Vinod Kumar Mindmap : ITPro

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)

Extending Life of your Computer - Tips

vinodkumar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:28:00 GMT

Recently, I have had the opportunity to replace my home laptop and one of my demo Laptops because of different reasons. I have been a bit relaxed on maintaining these laptops and hence the headaches followed and some resolution had to be made. Now that...(read more)

SQLCAT Articles – SQL 2008

vinodkumar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:29:00 GMT

The SQL Server Customer Advisory Team handles tons and tons of large deployments and they try to go ahead and document all their findings for the benefit of the larger community. Their whitepapers are generally loaded with loads of information that I...(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)

ZoomIT V4.0 from SysInternals

vinodkumar — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:08:22 GMT

I do a lot of these presentations and many times I use some zomming tools to show the code and explain the concepts. And a number of times people have come back to me asking what that tool was … No rocket science :) … I have been using ZoomIT from Sysinternals...(read more)

Springboard Virtual Roundtable - Sept 24 - Windows 7 AppCompat Part 2: Virtualization

vinodkumar — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:36:00 GMT

This session comes directly from the heart of the most respected person on the planet for me "Mark Russinovich". No one can talk as authentic and as deep technical than this man. Dont miss the action as you are sure to get lot of fireworks and...(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)

Interop bridge for PHP developers to .NET - PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services

vinodkumar — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:55:00 GMT

Microsoft is releasing the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services which makes it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of ADO.NET Data Services, a set of features recently added to the .NET Framework. ADO.NET Data Services offer a simple way to expose...(read more)

Win7 Upgrade Paths

vinodkumar — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:59:00 GMT

This document outlines what all are the supported upgrade paths available when considering to move to Windows 7. Download it here ....(read more)