Microsoft has released latest version of Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio – Version 1.4. Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Refresh is primarily a stability release addressing the below issues. Resolved an issue that caused full IIS fail when the web.config file was set to read-only. Resolved an issue that caused full… Continue reading
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 FINAL – Released
Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 FINAL version. The full list of updates included in this service pack can be found here. You can download Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 FINAL Installer from Microsoft Download Center.
Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 SP1
With the release of Windows 7 SP1, Microsoft has updated and refreshed Windows Virtual PC to support Windows 7 SP1 as guest operating system. The refreshed version of Windows Virtual PC with version number of 6.1.7600.16393 supports the following Host and Guest Operating systems: Host: Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7… Continue reading
Windows Search 4.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2
Today when I was trying to do search on my outlook mails, it showed me a notification that Windows Search is not enabled in your Windows, which will facilitates the Search for more of a Faster Search. So I went to Windows Search 4.0 Home to download the Windows Search 4.0 for my Windows… Continue reading
Using IIS Express 7.5 with Visual Studio 2010 (without SP1)
This is an interesting blog I came across while doing some research on using IIS 7.5 Express with out the Integration or Tooling support that would require Visual Studio 2010 Sp1 Beta. Since VS2010 Sp1 is in beta stage, it would not be a wise choice taking this in to real time project, because as… Continue reading
Installing Windows Phone Developer Tools on Windows Server 2008 or Windows XP
Installing Windows Phone Developer Tools on Windows Server 2008 or Windows XP Recently I have installed Windows Server 2008 R2 from Technet and started setting up my Development Environment from scratch. I wanted to use Windows Server 2008 R2 for a while for development provided how flexible it is for development as compared to Windows… Continue reading
Introducing you the “Martin Fowler” : The king of Software Development
Martin Fowler is an author and international speaker on software development, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming. Martin Fowler Fowler is a member of the Agile Alliance and helped create the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, along with more than 15 co-authors. He… Continue reading
sqlncli_x64.msi cannot be found while installing SQL Server 2005 64bit on Windows Server 2008 R2
Recently while installing SQL Server 2005 64bit on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64bit an error message displays that “An installation package for the product Microsoft SQL Server Native Client cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package ‘sqlncli_x64.msi’.” as shown below. After that, the Microsoft SQL… Continue reading
Windows Server 2008 R2 – NetGear WN111 Wireless-N300 USB adapter – Crazy Driver Error – Code 19
Few months back in a heavy lightning my motherboard(MSI K9A2-Platinum v2) got fried a bit. My onboard network card and few USB ports of the mother board got affected because of it. Remaining everything working smoothly. So I do not have any other option other than start using a Wireless-N300 USB adaptor. I opted for… Continue reading
Microsoft’s New Certification for MCPD on Windows Azure
Microsoft has released another certification for MCPD on Windows Azure - PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications. The Exam Code is: 70-583 (Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications) For more information please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exam.aspx?ID=70-583&Locale=en-us