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Monday, February 28, 2005 8:50 AM

Winner of the Developer.com Product of the Year 2005

creating and marketing utilities aimed at developers a profitable thing to do! Without further ado, here are the finalists in this category: Altova MapForce 2005 Altova XMLSpy 2005 EazyCode Firefox And the winner is .... Read it here :) ... Would have
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Monday, February 28, 2005 8:41 AM

Formal Tools for Securing Web Services

A beauty collection on this topic from MS research site. has whitepapers, resources, tech talks and tools. Read the same here ...
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Monday, February 28, 2005 8:37 AM

FIX: A deadlock condition occurs when you perform an UPDATE or a DELETE

How bizarre can a bug can get ... Interesting and a new post KB(831537) on the same ...
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Friday, February 25, 2005 5:11 PM

RSS Feed with SMS alerting facility

How creative can someone become ... See this for yourself ...
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Friday, February 25, 2005 4:26 PM

Data Mining Reloaded

Alexei Bocharov and Jesper Lind talk on "What's new for data mining in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services", read the complete topic at Data Mining Reloaded .
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Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:04 PM

Converting Windows to Linux

Wanna check this out !!! Very funny ...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:07 PM

How to fry an egg on an XP !!!

Wanna try this at home !!! I bet you wont want to ... See it for yourself ...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 12:43 PM

SQL Server for Developers: The Perils of Fiber Mode

Ken Henderson explains the effects that SQL Server fiber mode coupled with the User Mode Scheduler component can have on your system, and what to consider carefully before enabling fiber mode. Read the complete MSDN article .
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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:58 AM

An Extensive Examination of Data Structures Using C# 2.0

Read the complete series and more to come on this topic. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:48 PM

Study: IE continues to lose market share

Microsoft Corp.'s share of the browser market has continued to slip, according to a new study, indicating continued momentum for users switching to Internet Explorer alternatives. Recent reports state this ... But it is still holds 90% of the market ...
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Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:54 AM

Software GreenHouse: For mobile and embedded Users

Software GreenHouse is a joint effort of Microsoft India and Cynapse aimed at developers who want to develop mobile and embedded applications using the latest Microsoft Mobile technologies and platforms. Very similar to any reality show on television,
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:43 AM

IE7 at the horizon ...

Bill Gates talked about Internet Explorer 7 at the RSA. The complete Press release version is here ... More about this at the IEBlog ... “First, some basics: we’re committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:27 PM

Tradeoffs between XML and CLR UDTs for storing complex data

Kent Tegels discusses this in his SQL CLR and XML: Saw the woman in two carefully ... A nice read and an interesting one too ...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:12 PM

Process Explorer V9.0

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. Tooo good to be free though ... Read more here ...
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Monday, February 14, 2005 4:55 PM

How to download Microsoft Webcasts

Georgeo Pulikkathara Points to the way we can download the MS streaming webcasts ... Read it here ...
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Monday, February 14, 2005 4:29 PM

Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET

The new Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET is a tightly integrated "Add-in" for Visual Studio .NET that brings the power of the Oracle Database to .NET developers! Designed to be completely intuitive for database developers, your productivity
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Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:16 PM

Roundtable with Lori Moore

Check the snap ... Yesterday I had a chance to chat with Lori Moore (Vice President, Product Support Services). It’s always fun to have her around. Collecting feedback from the MVP's on the MVP program and is patient listening to all our complaints
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:09 AM

Windows Mobile articles

How to Create a Database Browser Application for Pocket PC in C# by Using Visual Studio .NET 2003 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppc2k3/html/intro_winmobile_csharp.asp?frame=true Article Summary : The objective of this
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:16 AM

Google India Code Jam 2005

Want to give it a crack with Java or C++ ... Prizes worth 3,00,000Rs. Read it here ...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:02 AM

New Patterns Site Launched

The Patterns and Practices group at Microsoft has just published a site for sharing patterns called PatternShare.org . The site already contains the patterns of noted authors such as Martin Fowler, GOF, Gregor Hohpe and others ...
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:30 PM

Monitor Your .NET Applications with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

Learn about Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 architecture and create custom management packs for your .NET-based applications. Cool article on the MSDN ...
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:26 PM

My Blog Map

Here I am from Bangalore, India :)
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:06 PM

About Google and beyond to 2014

This is an amazing 8 minute video ... Hear what EPIC is all about ... I dont know how far this is going to be true ... MS will be hearing this for sure ... Hear to the video ... @ the Museum of Media History ...
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:40 PM

Links to ExtremeExperts

I know this is always exciting to see people put your sites link on theirs ... So I just did a google on for my site's links and here are some of the pointers ... http://www.sqlservermagazine.com/content/UDFbyExample.html http://asia.cnet.com/itmanager/netadmin/0,39006400,39182415,00.htm
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:22 PM

Latest on ExtremeExperts

1. Deadlock Detection in SQL Server 2005 2. Snapshot Isolation in SQL Server 2005 Comments welcome !!!
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:20 PM

QueryCommander ...

QueryCommander is a free sql editor wrapped in a Visual Studio type of environment. QueryCommander supports: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (YUKON) Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 MySQL 4.x Oracle 9i (the "edit-in-grid" functionality is
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:55 PM

Tips for doing effective Presentations

Here is an amazing set of tips for effective presentation from Microsoft Regional Director, Venkatarangan. I have not seen his presentations in person, but have had chance to meet him and talk in brief during the tech ed timeframe. Anyways, here is the
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Monday, February 07, 2005 9:14 AM

A First Look at IIS 7.0

Catch some of the items lined up for IIS 7.0 ... There is some information in the public now ... Read it on FTPOnline ....
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Monday, February 07, 2005 9:04 AM

Microsoft Announces Simulation Question

“Performance-based questions, which test candidates' hands-on skills, will slowly be substituted for some of the questions on exams already available, first with exams 70-290, Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment, and 70-291,
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Monday, February 07, 2005 9:01 AM

BizTalk roadmap ...

Read this article on ComputerWorld .
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Monday, February 07, 2005 8:51 AM

Analysis Services 2000 vs 2005 ...

This presentation prepared by Jaimie Basilico and Mark Frawley. Gives a start to people who know Analysis services in 2000 and want to explore 2005 ... Download the presentation ...
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:09 PM

ADO.NET Express

ADO.NET Express is an add-in for Visual Studio 2003 that automates common tasks of writing repetitive data access code. ADO.NET Express generates class methods for calling stored procedures and executing common types of SQL statements . Read more about
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:06 PM

Look2Skype ...

A plugin to integrate Outlook with Skype. Download it here ...
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 10:04 PM

Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 SP1 for Microsoft .NET

Web Services Enhancements 2.0 SP1 for Microsoft® .NET (WSE) is a supported add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework that enables developers to build secure Web services based on the latest Web services protocol
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:57 PM

Microsoft to Implement Worldwide Anti-Piracy Initiative

In 2005, Microsoft Corp. plans to enhance its anti-piracy engineering, education and enforcement efforts by expanding the Windows® Genuine Advantage program. Windows Genuine Advantage checks the authenticity of a user's software and provides access
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Friday, February 04, 2005 5:00 PM

600+ icons and images with Visual Studio 2005 Beta2

Read this post from Soma on defining and organizing new image resource collection to be shipped with the new version. Read the complete post .
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Friday, February 04, 2005 4:47 PM

VPC Crashes and closes ...

This is a very strange experience that I thought might be worth sharing here on my blog. I run VPC 2004 with SP1 on my T42 laptop. I have Whidbey-Yukon combination VPC image. Two days back it just crashed when I took my laptop for a meeting. On reload,
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Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:52 PM

Indic developer challenge

BhashaIndia is conducting a software development contest for students. The details are available at http://www.bhashaindia.com/Contests/IDC/index.aspx Offlate I've seen there are lots of competition for student community. It revolves around the fact that
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Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:51 PM

Interview with Sean O'Driscoll, Global Director: Product Support Services and Community

Read the complete interview on ActiveWin ...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:45 PM

Data Access Technologies Road Map

Learn about the past, present, and future of the Microsoft data access technologies on MSDN ...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:52 AM

Lets implement MSN Search

Now search your site/ blog entries easily. Look at this post from Scott using MSN Search ...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:42 AM

MSN Newsroom - MSN Search Launched

MSN Launches New Internet Search Service Designed to Give More ... Read the press report on the search engine ...
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:02 PM

IIS Reporter

.NET application that allows for a quick view of IIS resources on a web server. I developed this little app to let me see how many active users were on a machine before an iisreset. A gotdotnet project ... View it here ...
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:00 PM

Mvp.Xml library v1.0 released

Mvp.Xml project is developed by Microsoft MVPs in XML technologies and XML Web Services worldwide. It is aimed at supplementing .NET framework functionality available through the System.Xml namespace and related namespaces such as System.Web.Services
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:58 PM

Did you know - Scriptomatic 2.0

Utility that helps you write WMI scripts for system administration. Unlike its predecessor, Scriptomatic 2.0 isn’t limited to writing just VBScript scripts; instead, Scriptomatic 2.0 can write scripts in Perl, Python, or JScript as well. Interestingly
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