November 2004 - Posts

All abt Visio

A comprehensive site for Visio stuff. Didnt know that MVPs site had this resource :)

 

SQL Buddy

Another open source tool for MSDE.

 

Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool

Configuration, rule and help updates for the Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer 1.0

Download it from MSDN

ISNULL or COALESCE
Check these blogs for speed test and understanding differences in implementation ...
VB Team in India

Bangalore November 30, 2004 The Leela 080 - 25219852/53
Mumbai December 2, 2004 Grand Hyatt 022 - 28204775/6
Chennai December 3, 2004 Ambassador Palav 044 - 52142545/18
Hyderabad December 7, 2004 Taj Banjara 040 - 55274785/55291214
New Delhi December 9, 2004 Park Royal Inter-Continental 011 - 51621587/2087

For more info, check out http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/vbnet.aspx

LIP in Kannada for Windows XP

LIP: Language Interface Pack. Read the story from Hindu.

Download it here.

Running Domain Controllers in Virtual Server 2005

On servers running Windows Server 2003 and Virtual Server 2005, you can install multiple domain controllers in separate virtual machines. This platform is well suited for test environments. With strict adherence to requirements described in this paper, domain controller virtual machines can also be used in production.

Download the whitepaper.

 

Office 2003 Add-in: MOSA

This download will enable you to send SMS text messages through most Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) mobile phones connected to your PC using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. Download it from MSDN.

 

SQL Server 2005: CLR Whitepaper

I keep saying this at all the UG's I take session. SQL Server 2005 is a relational DB and not to confuse with the fact that CLR integration is one of the features introduced and not the only feature introduced. The potential of over-doing or integrating this feature is immense. So be careful. Here is a good article from Balaji and others on CLR integration in SQL Server 2005.

 

Tracing Data Access
Learn how to apply the tracing functionality in ADO.NET 2.0 to track down bugs and bottlenecks in your applications. Bob gives a good overview on MSDN ...
Interesting read: Run ASMX Without IIS
on the MSDN.
Channel 9 India Updated

Catch 3 new video's on the Channel9 India Site:

  1. Sheila Gulati - on DPE India and Community Initiatives
  2. Vij Rajarajan - on MOM 2005
  3. Gaurav Khanna - on Rotor Intro
White Paper: Patch Sequencing in Windows Installer version 3.0

On the same lines to the new installer version release, we have a document that outlines the patching sequence (creating msp) with the new version.

Download it from MSDN.

Advanced Query Tuning Concepts

A very interesting read on the MSDN. The link explains some internals of

Nested Loop Join

Merge Joins

Hash Joins

And the most interesting of them is the Hash Join Part :) ... Happy Reading ...

Windows Installer 3.0 Redistributable

The Microsoft® Windows® Installer is an application installation and configuration service. WindowsInstaller-KB884016-v2-x86.exe is the redistributable package for installing or upgrading Windows Installer.

Download it from MSDN.

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