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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:04 PM

Detect if your program is running inside a Virtual Machine

Another interesting C++ project on my favourite site CodeProject . Read it here ...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:02 PM

Help Publisher for FrontPage

With this 3rd party FrontPage add-in, you can create full-featured HTML help files as easily as making a Web site. Help Publisher can produce HTML Help 1.x and MS Help 2.0 format help files as well as publishing help topics to Microsoft Word for proofreading
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Monday, March 28, 2005 1:44 PM

VSTS Pricing and Licensing

This is an interesting read for me. It clearly outlines how the components of the VSTS bars are getting sold. Interesting thing was, even though VSTS looks like a single bundled software I see its potential only when it is used end-to-end in a system.
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Monday, March 28, 2005 1:27 PM

Webcasts: SQL Server 2005

This April there are a series of webcasts on SQL Server 2005 that you might want to bookmark. Check the webcasts listing here ...
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 5:14 PM

Error: Installing Feb CTP Build (Version: 2000.90.1090.0)

Today I was trying to install the SQL Server 2005 Feb CTP build on my Windows 2003 Server on a VPC environment. But the setup keeps failing stating: “Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 CTP setup support files. Then the setup program produces the
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:22 AM

New Tricks in ADO.NET 2.0

The Microsoft ® .NET Framework 2.0 delivers an updated ADO.NET that will streamline your data access development efforts. The ADO.NET team has worked with both the System.Xml team and the SQL Server ™ team to provide a consistently rich developer
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Thursday, March 24, 2005 11:19 AM

Vote your Favourite MVP !!!

An interesting poll going on for the Indian MVP community, wherein you can select the facourite MVP in your town who has helped you in one way or the other. Now that being one part of the story, there is a chance to win some cool Swiss Army Watches too
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Monday, March 21, 2005 9:42 AM

Live Meeting 2005 Document: Live Meeting 2005 API Reference Guide

This API Reference Guide is intended for engineers, developers, and programmers who will design, implement, and test software that uses the Live Meeting 2005 API. Download it from MSDN.
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Monday, March 21, 2005 9:34 AM

Information Bridge Framework

“The Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework is a set of tools and technologies that use these capabilities to extend the Microsoft Office System, enabling information workers to view and act on business data from within the familiar Microsoft
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Monday, March 21, 2005 9:28 AM

Expanding - Windows XP Media Center Edition

Hmmm ... This seems to be a hot news off late. How featuring 20 additional markets. Includes India too ;) ... Read the Press release here ...
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Friday, March 18, 2005 3:27 PM

SQL Server 2005 Feb CTP Build !!!

Whatz new in this CTP build. Generally the CTP (Community Tech Preview) builds are Intermediate builds that get shipped and packaged. I've been on the late Beta2 version of Yukon on my VPC for quite sometime now. But realized that quite some stuffs have
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:08 AM

Chat on SQL Server 2005 Security

Join this chat session that will walk you through some of the security features that were introduced in SQL Server 2005 (Yukon). This will outline features like user-schema separation, signed modules, encryption capabilities, architectural changes etc.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:03 AM

XP Reduced Media Edition

ITs the same XP for the European market without Media Player ;) ... The name is changing but yet caught the headlines at pcworld. Read it complete here .
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Monday, March 14, 2005 2:36 PM

The .NET Show: SQL Server 2005

This show outlined by James Hamilton and Tom Rizzo show some of the specific features and capabilities of SQL Server 2005 that will allow programmers as well as database developers to create better database-oriented solutions. See the webcast here ..
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Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:49 AM

Backwards Breaking Changes from version 1.1 to 2.0

I know many will be interested in book-marking this page. This will surely be updated as we get closer to the RTM. Hoping this doesnt get too long. From the GotDotNet Site read the Breaking changes ...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 2:30 PM

OneNote Experience

I thought I write my experience on OneNote in my blog. This has been one product I have loved using offlate Or should I say since the Global Summit last year. Joining Intel, I have had to go to numerous number of meetings and training programs. And this
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:49 PM

Resources on SQL Server 2000

Here is the technet link with an amazing set of whitepapers for SQL Server 2000 programmers and DBA's. Worth a bookmark location from what I can see ... Take a look ...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:10 AM

Microsoft SQL Server and Itanium 2: High Performance and Low TCO

Download this document from the ScalabilityExperts site on the SQL Server and Itanium (1.3 MB pdf, get it here ). We have few graphs to view too from the 27 page document.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:01 AM

Google Desktop Search Out of Beta

Has created a buzz everytime we hear something from Google. Read the story here . Download the version that works on XP or Win2000 here .
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:54 AM

Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET 2002 Service Pack 1

I know we are with VS2005 talks these days. But there are quite a few companies using VS2002. Just for them ... Download the SP from MSDN site .
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:38 AM

Linux Challenge

Interesting that such challenges are on the net. You might want to give it a shot. A nice way to find out if you really have security holes in your OS. Excellent way to log and at the same time mature your OS without hitting a surprise later ... Often
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:27 PM

Updated: Microsoft® Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)

Download the updated version from here ...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 12:55 PM

Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Intro for Developers

Catch this offline version of an Introduction to SQL Server 2005 from Greg Low here ... You will need a 5MB live meeting software to install. But its cool after that ...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 12:50 PM

SSIS : Lessons from Project REAL

Excellent 61-page article " SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: Lessons from Project REAL " written by Microsoft's Richard Waymire, Len Wyatt, John H. Miller , and Donald Farmer as well as Jyoti Jacob from Scalability Experts. “ In Project REAL
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Friday, March 04, 2005 9:11 AM

Modern Software Development using C#

Dr. Joe Hummel dives into modern Windows development in Visual Studio .NET using the C# programming language. This 15-part series covers a wide-range of topics, including object-oriented programming and development (OOP and OOD), Windows Forms (WinForms)
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Friday, March 04, 2005 9:00 AM

Feb CTP Builds for SQL Server 2005 are out ...

Can check on the Express Manager version detials here: SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Community Technology Preview February 2005 SQL Server 2005 Express Manager - Community Technology Preview February 2005 This is an interim build and includes 64-bit
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:42 PM

Delete Google Previous Search Strings

You can delete single entries from the drop down list on Google page by selecting down arrow and pressing delete ... I surely found this nice to have ... For deleting all the info choose the clear form option on the Content Tab...
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:33 PM

Avoid using GAC

Here are reasons why Jeffrey Palermo feels its better to avoid GAC while working with assemblies in .NET. I completely agree on his reasoning nevertheless ... Read the reasons here under “ Avoid GAC, prefer XCOPY “ ...
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:22 PM

MSDN TV: Introduction to the CLR Profiler

I've always been interested in this topic. Nice short demo of how to use it ... Catch them here ... Download the Video and Demo scripts too for offline viewing ...
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:16 PM

SQL Server 2005 Product Line

Source Bink.nu ... You could read the complete press announcement here ... Apart from this added a new edition called Workgroup edition to SQL Server 2000 too ...
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:11 PM

Installing December CTP Release of Visual Studio Team System on Virtual Machines

Use this step-by-step guide to install and configure the latest release of Team System in a virtual environment using Virtual PC 2004. Read the article ...
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Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:09 PM

New DataSet Features in Visual Studio 2005

Learn about the new features in the typed DataSet class and the new TableAdapter class that are generated by Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, as well as the tools for designing these classes. Read it at the MSDN ...
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