September 2008 - Posts
I attended the second batch of SQL Server application compatibility labs at the New York City MTC. The labs provided a great opportunity to test the compatibility of applications with the released SQL 2008 Server. The ISVs that participated in the
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Scott Guthrie has announced on his blog entry, jQuery and Microsoft , jQuery library will ship as part of Visual Studio . jQuery JavaScript library will be distributed as-is, and without forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The
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In recognition of the need to provide a more integrated version of Visual Studio for Software- and Database-Developers, Visual Studio 10 will combine the two versions into one. This means that by default, the Visual Studio Developer edition will also
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The first release candidate for Silverlight 2 has been posted. The release updates tool support for Visual Studio and Expression Blend. There are some breaking changes between Beta2 release and this release candiate. The end-user edition has not been
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After looking into the new features of WPF in .NET 3.5 SP1, I will highlight the new features for data access in this post. In short, there were great improvements and additions to ADO.NET in the service pack. Specifically the introduction of the ADO.NET
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A two-day workshop is planned around the Document Interoperability Initiative (DII). The goal is to share information with the developer community and solicit feedback on how we can work together to improve interoperability. The workshop includes presentations
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At Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC2008), you’ll hear two primary themes resonating throughout the conference: Software+Services and Windows 7. Tim Sneath explains What You’ll Hear at PDC2008 in his blog, "It’s been three years since
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I was looking into .NET 3.5 SP1 for a while now and I was, still am, pretty excited about all the new stuff that is in there for developers such as the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services, and support for SQL 2008's new features. One area
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Windows HPC Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing (RTM). HPC 2008 is the second release of our integrated high performance computing (HPC) offering and a major step forward along our long term vision of making HPC an effective and seamless tool
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The Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 8 Beta simplifies the creation, deployment and management of customized Windows Internet Explorer 8 packages. IEAK 8 can be used to configure the out-of-box Internet Explorer 8 experience for your users
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Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) has been released to manufacturing (RTM) with general availability on November 12 according to the team blog: The Essential Business Server Team Blog . The EBS brings Windows Server and related technologies to medium-size
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Hi everyone. Jared Bienz and I picking up the Xaml flag this year and hitting the road. We'll be hosting events called "XamlFests" around the US, and you're invited. Our first event will be in Houston on 10/6 + 10/7 - complete details appear below. Hope
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The Seinfeld/Bill Gates Ads served as an icebreaker in a conversation about Windows. Now the campaign goes into the next phase. Ads tonight in the United States promote a new Windows tagline that communicates what Windows is all about — Life Without Walls
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Great article on how Microsoft, Cray and Intel have teamed up for cheaper supercomputers. Cray has announced its first supercomputer that runs on the Windows HPC Server 2008 (HPCS) operating system. The low-cost machine is designed for data-intensive
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We invite you to join us for the second annual Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2008 , which will showcase market-leading Microsoft business intelligence (BI) products, solution expertise, and customer successes. The conference will be held
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The next version of Visual Studio 2008 Team System is currently referred to with the Codename "Rosario". In a series of blog posts I will explore the new features of this new release. Today, I will start with a very high level overview
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Cray Inc. has introduced the new Cray CX1 supercomputer pre-installed with Windows HPC Server 2008 . U.S. list prices start at $25,000 fits into standard office environments and workflows. The new product is expected to drive high productivity computing
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Windows Driver Developer Conference (DDC) provides an opportunity for expert driver developers to gain deep, technical insight into the driver framework and tools for producing high-quality drivers. The focus for 2008 is on key operating system concepts
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I've been spending a lot of time of late on Windows Client technologies (Native Windows, WPF, Silveright, and IE8), and have been thinking about some not-so-obvious scenarios where these could be applied. As I started to catalogue them, I thought they
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Well, a lot has happened since my last post in this series... First and foremost, SQL Server 2008 has shipped! It's great to have our geospatial database in production now, and you can download the RTM trial bits from http://www.microsoft.com/sql , or
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While Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) was a core objective for Microsoft for many years, the decision to not use the OMG standards in the modeling tools (with exception of Visio) for developers was always a topic for heated discussion. Like in
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"Microsoft's Oslo tools and language platform is poised to push the company past .NET and into the cloud," according to an eWeek article Microsoft's Distributed Destination: Oslo . The article describes the thoughts behind Oslo and the advanced thinking
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An upcoming version of Silverlight , named Silverlight 3, will be able to play high-definition videos used in Flash and music in iTunes' AAC format. The version add to the variety of streamed HD video and high-fidelity music that broadcasters are expected
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I was reading through my latest issue of MSDN magazine last night and came across a cool little tool that I thought I would blog about today. The tool is mentioned in the “Toolbox” section of the magazine, which happens to be the first thing I read
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We just published over 50 new sessions on our way to over 200 total sessions at Professional Developers Conference in October. Learn what’s in store for the future of ASP.NET. Have some fun with XNA and game development, or go in-depth with IronRuby.
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The name of the next major release of BizTalk server has changed from BizTalk Server 2006 Release 3 to BizTalk Server 2009 to indicate that it is a major release. The new version is slated to ship during the first half of next year. BizTalk Server 2009
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The Multi Tenant Data Access (MTDA) Blueprint, part of the Software-plus-Services Blueprint program, provides guidance on writing a SQL Server based, single instance, multi-tenant data access layer. The blueprint consists of: The base blueprint that generates
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"User experience has never been a top concern when developing line-of-business (LOB) apps, but Silverlight 2 might change that," according to Anthony Lombardo who writes in Dr. Dobbs Portal. His article, Building Line-of-Business Apps with Silverlight
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Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates launched Microsoft's biggest ad campaign. The advertisements feature humorous conversations between Seinfeld and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. The initial spot made its debut during the first National Football League game
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There's been several blog postings here about how to set your web pages so they will display in Internet Explorer 8 out-of-the-box as they would have in Internet Explorer 7. The challenge is that Internet Explorer 8 renders pages in a more standards-compliant
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Scott Guthrie has announced the latest version of ASP.NET MVC in his blog posting, ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios . ASP.NET MVC now works with both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express SP1 edition. The newer version
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The September community technology preview (CTP) of F# marks an important step along the path to integrate the F# language into Visual Studio. F#, a functional programming language for the .NET platform, combines the strengths of functional programming
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Many of you might have heard of the Mojave Experiment, and some of you might have snickered at that site's use of another rich client technology. :) (In case you haven't, the Mojave Experiment documented the reactions of users to an operating system called
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