This recent PDC over the couple of days has tons of announcements to go a look forward from a Microsoft technologies point of view. One of the important announcement which I had the privilege to watch is the InterOp story esp around the Cloud Platform. At the PDC Keynote, we did see how WordPress was...
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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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Recently, I have had the opportunity to replace my home laptop and one of my demo Laptops because of different reasons. I have been a bit relaxed on maintaining these laptops and hence the headaches followed and some resolution had to be made. Now that they are behind my back and I take utmost care of...
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on 10-15-2009
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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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on 10-07-2009
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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 do a lot of these presentations and many times I use some zomming tools to show the code and explain the concepts. And a number of times people have come back to me asking what that tool was … No rocket science :) … I have been using ZoomIT from Sysinternals for ages and I still love using them because...
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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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on 09-02-2009
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Microsoft is releasing the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services which makes it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of ADO.NET Data Services, a set of features recently added to the .NET Framework. ADO.NET Data Services offer a simple way to expose any sort of data in a RESTful way. The PHP Toolkit...