August 2008 - Posts
The next beta for Internet Explorer has been released for broad distribution to the public, according to the IEBlog team entry Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available . You’ll find versions for 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows
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Developers will be interested to learn more about how to create highly-scalable distributed compute-intensive solutions in a series of Webcasts about Windows HPC Server 2008. Webcasts are presented both morning and evening for developers and architects.
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Know of a college or high school that might want to teach developer, designer skills? MSDN Academic Alliance is the easiest and most inexpensive way for students and faculty in the technology and design fields to get the latest Microsoft software they
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Photosynth wowed audiences a couple years ago when we showed how a set of photos can be stitched together electronically to create a virtual walkthrough. Now, Photosynth has been expanded so you can create a synth of your own. Photosynth provides a new
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Technical professionals can better connect with each other, share knowledge, and succeed using social bookmarking on MSDN , TechNet , CodePlex , and Expression . The idea is to share and see the bookmarks that others share. Social bookmarking was first
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Studies in 2006 showed that nearly 1/3 of the software installed on machines worldwide was obtained illegally. More recent studies show upwards of $40 billion in lost software sales. These figures can be grim for ISVs, especially ones that don't have
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Here's a handy resource that describes the compatibility issue IE8 could cause for web sites targeting IE7 and the steps they would need to take to resolve those issues. You can find it at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952030 For more information
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Consultant David Chappell has released a Microsoft-sponsored paper that provides a glimpse into the view for enterprises in the cloud platforms. The paper describes what the cloud platform is saying, "this kind of platform lets developers write applications
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Windows Server Division has named the next server Windows Server 2008 R2 . The release would be a "minor" or Update release. In a blog posting, Windows Server '7' aka "Windows Server 2008 R2" , the team announced that the plan of keeping with a two-year
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Due to popular demand, the PDC2008 Early Bird Discount for Platform Developers Conference (PDC) has been extended three weeks. Register by 11:59 PM Pacific Time, Monday, September 8th and save $200 off the full conference registration. For more information
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Interested in learning more about Windows Mobile and Windows CE ? You can ask the experts at the monthly chats . Scroll down the list to find the next Windows Mobile and Windows CE focused chats. The Windows Mobile focused dev chat is typically
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For times when Windows CE or Windows Mobile is just too processor intensive, takes too much power, or needs to much memory, you use the .NET Micro Framework , formerly known as SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology). The .NET Micro Framework is in verion
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Developers will get the first look at the details in the upcoming client OS, currently named Windows 7, at Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October and Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) the following week. PDC is set for Oct.
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Come join the first open developer conference focused on Visual Studio extensibility . The Microsoft VSX Developer Conference is September 15 -16 in Redmond, Washington. Whether beginner or expert, you’ll learn tips and tricks, best practices, and meet
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Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default. Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability allows
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The Professional Developer Conference (PDC) agenda will feature sessions on software modeling, agile development, cloud computing, Silverlight and a whole lot more. Information Week has a great article that pulls together the topics entitiled What to
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The .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, demos, and event materials. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the .NET 3.5 Enhancement features including: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data,
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Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is not a traditional service pack, which usually consists of bug fixes and performance improvements. This service pack contains new features to help in your ongoing development efforts,
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CodePlex celebrates two years old. codeplex.com is the Microsoft community development site where open source projects are posted. Codeplex receives more than one million unique visitors per month and has more than 5,000 projects posted, according to
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Problem: You want to share your OneNote notepad on multiple computers, i.e. your home desktop and your work laptop and they do not have mutual access to a shared drive, etc... Solution: Create a OneNote notebook in your "My Sharing" (or
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This document outlines the future direction of Microsoft Dynamics CRM through to the next major release, Microsoft Dynamics CRM “V.Next”. You can access this document using this url assuming you have Partnersource access. https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/marketing/statementofdirection/MD_CRM_SOD.htm
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I was working with guidance packages based on the GAT/GAX ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905334.aspx ) implementation of the Microsoft patterns & practices group for some time and I actually got to like them. It was a neat way to provide
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Now that SQL Server has shipped, you can now download trial versions of SQL Server 2008 . Download a free, fully functional 180-day trial version of SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack today. To help make the most of your evaluation, you
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SQL Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. SQL Server 2008 is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers and will be available for evaluation download on Aug. 7, 2008. SQL Server 2008 Express and SQL Server Compact editions are available for
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Silverlight Geek Jesse Liberty has a series of webcasts on Silverlight 2 for developers. Liberty is a Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Silverlight Developer Community Team. Click the links to register. August 6 Memory efficient multi-page applications
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For ISVs testing Internet Explorer 8 , the team has set up a way to file bugs directly with the team. To do so, be part of the IE8 Technical Beta program on Microsoft Connect . Registration is required to join Connect. In a blog posting, Wanted: IE8 Beta
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The installed base of 64-bit Windows Vista PCs, as a percentage of all Windows Vista systems, has more than tripled in the U.S. in the last three months according to a blog posted by the Windows Vista team . Chris Flores posted the comment in a blog entry,
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