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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 4:26 PM

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Test Toolkit V1.5

Can be downloaded MSDN Subscriber Downloads This is available in the following subscription levels: - MSDN Universal - MSDN Enterprise - MSDN Professional - MSDN Academic Alliance - Microsoft Certified Partner Interesting tool to play with for sure. It
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:47 PM

Microsoft to launch Google News rival

“ The page will let visitors create their own customized news feeds that are powered by MSN's new search technology, the company said. (Google News offers something similar, but it calls them customized alerts.) “ Read the complete story
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:49 AM

Where has he gone !!!

If you were wondering where I have been and not blogging :) ... Have been having a terrible time with flu and cold. And in a matter of fact in a weeks time there seems to be tons of announcements and I need to catchup with :) 1. Finally the much awaited
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Monday, July 19, 2004 2:24 PM

MSN® acquired Lookout Software

MSN® today announced that it has acquired Lookout Software LLC, bringing additional technology and expertise to future search efforts by MSN. Lookout offers the critically acclaimed Lookout personal search tool for the Microsoft® Office Outlook®
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Friday, July 16, 2004 7:04 PM

Sneak Preview of Office 2004

Check here http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004Demo
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Friday, July 16, 2004 9:25 AM

RUnit

I have been hearing about NUnit, ASPUnit etc at the UG meetings and other places. I just saw this new one called RUnit -Software to run NUnit test harnesses in ASP.NET applications. Interesting will need to try this out soon ...
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Friday, July 16, 2004 9:20 AM

SQL Stripes

From the high-level of monitoring essential components - to the low-level of analyzing your various databases, tables etc… Support for MSDE is also present now :). Check the features here and more info on the Freeware here .
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Thursday, July 15, 2004 2:38 PM

Are you a whiz at using Word lists?

Take this simple 10 Ques word test at MS site. Word 2003: Become a whiz at using Word lists . My score shows good :) ... You scored 7 out of 10 Avg score 5.7/10 (785 people) You clearly use Word, but you're missing out on lots it has to offer. Read the
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004 9:00 AM

Channel 9 MSDN Video Interview - Euan Garden

Channel 9 MSDN interviews Euan Garden about the next version of SQL Server, code-named Yukon. Download the files from MSDN.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:56 PM

FAQ: Win XP SP2 and SQL

I did write about this and the various hot fixes that revolve around this. Here is an FAQ on the SQL Server site about the same.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:11 AM

Windows XP SP2 Release in August

As per eWeek . The much awaited Service Pack for sure.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:10 AM

Windows Marketplace

Microsoft is working on a new shopping Web site for software, hardware, and peripherals that it plans to advertise in the Windows XP Start Menu and the Internet Explorer Web browser. Read it from pcworld . Source : Anando
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Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:25 PM

Statistics show surprising find !!!

The Micorsoft Windows application is more secure than you think, and Mac OS X is worse than you ever imagined. That is according to statistics published for the first time this week by Danish security firm Secunia. The statistics, based on a database
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Thursday, July 08, 2004 12:06 PM

Budget Session today on PC's running MS Word

Source : Soumitra Sengupta
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Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:32 AM

SecureString, Ahhh something new in Whidbey !!!

This is something new I read at Hernan's Blog . “Whidbey will be introducing a new class, SecureString, which helps to make this all easier for you. This class will address all the mentioned issues by holding an encrypted version of your data (using
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Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:29 AM

Syntax coloring in VS Studio

Another neat article on my fav site Codeproject. Catch the complete article .
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Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:25 AM

ADO.NET 2.0 Features list

Catch this article from Bob at the MSDN .
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Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:23 AM

Disabling Protocols in SQL Server

Here is the challenge and solution from UC at the winnetmag. Diabling protocols ...
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Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:18 AM

Mono 1.0 Released

Miguel de Icaza's Mono 1.0, is out . “Mono includes a C# compiler, a .Net-compatible runtime and two stacks of APIs (application programming interfaces). The first stack is a Mono stack that takes advantage of Linux; the other is compatible with
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Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:12 AM

Microsoft plans in $1B in cost cuts

Read the news on CNN Eweek .
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Monday, July 05, 2004 5:18 PM

MIIS Product Site

Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) Product Site The MIIS product site aligns MIIS with the Windows Server System for the first time. Prior to this project, MIIS and the Identity Integration Feature Pack resided on a technology center on the
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Monday, July 05, 2004 5:15 PM

Update your Servers

This is a new vulnarability with ADODB.stream method call when embedded inside IE. Read the KB article for complete details.
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Monday, July 05, 2004 4:49 PM

MSN's new search technology

Catch the same here . Just test the same. Looks like a neat work.
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