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Playing with HTTP.SYS parameters ...
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HTTP.SYS is the new kernel mode http driver that ships with IIS 6.0. Can check my other post on IIS 6.0 Features listing. If you want to play around with the different parameters that it uses then you need to get into the registry. Read through the KBV article posted from MS on this ...
INF: Http.sys Registry Settings for IIS
Play with these parameters with care ... These are very sensitive data ...
(via Richard Ersek's Blog)
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MCSA Windows 2003 ...
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I think I will stop with this blog for today ... I just came back after writing my Upgrade exam 70-292 (Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000) for MCSA Windows 2003 ... And I cleared it ... Yipiee ... :) ... A nice exam and a good amount of material to learn when compared to its counter part Windows 2000.
A whole host of information and features are being tested here. Including the use of Shadow Copy feature, Terminal Services / Remote Desktop usage, Software upgrade Services (SUS), Applying GPO's, Backup and Recovery, ASR Wizard (Automated System Recovery), DNS configuration and so on ... I think I can keep on writing the features questioned ...
Next in queue is the 70-296 (Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSE Certified on Windows 2000) for MCSE on Windows 2003 ... Will need to prepare well before taking this monster exam ... Till then good bye and all the best for all exam takers ... :) ...
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Longhorn Release Notes ...
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Just is great nick and flow I suppose ... Just getting the weeks backlag ... :) ... Here is what I found about the release notes of Longhorn ... KB Article ...
Interesting is the first point mentioned there. “This pre-release product uses product activation technology. You must activate your copy of "Longhorn" within 14 days of installation. You have been provided with a product key that permits 31 activations. All activations will expire after 365 days. After expiration, you cannot log on to this pre-release product.” ... Does this also apply to the MSDN downloads location version and the PDC versions is still a mystry for me ... I am yet to test them on my PC, will wait untill I get 100% sure here ...
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LIP
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LIP stands for Language Interface Pack and this is a way in which major parts of the XP UI is changed to a language for which they do not yet have a full fledged MUI pack. A new LIP for Hindi has been recently released at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0db2e8f9-79c4-4625-a07a-0cc1b341be7c&displaylang=hi
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Multi-Directional Tree View Control ...
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Here is a cool post from Sean Gerety with an interesting idea of displaying a multi-directional Tree View control. I would be more than interested in viewing a Web Version of the same control ... A sneak preview of the same ...
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PDC Sessions Online ...
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Missed the PDC sessions ... Here is the online version of the PDC downloads .... http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm
These session are available for the next 6 months I suppose so go ahead and hear to the sessions you missed ...
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Hotmail - Next Generation ....
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Neowin Takes A Look At Next Gen Hotmail
The look and feel of Hotmail changes just a bit ... I think this makes us feel to have a different theme. Take a look at some of the screen shots:
Main article
Hotmail Today
Hotmail Inbox
New Email Message
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More on Whidbey and Longhorn ...
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Classes obselete in Whidbey
New features in C# Whidbey
Rich Seeley writes Mood Indigo: A boost to programmer productivity?. A interesting thread where we see that developer productivity can improve multi-fold in the Indigo releases. Just a stat presented to write an application:
60,000 loc in VS 2002
12,000 loc in WSE add-on tools
1 loc in Indigo ...
Interesting where the application has become more secure and more reliable with less loc and more productivity ...
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Microsoft Licenses XML Schema For Office 2003 Documents ...
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I was just expecting this soon ... And it is right in front http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031117S0009 ...
If you are not sure to what I am talking. Then look into the new feature of Office 2003 to store documents in an native XML format. These schema's are different and used in almost all the office tools as Word, Excel, InfoPath, Smart Tags ... All are basic XML Schema formats ...
Now this takes us to an interesting twist. This is something I've been thinking for quite a time now. If I need to automate at the server side of any office product (say a word document) and send the updated document across to a web client. This was a pain in the previous versions. Now if I were to do the same with an well defined schema. I can easily transform my existing XML data to a more understandable WordML format and push the same across to the client using a simple XSL. If this is that easy and less costly when compared to instantiating a Word COM component, then how will the licensing work. Does it mandate that I need Word licenses at the Server also ? Or I need just Word licenses at the client who access them ? I am yet to read the EULA and the other licensing documents of Office ... But will be keen to knowing these also ...
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Excel Data to browser ...
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I seem to have caught up with the Excel fever oflate. And here are some of the most requested questions on Excel at the newsgroups. Interesting that we use Office products more that we expect the same at the Web Apps also ...
1. The simple solutions is we can use ASP.NET to generate a CSV file of Mime Type text/plain or text/csv and write it back to the browser. This solutions is used by tons of apps all around the world. I think we donot need to talk more on this.
2. We can use ASP.NET to generate an XML-SS document and write it back to the browser. Yet another way to add to the list in 1. This is not a common method for sure ... Read through the KB article ...
3. We can take advantage of the ASP.NET DataGrid's ability to generate HTML tables quickly and return the page with a Mime Type of application/vnd.ms-excel. Here's a great example on how to create these reports. The FAQ you get most of the times at the newsgroups.
4. Use ExcelWriter on the server side to create the Report. Not many people go for this as there is a cost involved and we build dependency on the third party tools.
5. Automate Excel on the ServerSide. The not recommended way of working for sure. Office objects are not optimized for such working. And in a multi scenario situation the code can break and kill your server ...
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Microsoft Never Ogled Google - Gates ...
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I thought this was a true story till date. The recent news says that it is a hoax ... :( ... Read through the news published on Microsoft Watch for further details.