here . Feel free to drop in your comments. I have been on vacation for the past two weeks and hence have been silent here. Nevertheless, I got hold of a number of useful links that might be of interest...
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on 12-22-2009
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The November CTP release of Microsoft StreamInsight went live as part of the SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP. In this post we are introducing the November CTP refresh , which already contains further improvements. You can find the download page here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=161910 StreamInsight...
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on 11-25-2009
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The Solution Accelerators Team is offering customers and partners added inventory and assessment capabilities with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP). The MAP Toolkit 5.0 CTP provides customers and partners with new features such as inventory of...
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Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf Learn about the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 in the areas of virtualization, management, the Web application platform, scalability and reliability...
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on 11-08-2009
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Couple of days back we did announce the availability of Visual Studio 2010 to the MSDN subscribers and there are enough online buzz around the product. I will be installing the same just like you folks sometime on Monday as I have a session to deliver tomorrow and refrained from rebuilding this week...
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on 10-23-2009
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It has been close to a month of the release and I have been wanting to drop a line on this. The MapPoint 2009 Add-in for SQL Server 2008 capitalized on the spatial data that come out-of-box with SQL Server and integrates with the maps. More about it is over the homepage I have shared. You can get various...
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on 09-22-2009
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I have been an advocate of the releases from time-to-time as I hear of them over this blog. But I thought I will consolidate the same in one post of all the releases made till date on P&P (Patterns and Practices Team) for your quick reference. Enterprise Library v4.1 is a collection of reusable software...
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