Microsoft is giving away free of charge a Connected Systems Business Kit which includes:
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Presentations and videos describing connected systems for business decision makers, architects, developers, and IT professionals. |
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Generico, an extensive SOA-blueprints based, end-to-end sample application showing a typical enterprise implementation of SOA. |
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Technical training materials. |
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Microsoft Enterprise Development Series white papers. |
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Customer and analyst evidence |
You can order a free copy over here
Hitachi tells the story of areal densities via perpendicular recording using awesome funny flash story.
So if you want to listen to the story of the little bit …. check it out here
(Mordy – Thanks for the link)
Starting June 8 2005 Windows IT Pro magazine will be conducting a hack iis6 contest where the winner will get a free XBox… check it out here
Juval Lowy just published a 50 pages white paper consist of introduction to System.Transaction in the .Net Framework 2.0
Flowing is the the white paper table of contents :
Introduction................................................................................................................ 1
.NET 1.x Transaction Programming Models...................................................... 2
.NET Framework Version 2.0 Transaction Managers...................................... 7
Transaction Promotion............................................................................................ 8
Triggering Promotion............................................................................................... 9
Working with System.Transactions................................................................... 11
Declarative Programming Model......................................................................... 11
Explicit Programming Model................................................................................ 11
Transaction Flow Management............................................................................ 13
More on TransactionScopeOption....................................................................... 17
Voting inside a nested scope............................................................................... 17
Setting the TransactionScope Timeout............................................................... 18
Setting the TransactionScope isolation level...................................................... 18
TransactionScope Benefits.................................................................................. 20
Advanced Topics.................................................................................................... 21
Transaction Events................................................................................................ 23
Code-Access Security.......................................................................................... 26
Concurrency Management and Cloning.............................................................. 26
Interoperability........................................................................................................ 28
Conclusion............................................................................................................... 32
About the Author..................................................................................................... 33
To download the white paper click here
The Enterprise Library team recently became aware of a memory leak issue in the Configuration Application Block, which is used by all other blocks in Enterprise Library. Patch 1475, available in the Releases section of the site, contains a fix to the issue. Because the issue has the potential to impact many applications that use Enterprise Library, Microsoft strongly advises all users of Enterprise Library (January 2005) to install this patch and recompile all applications that use any of the application blocks
Download it here
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 includes improvement in authorization store creation time and provides additional enumeration methods to optimize performance for specific queries.
In addition to new Authorization Manager queries, Service Pack 1 includes new interfaces to enable integration of ADAM principals and for use with Active Directory Federation Services. The new interfaces for SP1 are: (Click on each to see the SDK documentation and list of new methods for each.)
IAzAuthorizationStore2
IAzApplication2
IAzClientContext2
Use this application to backup and restore presentation, pictures, songs and applications from and to USB Flash Drive devices and take them with you. Use USB Flash Drives to store personal data, to keep your network configuration and to share information with your friends. Microsoft USB Flash Drive
Download here
Are you ready to experience SQL Server 2005?
Announcing the launch of the SQL Server 2005 Virtual Hands on labs. In these labs, you will get to experience many of the new features in SQL Server 2005 including CLR integration, XML support and deep business intelligence integration.
Just follow this link and experience SQL Server 2005 for yourself