Vinod Kumar - ExtremeExperts.com

MSR - AutoCollage

2008-09-05T04:26:00Z

From the heart of the MS Research comes yet another innovative idea of creating your very own collage work !!! Really super-cool. Take a look ....(read more)

SSDS Team Blog

2008-09-04T15:57:00Z

If you want to catch some news around Cloud Data Services and more, bookmark this spot !!!...(read more)

AS08 on WS08 vs WS03

2008-09-03T16:10:00Z

If you ask me personally, I would very well advice you to bookmark the SQLCat Team site. Anyways, there are tons of interesting articles that get published which are fundamentally lessons from the field. Catch this technical notes on running Analysis Services 2008 on Windows Server 2008 vs Windows Server 2003 ....(read more)

Autonomous Transaction with SQL Server 2008

2008-09-01T03:57:00Z

This was an interesting post on the Programmability teams blog. I have come across a number of people asking for this feature as it works with Oracle. This blog describes one of the server options enabled with SQL Server to achieve the task. Read the blog here ....(read more)

Yearly Calendar - Using Excel

2008-08-29T18:39:00Z

Check this out that allows you to get the yearly calendar using nothing more than a mere Excel file :) ... Download it here ....(read more)

Excel from Linux

2008-08-28T12:37:00Z

Thanks to the OOXML format, we can now get all these new wonderful extensibilities. Check the Excel Blog for a post on how this can be achieved....(read more)

ExtremeExperts: Security - Part II

2008-08-28T03:19:00Z

I just finished writing the Part II on Security with SQL Server 2005. Though the concepts are very much the same when it comes to SQL 2008, I might want to write a separate post where I will try to discuss the changes. Anyways, do drop your comments for the article ....(read more)

IIS7 - UrlScan v3.0 RTW Released

2008-08-27T04:27:00Z

Yes - This is finally out after about 2 months in Beta state. This was introduced to combat the SQL injection with URL parameters. Check this space on IIS.Net for more info....(read more)

DataMining in the Cloud

2008-08-26T16:20:00Z

Once this does happen, this will be exciting. Trust me !!! I have been using the Table Analysis from the Excel Add-in and whenever I have showcased them, people have just loved it. Catch this space for specifics....(read more)

Feedback - IIS & ASP.NET

2008-08-25T13:53:00Z

Do you have a feedback or a feature request, here is your opportunity to give the same via Tom's ASP.NET Debugging blog here . I think each and every request of yours count....(read more)

Partitioned Tables - SQL 2008

2008-08-23T04:41:00Z

Craig has a couple of post on SQL Server 2008 Partitioned tables and Partitioned Indexes . Most interesting is the way Criag uses the ShowXMLPlan to explain the concepts. I sort of like this approach and is easy when writing articles. Earlier I used to have difficulty using the Execution Plan snapshot to explain the same ... Thanks Criag for the Tip :) ......(read more)

Entity Framework RTM - Changes

2008-08-22T16:33:00Z

The ADO.NET team writes about some of the breaking changes as we hit the RTM. Read the blog here . And the post on updated product samples are listed here ....(read more)

Live Mesh - in India NOW !!!

2008-08-20T03:54:00Z

After expanding to UK, Australia and New Zealand now Live Mesh Technical Preview now is expanded to India too. Read the post from Amit here . If you are interested in reading more about it, catch some posts here . And once you got your hands to this, check out the forums for some help in case of problems ... Surely this is going to become interesting now ......(read more)

Beyond Photosynth++

2008-08-19T09:16:00Z

This is really really cool stuff and mind blowing in the real sense. Watch this video to find was really photosynth a cool technology, nope this stuff is the ultimate ......(read more)

Tools for Agility – A White Paper by Kent Beck

2008-08-18T03:36:00Z

In this white paper, Kent Beck share his thoughts on the relationship between tools and agile software development. Agile development seeks to increase the value of software development by increasing the feedback available to customers and developers. Some of the feedback comes from more frequent releases to production, some from more frequent testing, some from more frequent software builds, and some from social structures that encourage conversation and dialog. A decrease in cycle time implies...(read more)