From Ireland: a little bit of this and a little bit of that
November 2004 - Posts
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With over 40 Webcasts on: why it matters to the business, common strategies and methods, and guidance on specific implementation scenarios between the major platform players, this is going to be quite a comprehensive series. You can pre-register for the Read More...
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Starting from Monday the 6th of December these is going to be a series of 15 Webcasts on SQL Server 2005. For more details have a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/SQL/2005Webcasts/ . Topics covered include: Overview of the new Developer features in SQL Read More...
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If you have a look at the Transaction Specification Index Page on MSDN, you will see that: WS-Coordination was updated in November 2004. WS-AtomicTransaction was updated in November 2004. WS-BusinessActivity was updated in November 2004. They are well Read More...
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What is particularly interesting about HTTP.SYS is that it has an API and it can be used to write/roll your own HTTP endpoint. Nice!! Currently there is only a C API , but with Whidbey you have access to a managed API to HTTP.SYS. Here is a sample (via Read More...
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In my opinion 2 of the more important parts of the new architecture in IIS 6.0 are: the addition of a HTTP endpoint that is separate and distinct from IIS, i.e. HTTP.SYS the new process model in IIS 6.0, which is called Worker Process Isolation Mode (WPIM). Read More...
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If you want to configure HTTP.SYS, you need a tool call HttpCfg.exe. By default this tool is not installed on either Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP (with SP2 installed). So for Windows Server 2003 you need to go to the "\SUPPORT\TOOLS" folders on the Read More...
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The most significant changes within the new architecture for IIS 6.0 are: a new process model called WPIM ( Worker Process Isolation Mode) Application Pooling and Recycling HTTP.SYS - it is a HTTP listener that is a kernel mode driver and is a common Read More...
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IIS6.0 has a new architecture with a number of additions and changes that you may not be unaware of. The new architecural changes are mainly involving the WWW Service within IIS 6.0 and how the processing of HTTP requests takes. There are lots of things Read More...
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Session Descriptions Keynote: Introducing Indigo Programming Indigo Building Secure Services with Indigo Building Reliable, Asynchronous Services with Indigo The Road to Indigo: Building Service-Oriented Applications Today The Road to Indigo: Building Read More...
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As blogged by Tim Sneath , the 1st Community Technical Preview release of Avalon has been released on the MSDN Subscriber Download site . Over to Tim for the details: <Extract> Avalon is the new graphics display subsystem that we announced at PDC, Read More...
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From Jan till July of next year, the Route64 Training Tour is visiting over 20 cities providing: Windows 64-bit Hands-On Training is a 3-day training designed to provide the most comprehensive contents of of what it takes to fully leverage Windows on Read More...
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At http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/msdn64bitwin.mspx you will find a series of Webcasts that focus on 64bit computing on Windows. Tune in to this webcast series and learn of the advantages that 64-bit computing brings: Run existing 32-bit Read More...
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Just spotted a reference to Dublin on the ASP.NET feed, so I had to have a look! Excellent!! Christian Weyer is coming to town and talking at a IrishDev user Group event and is covering a really good topic, "Visual Studio .NET's Web services wizardry Read More...
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A few months back I was working on a nice little project that had to be developed in VC++ to meet the customer’s requirements. One of the goals of the project was to make extensive use of the Internet Explorer Web browser control. So with that in mine, Read More...
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hmmm, I forgot to mention that HTTP.SYS is part of Windows XP Service Pack 2!! Oppsss It's originally a part of the Windows 2003 server SKU's, but with Service Pack 2 for Windows XP it is now part of Windows XP. I guess the most obvious thing to mention Read More...
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Here are the direct links to download the October 2004 community tech preview: Visual Basic: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/1/a/21a4b949-758c-4ff2-8381-1acb2a943bf9/vbsetup.exe Visual C++: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/9/6/996fe06a-08fb-459b-a7c4-35640b4f7bf3/vcsetup.exe Read More...
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located at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38&displaylang=en <extract> Overview The Windows Support Tools for Microsoft Windows XP are intended for use by Microsoft support personnel Read More...
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For further info, go to: The Advantages of Running SAP Applications on SQL Server 2000 (64-Bit) And for a central resourse on SAP running on the MS platform, have a look at the Microsoft and SAP - Customer Information Center Read More...
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There are free Windows XP Service Pack 2 E-Learning Clinics, located at https://www.microsoftelearning.com/xpsp2/ So if you are an IT-Pro or Dev and you want to get up to speed on whats included in XP SP2 , the clinics includes the following sessions: Read More...
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Dublin - Monday 15th November, Sugar Club, Leeson St, Dublin 2, 7pm. Belfast - Tuesday 23rd November, The Vue Cinema, Odyssey Pavillion, 7pm. Galway - Wednesday 24th November, Cinemobile, The Huntsman Bar, 7pm. Cork - Thursday 25th November,Triskel Arts Read More...
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Pascal and the Irish Developers Alliance members have been busy. The site is live and you can find forums and blogs for Irish developers. Nice one folks! Read More...
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Don't forget that this is 64-bit Windows Webcast Week . In the next 6-12 months we will start to see more and more 64bit machines out there, especially with the x86 architecture getting 64bit extensions (in alphabetical order, AMD's AMD64 and Intel's Read More...
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