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November 2003 - Posts

Saturday, November 29, 2003 12:31 PM

China-India Top 10 Listings ...

This Chip India's article lists Top 10 Technologies to keep you updated. But surprisingly .NET is not listed among.
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Saturday, November 29, 2003 12:24 PM

MS Explains on its own defense system ...

Microsoft has published a white paper detailing some of the high-level thinking that goes into Redmond's plan to secure its own perimeter. Interesting paper to read along ...
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Thursday, November 27, 2003 5:07 PM

SQL Server 2000 Caching ...

I have been planning on this article for quite some time now. Just managed to give the final touches to the whole article. Catch my new article on “ Introduction to SQL Server 2000 Caching ” from my Personal Website. I would be delighted to get reviews
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Thursday, November 27, 2003 3:24 PM

Playing with HTTP.SYS parameters ...

HTTP.SYS is the new kernel mode http driver that ships with IIS 6.0. Can check my other post on IIS 6.0 Features listing . If you want to play around with the different parameters that it uses then you need to get into the registry. Read through the KBV
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Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:20 AM

MCSA Windows 2003 ...

I think I will stop with this blog for today ... I just came back after writing my Upgrade exam 70-292 ( Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment for an MCSA Certified on Windows 2000) for MCSA Windows 2003 ... And I cleared
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Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:09 AM

Longhorn Release Notes ...

Just is great nick and flow I suppose ... Just getting the weeks backlag ... :) ... Here is what I found about the release notes of Longhorn ... KB Article ... Interesting is the first point mentioned there. “This pre-release product uses product activation
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Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:01 AM

LIP

LIP stands for Language Interface Pack and this is a way in which major parts of the XP UI is changed to a language for which they do not yet have a full fledged MUI pack. A new LIP for Hindi has been recently released at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0db2e8f9-79c4-4625-a07a-0cc1b341be7c&displaylang=h
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Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:54 AM

Multi-Directional Tree View Control ...

Here is a cool post from Sean Gerety with an interesting idea of displaying a multi-directional Tree View control. I would be more than interested in viewing a Web Version of the same control ... A sneak preview of the same ...
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Saturday, November 22, 2003 6:03 PM

PDC Sessions Online ...

Missed the PDC sessions ... Here is the online version of the PDC downloads .... http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm These session are available for the next 6 months I suppose so go ahead and hear to the sessions you missed ...
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Friday, November 21, 2003 3:19 PM

Hotmail - Next Generation ....

Neowin Takes A Look At Next Gen Hotmail The look and feel of Hotmail changes just a bit ... I think this makes us feel to have a different theme. Take a look at some of the screen shots: Main article Hotmail Today Hotmail Inbox New Email Message
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Friday, November 21, 2003 3:17 PM

More on Whidbey and Longhorn ...

Classes obselete in Whidbey New features in C# Whidbey Rich Seeley writes Mood Indigo: A boost to programmer productivity? . A interesting thread where we see that developer productivity can improve multi-fold in the Indigo releases. Just a stat presented
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Thursday, November 20, 2003 8:24 AM

Microsoft Licenses XML Schema For Office 2003 Documents ...

I was just expecting this soon ... And it is right in front http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031117S0009 ... If you are not sure to what I am talking. Then look into the new feature of Office 2003 to store documents in an native XML format. These
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:30 PM

Next Generation Technology - Glossary

" Longhorn " (code name): The next major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system. " Avalon " (code name): Graphics presentation technologies in Windows "Longhorn" that provides a unified architecture for presenting user interface, documents
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:06 AM

Excel Data to browser ...

I seem to have caught up with the Excel fever oflate. And here are some of the most requested questions on Excel at the newsgroups. Interesting that we use Office products more that we expect the same at the Web Apps also ... 1. The simple solutions is
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:55 AM

Microsoft Never Ogled Google - Gates ...

I thought this was a true story till date. The recent news says that it is a hoax ... :( ... Read through the news published on Microsoft Watch for further details.
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Monday, November 17, 2003 8:17 PM

Why not to use @@Identity ??

Travis Laborde has a great tip on why not to use @@identity in TSQL code and use scope_identity() instead. The official Yukon web site is (also) up, with a nice intro article: Top 30 Features of SQL Server "Yukon" .
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Monday, November 17, 2003 8:09 AM

SQL Shortcut Keys ...

SQL Server Shortcut keys from the MSDN ... Bookmarks: Clear all bookmarks. CTRL-SHIFT-F2 Bookmarks: Insert or remove a bookmark (toggle). CTRL+F2 Bookmarks: Move to next bookmark. F2 Bookmarks: Move to previous bookmark. SHIFT+F2 Cancel a query. ALT+BREAK
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Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:46 AM

Longhorn, XAML and more ...

Missed the PDC event and very far off from the action place was something I had in my minds till last Saturday. I got my first chance to look at LongHorn at out India MVPs - Advocates Day. A short preview of how Longhorn was ... Looks cool by feel by
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Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:21 AM

Exchange Server to have Spam Filters ...

Bill Gates to announce plans to make the Exchange e-mail server better at stopping unsolicited commercial ("spam") e-mail. Interesting thread on the InfoWorld site . I hope this can get implemented soon as I am just waiting to see this kicking all the
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Friday, November 14, 2003 8:49 AM

Google ...

I've been a big fan of Google and have been using it for quite some time now ... Here is a did you know type of page for google ... Interesting statistics to know about my favourite search engine ... Just read along ...
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Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:56 PM

Excel KB Articles and INF links ...

Good set of links for Excel information ... Go on and get linked to Excel ... :) ... General --------- Q257819 HOWTO: Use ADO with Excel Data from Visual Basic or VBA http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q257819 Q303814 HOWTO: Use ADOX
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Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:55 AM

More on C# and VB .NET ...

Marc Millers post on “New in C#” ... Interesting looong post ... Maxim's post on Delegates in VB.NET . Starts from the primer level ... looks an article rather than just a post ... Its Technology first everywhere ... Happy reading ... :) ...
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Monday, November 10, 2003 4:13 PM

Gone are those days ...

A nice little forward I got today, thought to post it down to you ... Just read along and accept the facts ... :) ... Gone are the days when we used to talk for hours with our friends. Now we don't have time to say a HI. Gone are the days when we played
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Monday, November 10, 2003 11:00 AM

India MVP's Day ...

It was a great experience to have a 2 day fun with all the MVP's from India getting together and we the people from bangalore playing the Hosts ... :) ... I will post another thread with all the experience but here is a starter with MVP's who Blog ...
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Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:27 AM

Take a break and Enjoy ...

Came across these poems. Wow!! Beautiful...Hope you all enjoy the way I enjoyed them. http://www.oriahmountaindreamer.com/Books.html#pcall Just read through the Invitation also ...
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Saturday, November 01, 2003 5:16 PM

PDC Links ...

Tons of interesting sites available to watch the PDC sessions and links. Here are some of the links I could collect : http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/ Session Slides : http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/agendaandsessions/sessions/default.aspx PDC
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