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Free Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Training
2008-04-12 15:18:00 Get 3 hours of training on SQL Server 2008 via Microsoft E-Learning. Here is the link. Technorati Tags: SQL Server More About: Training , Free
TechEd 2008 USA - How To Get Your Boss To Send You
2008-04-12 15:08:00 TechEd an yearly event for Microsoft ies will happen in US from June 3 - June 6. Microsoft released few very important products for their eco-system for both developers and IT professionals. So for those who want to grasp heaps of useful information on the new products TechEd is the place to be. This is ... More About: Tech , Boss , Send , 2008
Use OneNote For Screen Capture
2008-04-10 12:58:00 If you use OneNote then you may not need any other screen capture program. OneNote lets you capture screen easily by pressing Window Key + S or by clicking on OneNote icon in notification area which gives you this menu. Once you have captured the desired part of screen your clipping appears within OneNote under ... More About: Software , Screen Capture , Screen , Capture
How To - Get The Current URI In Silverlight
2008-04-10 04:43:00 Scenario: You are writing a web page which will host Silverlight Plugin. Within your Silverlight content you want to programmatically get the address of the web page you are on. Solution: In Silverlight 2 we have access to this information through System.WindowslBrowser.HtmlPage.Document class. This class has a property DocumentUri which gives the required information. Below ... More About: Current
Business Of Silverlight Blog
2008-04-04 15:02:00 Chris Carper from Microsoft has created a blog where he plans to write about Silverlight but not the technical aspects. Chris on his blog says “…I wanted to do is create a blog that would cover the business issues that are relevant to or directly impacted by our Silverlight technology, as well as, provide information ... More About: Business , Blog
Recruitment Company With A Real Difference
2008-04-04 10:52:00 Yesterday I met Mark Wallis who has started a recruitment service called Peer Placement. Why is his service different and why does it deserve a plug on my blog? Firstly because Mark himself is a developer and he understands the unpleasant experience of dealing with so called IT recruiters who measure programming skills in ... More About: Company , Opinion , Real , Recruitment , Difference
Microsoft Videos Preview Is Online
2008-04-01 03:12:00 Microsoft has launched a site where you can watch videos. These videos focus on Microsoft Technologies. At present you can see videos categorised as Developers, IT Pros, Home Users and many more. There are some interesting How To videos which are fun to watch. Unlike YouTube which uses Flash as its core technology, Microsoft ... More About: Video , Videos , Microsoft , Preview , Online
More Open Source Love From Microsoft
2008-03-28 09:58:00 <TalkLikeMr.Burns>Open Source Software. Eh!</TalkLikeMr.Burns>. There is a Microsoft site called Area 25 err Port 25 which is another outlet to express the suppressed open source desires of Microsoft. With all these open source initiatives, I now talk my in-your-face-talk with my Microsoft basher friends. Are you listening LiGoo boy? More About: Fun , Love
Upgrading MCPD on .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5
2008-03-28 09:57:00 If you are certified as MCPD on .NET 2.0 and wish you upgrade to .NET 3.5 when those exams are released then you may only have to sit for upgrade exam(s). Gerry O’Brien points this out in his post. There is no confirmation on this yet, however providing an upgrade path from .NET 2.0 to ... More About: Microsoft , Certification
WPF Bloggers
2008-03-27 11:32:00 If you are looking for a list of WPF bloggers then visit this link by Tim Sneath. He also provides a link to OPML file for easy import in your favourite feed reader. Technorati Tags: WPF More About: Bloggers
Exam 70-502 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation St
2008-03-27 11:24:00 I will sit for 70-502 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation exam when it is released. Looking at the breadth of WPF I expect this exam to be a tough one. In whatever time I get besides consulting, I am preparing for this exam. Other than reading some very good WPF books, I am ... More About: Certification , Exam
SQL Server Management Studio Annoyance
2008-03-26 10:11:00 I have found SQL Server Management Studio to be clunky at times. It often hangs while saving tables, hangs when running long queries, and today I found the you-cannot-close-me bug which is very very irritating. This is what happens. You expand a table in object explorer –> right click on Constraints and click Add New ... More About: Annoyance
Tech Company Logos Through Ages
2008-03-15 16:34:00 Found this site which shows logos of some very famous tech companies and their (logos that is) journey to present form. I was familiar with Microsoft logos but had no idea about the first Apple logo can someone tell me what that first logo is? I’m struggling to find a relationship between whatever it is and ... More About: Fun , Company , Tech , Logos , Ages
Microsoft Reader Is Alive
2008-03-14 13:22:00 Some of us may remember a not so popular software from Microsoft called Microsoft Reader . Brings back memories, right? I can clearly remember those days. Working in city, long walks at Circular Quay during lunch time. The promises of revolutionising ebook industry, a video of Bill Gates with a long bearded guy. Some of ... More About: Software , Alive
Microsoft Employees Are Easy To Work With
2008-03-07 15:05:00 Guy Kawasaki in his talk with Steve Ballmer at Mix08 said that the new Microsoft employee is much easier to work with. Being a developer in Sydney Australia I confidently say that I agree with Guy 100%++. I do not know of any other company where I can talk to its employees on IM and ... More About: Employees , Opinion , Work , Easy
Download ReSharper 4.0 Nightly Builds
2008-03-07 00:35:00 For Resharper fans out there, you can download nightly builds of the next version of Resharper here. I have used Resharper since version 2 and I’ve been a happy user. I am looking forward to all issues such as lack of C# 3.0 support and others resolved in this latest version. More About: Software , Download , Builds
Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
2008-03-07 00:15:00 Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is now available for download and to help developer step up their sites for 8, Microsoft is providing a Readiness Toolkit. This toolkit gives information on new features such as Activities, Web Slices and also guides you towards developing your web sites or web applications for IE 8. Technorati Tags: ... More About: Browsers , Internet , Internet Explorer , Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 8 Installed
2008-03-06 14:40:00 I downloaded Internet Explorer 8 Beta1 and installed it on a Windows XP SP2 VPC image. The installation went without any issues. I can already see few improvements in IE8 and also few places where I think Microsoft has got it wrong. In coming days I will post more about my adventures with IE8. In ... More About: Software , Internet Explorer , Internet Explorer 8
Free online TV with Livestation
2008-02-22 05:35:00 Livestation offers a service by which you can watch TV stations through Internet. At this stage they are going through a technical phase and you can sign up for a technical trial access. I have been accepted for trial and I am currently running Livestation which is a small downloadable application on my Vista ... More About: Software , Free , Online
Free Storage With Windows Live SkyDrive
2008-02-22 01:25:00 Windows Live SkyDrive is an online storage service offered by Microsoft. At this stage you can get up to 5 GB of storage space. SkyDrive allows you to create folders to organise your files. One of the beauties of SkyDrive is that it lets you share files with others. You can share files with your ... More About: Windows , Windows Live , Storage , Free , Websites
WPF Application Quality Guide
2008-02-21 12:56:00 I just found WPF Application Quality Guide on WindowsClient.Net site. This is a must read for anyone who works with WPF or anyone who is learning WPF. It is a great source of information which is not available in any book. Looks like Microsoft has now started taking WPF seriously. Honestly I just had enough ...
Buzz around Windows 7
2008-02-21 02:09:00 Pixels have barely settled on Vista (I know, its a geek joke) and there is already talk about next version of Windows supposedly called Windows 7 . You can already see titbits of information on SuperSite for Windows and there are few YouTube Videos which show you the UI. Are these speculations for real. I will ... More About: Buzz
MIX Excel Planner Is Not the Way To Go
2008-02-21 00:56:00 Updated after a comment from Long Zheng. It was Long who did put together a spreadsheet. Good on you Long. I give brownie points to MIX folks for my error, but at the same time I take them away for not providing a downloadable planner as suggested in my original post. Long Zheng of istartedSomething fame ... More About: Excel , Planner
Free Microsoft Developer and Designer Tools for Students
2008-02-19 12:52:00 Microsoft is providing Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Windows Server 2003 Standard, Expression Studio and XNA Game Studio for free to students through DreamSpark. I am sure this move by Microsoft will be greatly appreciated by student community. At present this offer is only available in few countries. My question is: when will Australian students get ... More About: Software , Tools , Microsoft , Students , Developer
Microsoft Open Source Heroes
2008-02-15 09:00:00 Rumour mill is working 24/7 on this. Only because it is from Microsoft and it is open source, I’m fanning the fire here. But what is “it”. We’ll have to wait till February 27th to find out. In the meantime entertain yourself with this. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deepakkapoor.net%2Fblog %2F2008%2F02%2F15%2Fmicrosoft-open-source -heroes%2F'; addthis_title = ... More About: Open Source , Heroes , Misc , Open
Home Office clean up
2008-02-14 05:12:00 Today I cleaned up my home office. This is one part of the house where I spend most of my time. After a major clean up/setup job I’m already feeling much productive. Initially when I started working from home I did not realise the importance of having a well organised office space. While sitting on ... More About: Office , Misc , Home , Clean , Home Office
Get Information on Running Processes in C#
2008-02-13 12:31:00 Getting information on currently running processes is very simple. System.Diagnostics namespace provides a Process class which can be used to get all sorts of information about a process. The code below writes out a list of all running processes with their Id. Process[] processes = Process.GetProcesses (); foreach (Process process in processes) { Console.WriteLine(string.Format(“Pr ocess Name: {0} Process ... More About: Information , Running
Site of the week
2008-02-12 04:59:00 I’m starting a new series of posts called “Site of the week”. And why am I doing this? Good question! World Wide Web as you may know has some cantcountillion number of sites, I often come across sites that I really like and I’d like to visit them again. Yes I have heard of Bookmarks. ... More About: Websites , Week
Free Expression Blend Training
2008-02-10 13:30:00 Lynda.com is providing free online training for Expression Blend . This is so super cool. Although I have never gone through any of Lynda’s training videos, but after watching few Expression Blend training videos I can see that they do not compromise on quality. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deepakkapoor.net%2Fblog %2F2008%2F02%2F10%2Ffree-expression-blend -training%2F'; addthis_title = 'Free +Expression+Blend+Training '; ...
Are there any Vulnerabilities in your software?
More articles from this author:2008-02-10 13:12:00 To find answer to the question you can visit National Vulnerability Database. This database is maintained by US government and claims to list all known vulnerabilities. I did a quick search for vulnerabilities in my two favourite browsers. Here are the results: Looks like Firefox is catching up :) addthis_url ... More About: Software , Browsers , Vulnerabilities 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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