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One full day with Windows Server 2008
2008-02-07 04:29:00 So, its been one full day with Windows Server 2008 now and have configured, 1) Active Directory Services a) Created a new Domain Forest b) Added Domain Users c) Joined Vista machines to the Domain(right now 1, but more to come) 2) Configured .NET Environment a) Installed IIS 7 (IIS 7 looks really nice than in Vista!) b) Installed the .NET Environment ... More About: Windows Server 2008 , Full
Windows Server 2008 Edition Feature Differences
2008-02-05 23:55:00 So, now that Windows Server 2008 is released, what editions are available? Here they are, 1) Windows Server 2008 Web 2) Windows Server 2008 Standard 3) Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 4) Windows Server 2008 Datacenter And there is also an version for Itanium based systems. Below is a comparison chart, (Click to enlarge) More About: Feature , Differences
Windows Server 2008 Installation Walkthrough
2008-02-05 23:32:00 I installed Windows Server 2008 in my Virtual PC hosted in my Vista Ultimate. Here is an walkthrough of the installation options and steps. One thing to note is that I did not enter Product Key and thus was taken to the screen of selecting which edition I want to install. Another change I noticed from ... More About: Windows Server 2008 , Alla
Revisiting Mock Objects
2008-02-05 10:35:00 My last post on Mock Objects explained briefly about what is Mocking and gave you an example. But that example is not explained and thought let me explain and how Mocking plays its part here. So, revisiting that example, [TestFixture] public class AdminTests { private MockRepository mocks; private EduAdmin eduAdmin; ...
Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 are now RTM
2008-02-05 03:21:00 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â After a long wait, Microsoft today announced that Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 are now RTM! Windows Server 2008 is available in Connect for a small time period of 30 days (without product keys though) and in MSDN/TechNet subscriptions from today, but Vista SP1 will only be available to public from mid of March. ...
Summer Road trip starts tomorrow!
2008-02-03 09:07:00 So, here you go! Summer Road trip in NZ starts tomorrow in Auckland and Darryl has reached Auckland already Chris, Darryl, Jeremy - What a team! To be up-to date on whats happening with the road trip, be sure to follow Darryl More About: Trip , Road Trip , Tomorrow
Geekzone Blogs Vista Gadget
2008-02-02 23:48:00 If you are regular visitor of Geekzone forums and blogs, then along with the already available Geekzone Forums gadget, you will find my Geekzone Blogs gadget too useful I developed it based on the forums gadget. Below are some screenshots, Gadget docked Gadget undocked, Flyout window showing the contents of the feed (post) (Click for a full view) Please ... More About: Vista
Instant Viewer with Microsoft Presenter 8000 Mouse rocks!
2008-02-01 13:54:00 Everyone likes the Apple Mac’s Expose feature and wondered why Vista didn’t bring it on along with Windows Flip 3D Well, today I found a function with my Microsoft Notebook Presenter 8000 Mouse that there is a function called Instant Viewer that does the same thing and you can bind any one of the ... More About: Rocks
Imagine Cup 2008
2008-01-27 14:35:00 Looking to show out your talent? How far you can do wonders with Software and Technology? Then Imagine Cup should be in your list If you are in University Of Otago and want to participate in this year’s Imagine Cup, please email me and I am happy to assist you. I do have a Project ... More About: 2008
Microsoft Student Partners 2008 - University Of Otago
2008-01-27 14:15:00 Ok, Here are the Microsoft Student Partners 2008 for University Of Otago
Survey for my blog readers
2008-01-27 06:57:00 Hi Friends, Its been a long time since I started blogging but I haven’t yet asked for any feedback about my blog to my friends and readers. So, I thought let me have a small survey conducted on my blog. I would be really happy if you can complete this small survey here and give your ... More About: Readers , Survey , Blog
Mock Objects
2008-01-25 13:46:00 So, you have started reading or doing more on Test Driven Development? Then am sure you would have now heard about Mock ing or Mock Objects Before getting started and seeing what is this Mock Object, let me quote the definition of Unit Test from Wikipedia In computer programming, unit testing is a procedure used to ...
Summer road trip Update
2008-01-23 16:11:00 Â Â Darryl has posted an update for the Summer road trip So, to sum it up, here is the schedule Feb 4, Auckland - AIT, Ground Floor, Write Stevenson House, 585 Great South Road , Auckland Feb 5, Tauranga - Bureta Park Motor Inn, Redwood Room, Vale Street, Otumoetai, Tauranga Feb 7, Hamilton - Wintec, ... More About: Update , Trip , Road Trip
This is really awesome - The Best movie for now - CloverField
2008-01-21 05:24:00 Here is a four minute preview More About: Movie , Awesome , Cloverfield
Windows Vista Facts
2008-01-20 20:40:00 I am not sure whether this page is there from the beginning, but I found this today via Neowin - Windows Vista : Facts  I do agree with those Facts More About: Windows Vista
Generic Delegates and Lambda Expressions
2008-01-19 06:15:00 .NET 3.5 now provides Generic Delegates which can be used in place of Anonymous Methods The Generic delegates always encapsulate a method which can accept 1 or more inputs and return a value. So, currently we have, 1) Func<TResult> 2) Func<T,TResult> 3) Func<T1,T2,TResult> 4) Func<T1,T2,T3,TResult> 5) Func<T1,T2,T3,T4,TResult> Well enough to cater our needs Lets take an example Problem: Given an array ... More About: Expressions
Arriving to LINQ
2008-01-18 15:42:00 As everybody know, LINQ is one of the new feature in .NET 3.5 framework I thought let me take you a small ride on how I arrived in using LINQ I will take you from the common approach and then a step ahead and finally arrive to LINQ (I am taking very very generic example to ...
.NET Source Code (not all, but few) released!
2008-01-18 10:29:00 Yes, as promised earlier, here comes the .NET Source Code Read here on how to enable source code debugging from the person who made this possible And for a screencast, Daniel Moth has an excellent screencast. Watch it here One notable change is in the licensing of the source code which can be read ... More About: Released , Source Code
MBA
2008-01-15 19:45:00 UPDATE: At first MBA looked so cool and I have to really say that the Apple Marketing gets thumbs up for this. But later discussing this with many of my friends, none of them are calling it as another great product from Apple. Many have told me that they expected the features available in MBA ...
Unit Testing the Database Access Layer
2008-01-11 08:47:00 Its been fun after getting into Test Driven Development What I do is, test each individual components, layers in my project before its being used by other components and layers. So, currently am testing the Database Access Layer (DAL). Testing DAL is more tricky and many people follow different methods. 1) Many follow a Repository ... More About: Unit
Manually constructing Expressions
2008-01-09 10:59:00 [ Please read Marlon’s blog post before reading my post ] My friend Marlon posted about how to parse Expression given a Lambda expression something like, x=>x.Name==”Marlon” But what if you want to construct the above Lambda expression manually Yes, that is 100% possible! You can build your queries manually too Looking again at the ... More About: Expressions
Bill Gates CES 2008 Keynote
2008-01-07 06:59:00 You can watch it here (Don’t miss the video - Last day @ Microsoft ) More About: Keynote , Bill Gates , Gates , Bill , 2008
I am TDD :)
2008-01-07 06:00:00 TDD isn’t really a new phrase. Its the acronym of Test Driven Development I was introduced to TDD by my friend Ivan and now I firmly believe that TDD is the right development technique and practice that every developer should acquire. Normally, we are taught the general development principle - “Design, Code, Test, Release (DCTR)” ...
LINQ-to-Objects
2008-01-03 11:07:00 Say we have a class, public class Student { private String name; private string course; public string Name { get { return name; } set { name = value; } ... More About: Objects
Microsoft ads comes to Youtube
2007-12-30 21:54:00 Yes, its late, but not too late Windows Vista and Liv@youtube More About: Youtube , Microsoft
SystemIcons.Shield Icon
2007-12-18 13:25:00 Daniel Moth has blogged about the new SystemIcon s.Shield icon added to the set of System.Drawing.SystemIcons collection. This new Shield icon can be used to display whenever an admin task is required to be carried out. You would be familiar with this icon if you are using Vista. For example - If you open the Indexing ...
Using ExtendGlass
2007-12-16 16:23:00 Few months back I wrote about my small library which helps to enable Glass effects in your WPF applications. Today lets see how we could really make use of it in order to get displays like - a portion of your window has glass effects and the rest dont. Best example to take is Windows ...
My Office Live Workspace
2007-12-15 09:32:00 Yes, finally I received my mail yesterday that my Office Live Workspace is ready! It wasn’t the same what I had expected. The first and foremost thing I expected was, 1) Online creation, editing of MS Office Word documents, Excel sheets and Office Presentations If you think that is what you would get with Office Live, then you ...
You asked for it, and here it is :)
2007-12-12 09:30:00 As I had posted earlier that Vista SP1 RC will be available to everyone for download, Microsoft released it today You can grab the RC Windows Update script here Believe it or not, Windows Update has been the best and easiest way to get Vista SP1. We beta testers have had good success installing ...
Integrating Microsoft Student Partners and .NET User Groups
More articles from this author:2007-12-12 07:36:00 New Zealand is well known for its excellent .NET User Groups . And there are lot of activities going with the user groups especially in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Down here in Dunedin, though the frequency of sessions is not regular, we do have/had good and exciting sessions. The only thing I saw missing was involvement of ... More About: Microsoft , Student , Partners 1, 2, 3 |
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