Now to continue from what I posted in my last post around the VS2010 and .NET Beta 2 update, here is another. This is the third preview of IronRuby and IronPython running under the Dynamic Language Runtime that is built directly into .NET 4.0. As before, this release allows you to use IronRuby objects...
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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I just installed the internal Beta of Office 2010 and couldn’t wait to see this new add-in working. PowerPivot for Excel is a data analysis tool that delivers unmatched computational power directly within the application users already know and love—Microsoft Excel. Leveraging familiar Excel...
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IIS Media Services is a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging package. Also with it is the release of Smooth Streaming Player Development...
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The SQL Server Customer Advisory Team handles tons and tons of large deployments and they try to go ahead and document all their findings for the benefit of the larger community. Their whitepapers are generally loaded with loads of information that I have had instances where I used to read the article...
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System Center Essentials 2010 PM blog - http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenteressentials/archive/2009/09/29/sce-2010-public-beta-is-here.aspx www.microsoft.com/SCE SCE 2010 is designed specifically for mid-sized organizations and delivers a unified physical and virtual IT management experience. It enables...
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I think we maybe a bit late to talk about these, nevertheless it is worth mentioning. Recently a week back MS launched the WebsiteSpark initiative and this surely has brought all the buzz in the web world and it surely is catching some spark in a number of forums … I personally feel there is tons...
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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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Using Express edition is something I recommend a lot in my sessions. But a number of times people ask do we really have easy to learn videos … Well, with all the web-technologies hype here are a number of too good video’s that you can use from the ASP.NET site. Intro to Visual Web Developer...
I have seen a number of people ask me if there are tools and easy way to do sizing esp when working with SQL Server. I was browsing through the HP site and bumped into these cool resources which I felt is worth sharing. You might find a similar set of resources with other Hardware vendors too … But here...