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MSDN TV: First Look at ADO.NET 2.0
MSDN TV: First Look at ADO.NET 2.0
04/15/2004 06:30 PMADO.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.
New MSDN Lab Website
New MSDN Lab Website
11/04/2003 08:40 AMhttp://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/images/Lab_Logo.jpg
MSDN Developer Day
MSDN Developer Day
06/24/2004 07:42 PMTwo 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.
bl0gs.msdn.com
bl0gs.msdn.com
01/09/2004 09:58 PMmicrosoft's developer network speaks to developers in the most
appropriate format
MSDN Channel 9 is Down
MSDN Channel 9 is Down
07/26/2004 02:26 PMChannel 9 has been down since earlier this morning. No word on the
cause, however several sites on the Internet today were down due to a
DOS attack, including Google. Channel 9 has informed ActiveWin that
they are working on the problem and hopefully they will be up shortly.
ASP.NET 2.0 in MSDN magazine
ASP.NET 2.0 in MSDN magazine
06/17/2004 05:11 AMKent Sharkey
mentions the online availability of the June 2004
issue of MSDN Magazine. This issue is loaded with ASP.NET 2.0 info.
MSDN TV: Security in WSE 2.0
MSDN TV: Security in WSE 2.0
06/17/2004 09:06 PMCelebrating 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 TV: J# Browser Controls
MSDN TV: J# Browser Controls
11/15/2003 06:46 PMJ# 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: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
MSDN: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
11/14/2003 11:31 AMOne 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.
MSDN TV: Introduction to Indigo
MSDN TV: Introduction to Indigo
04/07/2005 05:25 PMIndigo 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 PMMicrosoft 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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MSDN Managed Newsgroups
MSDN Managed Newsgroups
11/18/2003 12:15 AMNew! 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.
MSDN: The Quest for ASP.NET Scalability
MSDN: The Quest for ASP.NET Scalability
05/26/2004 01:49 PMA 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Forums Beta
MSDN Forums Beta
04/09/2005 05:49 PMMSDN
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!
New MSDN Blogs Website
New MSDN Blogs Website
01/27/2004 12:09 AMUltimate compilation of Microsoft bloggers all at one simple website.
Check it out!
Fixing MSDN with Greasemonkey
Fixing MSDN with Greasemonkey
02/01/2005 09:49 PMSite 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.
Channel 9 MSDN Route 64
Channel 9 MSDN Route 64
03/27/2005 05:24 AMChannel 9 hears about Windows 64-bit and interviews Kang Su Gatlin,
Program Manager on the Visual C++ compiler team.
MSDN Magazine has a CAMP?
MSDN Magazine has a CAMP?
06/22/2004 10:04 PMThanks 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.
"
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 Product Feedback
MSDN Product Feedback
06/29/2004 03:31 PMsubmit product suggestions and bugs on MS platforms. i love it.
New MSDN Support Area
New MSDN Support Area
09/08/2004 11:51 PMDiscover MSDN's new comprehensive guide to online support and
troubleshooting resources for developers.
MSDN Blog Bits
MSDN Blog Bits
04/18/2004 05:33 PM
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Windows XP SP2 Gold Released To MSDN
Windows XP SP2 Gold Released To MSDN
08/06/2004 05:09 PMWindows XP Service Pack is now available for download for MSDN
subscribers. This is the gold version that was released a short while
ago to beta testers.
MSDN TV: Interview with Steve McConnell
MSDN TV: Interview with Steve McConnell
08/20/2004 12:25 AMShawn Morrissey from MSDN talks with Steve McConnell, author of Code
Complete, about updates in the recently published second version,
software process, agile development, and more.
Chris Sells -- Tour of MSDN
Chris Sells -- Tour of MSDN
04/16/2004 12:54 AMChris 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.
WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2 available @
MSDN
WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2 available @
MSDN
08/07/2004 10:24 AMMicrosoft Architects JOURNAL Comes to
MSDN
Microsoft Architects JOURNAL Comes to
MSDN
04/15/2004 11:48 AMJOURNAL - 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.
MSDN September 2004 Shipment
MSDN September 2004 Shipment
08/27/2004 02:05 PM-0000 MSDN® Subscription Index - September 2004 (English)
-1011.3 Customer Support Diagnostics for Windows® XP Service Pack 2
(English)
-2730 Windows® XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies
(English)
-2728 SQL ServerT 2005 Developer Edition Beta 2 (English)
-1891.3 Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Microsoft Host
Integration Server 2000 Service Pack 1, SQL Server 2000 Reporting
Services Service Pack 1 (English)
-2758 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004
Standard Edition (English)
MSDN TV: SQL Server Best Practices
Analyzer
MSDN TV: SQL Server Best Practices
Analyzer
06/10/2004 07:25 PMChristian 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.
MSDN TV: The Whidbey Chronicles: MSBuild
MSDN TV: The Whidbey Chronicles: MSBuild
01/22/2004 04:56 PMSo 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.
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: Building Your First Business
Process
MSDN TV: Building Your First Business
Process
05/20/2004 05:27 PMScott 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 turns off full text RSS
MSDN turns off full text RSS
09/09/2004 05:34 AMI 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]
Live MSDN Architecture Webcasts
Live MSDN Architecture Webcasts
02/17/2004 03:45 PMJoin top experts discussing a wide range of key architectural topics
in live, interactive webcasts. Air your questions in the live Q&A
sessions.
MSDN TV: Introduction to Visual J# 2005
MSDN TV: Introduction to Visual J# 2005
03/27/2005 05:24 AMPratap 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 TV: Build Services Today
MSDN TV: Build Services Today
04/15/2005 04:37 PMRichard Turner outlines the benefits of building systems out of
distributed services rather than distributed components and how to go
about building services using today’s technologies.
MSDN Article Submission Guidelines
MSDN Article Submission Guidelines
11/19/2003 11:35 PMMSDN Online is always looking for original, well-written articles that
help developers evaluate and learn to use current Microsoft
technologies for their software development projects. We welcome
submissions from all readers.
MSDN TV: Code Correctness with FxCop
MSDN TV: Code Correctness with FxCop
12/05/2003 06:41 PMIn this episode, Michael Murray and Jeffrey Van Gogh from the CLR Team
describe FxCop, the freely-available code analysis tool from
Microsoft, and talk about what the tool is for and how it works. They
also show how FxCop is applied to a typical code example.
MSDN January 2004 Shipment
MSDN January 2004 Shipment
12/23/2003 01:33 AM-2011.2
DirectX® 9.0 SDK Update - (Summer 2003), Microsoft Enterprise
Instrumentation Framework, Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit 1.0,
Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 SDK (English), Windows®
SharePoint™ Services 2.0 (English, French, German, Italian,
Japanese)
-2589
Windows® Small Business Server 2003 - Disc 1 (English). Note: Small
Business Server 2003 Premium Edition includes a premium technologies
CD that includes SQL Server 2000, ISA Server 2000, and their latest
service packs. The premium technologies CD is not included as such
because these products are already included in your subscription,
however the CD is available from MSDN Subscriber Downloads.
-2590
Windows® Small Business Server 2003 - Disc 2 (English)
-2591
Windows® Small Business Server 2003 - Disc 3 (English)
-2592
Microsoft Office Outlook® Standard 2003 (English)
-2499.1
Microsoft Business Contact Manager for Office Outlook® 2003,
Microsoft Data Analyzer, Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003 (English)
-2501.1
Microsoft Business Solutions - Solomon 5.5 Volume 2, Solomon 5.5
Service Pack 1, FRx Financial Reporter 6.5 for Solomon and Forecaster
6.7 (English)
-2503.1
Microsoft Business Solutions - Great Plains 7.5 Disc 2, Microsoft
Business Solutions - Great Plains 7.5 Service Pack 1, FRx Financial
Reporter 6.5 for Great Plains and Forecaster 6.7
-2594
Microsoft Office Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface - Disc
1 (Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese)
-2595
Microsoft Office Professional 2003 Multilingual User Interface - Disc
2 (Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Simplified Chinese)
-2596
Microsoft Office Visio® Professional 2003 Multilingual User
Interface Pack - Disc 1 (French, German, Italian, Japanese)
-2597
Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (English
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