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Channel 9 MSDN Route 64

Channel 9 MSDN Route 64 03/27/2005 05:24 AM
Channel 9 hears about Windows 64-bit and interviews Kang Su Gatlin, Program Manager on the Visual C++ compiler team.

Channel 9 MSDN Dave Probert

Channel 9 MSDN Dave Probert 03/31/2005 03:04 AM
Channel 9 talks with Dave about the Windows Kernel.

New AdSense Channel Features Added,
Including Real Time Channel Stats

New AdSense Channel Features Added,
Including Real Time Channel Stats 04/06/2005 03:12 AM
"Until now, channel data was delayed 2 days before appearing in your reports. We've upgraded our system to provide real-time reporting, allowing you to quickly react to changes in your ad performance on a page-by-page basis."

MSDN TV: First Look at ADO.NET 2.0

MSDN TV: First Look at ADO.NET 2.0 04/15/2004 06:30 PM
ADO.NET 2.0 extends and enhances ADO.NET in multiple directions. A faster disconnected stack, a cleaned-up programming model, including support for provider-independent applications, and support for the latest SQL Server 2005 features are a few of the new cool stuff we’re adding in the next release. This quick peek at ADO.NET covers some of the disconnected stack enhancements, shows what the new provider-independent model looks like and briefly covers the new batching support in the connected stack.

ASP.NET 2.0 in MSDN magazine

ASP.NET 2.0 in MSDN magazine 06/17/2004 05:11 AM
Kent Sharkey mentions the online availability of the June 2004 issue of MSDN Magazine. This issue is loaded with ASP.NET 2.0 info.

New MSDN Lab Website

New MSDN Lab Website 11/04/2003 08:40 AM
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/images/Lab_Logo.jpg

bl0gs.msdn.com

bl0gs.msdn.com 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
microsoft's developer network speaks to developers in the most appropriate format

MSDN Developer Day

MSDN Developer Day 06/24/2004 07:42 PM
Two great demonstration based sessions showcasing the great new tools and technology available to developers as part of the Visual Studio 2005 ("Whidbey") and SQL Server 2005 ("Yukon") releases. See why these technologies offer the best capabilities to developers bar none.

MSDN TV: Security in WSE 2.0

MSDN TV: Security in WSE 2.0 06/17/2004 09:06 PM
Celebrating the launch of the Web Service Enhancements (WSE) 2.0 at Tech·Ed 2004, Benjamin Mitchell and John Bristowe talk about the advanced XML Web service specifications that it supports, focusing on WS-Security. They demonstrate how WSE provides a simple object model that allows developers to secure Web services independent of the transport using only a few lines of code.

MSDN Tries To Get 'Em Young

MSDN Tries To Get 'Em Young 04/11/2004 10:22 PM
A new low-cost MSDN subscription for high school students and teachers will be available starting this summer. The $299 fee covers Visual Studio.Net Academic Edition, Visual Studio 6.0 as well as access to "e-learning," documentation, training and support. That fee covers all students, all teachers and all school computers. Students enrolled in at least one related for-credit course can also load the software on their personal computers.

MSDN Magazine has a CAMP?

MSDN Magazine has a CAMP? 06/22/2004 10:04 PM
Thanks Rob Scoble. "The trouble, as it were, started on June 13. We were mentioned by Joel Spolsky's blog, in an entry titled "How Microsoft Lost the API War." Steve Toub, our technical editor, sent the link around to everyone in the office. It was on my "to do" list on Monday. But I didn't have that much time to actually go read it before all hell broke loose. I started getting IMs asking me about my camp. Was it sleepaway? Who were the counselors? I had no idea what was going on, so I asked one of these wiseacres and I was pointed to Joel's article. "

MSDN TV: J# Browser Controls

MSDN TV: J# Browser Controls 11/15/2003 06:46 PM
J# Browser Controls provide developers with a way to migrate their existing Java applet source code to run within the context of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

MSDN Forums Beta

MSDN Forums Beta 04/09/2005 05:49 PM
MSDN Forums Beta allows customers to search a growing archive of technical questions and answers. If an answer can’t be found in search, a customer can ask a new question, be notified when there are replies, and mark the appropriate reply as an answer. Over time we’ll use this Q&A pairing to improve search, build a “hall of fame” of top contributors, and construct a community-maintained FAQ. We’re creating forums for Whidbey Beta2 technologies to start with, and will add more developer technologies soon. There are already people requesting DirectX forums!

MSDN: A Look Back and a Look Ahead

MSDN: A Look Back and a Look Ahead 11/14/2003 11:31 AM
One day you're sitting there, making plans for the summer. Maybe a weekend at the beach house, lazy afternoons by the pool, languid days spent picking wildflowers in the bountiful meadow surrounding our new offices in midtown Manhattan. And then the next day, you turn around and find out that there was no summer. It never got above 56 degrees, it rained every day, the pool was broken, whenever you flushed the beach house toilets the sink overflowed with sea water, and the wildflowers (which were admittedly quite nice because of all the rain) were off limits due to an infestation of West Nile virus-carrying mosquitos, which were there because it rained every day. Then we had to board up the meadow because of the hurricane that never made it this far north. And before we could even unpack our sweaters, we looked up and realized that we're putting the last issue of the year to bed.

New MSDN Blogs Website

New MSDN Blogs Website 01/27/2004 12:09 AM
Ultimate compilation of Microsoft bloggers all at one simple website. Check it out!

MSDN TV: Introduction to Indigo

MSDN TV: Introduction to Indigo 04/07/2005 05:25 PM
Indigo is the managed communication stack that will ship with WinFX. It is the "V.Next" for ASP.NET Web Methods, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, System.Messaging, and WSE. Steve Swartz provides a brief conceptual overview of Indigo, walks through some code, and introduces you to his jackalope.

Microsoft bl0ggers come to MSDN

Microsoft bl0ggers come to MSDN 01/09/2004 10:11 PM
Microsoft is adding Web logs published by its employees to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), the company's main site for software developers.

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New MSDN Support Area

New MSDN Support Area 09/08/2004 11:51 PM
Discover MSDN's new comprehensive guide to online support and troubleshooting resources for developers.

MSDN: The Quest for ASP.NET Scalability

MSDN: The Quest for ASP.NET Scalability 05/26/2004 01:49 PM
A little bit of cross-pollenization never hurt anyone. There's a lot to be learnt from .NET:

At the height of the dot-com boom in the mid-1990's, many companies burst onto the scene as Application Services Providers (ASPs) hoping to capitalize on the wave of Internet success stories, and rake in some loot. Aside from the unfortunate market collapse that followed, ASPs had other issues to deal with such as training staff to effectively build and manage a secure, reliable and highly available operation.

Today, Web-enabling architecture is prevalent, particularly since Web services have become a staple for most applications, and the growing pains of ASPs past are feeding businesses everywhere with a hunger for successful implementations for 24x7 applications. As Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) themes spread across organizations, applications are now reaching wider audiences than ever before. Gone are the days where you can sling some code, ship product, and cross your fingers.

The key points that i see addressed in this article:

1. You need to be able to handle long-running jobs, and you can do that by storing the job in a queue to be handled later by a background process. In the PHP world, this can be implemented by storing a queue of jobs in a database table or shared memory. Then you have a background process monitoring this table for new jobs to run.

2. Distributed processing to spread the load. COM+ is discussed. In PHP, we could use XML-RPC or SOAP to work with a set of distributed servers.

3. And when you have distributed processing, you might need to synchronize distributed transactions. This is something that's difficult to implement in PHP, and it is probably best to structure your design to allow only a single master software to perform data synchronization, instead of allowing multiple masters.

   For example, in the typical PHP-distributed MySQL scenario, you would have one single master database which you write to, and multiple read-only slave databases to which the changes are replicated to.

MSDN Product Feedback

MSDN Product Feedback 06/29/2004 03:31 PM
submit product suggestions and bugs on MS platforms. i love it.

MSDN Managed Newsgroups

MSDN Managed Newsgroups 11/18/2003 12:15 AM
New! MSDN Subscribers can now receive responses in 2 business days! MSDN now includes free and unlimited newsgroup support for select technologies for all MSDN Universal, Enterprise, Professional and Operating System Subscribers. MSDN Subscribers can post key product and technology questions and receive a response to the post within 2 business days.

Future MSDN Improvements

Future MSDN Improvements 04/25/2004 08:35 PM
-Improved relevance. Our primary investment will be in making the results from your queries better match what you wanted. We're collaborating with MS-Research and Microsoft.com on several strategies coming online this year. -Technology & language filtering. Never want to see Windows CE results? Want to limit your searches to VB? We are working on mining the metadata inside the MSDN Library to enable searches filtered by products, languages, and more. -Improved API lookup. We'll be adding extra weight to search results if a query matches the same keyword that the Visual Studio F1 feature uses to lookup APIs.

MSDN Blog Bits

MSDN Blog Bits 04/18/2004 05:33 PM

• Ego Shooter in 96kb

  Peter Koen writes:
  Beta 1 of kkrieger, an ego-shooter doom3 like game in 96kb has been released this weekend:
  This games needs DirectX 9.0, and a high-end graphicscard (Pixelshaders)! Everything has been done with Visual C++ and x86 Assembler!
  
  Take note that the game requires Pixel Shaders 1.3 to run.
  System requirements listed are:
  

  • A 1.5GHz Pentium3/Athlon or faster.
  • 512MB of RAM (or more)
  • A Geforce 4 Ti (or higher) or ATI Radeon 8500 (or higher) graphics card supporting pixel shaders 1.3, preferably with 128MB or more of VRAM.
  • Some kind of sound hardware
  • DirectX 9.0b

• Paranoia

  As noted in a previous "blogsicle", I have a strange habit of wasting countless hours browsing Slashdot comments, alternating between abject horror and mild amusement at the outlandish things people post there.
  
  Two things that are said time and time again about Windows are:
  
  1) In Windows, you have to run as Administrator.
  
  2) In Windows, every file is executable if it has the right extension.
  
  The first claim is of course completely bogus. For better or worse, Windows makes people Administrators by default (otherwise, how would they install software, set the system time, add other users, etc?) but that doesn't mean you have to stay that way. I have been running as a "Normal User" (not even "Power User") for quite some time now (over a year?) on Windows XP with very few problems. Sure, it's a bit of a pain that I have to use RUNAS when I want to go to Windows Update and install a patch, but day to day it does not interrupt my routine. I can browse the web, use Microsoft Office applications, build apps with Visual Studio .NET, play music, and do pretty much whatever I want without any issues.

• Debugger Visualizers on VS 2005 Community Tech Preview

  As promised, an updated Visualizers How-To! My last how-to entry on Visualizers was targeted at the PDC release of Whidbey, as you may (or may not) remember. This time I don't feel the need to cringe at times as I describe the process. :0)
  
  First, a high level overview of Visualizers. Visualizers allow for advanced, customized viewing of data while debugging. Today's data windows have their limitations; text-only, hierarchical, spatially constrained - not the best for viewing an image, for example. Visualizers allow you to create completely custom views using WinForms to best show the data within any managed object. Yes, unfortunately this feature will only available for the managed world.

• UML and DSLs Again

  I’m often asked by audiences, visitors to Microsoft and journalists to explain our position with respect to UML (e.g. VSLive! Interview). Many people who read our views on model driven development, as described in these postings and other places, assume that our emphasis on domain specific (modeling) languages, or DSLs, somehow has put us into an anti-UML position. We want to make it clear that this is not true. While I laughed out loud at some points in Alex Bell’s excellent article in March 2004 ACM Queue called Death By UML Fever, we still agree with many of the points made by Grady Booch in his response. Before UML, there was an unproductive diversity of modeling approaches, and their convergence into UML 1.0 was a significant step forward in using models in software development.

Fixing MSDN with Greasemonkey

Fixing MSDN with Greasemonkey 02/01/2005 09:49 PM

Site specific browser customisations have been a a recurring theme on this site over the past six months. Thanks to the ever inventive Aaron Boodman that problem is pretty much solved. Greasemonkey is a plugin for Firefox that lets you create user site customisation scripts (.script.js), easily install them in Firefox and then set which sites they should be run on. Michael Moncur has a handy tutorial on getting started.

I've already found reason to write my first script. For all of its faults, one thing that can be said for Internet Explorer is that its technical documentation runs rings around its competitors. Safari and Opera have virtually no technical documentation at all, while Mozilla's is piecemeal to say the least (let's hope they listen to Jon Udell and Tim Bray). Unfortunately, IE's documentation is hidden away on the always frustrating MSDN. The good stuff is in the HTML and DHTML reference, but information on which versions (and platforms) of IE can cope with which objects is no where to be found.

Or at least that's what I thought, until someone on IRC told me to hover over the event box at the bottom of this page. Nothing happened (in Safari), so I tried Firefox and IE5/Mac. Still nothing, so I viewed source and discovered that the platform information is hidden away in a made-up platinfo attribute on the link and revealed using IE/Windows specific JavaScript. Doh!

A few minutes with Greasemonkey and I had a solution: this user script restricted to URLs matching http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/*. It's not pretty, but it works - and I'm sure it could be made to look quite decent given a little extra effort.

MSDN DEVT Sessions: May 2004

MSDN DEVT Sessions: May 2004 06/10/2004 05:51 PM
Online seminars feature training presentations, interactive tutorials, demonstrations, and ongoing opportunities to learn more from the experts about developing with Microsoft technologies.

MSDN Universal July Shipment

MSDN Universal July Shipment 06/15/2004 02:14 AM
-2655.1 Microsoft Business Network Professional Edition Version 1.0, Microsoft Business Network Service Pack 1, Microsoft Business Network SDK Service Pack 1 (English) -2684 Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 (English), Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 for Office XP Multilingual User Interface Pack

MSDN turns off full text RSS

MSDN turns off full text RSS 09/09/2004 05:34 AM

I know a lot of you read this site with a RSS aggreator. Heck I read 90% of the sites I review the same way. But I do know that some of you are running aggreators that poll us every hour. I have the spare bandwidth but apparently MSDN did not and those that have not throttled their aggreators where costing them a lot of money.

I only pull data twice a day once in the morning and once at night. So if you havent played with the scheduling of your polling make sure you save those sites with limited bandwidth some bandwidth charges by not pulling data hourly. [Scobleiz er]

May 2004 MSDN Universal Shipment

May 2004 MSDN Universal Shipment 04/26/2004 09:02 AM
-2434.5 Microsoft CRM Server, Microsoft Office Business Contact Manager 2003, Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003, Microsoft Office OneNoteT 2003, Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition 2003, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003, Microsoft Office Visio® Professional 2003 (English), Microsoft Office Professional 2003 MUI, Microsoft Office Visio® Professional 2003 MUI, Microsoft Project Professional MUI, Microsoft Business Solutions CRM Version 1.2 (International English) -2436.7 Microsoft Application Center 2000, BizTalk® Server 2004 Developer Edition, Content Management Server 2002, Identity Integration Server 2003, Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000, Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 Beta, Office Live Communications Server 2003 Standard Edition, Microsoft Office SharePointT Portal Server 2003, Systems Management Server 2003 (English), Systems Management Server 2003 ICP2, SQL ServerT for Windows® CE 2.0, Mobile Information 2002 -2537.5 MapPoint® 2004 North America, Microsoft Business Network Professional Edition Version 1.0, Microsoft Business Solutions Business Portal 2.0 for Great Plains 7.0/7.5, Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Manager 7.5, Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains 7.5, Microsoft Business Solutions-Solomon 5.5, FRx® Financial Reporter 6.5 for Great Plains and Forecaster 6.7 - November 2003, FRx® Financial Reporter 6.5 for Solomon and Forecaster 6.7 - November 2003 (English)

MSDN TV: The Whidbey Chronicles: MSBuild

MSDN TV: The Whidbey Chronicles: MSBuild 01/22/2004 04:56 PM
So you've heard the buzz about MSBuild at PDC, but you're not really sure what the buzz is all about. Well, you've come to the right place. During this episode Alex Kipman shows how to fundamentally alter the Visual Studio build process with the new build platform for Microsoft: MSBuild.

Chris Sells -- Tour of MSDN

Chris Sells -- Tour of MSDN 04/16/2004 12:54 AM
Chris Sells, an MSDN program manager who runs the Longhorn Developer Center, takes us on a tour of MSDN's offices. You too can jump into one of Sara Williams' meetings, walk down the hall and learn all sorts of interesting things that people at MSDN are working on. Even jump into a meeting with MVPs. Some other things that Chris does? He blogs and keeps a site about the interviewing process here at Microsoft.

MSDN TV: Introduction to Visual J# 2005

MSDN TV: Introduction to Visual J# 2005 03/27/2005 05:24 AM
Pratap Lakshman introduces various enhancements to Visual J# 2005 and discusses themes such as, providing language level support for common programming idioms, making it easier to write better and correct code, and enabling new scenarios through enhanced security and integration.

MSDN April 2005 Shipment

MSDN April 2005 Shipment 03/27/2005 11:37 PM
-1 MSDN® Subscriptions Library, April 2005 Edition (English) -2426.13 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SDK and Service Packs, Data Access Components 2.8, SQL Server™ 2000 Notification Services 2.0, Windows® Rights Management Services 1.0, Windows® Rights Management Client 1.0 (All Languages), DirectX® 9.0c SDK Update (October 2004), ISA Server 2004 SDK, Mobile Internet Toolkit 1.0, Speech Application SDK 1.0,Systems Management Server 2003 SDK, Platform SDK - February 2003 Edition, VBA SDK Version 6.4, Windows® Server 2003 DDK, Windows® XP Service Pack 1 DDK (English) -2436.14 BizTalk® Server 2004, Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, Microsoft Speech Server 2004, Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (English), SQL Server™ for Windows® CE 2.0 (Multilanguage)

Live MSDN Architecture Webcasts

Live MSDN Architecture Webcasts 02/17/2004 03:45 PM
Join top experts discussing a wide range of key architectural topics in live, interactive webcasts. Air your questions in the live Q&A sessions.

ActiveWin.com: Longhorn 4074 available
on MSDN

ActiveWin.com: Longhorn 4074 available
on MSDN 05/05/2004 05:00 PM
MSDN subscribers can now get their hands on the version of Longhorn that WinHEC attendees got yesterday. Microsoft has posted build 4074 of Longhorn on the MSDN Subscriber Downloads site. Interestingly, the iso of build 4074 registers at 733.75 MBs, meaning it must be burned onto a DVD. The iso for 4074 is nearly 100 MBs larger than the iso distributed at last year's PDC. Anyway, click the headline to get started! Microsoft has said they are making this available only for download, and will not ship Longhorn build 4074 with the June updates.

Microsoft Architects JOURNAL Comes to
MSDN

Microsoft Architects JOURNAL Comes to
MSDN 04/15/2004 11:48 AM
JOURNAL - Microsoft Architect's Journal - a platform where authoritative software architects from all corners of Microsoft's architect community will discuss the connection between opportunities once out of reach and the solutions that now make them possible.

The WinHEC Longhorn Build: Now on MSDN

The WinHEC Longhorn Build: Now on MSDN 05/06/2004 10:16 AM
Microsoft has already posted Longhorn pre-alpha Build 4074 on its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) for subscribers. WinBeta has the particulars.

MSDN TV: Building Your First Business
Process

MSDN TV: Building Your First Business
Process 05/20/2004 05:27 PM
Scott Woodgate shows how easy it is to build a business process using Visual Studio .NET and BizTalk Server 2004, expose that business process as a Web service, and then consume the business process inside InfoPath – all within 20 minutes.

MSDN February 2004 Shipment

MSDN February 2004 Shipment 01/23/2004 12:12 AM
-3.3 Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Manager 7.5 SDK, Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains® 7.5 SDK, SQL ServerT 2000 Web Services Toolkit (English), Microsoft Software Update Services Server with Service Pack 1 (English, Japanese), SQL ServerT 2000 Notification Services 2.0 (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese) -2069.1 Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, Windows® System Resource Manager (English)-9.3 Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Developer Edition, Content Management Server 2002 Service Pack 1a, BizTalkT Server 2002 Developer Edition (English) -2625 Microsoft Office Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface - Disc 3 (Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese-Portugal, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese) -2626 Microsoft Office Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface - Disc 4 (Czech, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Turkish) -2627 Microsoft Office Visio® Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack - Disc 2 (Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Simplified Chinese) -2628 Microsoft Office Visio® Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack - Disc 3 -2629 Microsoft Office Visio® Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack - Disc 4 -2630 Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface - Disc 1 -2631 Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface - Disc 2

MSDN TV: SQL Server Best Practices
Analyzer

MSDN TV: SQL Server Best Practices
Analyzer 06/10/2004 07:25 PM
Christian Kleinerman gives a quick overview of the newest tool for ensuring your SQL Server database is maintained and operated according to best practices recommended by the SQL Server development team.
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