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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 announced with Go Live License

vik20000in — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:32:00 GMT

Hi,

Microsoft has announced the release of the Beta 2 of the Visual Studio 2010. MSDN Subscribers can download the same today and this will be available for the general Public of Wednesday. The link for download is

http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/vstudio/dd582936(en-us).aspx

VS 2010 and .NET 4 bring a huge number of improvements and additions. They include big advances for ASP.NET web development, WPF and Windows Forms client development, SharePoint development, Silverlight development, data development, parallel computing development, and cloud computing development. VS 2010 also delivers a ton of improvements in the core IDE, code editors, programming languages, and enterprise design, architect, and testing tools.

Very important to note that .NET 4 and VS 2010 Beta 2 include a “go-live” license which means you can start using the products for production projects.

Vikram

Join the full day free community techdays event on 11th October 2009 in Kolkata

vik20000in — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:39:00 GMT

Hi,

Although a little late in blogging this, But I would like to invite all people in and around kolkata to join the KolkataNET - KolkataITPro - Community Tech Day on 11th Oct. 2009. The event is being held at International School of Business & Media, Kolkata Campus situated at Kolkata (address below). The event does not require any registeration free and is free.

The agenda for the event are below.

KeyNote
About KolkataNET and Community Tech Day in association with Microsoft, INETA, Culminis, SQL Pass - By Abu Ismail [15 Min - 10:00 to 10:15]

Developer Track
Session I - .NET 4.0 - Language Enhancement
Speaker: Sankarsan Bose [75Min - 10:15 to 11:45]
Break - Q&A Session 10-15 Min

Session II - ASP.NET 4.0
Speaker: Debjit Kar [75Min 12:00-1:15PM]

Launch [ 45Min 1:15-2:00PM]

IT Pro cum Database Professional Track
Launching Kolkata IT Pro Community - [15 Min 2:00 - 2:15PM]

Session III - Microsoft Virtualization Technologies
Speaker: Ranjana Jain [90Min 2:15 - 3:45PM]

Session IV - What's New in SQL Server 2008
Speaker: Rajesh Singh and Abu Ismail [60 Min 3:45-4:45PM]

Closing Ceremony [15 Min 4:45 - 5:00PM]

Venue
International School of Business & Media, Kolkata Campus
EN - 22, Sector - V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 091

Date: 11th Oct. 2009

For More Information you can contact at 9836 000020.

Check the below link for more.

http://www.kolkatanet.com/events/calendar.aspx

Hope to meet many of you at the event

Vikram

Web Platform Installer 2.0 available for Web developers

vik20000in — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:51:00 GMT

Hi,

Of late Microsoft Has been doing great job in creating an great experience for installation for both development component for Asp.net and IIS server and also available free open source software. Yes I am talking about the Web Platform Installer 2.0.

The web Platform Installer has been a great success, and is very user friendly tool to install most of the available software required for web development along with many available open source platforms and application.

Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Also known as Web PI) was released recently and can be downloaded from the link below.

http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

The new release is localized in 9 different languages and includes many more scenarios around Dev tools enterprise and Media. There have already been over 1 million download (Now that means success) for Web Platform Installer, and over 840000 download of available application. So if you have an open source application you should look forward to have it in the Web platform installer, as this way it can be easily visible to a huge number of audience.

Web PI has over 400 installers and if used fully can download over 22 GB of data (so be careful when installing something). It works great with Windows XP, Vista and windows 7 and has input from the product teams of SQL, IIS, Venus, Asp.net Expression, Azure, and many more.

I would urge all the web developer to have look at the Web Platform Installer RTW today and use it as the first preference to install any software for web development. This also ensures that you get the latest version of the correct software from the right vendor.

Vikram

A workshop for IT Professionals on 15th September on Implementing SECURITY INSIDE-OUT with MICROSOFT Technologies

vik20000in — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:10:00 GMT

Hi,

There an interactive live session on September 15, 2009 on how the New Efficiency Products will help you manage security in a simpler way. This session will occur across 16 cities at NIIT centers as a live session with benefit of face-to-face teaching, each participant having their own computers to work on, and having the ability to ask questions any time. The following event is available for the following city.

Ahmedabad
Lucknow
Bangalore
Mumbai
Bhopal
Mysore
Bhubhaneswar
Nagpur
Chandigarh
Nasik
Chennai
New Delhi
Hyderabad
Patna
Kolkata
Pune

The session is mainly meant for the IT Pro’s.

Hurry register for the event as the seats are very limited in each city. Below is the link for registration.

http://www.endtoend.in/apps/forms/microsoft/SecurityLive/registration.aspx

9.30 a.m. to 11 a.m.	Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enhanced Security and Control This session will explore Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 core platform security improvements, securing anywhere access, data protection, and protecting desktop users.
11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m.	Identity Management and Access Control in Windows Sever 2008 R2 Identity and access control features and technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 that provide a central way of managing credentials and technologies to allow only legitimate users access to devices, applications, and data.
12.15 p.m. to 12.45 p.m.	Lunch break
12.45 p.m. to 2.00 pm.	Understanding SQL Server 2008 security In this session, we shall focus on advance security features like data encryption, keys & certificates management, auditing & Execution context.
2:00 p.m to 2:30 p.m	Break
2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m	End-to-end security with Microsoft Forefront Security Solution Forefront Security products deliver protection, access, and management solutions. We will discuss each business scenario along with detailed demos on how Forefront technologies provide the protection layer and enable businesses.

Vikram

Microsoft releases MVC 1.0, Silverlight 3.0 Beta 1, and Expression Blend 3.0 preview

vik20000in — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:21:00 GMT

Hi,

With the start of MIX Microsoft has release a bunch of developer productive tools. I am trying to put all in this post with links to the respective page.

Microsoft has launched the release version of MVC 1.0. You can download it right now here. Also check out Phil Haack’s post on the release.

MSDN Documentation for MVC is also now available and the following link http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=145989

Like earlier years, Mix 09 also came with announcement of Silverlight 3.0 Beta. It is a preview release which continues Silverlight’s track record of rapid innovation - introducing more than 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight applications out of the browser, dramatic video performance and quality improvements, and features that radically improve developer productivity.

You can get the MSDN offline docs here. The CHM is nice if you're offline plus it's faster than the online content, has an index, and only contains Silverlight content.

Microsoft also released the Silverlight 3.0 tools beta and can be downloaded here.

This installer includes:

Silverlight 3 Beta SDK
Silverlight 3 Beta Developer Runtime for debugging
XAP Compression Improvements
Support for Caching Transparent Platform Extensions
New Page and Project Templates

Microsoft has also released the preview of the next version of Expression Blend (3.0). The preview will work with Silverlight 3.0 and can be downloaded here.

Silverlight Toolkit has been updated to provide an updated to Silverlight 2 controls, a new release for Silverlight 3 Beta controls, and a new themes gallery. All of these can be downloaded at the Silverlight Toolkit CodePlex project site.

Microsoft also .NET RIA Services which simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms.

Regards

Dot Net framework 3.5 and visual studio 2008 SP1 out

vik20000in — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:15:00 GMT

Hi,

Microsoft has released sp1 for dot net framework 3.5 and visual studio 2008 The SP1 has following feature update for

Dot Net framework
Asp.Net Dynamic data
Asp.net Ajax Browser history

Asp.net Ajax Script combining

Ado.Net data services

Ado.net entity framework

The SP1 for visual studio 2008 also has many notable bug fixes. You can find a list of the fixes here.

You can download the SP1 for dot net here. And combined Sp1 for Visual studio 2008 and Dot net frame work 3.5 here.

Vikram

Microsoft launches IE8 beta 1 in public

vik20000in — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:03:00 GMT

Hi,

The beat 1 of the most dominated web browser’s next version is out for grab and it comes with many features too. The IE8 Readiness Toolkit which will give a detailed description of the features. You can download the same here.

Some of the new features are

Activities
WebSlice
cascading style sheets 2.1 compliant
Developer Tools

Vikram

Vikram Lakhotia : News

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 announced with Go Live License

Join the full day free community techdays event on 11th October 2009 in Kolkata

KeyNoteAbout KolkataNET and Community Tech Day in association with Microsoft, INETA, Culminis, SQL Pass - By Abu Ismail [15 Min - 10:00 to 10:15] Developer TrackSession I - .NET 4.0 - Language Enhancement Speaker: Sankarsan Bose [75Min - 10:15 to 11:45]Break - Q&A Session 10-15 Min

Session II - ASP.NET 4.0 Speaker: Debjit Kar [75Min 12:00-1:15PM]

Launch [ 45Min 1:15-2:00PM]

IT Pro cum Database Professional TrackLaunching Kolkata IT Pro Community - [15 Min 2:00 - 2:15PM] Session III - Microsoft Virtualization TechnologiesSpeaker: Ranjana Jain [90Min 2:15 - 3:45PM]

Session IV - What's New in SQL Server 2008Speaker: Rajesh Singh and Abu Ismail [60 Min 3:45-4:45PM]

Closing Ceremony [15 Min 4:45 - 5:00PM]

VenueInternational School of Business & Media, Kolkata CampusEN - 22, Sector - V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 091

Web Platform Installer 2.0 available for Web developers

A workshop for IT Professionals on 15th September on Implementing SECURITY INSIDE-OUT with MICROSOFT Technologies

Microsoft releases MVC 1.0, Silverlight 3.0 Beta 1, and Expression Blend 3.0 preview

Dot Net framework 3.5 and visual studio 2008 SP1 out

Microsoft launches IE8 beta 1 in public

KeyNote
About KolkataNET and Community Tech Day in association with Microsoft, INETA, Culminis, SQL Pass - By Abu Ismail [15 Min - 10:00 to 10:15]

Developer Track
Session I - .NET 4.0 - Language Enhancement
Speaker: Sankarsan Bose [75Min - 10:15 to 11:45]
Break - Q&A Session 10-15 Min

Session II - ASP.NET 4.0
Speaker: Debjit Kar [75Min 12:00-1:15PM]

IT Pro cum Database Professional Track
Launching Kolkata IT Pro Community - [15 Min 2:00 - 2:15PM]

Session III - Microsoft Virtualization Technologies
Speaker: Ranjana Jain [90Min 2:15 - 3:45PM]

Session IV - What's New in SQL Server 2008
Speaker: Rajesh Singh and Abu Ismail [60 Min 3:45-4:45PM]

Venue
International School of Business & Media, Kolkata Campus
EN - 22, Sector - V, Salt Lake City, Kolkata - 700 091