July 2004 - Posts

Community Server : Forums 2.0

Rob announced the official release of the first piece of Telligent Systems' Community Server line, Community Server :: Forums

This is a major upgrade to v1.0 and will be a major part of a lot of cool stuff in the future. You can read some more release notes here (as well as see a demo) and download the bits over here.

Great work Scott and everyone elce who contributed, collaboration makes us all look good!

posted Friday, July 30, 2004 7:54 AM by paul with 1 Comments

Enterprise Library

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Enterprise Library

Enterprise Library is a major new release of the patterns & practices Application Blocks, which are reusable software components designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Enterprise Library 1.0 will bring together new releases of the most widely reusable blocks into a single integrated download.

The major themes of Enterprise Library are:
• Consistency – all Enterprise Library Application Blocks will feature consistent design patterns and implementation approaches, configuration mechanisms and tools, documentation, samples, deployment and operational processes.
• Extensibility – all blocks include defined extensibility points which allow developers to customize the behavior of the blocks by ‘plugging in’ their own code. Enterprise Library will also ship with guidance to assist developers with building their own blocks that integrate with the Library.
• Ease of Use – Enterprise Library will offer numerous usability improvements, including a graphical configuration tool, simpler installation, and clearer and more complete documentation and samples.
• Integration – the Enterprise Library Application Blocks are designed and tested to work well together. It will also be possible to use the blocks individually, thus catering for a range of different usage scenarios.

posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:24 PM by paul with 2 Comments

MSN Search

The “NEW” MSN search is here!

Search      

Looks like the old Google, but doesn't rank my blog as high as my company site.

posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 5:36 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Empower Your Future

Empower Your Future: Membership Fee US$375   
Microsoft Empower for ISVs is designed to help you succeed in developing your software and in growing your business. It provides resources such as an MSDN Universal subscription and internal use licenses for developing your application, as well as sales and marketing materials to help you promote your software.
Enroll in Empower for ISVs.
posted Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:52 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Yukon Beta 2

SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 is Live! Yukon2 has arrived to brighten up our summer, if you are lucky enought to have an MSDN subscription get over to msdn.microsoft.com and get your copy today! If you don't have an MSDN subscription now is a good time to get one! If you don't have enought money to invest in an MSDN subscription look into the Empower ISV program.
posted Monday, July 26, 2004 8:25 AM by paul with 2 Comments

VSLive NYC

Tuesday July 27 we are having a Special VSLive NYCDOTNETDEV Meeting: Asynchronous Execution in Windows Forms: Today & Tomorrow, a talk by Brian Randell . You will need to RSVP to get your name on the LIST, contact Bill, or send me an email. We had a great time last year, but we always have a good time getting together. Many of my BlogBrothers will be there this year,  Brian, DonXML, ScottW, Bill, Miguel, Keith and Sandy (yes Paul, you may have convinced me despite your painful jabs at my still-maturing Baltimore Orioles baseball team) Sandy is giving the Keynote on Wednesday and the Orioles begin a four game series in the Bronx on Thursday...should be fun!
posted Monday, July 26, 2004 7:52 AM by paul with 1 Comments

G'Day

TechEd is on its way to New Zealand and Australia like a traveling circus and Medicine show. The best news for you Dotnetjunkies down under is that TechEd is offering a FREE day on the 3rd of August! I might cash in some of my frequent flyer miles and join in on the fun!
posted Monday, July 26, 2004 6:35 AM by paul with 0 Comments

ReSharper

ReSharper is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 that brings intelligent C# coding assistance, real-time error highlightin, and refactoring.

ReSharper provides C# developers with many of the same powerful productivity-boosting capabilities that thousands of J*** developers worldwide have come to rely on every day with IntelliJ IDEA.

posted Sunday, July 25, 2004 5:14 PM by paul with 1 Comments

We love bees

Windows XP Game Advisor

Put more fun in your life with the all new Windows XP Game Advisor. Find game information including demos, trailers, screenshots and updates and determine if a game will work on your Windows XP powered computer before you buy!

Start the Windows XP Game Advisor

Start the Windows XP Game Advisor

 

The Halo 2 Movie Trailer
Bungie offers up its movie trailer. And remember, we love bees.
posted Saturday, July 24, 2004 6:45 PM by paul with 2 Comments

INETA Movie!

International .NET Association (INETA)

Bill Evjen's a busy guy, he writes software, he runs a .Net User Group, next week he'll be in New York to speak at VSLive and now he's making movies!

View the 300K version

View the 56K version

posted Friday, July 23, 2004 8:13 AM by paul with 3 Comments

Lookout

Last week Microsoft acquired Lookout Software LLC, the best way to search your Outlook folders for that email you know you received sometime ago....

Now Microsoft has made Lookout 1.2 available to download.

"Lookout has developed an innovative technology for searching e-mail that is aligned with our own MSN Search efforts," said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of MSN. "Our vision is to take search beyond today's basic Internet search services to deliver direct answers to people's questions, and help them find information from a broad range of sources. We are thrilled to add the expertise of the Lookout team to our existing team of search experts."

posted Friday, July 23, 2004 6:01 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Hey Rock Heads!

 Listen to .NET Rocks! Live!
Listen every Thursday between 10PM and Midnight EST (GMT-5).
Click here for details

Tonights Show
Carl and Rory's guest is Microsoft's Jeff Richter. He's an authority on the CLR and low-level framework issues. He'll be talking about the CLR past, present, and future; AppDomains; Garbage collection in Windows Forms vs. ASP.NET; stories from inside Microsoft. When I last saw Jeff he told me he would begin blogging , so tune in tonight for the whole story...

posted Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:06 AM by paul with 0 Comments

NY/NJ SharePoint UG

The inaugural meeting of the NY/NJ SharePoint Users Group is tonight at Microsoft’s New Jersey Office.

The purpose of the user group is to bring the local SharePoint community together to share tips, tricks, and ideas on the uses of SharePoint Portal Server. The user group features SharePoint experts from Microsoft, Microsoft Partners, and the SharePoint user community. Everyone who works with, or is thinking of working with SharePoint will likely learn something . The user group is targeted towards end users, administrators, implementers, and developers.

The fun begins at 7pm and we might finish by 8:30. Everyone is invited as I don’t want to be the only one there! Collaboration makes us all look good.

posted Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:26 AM by paul with 1 Comments

patterns & practices

Describing the Enterprise Architectural Space This document presents an organizing table that describes the enterprise architectural space, shows relationships among artifacts in the space, and demonstrates how different roles in your enterprise view enterprise architecture.

Integration Patterns
Integration Patterns examines known good ways to integrate systems and describes them using the pattern form.

MSDN Architecture Webcast: patterns & practices Live: Microsoft .NET - J2EE Application Interoperability – Level 200

posted Thursday, July 22, 2004 6:04 AM by paul with 1 Comments

Server Performance Advisor

How is your Server performing?

Service Performance Advisor is a server performance diagnostic tool developed to diagnose root causes of performance problems in a Windows Server 2003 operating system, particularly performance problems for Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and on Active Directory. Server Performance Advisor measures the performance and use of resources by your computer stressed under any workload.

posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:35 PM by paul with 0 Comments

Cybercrime

Microsoft Teams With National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance To Fight Cybercrime

NCFTA Provided With Full-Time Microsoft Analyst and More Than $46,000 in Software

Microsoft's Internet Safety Initiative

posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:14 AM by paul with 1 Comments

Dividend.Net

Microsoft Outlines Quarterly Dividend, Four-Year Stock Buyback Plan and Special Dividend to Shareholders Citing confidence about innovation opportunities and growth, the company plans to return up to US$75 billion in value to shareholders over the next four years.
posted Tuesday, July 20, 2004 3:49 PM by paul with 2 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Express Docs

SQL Server 2005 Express Documentation and Samples

SQL Server 2005 Express Books Online, Abridged documentation, and Samples include documentation and Samples specific to SQL Server 2005 Express Technical Preview (the successor to MSDE 2000).

posted Tuesday, July 20, 2004 4:57 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Windows Driver Foundation

Windows Driver Foundation Beta Program Invitation. The Microsoft Windows Device Experience Group would like to invite you to participate in their upcoming beta program for the Windows Driver Foundation. More…

WDF Overview
White Paper Introduction to the Windows Driver Foundation
White Paper Simplifying Windows Driver Development

posted Monday, July 19, 2004 8:25 AM by paul with 2 Comments

Threat Modeling Tool

Frank Swiderski - Threat Modeling Tool Revealed Frank Swiderski - Threat Modeling Tool Revealed
Microsoft Security Engineer Frank Swiderski talks to Channel 9 about threat modeling. Frank wrote the Threat Modeling Tool available from our new Threat Modeling Page.
posted Monday, July 19, 2004 6:08 AM by paul with 0 Comments