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Tuesday 22 September 2009

Ajax CDN Launched

ASP.NET team launched a new Microsoft AJAX CDN (Content Delivery Network) service, to provide caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX), for FREE.
This service doesn't require any registration and can be used for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

CDNs are composed of "edge cache" servers, which are placed around the world at key internet network points. These servers can be used to deliver and cache all types of content, including images, CSS, JS files and videos.
CDNs improves a website's end-user performance drastically, as it enables browsers to more quickly retrieve and download content, to make your pages load faster.

Microsoft AJAX CDN provides a easy way to add the jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX script libraries to serve automatically from one of the thousands geo-located edge-cache servers.

How to use?
ASP.NET 4.0 makes easy to use the CDN from ASP.NET web forms applications that use server control. This control includes a new boolean property named EnableCdn. Change the value to TRUE to request JS files automatically. When CDN is enabled in application it will retrieve all JS files that it normally retrieves from System.Web.dll or System.Web.Extensions.dll assemblies from the CDN instead.

You can get a full listing of JS libraries & URLs @ ASP.NET AJAX CDN

Thursday 27 August 2009

Web.Config cleaned in .NET 4.0 & VS2010...

Yes...

The Web.config in .NET 4.0 is simplified and cleaned. Web.config in VS2008 SP1 is of 126 lines long and contains almost everything, including handler definitions, tag definitions and modules which are to be included in ASP.NET HTTP engine, and eventually, increase in size. The reason because .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 uses the same CLR and machine.config configuration file which are shipped with .NET 2.0
.NET 4.0 and VS 2010 includes a new version of CLR and a new .NET 4 specific machine.config file. .NET 4.0 is installed side-by-side with the one used by .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5

The new .NET 4.0 machine.config file now automatically registers all ASP.NET tag sections, handlers and modules including the below functionalities
ASP.NET AJAX
ASP.NET Dynamic Data
ASP.NET Routing (for both ASP.NET web forms and ASP.NET MVC)
ASP.NET Chart Controls ( new with ASP.NET 4.0)

First section in web.config tells ASP.NET to enable debugging by default for the application, and indicates the version of .NET. Visual studio uses this to target when it shows us intellisense. VS2010 supports multi-targetting and the intellisense within the IDE will automatically vary based on the targetted framework version.
Second section tells whether to use "Integrated" mode when running ASP.NET application within IIS7.0, to control running ASP.NET HttpModules for all requests within the application or just for ASP.NET specific URLs.

Wednesday 29 July 2009

Project Trident

Project Trident from Microsoft Research
A scientific workflow workbench, allowing researchers in any discipline to build their own custom computer experiments without relying on computer scientists.
This uses companion technologies like, Dryad and DryadLINQ, adding capabilities to multiprocessor systems and large computer "clusters", to enable those experiments handling extremely large computations, like those required by Neptune.
A workflow in science is the process of turning raw data from sensors and other sources into information that researchers can use.
Project Trident begins with the Windows Workflow Foundation,. From there, the team has built all of the tools and services that are unique to scientific workflow. As it uses widely available Microsoft Technologies, Project Trident enables scientists to plug into many different systems and reuse piece of experiements in new ways.
Project Trident also provides for what's known as "provenance" - the ability to re-create an experiment to validate teh result - along with a registered repository of workflows that lets scientists know who wrote the workflow, how long it's been around and where its code came from.
Architecture:

Monday 13 July 2009

Office 2010 Test Preview revealed

Microsoft Office 2010 Test Preview revealed at Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference.
Various office 2010 productivity suite components - Excel, Word, Powerpoint, OneNote, Project, Publisher and visio, all hit the 2010 technical preview milestone, along with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
Office 2010 will be accessible by PC, phone and browser.
The new enabling factor is something called "Office Web Applications" which are light-weight versions of Excel, Powerpoint and Word that can in a web browser. Supported browsers currently include Firefox, IE and Safari, giving a good competetion to Google & Zoho.
Microsoft will offer its Office web applications to consumer users for free. Users just have to sign up a Windows Live account. Businesses won't have free access.
Office 2010 also incorporates the "ribbon" menu system, first introduced in Office 2007.

Document collaboration is another feature in Office 2010. Like, Users can edit video in PowerPoint 2010 and then share/broadcast those videos.

Microsoft Office Backstage view lets users quickly access features associated with Office 2010 files, enabling integration with other Office or SharePoint apps.

To test these new productivity suite, Microsoft offers a web form to sign up for waiting list.
Office 2010 Waiting list

Wednesday 1 July 2009

Micheal Jackson in Silverlight...


Checkout hundreds of pics of Micheal Jackson in DeepZoom by Silverlight...Microsoft tribute to Micheal Jackson http://www.msn.michaeljackson.shoothill.com/ Don't forget to install Silverlight before...for The Best DeepZoom experience...

Thursday 25 June 2009

Windows 7 Pricing unveiled.

Estimated U.S. retail pricing for Windows 7 is described below.
Upgrade Windows 7:
Home Premium: $119.99
Windows 7 Professional: $199.99
Windows 7 Ultimate: $219.99
Full-packaged Windows 7:
Windows 7 Home Premium: $199.99
Windows 7 Professional: $299.99
Windows 7 Ultimate: $319.99

Thursday 11 June 2009

Microsoft Morro

Morro - Free Anti-virus software from Microsoft

Microsoft is internally testing its free anti-virus software, codenamed Morro, adding that a beta version would be made available via its website. This release signal a distinct change in Microsoft's approach to the security market. Windows Live OneCare, failed to attract a major audience, MS announced plans to discontinue OneCare on June 30th 2009.
As a basic freeware security solution, Morrow will pose a threat to the livelihood of paid solutions.
Symantec shares fell 0.5 percent on Nasdaq and McAfee fell 1.3 percent on New York stock exchange, while Microsoft was up 2.1 percent.
Microsoft has said it will provide protection from several types of malicious software including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trozans.

Thursday 4 June 2009

HTML 5.0

During the last 10years, while there have been no significant changes to HTML 4.01 specification, we njoyed a season of relative prosperity. Let's see what are the new things HTML 5.0 brings.

HTML 4.1
HTML 4.01 already celebrated is 10 th birthday in sept of 2008 and this is the language became a delivery mechanism for our applications and web pages. Browsers have become effectively standardized and the pace of web development has seen numerous changes.

HTML 5.0 seeks to address those issues by making the web much more friendly to applictaions and rich media capabilities such as sound, video and even rudimentary animation.

Cool new features.
With HTML 5.0 new elements such as

Wednesday 3 June 2009

Google Squared

Google Squared, a new product from Google labs, demonstrated three weeks ago, a search engine that creates structured data from warehouse of information and lets users compare various things by their various/custom attributes. It's really a great idea, in reality.
Cons are very hard to imagine using Squared regularly, but a great idea we'll see where it goes.

Very impressive that when you request a square for a concept Google is unfamiliar with, you're prompted to offer upto five examples and builds the data set for you.

Have a look on Google Squared @ Google Squared

Tuesday 2 June 2009

Microsoft StickySorter

Forgotten to do something...? And, do you have a habit of writing sticky notes...This tool is for you..
Microsoft StickySorter is a Grassroots project, developed by two MS employees, that can be used to manage daily challenges...The result of their effort met their complex needs, supports virtual collaboration...

Specialities are Import and Export in csv format, Create and label groups, display structured information and creating custom views...

Check this video @ StickySorter
Download @ StickySorter

Thursday 30 April 2009

Microsoft's Products in 2010

Microsoft started its branding with new best-selling products like Exchange Server 2010 beta.

Most of forthcoming 2010 editions includes MS Office, Exchange and SharePoint 2010 are positioned as Unified Communications (UC) solutions., Office Web applications, Project and Visio.

These projects can be expected in the first half of 2010., although Exchange Server 2010 will arriage in second half of 2009.

Office 2010 will be in both 32-bit & 64-bit. Exchange server will only be in 64-bit product.

Another Office tidbit associated with 2010 branding is MOSS, will be losing its "O".

Microsoft seeks help for new OS: Windows 8

Surprised...?
Yes. It's true. It's next version of Windows 7.
MS looking to fill jobs associated with Windows 8, its next OS next to the current Windows 7 beta.
Two jobs postings have been spotted, published by CodeNameWindows blog last week and by others on web.
"For the upcoming Version of Windows, new critical features are being wored on including cluster support for one way replication" the job post reads.

The core engine is also being reworked to provide dramatic performance improvements.

The reference to "file access in branch offices" sounds a lot like Microsoft's upcoming BranchCache technology.

Windows 7 Enterprise edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 both will contain BranchCache, which is designed to improve application responsiveness across organization's branch offices via a wide area network connection.

Job responsibility of Windows 8 job posting defines, i. Put on customer/design critique hat as we plan our next version file server mgmt experience., ii. participatin in architectural design and development, testing for managing the Next Gen file server.

MS may start releasing Windows 7 RC in may of this year.

Wednesday 8 April 2009

Microsoft Gazelle

Microsoft Gazelle
Last week, Microsoft Research released an interesting paper about a web browser, Gazelle, which acts like an OS with the browser kernel specifically securing its resources and sharing across web sites.

The Idea behind Gazelle is to create a browser that is more secure for the current typical dynamic web pages that we find on web. Gazelle is different as no existing browsers, including new architectures, haveing a multi-principal operating system constructed providing the browser-based OS control, exclusively, to mange the protection of all system resources.

Gazelle's security model is centered around protected principals from one another by seperating their respective resources into hardware-isolated protection domains. Any sharing between two different principals must be explicit using cross-principal communication(or IPC) mediated by Browser Kernel.

More details @ Microsoft's Gazelle

Monday 16 March 2009

Free ASP.NET MVC EBook

Grab it @ ASP.NET MVC

Tuesday 3 March 2009

Updated resources of Microsoft sharepoint

SharePoint Developer Center
Find information about planning, coding, building, deploying, and migrating solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905503.aspx
Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map
The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that helps developers visualize the different programs, servers, services, and tools that will help them build solutions. It allows them to drill down to each product and technology and learn about new features, objects, Web services, namespaces, and schemas required to extend Microsoft Office and build custom Office Business Applications (OBAs).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb497969.aspx
MSSharePointDeveloper.com
A great site that provides Virtual PC images, screencasts, webcasts, hands on labs, and demos to help existing .NET developers quickly learn about the 10 most common developer topics for SharePoint.
http://mssharepointdeveloper.com
MyRampUp.com
Focused training modules split into lecture, demonstration, and hands on labs material to help you learn SharePoint development.
http://myrampup.com
SharePoint Server TechCenter
The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 TechCenter provides comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerates shared business processes, and facilitates information-sharing.
SharePoint Server TechCenter
Video Demos and Training for Office SharePoint Server 2007 – End User
Contains links to many Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 video demos that are intended for IT professionals.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262880.aspx
WSS 3.0 SDK Online
Online: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264594.aspx
Compiled help format: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C9D6C8C5-8A62-4961-8C1B-DF08B667B1C4&displaylang=en
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK Online
Online: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb851473.aspx
Compiled help format: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=BA006584-711D-4CE7-9E1F-181AEDF6434A&displaylang=en
SharePoint Server 2007 Visual How-Tos – Developer
This site provides links to many MSDN walkthroughs that contain both written steps as well as a short video demonstrating how to accomplish specific tasks.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd146863.aspx
WSS 3.0 Visual How-Tos – Developer
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892193.aspx
SharePoint Guidance – November 2008
This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy, and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and application lifecycle management challenges.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C3722DBA-6EE7-4E0E-82B5-FDAF3C5EC927&displaylang=en
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Training
Install a program to your desktop to receive free training on how to use SharePoint Designer 2007.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B10F061-41D4-48CE-85CB-01D46772240D&displaylang=en

Wednesday 25 February 2009

Visual Studio 2010 - Fresh Look

A fresh and new VS2010 UIs were revealed on the web which were built on WPF in .NET 4.0.





Courtesy: VS2010

Monday 16 February 2009

Microsoft Recite

Microsoft Recite
Just record and you can search your voice texts, an easy way to remember and to retrieve notes and reminders... Just two buttons make you to remember and search what you have remembered.

A really good initiative for Windows Mobile phones to use this Recite technology.
Download this cool app @ Microsoft Recite

Sunday 15 February 2009

Microsoft's My Phone

My Phone
Microsoft has started a beta initiative to sync your phone contacts to Web.
More details @ MyPhone

Wednesday 11 February 2009

Microsoft Semblio

Microsoft Semblio

Explaining something with images is a bit easy instead of explaining complete context. But explaining with a presentation, makes one to understand easily and very quickly. Microsoft came up with a new tool which leverages the beauty & wonderful features of WPF to create this Semblio. Semblio can be used to create rich, nice interactive multimedia learning material that teachers can customize, and promote collaboration.

Semblio takes a platform approach to content creation, leveraging the flexibility of Microsoft .NET Framework to work across software, services and learning management systems. It allows you to meet the demand for more cusotmized solutions, providing you with control over how your material is adapted.

For More Info and to download SDK: Microsoft Semblio

Thursday 22 January 2009

Microsoft Solver Foundation

Microsoft is very proud to announce the first 360 degree platform and framework for adaptive business insight and planning, providing a set tools, services, and engines to aid companies. Solver foundation helps business to make optimal and strategic decisions.





Solver Foundation is a pure, managed code runtime for Mathematical Programming, modelling and optimization. Designed to run on NETfx 3.5+ and is completely implemented in C#, by supporting modern MS operating systems and work especially well on 64 bit editions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.






Solver Foundation is a declarative model embedded in familiar NETfx design patterns and development environments like VS 2008.

For more Info, http://www.solverfoundation.com/

Sunday 11 January 2009

Download Windows 7 Beta

Hi friends,
Below is the URL for downloading Windows 7 Beta.

Register/Login with your MSN Passport and get the Evaluation Key.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

Njoy Windows 7

Thursday 8 January 2009

CES 2009 - First keynote of Steve Ballmer

Yes. For the first time Steve Ballmer honoured his first key note in CES 2009. BillGates has honoured 15 Years back for the first CES conference...

Here is the full keynote...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/silverlightApps/videoplayer2/standalone.aspx?contentId=fullKeynote&src=/presspass/events/ces/channel.xml&WT.cg_n=CES&WT.z_convert=embed

Wednesday 7 January 2009

My first hands on Windows7

Hi friends...!
A quick update...!
Microsoft’s Ballmer Announces Availability of Windows 7 Beta and Windows Live
http://www.microsoft.com/windows7.
http://www.windowslive.com/explore,

The beta version of Windows 7, Microsoft’s next-generation PC operating system, can be downloaded today by MSDN, TechBeta and TechNet customers. Consumers who want to test-drive the beta will be able to download it beginning Jan. 9

Very happy to share with you my first hands on Windows 7 Beta 7.0000 build. Below are the complete screenshots from installation screen to shutdown screen...
To be frank, this build is really well improved one with all excellent graphics and networking issues. It has just taken 40 minutes for installing on my Dell XPS M1530 with 2.2GHz Core 2 duo processor, Virtual PC 2004 with 20GB memory space and 800MB RAM capacity.




















































































































































































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