Vinod Kumar Mindmap : .NET

InterOp on Windows Azure

vinodkumar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:37:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 - CTP

vinodkumar — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:38:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Free useful Tech-Books

vinodkumar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

IronRuby and IronPython CTPs for .NET 4.0 Beta 2

vinodkumar — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:21:00 GMT

Now to continue from what I posted in my last post around the VS2010 and .NET Beta 2 update, here is another. This is the third preview of IronRuby and IronPython running under the Dynamic Language Runtime that is built directly into .NET 4.0. As before...(read more)

VS 2010, .NET 4.0 Beta2 & Channel 9

vinodkumar — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:45:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PowerPivot for Excel 2010

vinodkumar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:26:00 GMT

I just installed the internal Beta of Office 2010 and couldn’t wait to see this new add-in working. PowerPivot for Excel is a data analysis tool that delivers unmatched computational power directly within the application users already know and love—Microsoft...(read more)

IIS Media Services 3.0 is RTW

vinodkumar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:48:00 GMT

IIS Media Services is a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform. This includes the new IIS Live Smooth Streaming and the separate IIS Advanced Logging package. Also with...(read more)

Two System Center Beta’s

vinodkumar — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:15:00 GMT

System Center Essentials 2010 PM blog - http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenteressentials/archive/2009/09/29/sce-2010-public-beta-is-here.aspx www.microsoft.com/SCE SCE 2010 is designed specifically for mid-sized organizations and delivers a unified physical...(read more)

Web Application Toolkits – V1.0

vinodkumar — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT

I think we maybe a bit late to talk about these, nevertheless it is worth mentioning. Recently a week back MS launched the WebsiteSpark initiative and this surely has brought all the buzz in the web world and it surely is catching some spark in a number...(read more)

MapPoint Add-in for SQL Server 2008

vinodkumar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:35:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Visual Web Developer Express Videos

vinodkumar — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:53:00 GMT

Using Express edition is something I recommend a lot in my sessions. But a number of times people ask do we really have easy to learn videos … Well, with all the web-technologies hype here are a number of too good video’s that you can use...(read more)

Service Broker – Bookmarker

vinodkumar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:48:00 GMT

Since SQL Server 2005 this feature of Service Broker has been in the outside world but in my opinion is an underutilized feature. In SQL Server 2008 the capabilities atleast from a UI has been addressed partially via the Management Studio which was one...(read more)

Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP - Beta release

vinodkumar — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:40:00 GMT

Today IIS team has released the beta of the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP . The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator , which is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows operating systems. Any PHP application...(read more)

Releases from P&P in 2009

vinodkumar — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:48:00 GMT

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...(read more)

SQL Server StreamInsight and SQL Azure Database CTP

vinodkumar — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:32:00 GMT

With this announcement close to a week, I am yet to log this into our blog J . There are tons of interesting blogs that point to SQL Server StreamInsight and SQL Azure Database CTP. You can read the official announcement at the Data Platform Blog . SQL...(read more)