February 2005 - Posts

Winner of the Developer.com Product of the Year 2005
creating and marketing utilities aimed at developers a profitable thing to do! Without further ado, here are the finalists in this category:
  • Altova MapForce 2005
  • Altova XMLSpy 2005
  • EazyCode
  • Firefox

And the winner is .... Read it here :) ... Would have easily guessed it by now ...

Formal Tools for Securing Web Services

A beauty collection on this topic from MS research site. has whitepapers, resources, tech talks and tools. Read the same here ...

 

FIX: A deadlock condition occurs when you perform an UPDATE or a DELETE

How bizarre can a bug can get ... Interesting and a new post KB(831537) on the same ...

 

RSS Feed with SMS alerting facility

How creative can someone become ... See this for yourself ...

 

Data Mining Reloaded

Alexei Bocharov and Jesper Lind talk on "What's new for data mining in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services", read the complete topic at Data Mining Reloaded.

 

Converting Windows to Linux

Wanna check this out !!! Very funny ...

 

How to fry an egg on an XP !!!

Wanna try this at home !!! I bet you wont want to ... See it for yourself ...

SQL Server for Developers: The Perils of Fiber Mode
Ken Henderson explains the effects that SQL Server fiber mode coupled with the User Mode Scheduler component can have on your system, and what to consider carefully before enabling fiber mode. Read the complete MSDN article.
An Extensive Examination of Data Structures Using C# 2.0

Read the complete series and more to come on this topic.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Study: IE continues to lose market share

Microsoft Corp.'s share of the browser market has continued to slip, according to a new study, indicating continued momentum for users switching to Internet Explorer alternatives. Recent reports state this ... But it is still holds 90% of the market ... Read more here ...

 

Software GreenHouse: For mobile and embedded Users

Software GreenHouse is a joint effort of Microsoft India and Cynapse aimed at developers who want to develop mobile and embedded applications using the latest Microsoft Mobile technologies and platforms. Very similar to any reality show on television, this will span the entire life cycle of a “real” world product being developed by us specifically for this purpose.This unique concept will be used as a platform for an online demonstration on how mobile and embedded applications are developed.

More here ...

IE7 at the horizon ...

Bill Gates talked about Internet Explorer 7 at the RSA. The complete Press release version is here ... More about this at the IEBlog ...

“First, some basics: we’re committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. Betas of IE7 will be available this summer. This new release will build on the work we did in Windows XP SP2 and (among other things) go further to defend users from phishing as well as deceptive or malicious software. ”

Tradeoffs between XML and CLR UDTs for storing complex data
Kent Tegels discusses this in his SQL CLR and XML: Saw the woman in two carefully ... A nice read and an interesting one too ...
Process Explorer V9.0

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. Tooo good to be free though ...

Read more here ...

How to download Microsoft Webcasts
Georgeo Pulikkathara Points to the way we can download the MS streaming webcasts ... Read it here...
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