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January 2004 - Posts

Saturday, January 31, 2004 3:00 PM

Microsoft's security response regarding the "Mydoom" virus ...

W32/Mydoom@MM spreads through e-mail. This worm can disguise the sender's address, a tactic known as spoofing, and may generate e-mails that appear to have been sent by Microsoft. Many of the addresses Mydoom uses are valid addresses that are being spoofed
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Saturday, January 31, 2004 2:16 PM

Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map ...

This article identifies the Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.0 or 1.1 APIs that provide similar functionality to Microsoft Win32 functions. One or more relevant .NET Framework APIs are shown for each Win32 function listed. The intended audience for
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Friday, January 30, 2004 8:49 AM

Longhorn Developer SDK's ...

Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/support/lhdevfaq/default.aspx
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Friday, January 30, 2004 8:06 AM

Venus - ASP .NET 2.0 ...

Some info on Venus from John . Now we get to see the code blocks of the same ...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:01 AM

All about Pi ...

Pi is a number that has been fascinating people all around the word ... And I just landed to this site that talks about the various facts about Pi ... Look at http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~roy/upi/pi.html for more info. The site contains : First 50,000
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:06 PM

MSN Toolbar Beta ...

From John Porcaro ... Check out from http://toolbar.msn.com/ . Looks more like the google toolbar idea ...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:03 PM

Chinese company to challenge Microsoft's Office ...

Little-known Chinese software maker Evermore Software next month plans to step up its challenge to Microsoft's Office dominance with the release of its Evermore Integrated Office 2004. I doesn;t look like staroffice or openoffice sources say ... Catch
Posted by vinodkumar | 1 Comments
Saturday, January 24, 2004 2:33 PM

Microsoft's Mike Rowe settlement ...

Microsoft has reached an agreement with Mike Rowe, who was using the Web site mikerowesoft.com . Here are the details in exchange for Mike turning over the mikerowesoft.com domain to Microsoft, the company has: Agreed to help direct any traffic from mikerowesoft.com
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Friday, January 23, 2004 8:03 AM

Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine Tools ...

This is one of the FAQ asked at the newsgroups. Are there any tools for grab for the MSDE version. We all must accept and read the EULA before using tools like Query Analyzer to access MSDE. Here is a third party tools set made specifically for this ...
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Friday, January 23, 2004 7:56 AM

Versioning Controlled Build ... Code project article ...

Add-in for VS .NET that lets you set all project versions in a solution from one interface. Catch the article ...
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Friday, January 23, 2004 7:50 AM

SQL Server Books Online January 2004 Update ...

Download the updated documentation for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 . SQL Server Books Online January 2004 Update, includes the complete documentation that shipped with SQL Server 2000 plus revisions. Microsoft teams can learn tons from the dedicated MS
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:32 AM

IIT-KGP Annual online programming contest ...

Bitwise, the annual online programming contest organized by the Computer Science & Engg. Department Society, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, is being conducted this year on Sunday, the 8th of February. Bitwise is an algorithm intensive
Posted by vinodkumar | 2 Comments
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:39 AM

TheServerSide.NET ...

A cool neat site from MS, DevelopMentor and others ... Articles and tech talks from Scott on ASP.NET, Don Box on Indigo etc ... Keep watching threads on this site ... Scott Guthrie on ASP.NET "Whidbey" Don Box on Indigo A Lesson In Forms Authentication
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:51 PM

Microsoft vs. Mikerowesoft ... Interesting thread ...

Mike Rowe knew he needed a catchy name for his Web site design company. " Since my name is Mike Rowe, I thought it would be funny to add 'soft' to the end of it " said Rowe, a 17-year-old computer geek and Grade 12 student in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:33 PM

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer v1.2 (for IT Professionals)

MBSA runs on Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, and Windows XP systems and will scan for common security misconfigurations in the following products: Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Server 2003 Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0, 5.0,
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:56 AM

Improving .NET Applications Performance and Scalability

Nice presentation by Srinath on Architecting and Designing for performance and scalability, implementing highly scalable and performing solutions (in ASP.NET, Web Service, Remoting, Enterprise Services, Data Access), Testing (Load, Capacity and Stress)
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:50 AM

Interesting VS Keyboard Shortcut

When in a code window for VS, you can go full screen, hiding all the other windows, toolbars, title bars, start bar, output window, intermediate window etc. Looks same as IE has when it's in "Full Screen" mode. SHIFT + ALT + ENTER = Toggle Full Screen
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Saturday, January 17, 2004 10:28 AM

Google adds number search tool ...

Google Inc. added more weapons to its query cache, rolling out tools that allow users to access travel updates and search by numbers for information on shipment tracking, patents and vehicle identification, for example. Catch the story ...
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Friday, January 16, 2004 8:12 AM

64 Bit versions the future ...

Catch Ingo Rammer explaining how we have hit the 32 bit applications limit with our current set of applications and the future looks more towards the 64 bit versions only ( Hitting 32bits ). “you are pretty much hitting a 2 GB pagefile quicker than you
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Friday, January 16, 2004 7:58 AM

Demystify GAC ...

Nice article at Code Project updated recently. Catch the article . INFO: How to Display an Assembly in the Add Reference Dialog Box in VS http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;306149 The article above INFO article only relates to Visual
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Friday, January 16, 2004 7:32 AM

Longhorn Video ...

Watch a video demonstration done to connect all the participants in commercial real estate transactions. See how we envision using Longhorn technology to coordinate end-to-end business processes across organizations. Catch it at resolutions 320x240 ,
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:29 PM

Patch day - 13th Jan ...

MS was in full mood to release a set of interesting patches ... I realize many administrators do keep a watch and tap on the same. But I just thought to pen down these for the benifit of others ... ISA Server: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/isajan04.asp
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:33 AM

Support for Windows 98 extended ...

Microsoft blinked, and Windows 98, 98SE, and ME are now supported until the middle of 2006. AFAIK, Office 97 support is still being dropped . This is a big news for product vendors as they need to support their softwares on the 98 setup's also till 2006
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:01 AM

Projects/Assemblies Dependencies Viewers ...

Project/Assemblies Dependencies Viewer - Sort of a depends.exe for .NET applications. Tool available from the very known Code Project site ...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:00 AM

SQL Tuning Interview with Dan Tow ...

An interview with Dan Tow, the author of O'Reilly's SQL Tuning book ... Interesting points mentioned. An overview but surely some interesting points on the thread.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:51 AM

Yukon to debut in India by end of Jan

I think this is a great great news for the Indian community. The official report says the next generation of Database is going to release end of this Jan in India. For once a public Beta reaching India on time ... :) ...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:49 AM

Raj into Blogging ...

Raj Chaudhuri has started blogging using his own blogger engine in VB.NET. Catch blog live ... :) ...
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Monday, January 12, 2004 6:18 PM

Yahoo Drops Google as Search Engine

Catch this strange story , first time I've heard that yahoo uses google for the search engine internally ...
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Monday, January 12, 2004 6:15 PM

All abt InterOp ...

A complete site dedicated for InterOP ... Catch the site of MVP Mattias Sjorgren . A cool site ...
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Monday, January 12, 2004 6:10 PM

MSDN TV: Click Once

ClickOnce is the install-on-demand technology for Longhorn, but makes it's debut in the next version of the .NET Framework, codename "Whidbey." Hear Jamie Cool from the Windows Forms team introduce the technology , he first built in prototype form as
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Monday, January 12, 2004 6:04 PM

Migration Assistant ...

Microsoft is testing a number of Beta Migration assistant tools ... Each for languages like ASP, JSP and PHP. Catch the complete set at asp.net migration page ...
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Friday, January 09, 2004 8:51 AM

Quote for the day ...

I feel the pinch and realize the meaning on these strong words ... “In the last ten years we have encountered quite a few C++ projects that fell far short of their required performance. At the heart of those performance failures was a design and an implementation
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Thursday, January 08, 2004 6:30 PM

IL Merger ...

Free tool to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly, from Microsoft Research. Download the same ...
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Thursday, January 08, 2004 6:27 PM

Office 2004 Screenshots ...

Catch some glimpses of Office 2004 for Mac. Interesting surely and the UI looks really really jazzy ... I think we can start expecting something on these lines for the Office 2004 for Windows also ... :) ... Catch the complete 10 pictures from activewin
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Tuesday, January 06, 2004 1:34 PM

Don't Do this !!!

Catch this news on CNN ... What boredom can do to three German teens ... Thet spent 130 million Euro's and all under the name of boredom ... Whew ... Weird ... Catch this news ...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:34 AM

MS SQL Server Reporting Services Lauch

I think this has been on the hot news for quite sometime now. And catch the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Online Launch Web Cast on Jan 27th 9-11am Pacific Standard Time. Register for the same if you want to get a sneak preview of the reporting
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Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:35 AM

Microsoft: What's in Store for 2004?

Catch Mary Jo at microsoft-watch.com as she makes a guess on the technology stack to be released from MS in the year 2004. Catch the complete thread ...
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Tuesday, January 06, 2004 7:53 AM

Microsoft Plans Office 2003 Service Pack for May ...

Just when the product gets launched we get the news about its SP. Yes there are host of bugs that are targetted to be fixed on Office 2003 SP1. Catch the complete news ...
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Monday, January 05, 2004 8:16 AM

ASP.NET, Response.Write and Response.Output.Write - know the difference

Hanselman points out the difference in using Response.Write and Response.Output.Write ... The more we read on .NET the more interesting it gets ... I learnt something today ...
Posted by vinodkumar | 5 Comments
Monday, January 05, 2004 8:05 AM

IIS 6.0 Remote Administration ...

The more I start playing with IIS I discover new features every day. I think you can catch the list of IIS features in my previous post. But now I found that from IIS 6.0 you can do remote administration. Very very interesting. To enable the same, goto
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Monday, January 05, 2004 7:58 AM

"Server Event Tracking" on Windows 2003 ...

This is something I came across first when using Windows 2003. We are asked a reason when shutdown or during abnormal shutdown we are asked for a reason during startup. Nice feature ... But more often than not irritating for me atleast ... So here is
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Friday, January 02, 2004 8:05 AM

Enterprise Development Reorganized in the MSDN Library ...

Visit the newly reorganized Enterprise Development node of the MSDN Library , where you’ll find architectural guidance for enterprise systems, enterprise solutions, and Windows Server System content.
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Friday, January 02, 2004 7:46 AM

Future Version of OutLook

Scott Hanselman shares some Microsoft internal thoughts on a future e-mail threading interface. Interesting and first insight into more UI jazz and more functionality added to OutLook ... A sample UI posted by Scott ... Catch the complete story on the
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Friday, January 02, 2004 7:43 AM

MySQL 5.0 Alpha

MySQL releases its Alpha version of 5.0 with more enhanced support for Varchar and ANSI SQL-99 SP's. Catch the same .
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Thursday, January 01, 2004 8:15 AM

MSN Messenger user Alert ...

Alert to all the messenger users. There is a new virus on the open called as Jitux. Sources say the virus comes as a link on MSN and is self-propagating in nature ... It downloads a file “jituxrtramon.exe” and starts to propagate from the contact lists
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Thursday, January 01, 2004 8:11 AM

ASP .NET FTP Deployment Tool

Currently in the Beta, the ASP.NET FTP Deployment Tool is designed specifically to deploy ASP.NET Visual Studio projects from a local machines to a remote server using FTP. The same options to copy files offered from within Visual Studio using FrontPage
Posted by vinodkumar | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 01, 2004 8:06 AM

Intro to Whidbey

Catch the new article on Programmers Introduction to VS .NET “Whidbey” at the MSDN.
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Thursday, January 01, 2004 8:05 AM

Happy New Year

Thought to start the new year with a big greetings to all reading my posts. Have a great eventful, wonderful and joy filled new year 2004. Hope our dreams become reality and we achieve greater hieghts in this new year. Lets recap the past as we enjoy
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