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Well Microsoft is a gaint corporation with lot of money and every big company seems to milk this ms Cow by patent or Whatever it can sue it by. Even goverment bodies has been a part of it. But among all the Patent Suit and EU fines and what not to reap this company off, this company has still been the star of the software world. There was always Competition against Microsoft and they over came

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IL Merge "ILMerge is a utility that can be used to merge multiple .NET assemblies into a single assembly. ILMerge takes a set of input assemblies and merges them into one target assembly. The first assembly in the list of input assemblies is the primary assembly. When the primary assembly is an executable, then the target assembly is created as an executable with the same entry point as the

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Microsoft has released a Origami Experience Pack for Windows Vista. People who already carry UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) can install this after they upgrade their UMPC to Windows Vista. It's suppose to improve the experience of UMPC . Windows Vista has heaps of improvement on Tablet scenarios. UMPC user will benefit from Windows Vista more than they did with Windows XP.

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You can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator from Microsoft download center.It allows to create your own keyboard layout, use full when you using other languages.Download it from here

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Microsoft Windows PowerShell (aka Monad) is available for download. It's one of the tool that is going to be loved by administrator and developers. The best part is it's built on top of .net FrameworkIt's available for download from MicrosoftTo read more about Windows Power Shell go to the powershell websiteThe blog post on Windows PowerShell blog provide more details on benefits of PowerShell

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Windows Vista is finally available to public today. This OS has lot of cool stuff built in and microsoft has done some major investment in this OS. It is going to shine with time. You can read crappy review on most of the sites who will compare it to OS X and what say all crappy thing about it, but at the end of the day, once you start using it you realise it a very big step forward for any

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This is a cool way to see all the terms used by Bill Gates in his speech between 1977 and now. SeattlePi.com has put a nice Tag cloud for each speech. There is thin slider on the top of Tag Cloud, so don't forget to move it to read it.Here is the linkHave fun.Advertisment

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This is good blog post from Brain Jones about the OpenXML and ODF format. Follow the link to read the Post. It's a good read.

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This are some handy IIS Server Utility tool available for download.1. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) troubleshooting tool for IISAvailable for download hereThis tool allows users to review configuration information in a easy to read view mode or to run the tool silently with only the creation of a log file. During use, administrators can simulate the SSL handshake to find errors. They can also quickly

Atsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-992031748388947275.post-38018405632455920682007-01-28T22:47:00.000-08:002007-01-28T22:57:50.689-08:00

Download this cool poster for all the short cut keys to Visual C# 2005 .It is avialable in PDF format.Download the colour poster from here The GreyScale Version poster for Short cut keys to Visual Studio C# 2005 is available hereadvertismentProgramming Windows with C# (Core Reference)Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (Pro - Developer)

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Like a change or want a new feature in next version of MS Access that is version 14 and not MS Access 2007. Post it here.1. Allow MS Access be modified to use the SQL Server Express Engine directly from top of MS Access2. Update to the API so that the same code or SQL written for SQL Server can directly with MS Access that is MS Access and SQL Server Express can run with the same ADO.net code

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Hey if you are planning to upgrade your windows XP machine to windows vista, you may be better off downloading the windows vista upgrade advisor for Windows xp to help you identify how your windows vista will perform on your current machine with windows xp.Follow this link to Download the windows vista upgrade advisor.It will help you to identify what you may need to change or add to your

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Download the service pack 1 for Visual studio 2005 express edition from the microsoft site.SP1 contain many bug fixed and 70 to more enhancement to Visual studio family of products to make developers productive.The download it available hereif you have both Visual Studio 2005 and Express edition than be prepared to wait for couple of hours for it to actually install completely. It takes a while

Atsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-992031748388947275.post-12334952185717186952007-01-24T03:19:00.000-08:002007-01-24T03:33:27.252-08:00

Finally today microsoft announced the final release of Atlas the ajax library for Asp.net from Microsoft. It's named as ASP.net AJAX.It comes with microsoft support of 10 years that is microsoft will support this product for next 10 years.This library allows developers to create Ajax based application with very little or not code. A lot of information on this topic can be found at the

Atsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-992031748388947275.post-18048498963111053472007-01-24T03:12:00.000-08:002007-01-24T03:19:26.487-08:00

Available only for 32 bit platform of Windows XP and windows Vista, this updates allows user to easily tag Digital photo on the computer with metadata. It write and read both IPTC and XMP format and display information aobut the digital photographs in windows explorer.It does a lot of common batch process related to metadata properties on digital photograph. Will allow software like Picasa and

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Microsoft Need to get in Hardware Business The heading itself tell what I mean. People can argue that Microsoft already has a hardware division and stuff like that. I don't mean that Microsoft needs a hardware division in that sense but I mean Microsoft needs a hardware division in true sense. Before I dive into what type of Hardware Business Microsoft needs to get into. I want to clear

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This was a really cool announcment on the Scott Guthrie site about Visual Studio Designer, The long awaited and needed in visual studio. The best part they did not only just add the support for split view but the say they have a really great CSS support. Well its waited to be watched but this was exicting. Here is a photo grabbed from Scott's blog. Read the scott blogs on this herePhoto of VS (

Atsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-992031748388947275.post-14439519478582806322007-01-23T00:48:00.000-08:002008-12-09T15:37:45.095-08:00

This is a cool video about windows presentation foundation with example of code. Billy Hollis has a good presentation lined up. The video is good quality.Click here to view the presentation.A good way to start on Windows Presenttion Foundation (WPF) is by watching at this presentation.Ads

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Visual studio SP1 is an upgrade to the Visual Studio 2005. It contains many bug fixes and improvement to many of the common performed coding function. download it from the microsoft site here Visual studio is the Best IDE available for .net framework. It rocks.Note: Installation process of Visual studio SP1 takes around 2 hours in total. So be patient as you start your installation.

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Microsoft has just released version 1.0 of the Microsoft robotic studio. As per microsoft this product is target at academic, hobbyist and commercial developer. It support varity of hardware.The download is available at following link.One thing i did not understand and that is why is not microsoft giving a grand release for this products. They make perfect sense for showing the power of windows

Atsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-992031748388947275.post-54682173304701166912007-01-20T02:33:00.000-08:002007-01-20T02:44:15.848-08:00

Community Technology Preview of Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio code name orcas is available for download at microsoft site.Follow this link at microsoft to download the January 2007 CTP release of OrcasOrcas includes a lot of new technology including support for ADO.net LINQ, ADO.net Entity Framework, C# 3.0 Language support, Design support for office 2007 and outlook 2007 and best of

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Windows vista is finally here. It has lot of new technologies and some old technologies, some upgrades and many more things inside it. I wanted to make a list of features that is inside windows vista which is new or is already available in Windows XP and older version. So i started jotting down a list without any explanation but the aim is to add explanation in 1 or 2 lines as i go forward and

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SQL Server Hosting Toolkit ReleasedMicrosoft has just released a SQL server hosting toolkit on CodePlex. This is going to be a really handy tool to deploy a local database to a server. People who have faced the problem of uploading or setting up a new database schema especially after using the Membership and Role provider in ASP.net 2.0 will love this. The toolkit consist of Database Publishing

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Framework for windwos sideshow has been made available. Windows side show is a window vista only technology. This technology allow an secondary display to be connected to a windows vista based laptop or computer and will work even if the computer is on , off or in sleep mode. This is one of the new technolgoies in windows vista. It's a seriously promising technology with great ideas to be

Atsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-992031748388947275.post-6670383407102991132007-01-18T14:15:00.000-08:002007-01-18T14:33:31.849-08:00

Microsoft Anti - Cross Site Scripting Library ReleasedA library to protect to ASP.net application from Cross site scripting has been released by Microsoft. Read more about the Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/security/aa973814.aspx Download of Anti-Cross Site scripting available here.Tutorials on Anti-Cross Site scripting is available hereHave comments on this

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Community Recognition System on Asp.net websiteAsp.net guys have just added a community recognition system, which recognises people who have contributed to the .net community.They have a page of Hall of fame listing the community members who have helped it grow and contributed to it. Check out the hall of fame at http://www.asp.net/resources/community-recognition/hall-of-fame.aspx?tabid=41It's

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Web Client Software Factory releasedIt's described as "The Web Client Software Factory is a guidance offering that provides comprehensive architecture guidance to help customers build Composite Web Clients using the Microsoft platform (ASP.NET 2.0 and Workflow Foundation, etc)." on their homepage on the Codeplex. http://www.codeplex.com/websfA good description and explaination can be found on

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Yahoo failure to Succeed.This article on How Yahoo Blew it on Wired.com is really greathttp://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,72497-0.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2It explain with great insight how yahoo blew up the search market and it place in the world market to be one of the top companies of the internet. Yahoo had everything to be the next big thing of Internet but Google came out of the blue and

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Hi Everybody this is my first blog entry. After so many year of thinking about making a blog, I am finally getting around it to make my first blog.Hoping that i will be consistent and regular in writing articles on this blog.The blog is about my views related to Microsoft. Some of the blogs will be ignorant while some may provide a lot of insight. Don't know how good it will be, but will aim to

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