I was one of the people who loved SQL Server Notification Services (SSNS) since its inception as a download for SQL Server 2000. Some of my own customers have pushed it far beyond what it was designed to do, however, and I had to tell them not to use SSNS for those particular scenarios. All such attempts went invain, though, as my customers had only another option: Buy an expensive alternative.
With the release of SQL Server 2008, I had to tell my customers one more bad news: SQL Server Notification Services are not supported any longer. As long as I had no alternative, I always kept shy of telling my customers about this. I was happy when Microsoft announced that there are plans to move SSNS functionality into a new technology. Here it is. Complex Event Processing using SQL Server StreamInsight and its underlying .Net Complex Event Processing Engine. What a relief for me and for one of my favourite customers who uses SSNS a lot.
SQL Server 2008 R2 – Complex Event Processing (CEP) Technology
Want to learn about how to utilize your development skills to develop applications that use SQL Server as a backend? How about doing this for FREE!!!
Now you can take the Essential SQL Server 2008 for Developers Workshop as a FREE MSL e-Learning Clinic and learn more.
Clinic 10164: Essential SQL Server 2008 for Developers
Thanks to our esteemed partners, Quest Software, you can now create, version control, publish, test, build and manage your Oracle Database applications from within Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Team System. Great value and invaluable tools.
Read more about it at: TeamFuze : Main
Watch the demo online on YouTube
It’s been a while since I had the chance to blog here. I was waiting for something interesting and here it is.
Now you can easily convert flowcharts you created in Word or PowerPoint to Visio 2007 with this great tool. The best thing about it is that it’s free.
Free Download: Office Flowchart Concerter for Visio 2007
The website also has great tutorials on Visio and wonderful other downloads. Do check it out!
You've been asking for it. Free training on building mission-critical applications on the .net framework. You can build such applications using Microsoft's Visual Studio Team System and the Team Foundation Server.
ISV Training Course:Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in Visual Studio 2008 Web Seminar Series
Another great download resource, now that SQL Server 2008 is Released to Manufacturing! The Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008. It includes the latest versions of:
- Redistributable components for SQL Server 2008.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Command Line Utilities
- SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1
- Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Objects
- SQL Server Remote Blob Store
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Policies
- Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types
- Microsoft Sync Framework
- Add-on providers for SQL Server 2008.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services 10.0 OLE DB Provider
- Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP 7
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.2
- Microsoft OLEDB Provider for DB2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies
- Backward compatibility components for SQL Server 2008.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor
Download details: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008
If your organization invested in SAP's Business Objects and the Microsoft Platform, then you'd definitely need a way to integrate both platforms and provide your users with the best possible productivity tools.
Business Objects makes this possible via the Business Objects Solutions for Microsoft. There are solutions for integration with SharePoint, Visual Studio, Office, Dynamics and more. Read the webpage for more details.
Business Objects Solutions for Microsoft
If you are a PHP developer, this is a tool you've been waiting for for a long time. It's open source, too!
The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP allows PHP developers to access SQL Server databases. The SQL Server Driver for PHP relies on the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ODBC Driver to handle the low-level communication with SQL Server. As a result, the SQL Server Driver for PHP is only supported on Windows.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP - Home
Project Description
This tool takes a SQL Profiler trace file and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence of database calls found in the trace file. The unit test is designed to be used in a Visual Studio Load Test. The code generated is easily modifiable so that data variation can be introduced for the purpose of doing performance testing.
The tool generates code for both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. The source code is a Visual Studio 2005 project.
Click SQL Load Test for more
Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft® Silverlight™. With Visifire you can create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails or just simple HTML. Don't take our word for it! Visit Visifire Gallery or design your own chart using Chart Designer.
See Silverlight Charts for more.
The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (MSCUI) Patient Journey Demonstrator is a vehicle for Microsoft thought leadership in state-of-the-art User Experience for Healthcare applications. It provides exemplar implementations of Microsoft Common User Interface guidance on a Microsoft platform.
MS CUI Patient Journey Demonstrator
Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout (MSAGL), formerly known as GLEE, is a .NET tool for laying out and visualizing directed graphs. MSAGL is now available for purchase at Windows Marketplace.
Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout
The Community Technologies group at Microsoft Research has developed a set of components for displaying data in .NET applications. Included in this package are: a treemap. A treemap is a rendering of hierarchical data as a set of nested boxes, where each box corresponds to one data element; a bubble chart, which is a set of points displayed as bubbles in an x-y coordinate system; a piano roll is a spreadsheet-like display in which each cell is displayed in a variety of graphical formats; a spire chart (histogram) has a column for each week in a specified year; a thread tree is a hierarchy of nodes; and a time series chart displays multiple time series.
Data Visualization Components
This is a great project for those of us who need to work with lots of ETL operations. Do check it out.
Microsoft SQL Server Metadata-Driven ETL Management Studio (a.k.a. MDDE) provides a tool for rapidly generating SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages from a shared central metadata repository. MDDE is a software factory for SSIS packages that leverages the SSIS API to provide a templating engine that accelerates ETL development.
Microsoft SQL Server Metadata-Driven ETL Management Studio (MDDE) - Home
I love it. This download is exactly what my customers were asking for.
Brief Description
The Data Integration Toolkit is a set of software, documentation, and samples designed to enable partners and customers to expose data from financial source systems in a standardized, contextual format for use in reporting, planning, monitoring and analytics scenarios.
Download details: PerformancePoint 2007 Data Integration Toolkit
