SQL Server 2008 Released


If you don’t have access to TechNet or MSDN you can grab an evaluation copy here.  If you are curious about the hardware and software requirements you can view them here. What’s New in SQL Server 2008 What’s New in SQL Server Installation What’s New (Database Engine) What’s New (Analysis Services – Multidimensional Database) What’s […]

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Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0


Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 is a software package particularly designed by Microsoft to help middle school students learn computer programming. It consists of the following five components: Visual Sort Designer Control Visual Search Designer Control Visual Declarative Designer Assistant Class Designer Visual Programming Flow Chart You can download the add-in here.

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Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers


Three new important updates were released on July 15th that affect SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express and Project Professional 2007. The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) applies to: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Microsoft Search Server […]

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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools – July 2008 Released


The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience. The following tools are installed with the tfpt.msi package: Command line tool (TFPT.EXE) Team Explorer IDE menu additions Build Notification tool TFS Best Practices Analyzer Process […]

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TFS Power Tool – July ‘08 Release


The next release of the Team Foundation Power Tools is nearing release (about 3 weeks from now) and it has quite a number a great new features: TFS Alerts VS plugin for creating subscriptions to TFS Alerts:  A new node has been added to Team Explorer named “Alerts”.  This will make creating alerts alot easier […]

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System Center Virtual Machine Manager: P2V


Today I had the opportunity to try out the “Physical to Virtual” task in the SCVMM 2008 Beta.  You can get a copy of the beta from the connect site. I installed the SCVMM 2008 Beta on Windows Server 2008 x64 and since I also have the Hyper-V role on that machine I added it […]

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Free e-book: “Foundation of Programming”


Karl Seguin is a developer at Fuel Industries, a former Microsoft MVP, a member of the influential CodeBetter.com community and an editor for DotNetSlackers. He has written numerous articles and is an active member of various Microsoft public newsgroups. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. He has released a free 79 page eBook for .NET […]

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Hyper-V RTM released yesterday on Microsoft Downloads


You can now officially use Hyper-V in a production environment, here is the link to the download to update the Role. Here are the downloads for the Remote Administration Tools: Windows Server 2008 (x32) Windows Vista (x32) Windows Vista (x64) Technorati Tags: Windows Server 2008,Hyper-V

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Forms Authentication and Read/Anonymous Access


I had created a .ascx control as a footer for a SharePoint MasterPage which displayed the date the page was changed and it worked great.  It was great until I created a user account (Forms Based Authentication) with “Read” access and when the account logged in I would get an “Error: Access Denied”, this error […]

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Getting Public Key Token of Assembly Within Visual Studio


This is a great tip from Kirk Evan’s blog. I hated shelling out to the command prompt to do that, even though the new ctrl-shift right click “Copy as Path” in Windows Explorer made it easy to get the full path to the .dll to paste to the sn –Tp command.   Technorati Tags: Microsoft […]

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