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August 2008 - Posts

IE 8 Beta 2 References

With the release of IE8 Beta2, I thought it might be interesting to pull together some useful tips for installing and configuring IE8 and tips for making your site support IE8. I will keep adding to this over time. But here is a first bash. Please add Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:07 PM by neilhut | 3 Comments
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Mark Russinovich: the future of Sysinternals, Security, Windows

David interviewed Mark Russinovich for EDGE the other day and asked him some interesting questions about life at Microsoft such as big shocks, meetings with Bill Gates and the future of sysinternals. Take a look at the following location ( http://edge.technet.com/Media/Interview-with-Mark-Russinovich-the-future-of-Sysinternals-Security-Windows/ Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 6:15 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

SQL Server 2008 Consolidation and Virtualization at UBS

Charley Hanania who is a Senior Database Specialist at UBS talks on EDGE about how SQLServer 2008 is going to help resolve some of the key enterprise database challenges with technologies such as Policy Based Management (formerly known as DMF), the resource Read More...
Posted Monday, August 25, 2008 11:42 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

A New Microsoft Data Center in Des Moines IOWA

I guess Data centers are big news these days and where they are located ( when not placed on the San Andreas Fault ). This morning the Iowa Governor said in a press statement that Microsoft would build a 500M dollar data center in West Des Moines. Not Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:35 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Intel Announce Dual Core Atom

Surely two cores can not still make an atom, but Intel seem to think so. At their dev conference, Intel announced their Atom 330 chip, a dual-core version of the Atom Diamondville processor specifically designed for the for low-cost "nettop" PC market Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:45 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

LIVE Inside the "Ship Room" for SQL Server 2008

Joey was able to get unique access to the SQLServer 2008 ship room when they did the final signoff of the product and shared the experience on EDGE . As you can see, the owner of each feature area has to walk through their status, before signing off on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:44 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Easy Steps to Get your Web Site to Support IE8 in 5Mins

Put simply, IE8 running in standard rendering mode will not display sites created to support IE7 very well, based on new standards that IE8 is supporting around HTML and CSS formats. There are two ways to resolve this. The first is to re-write your web Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:56 PM by neilhut | 7 Comments
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.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit goes to RTM

Jonathan, Drew, Jason and Brian have just shipped the final release of the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit , updated to work with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta RTM !  The RTM release includes the following improvements/additions Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 11:05 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Have you Climbed up Zermatt Yet?

So a month ago we announced the "Zermatt" Developer Framework which as an SDK which aids developers to build claims based aware applications that support the Identity Meta System ( through WS-* protocols). So far it has gotten a lot of interest Read More...
Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 1:55 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments

NBC Olympics on Silverlight 2

The Olympics start tomorrow and one of the things that DPE has been involved with that I am most proud of is the engagement we have driven with the product teams and NBC to provide http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/index.html on MSN, which is the official Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 5:04 PM by neilhut | 15 Comments

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RTM

So SQLServer 2008 made it to RTM today. This is a pretty big release of the product and combined with the Data Access technologies such as the Entity Framework which is part of the Visual Studio wave, there is a lot of innovation to get developers and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:57 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4

Phil Haack , one of key guys behind ASP.NET MVC provides an insight on new in Preview 4 for Channel9. He shows where they are going and what you can expect in future releases. This is a pretty nice implementation on top of ASP.NET. There is still a lot Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:33 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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The PDC is showing its Hand

Yesterday a whole new bunch of sessions were published on the PDC site. http://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/sessions.aspx In particular there are some interesting sessions which caught my eye at the top of the list talking around Building Block Services Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 02, 2008 1:10 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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EDGE Goes local

If anyone can translate this, send me an email ( with the translation ) and I will send you an EDGE T-shirt. A pretty funny video from Adam and Joey about EDGE support for localization.   TechNet Edge - now localized! Read More...
Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 8:12 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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