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TFS for SourceSafe users

girishp — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:54:01 GMT

This is really nothing but goodness. The TFS team has done a lot of studies and found there is a group of customers who would just love to replace SourceSafe and do not immediately require all of the many features in a full blown TFS installation. To...(read more)

Views that are possible in Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Edition

girishp — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:22:55 GMT

Following are a few of the cool views that you can get in VS 2010. There are a lot more capabilities, which you can explore. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010 Architecture...(read more)

Bing It. Bing It. Bring it on

girishp — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:36:37 GMT

Hi - Bing is the name of the new search tool from Microsoft. It is pretty amazing in its capability to provide fine tuned searches, as well as showing you your search history. If you already using Live search you will transparently taken to Bing. Now...(read more)

Make Web Not War – from Microsoft

girishp — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:40:19 GMT

This is a slightly fun video for you tech junkies out there. http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=9e1142a3-c13e-4156-9bc4-1096f6145434 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCApcSq1ke0 I will update as the other episodes in this series...(read more)

DeepZoomPix – Stunning VISUAL Demos – Integrated use of Silverlight, DeepZoom and the Azure Services Platform

girishp — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:36:54 GMT

Today MS announced the go live of DeepZoomPix , a technology demonstration of Microsoft® Silverlight™ , Deep Zoom and the Azure™ Services Platform . Using Silverlight’s exclusive Deep Zoom technology , DeepZoomPix enables you to interactively explore...(read more)

IE8 Officially released – Top features and highlights

girishp — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:12:05 GMT

We released Internet Explorer 8 to the web for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server. Not only is this the best version of Internet Explorer that Microsoft has ever built, it’s the best browser available for consumers, businesses, and developers,...(read more)

MIX 09 announcements – IIS at MIX 2009: Extensions, Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer

girishp — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:50:39 GMT

The IIS team announced the release of 10 new extensions and launched a new end-to-end experience for discovering and installing community applications on IIS. This wave of IIS extensions span new functionality in request processing, server management,...(read more)

Example of Integrating Live ID Web Authentication to your Web Sites

girishp — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:24:36 GMT

The following is a short video which shows how a Web Site has integrated Live ID and used it as one of the authentication mechanisms for their Web site. ...(read more)

Engineering Enhancements to Windows7 based on feedback

girishp — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:20:24 GMT

The Win 7 team has been hard at work taking user feedback and incorporating them into Win7. Some of the most notable are like being able to press <WindowsLogo> + number key to launch applications. For example if you find that you are launching Internet...(read more)

Some more love for Windows Live

girishp — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:18:27 GMT

Continuing the sequence of more love for Windows Live, I am posting a couple of more videos which shows the kinds of consumer scenarios that are possible with Windows Live. Girl From Mars – Just click on the link to left or the...(read more)

A Little love for Windows Live – How easily Kylie uploads and shares photos

girishp — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:46:39 GMT

I am planning to post a series of blog-posts on the ease of use and friendliness of using Windows Live. Well what the heck is Windows Live anyway. Windows Live is a comprehensively and well thought out set of integrated services (there is a key...(read more)

Windows Azure bringing Cloud computing to the mainstream

girishp — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:10:00 GMT

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform and it brings several ideas and concepts in one neat coherent whole. The first is developers should be able to write applications that run on the cloud and test it. This is given below....(read more)

Windows Live Essentials – free download

girishp — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:36:19 GMT

I was chatting with some of my friends and I learnt that they did not know of the free goodies from Microsoft called Windows Essentials. So I decided to write a simple post on that including from where to get it.

<Aside> And while you are at it you can also go and sign up for Live Mesh at www.mesh.com which is available for Apple Macintosh (YES you heard that correctly – Apple ), Windows Mobile devices and of course for PCs running Windows. This essentially allows you to seamlessly and transparently keep your Documents, Folders, files and Photos in sync across the various devices once you downloaded and installed the bits on all the devices you want to be part of your device mesh. </Aside>

Now – coming back to Windows Essentials. You also literally get a hard drive in the sky called “skydrive” which gives 25GB of free space.

“Windows Essentials” a free download, essentially gives the following free services. One of the most striking features you will see is the better integration between between the various components such as Hotmail, Instant Messenger, Photos, skydrive, Contacts, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, etc.,.

So what do you get when you download and install the Windows Live Essentials.

Well known hotmail, with a much improved User Interface and lots of nifty new features.
Instant Messenger
Photo Upload
Photo Gallery
Movie Maker
Free Blogging tools (Live Writer – which is what I used to write thie blog which you are reading)
Video uploads and free streaming through Silverlight.

You get a tightly integrated experience of all of the above in one simple page where you have to sign in only once. See below for some of the things you can see including “What's new in your network of friends/.contacts”

To get your free download go to http://download.live.com.

Cool new nifty feature in Live Search

girishp — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:05:58 GMT

There is a cool and nifty feature in Live Search. For those who want to know quickly the stock price and or stock chart of a certain stock just type it in the Search box on the right of the browser. You will immediately see a drop down with the stock symbol that you typed and a chart. So you can take a quick glance and then close it without actually opening a special browser session.

See below for an example what appeared when I typed MSFT.

There are other things like if you type “Weather New York”

or want to do quick calculation like “255.45*72.2”

OR just type in anything and see the browser respond back intelligently.

LiveJournal Tags: Live Search,stock,weather calculator,Visual Search,accelrators,slices

Live Services – Training material videos now available

girishp — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:11:59 GMT

Finally we are publicly releasing the internal Live Services Training power point decks and videos which we did worldwide at 11 locations.

You can find the link to it in: http://dev.live.com/training/

The following are the various sessions that are available in the above link.

Live Services – go production with these sessions (1-5)

Live Services – An All-Up Technical Overview
Microsoft Online Identity – Part I
Microsoft Online Identity – Part II
Communications – Messenger
Infrastructure Services

Live Fx - Developing Mesh Applications (6-10)
Future Direction of Live Services
Resource Model Session
Cloud APIs
.NET Libraries
Mesh Applications

The session videos are the actual recording at the San Francisco venue and you can see the training with all its questions and answers that are being asked. Watch as your time permits and enjoy. Feel proud to have been one of the team that created this and as well as having delivered it.

LiveJournal Tags: Live Services Jumpstart training videos

Girish's Blog - Are you Live yet?

TFS for SourceSafe users

Views that are possible in Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Edition

Bing It. Bing It. Bring it on

Make Web Not War – from Microsoft

DeepZoomPix – Stunning VISUAL Demos – Integrated use of Silverlight, DeepZoom and the Azure Services Platform

IE8 Officially released – Top features and highlights

MIX 09 announcements – IIS at MIX 2009: Extensions, Web Application Gallery, Web Platform Installer

Example of Integrating Live ID Web Authentication to your Web Sites

Engineering Enhancements to Windows7 based on feedback

Some more love for Windows Live

A Little love for Windows Live – How easily Kylie uploads and shares photos

Windows Azure bringing Cloud computing to the mainstream

Windows Live Essentials – free download

Cool new nifty feature in Live Search

Live Services – Training material videos now available

Live Services – An All-Up Technical Overview

Microsoft Online Identity – Part I

Microsoft Online Identity – Part II

Communications – Messenger

Infrastructure Services Live Fx - Developing Mesh Applications (6-10)

Future Direction of Live Services

Resource Model Session

Cloud APIs

.NET Libraries

Mesh Applications

Infrastructure Services

Live Fx - Developing Mesh Applications (6-10)