Today, during the keynote address at Microsoft TechEd Developers 2007, S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corp., announced that Microsoft will release Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 by the...

On 6th November, Microsoft announced Search Server 2008 Express, a new addition to enterprise search line up, which includes Microsoft Enterprise Server 2008 and SharePoint 2007 Server. This product includes powerful search features to search the content...

Useful blog entry from Paul Endrew on ugrading your .Net Framework 1.0 application to .Net Framework 3.5 application: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2007/10/25/how-to-upgrade-from-net-framework-1-0-to-net-framework-3-5.aspx

Some of the important performance counters related to memory in SQL Server are: SQL Server Cache Hit Ratios : A consistent value below 90% indicates that more physical memory is needed on the server. Memory Object: Available Bytes : On a server...

Microsoft Popfly (internally code named Springfield) is a web site that allows users to create web pages, program snippets, and mashups using Microsoft Silverlight runtime and a set of online tools provided. Following 3 tools are included in Popfly, based...

SQL Server 2005 dynamically acquires and frees memory as required. Administrator does not have to specify how much memory should be allocated to SQL Server, although following options exist: Standard 32 bit addresses can map a maximum of 4 GB of...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 improvements can be classified into following 7 different technology areas: Develop Smart Client Applications :Visual Studio provides a new set of tools and classes which will enable developers and simplify the integration...

Visual Studio 2008 enables organizations to rapidly create more secure, manageable, and reliable applications that take adavantage of Windows Vista and Office 2007 System. 3 primary pillars of VS 2008 are: Improve Developer Productivity Manage...

Recently there have been lots of buzz around Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Along with this it has brought many other acronyms such as ESB, ESA etc. Let us understand what is SOA? SOA allows organizations to expand its existing business applications...

In today's world, most of the modern business processes, in some way, depend on software systems. To automate these business processes it is necessary to connect various software systems. Following things should be considered when integrating these systems...

Microsoft Silverlight is a web presentation technology which provides capabilities to deliver high quality videos, rich interactive applications for the web using .NET, across browsers including Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer and platforms such...

According to "Best Companies to Work For" survey conducted by Business Today in India, the software giant from Redmond makes a stunning entry at #1. Quite a feat for a corporation that runs six different units in India. Snapshot Total employees: 5...

SQL Server 2008 (code name 'Katmai') delivers on the Microsoft data platform vision by enabling organizations to run their mission critical applications. Following are the main qualities of the new platform: Trusted : In today's data driven world...