Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is now available for download. SQL Server 2005 service packs are cumulative, and this service pack upgrades all service levels of SQL Server 2005 to SP4 . You can use these packages to upgrade any of the following SQL Server 2005 editions: Enterprise Enterprise Evaluation Developer… Continue reading
Category: Microsoft
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…
Register for Microsoft Community Tech Days – Hyderabad
–Hi All; We have our Community Techdays scheduled for 18th Dec 2010. The event is FREE and you do not have to do anything other than having registered yourself for the event and attend the event on the meeting date. Tips For Registration : 1. Use either top Menu “Registration” -> ” In-Person” event for… Continue reading
Silverlight 5 is Announced
On 02nd Dec 2010, Silverlight Firestarter event Microsoft has announced the upcoming version of Silverlight called as “Silverlight 5″. The event has some live demos of the capabilities of Silverlight 5. Lending some of the contents from ScottGu’s Blog. Scott Guthrie(@ScottGu) is a VP with Microsoft product development like Silverlight and Visual Studio. Quoting to… Continue reading
New Release: Windows Azure SDK and Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2010)
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio, which includes the Windows Azure SDK, extends Visual Studio 2010 to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running, packaging and deployment of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure. New for version 1.3: Virtual Machine (VM) Role (Beta):Allows you to create a custom VHD image using Windows… Continue reading
Use LoadDataOptions class in LINQ for immediate filtering and loading of relational data
LINQ is one of the nice feature every .NET developer would love to appreciate Microsoft for. I do not wish to explain much about linq, I am getting in to topic with a belief that you will have minimum understanding of LINQ and how it helps in data access from .NET Framework 3.5 onwards. Consider… Continue reading
Microsoft® SQL Server® code-named ‘Denali’ – Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1)
Microsoft has announced the preview version of their next generation of SQL Server database software code named “Denali” Quoting from MSDN Download Center SQL Server code-named ‘Denali’ helps empowers organizations to be more agile in today’s competitive market. Customers will more efficiently deliver mission-critical solutions through a highly scalable and available platform. Industry-leading tools help… Continue reading
ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate
ASP.NET MVC 3 is a framework for developing highly testable and maintainable Web applications by leveraging the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. The latest Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC 3.0 for Visual studio 2010 has releaded. Download latest ASP.NET MVC 3 – RC – Release Candidate
Doing Parallel Tasks using Parallel Class – Part 01(Parallel.For Parallel.ForEach)
Introduction Recently I had a requirement for performance tuning the application which my team is working on. We thought of running using normal .NET Threading. But I thought about utilizing the Parallel programming extensions(PFX) in .NET Framework 4.0. Since we have lots of For Loops and for each loops consisting of web service calls, makes… Continue reading
Experiencing DEVCON 2010 – Hyderabad with MUGH
It was nice informative session we had in DEVCON2010 by Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad(www.MUGH.net). I was really glad to meet Aaron Skonnard(@skonnard) directly and learn from him, such an excellent speaker he is, I really a great fan of him, experienced his works etc. I always admire his works and rocking session on Future of… Continue reading
Get your Windows Server AppFabric Training Kit
Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS. Windows Server AppFabric targets applications built using ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). It provides out-of-the-box capabilities for you to easily build and manage composite… Continue reading