ASP.NET enhancements in VS2008 and .NET FX3.5

Quoted http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/default.aspx

 

"Today, let me talk about enhancements to ASP.NET that you will see with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5.

 

Earlier this year, we
introduced the
ASP.NET AJAX Extensions which is available
as an add-on for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0. 

 

With the release of Visual Studio 2008, these AJAX extensions have become an integral part of the product. 
While we have kept the runtime extremely compatible, we have also added customer requested features such as enabling many of the new controls to work inside an UpdatePanel (TreeView, Menu and WebParts) and enhanced support for client side Javascript localization.  On the tooling side, we have made some major investments in JavaScript Intellisense, type inferencing, and new control extenders design time that you can
read here.

 

One of the most exciting new technologies in VS2008
is LINQ.
To complement this, ASP.NET ships a new control, LinqDataSource to support LINQ scenarios in web applications. Essentially, this LinqDataSource control allows a declarative way to use LINQ by using the data source control design pattern that was introduced in VS2005.   With the added designer support, it is very easy for developers to databind against LINQ expressions. 

 

Another interesting control is the ListView control.  This new data bound control is designed to provide great formatting flexibility with CSS
to website designers. With improved support for CSS in VS2008, the control allows developers to write cleaner HTML by separating markup from styling.  This flexibility also allows displaying data in interesting ways. For example, ListView supports a 'tiled' layout where each cell of the grid contains a row from the table.  Support for such scenarios is valuable in a variety of scenarios, such as the online product catalogs.
From a data binding and events perspective, ListView should seem very familiar to ASP.NET developers.

A separate server control, the DataPager control, is the ideal companion to ListView and allows navigation through pagination.  Thus the ListView and DataPager go hand in hand in providing complete customization of the layout.

 

ASP.NET builds on the investments made in the Application Services - Membership, Roles and Profiles - in.NET Framework 2.0.  In VS 2008, we expose these APIs as web services with both JSON and SOAP endpoints.  The JSON endpoint caters to the AJAX scenarios, where as the SOAP endpoint caters to any
SOAP 1.1 compliant clients such as WPF or WinForms applications, as well as applications written with any other framework.   The feature allows clients to
leverage the ASP.NET Application services and share a common membership, utilize role management features, and manage user profiles across a number of presentation tiers.  It also enables developers to conveniently maintain roaming user states.

 

In summary, ASP.NET is shipping new features with VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 that will enable building rich web applications faster."

Silverlight 1.0 is out

Silverlight 1.0 officially released …. What you are waiting for … SILVERLIGHT IS Out ..

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/install.aspx

MAC and Windows users can run Silverlight now. Linux users are in progress.

SilverLight is Rocks!

For Developers: Try Silverlight Extensions for VS.NET 2008 Beta ;) and still you can utilize Alpha Eddition for Expression Blend.

Regards,

Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now!

Ruby is a programming language from Japan (available at ruby-lang.org) which is revolutionizing the web. The beauty of Ruby is found in its balance between simplicity and power.

http://tryruby.hobix.com/

It basically running through Ajax and extensive JS manipulation. Its Interpreter is highly intelligent but at the end of the day it's a command line (Console) activated on web, no GUI to mention herein yet.

Hey Mr. Web Gamer , Gleemax is coming.

Gleemax.com will be the home for gamers on the web – a combination of social networking, on-line gaming and game related content. This site will be for everyone. Whether you play RPGs, TCGs, board games, turn-based strategy games, miniature war games, or almost any type of tabletop/hobby game, you will find a home here.

The Gleemax site is not available yet. This is just an informational site and placeholder for the future Gleemax site. Gleemax team has already previewed what the public Alpha version will look like here.

Read the press release, media coverage, and Randy's blog for the most current information.

In the meantime, stay tuned to the site as we roll out this project. Gleemax.com team will keep you informed of all the new developments as fast as they can.

DonnyBrook: Real Massively Multi-Player shooter Gamer

DonnyBrook is a project that Microsoft Research is working on to make games more epic. Imagine playing an FPS with hundreds of other players- not just 8 or 16. "How can that be possible?", you must be asking! "There would be so much LAG!", you must be saying! Well - Microsoft employs some pretty smart people who truly care about improving the gaming experience. Watch this clip and learn how they did it.

http://on10.net/Blogs/laura/donnybrook-real-massively-multi-player-shooter-gaming/

Windows Live Translator .. Beta

beta for the Windows Live Translator is now available. On the surface, it may look a lot like Altavista's Babelfish, or Google Translate, but there are some interesting features born out of Microsoft Research that are new to online translation. Try out the Bilingual Viewer by putting in the URL www.expert.ru and choosing "Russian-English". You'll see an interesting side-by-side comparision between the original and the translated page and some controls to change views at the top. One of these controls will translate only the text you mouse over, or show the original text on mouse hover, which is very convenient for those who aren't completely fluent and just need a helping hand in the translation.

Sinitic languages, or ones that use ideographic writing systems can be incredibly hard to translate. As a test I compared the Chinese version of Wacom's Bamboo product page in Live's Translator to Google Translate, see for yourself:

Live: Bamboo has displayed the pen input function which well Windows the Vista operating system, Office 2007 and in Mac OS strengthen. It unified closely with these system's in pen input function, has provided digital ink tools and so on pen or glimmer light pen, easy on documents, electronic forms and demonstration slide prominent demonstration and increase digit annotation; Even may in the demonstration process for the slide increase annotation, cause the demonstration process to have interactive and the vitality; May also use the hand-written text, the signature, the schematic diagram and the doodle entrusts with the personalized characteristic for the email content.

Google: Bamboo good play Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Mac OS enhanced pen input function. With these systems in close connection with the pen input function, providing pens or ink Yingguangbi and other digital tools, easy in the document, spreadsheet and presentation slides and added that the figures highlight the Notes; Even in the course of the presentation slides add notes to demonstrate the process more interactive and lively and ; can also use handwritten text, signatures and graffiti for the draft e-mail content to the personalization features.

Microsoft products roadmap for FY08 and beyond

Oh boy, a Microsoft roadmap, haven’t seen one of these in a while. This is extracted from Steve Ballmer’s Powerpoint presentation at Microsoft Show and Tell (Financial Analyst Meeting) 2007 yesterday. I’m surprised Mary Jo Foley or Todd Bishop haven’t picked this up earlier. I’ve noted some of my items of interest with a red asterisk.

This above information contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. If you make investments based on this information alone, you are an ass. Please remove yourself from the stock market immediately.

Billionaires List, Where am I?

Today I was walking through the Billionaires List. I was navigating their achievements. I have seen Bell gates (MSFT) , Paul Allen (MSFT) , Steve Jobs (Apple) , Steve Ballmer (MSFT) , Michael Dell (Dell Inc.) , Lary Ellison (Oracle) , Segery Brin (Google) , Larry Page (Google) , Pierre Omidyar (Ebay) , Hasso Plattner (SAP) , Eric Schmidt (SUN , Novell , Google ) , Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com) , David Filo (Yahoo) , Jerry Yang (Yahoo).

The first question been in my mind is not "Why I'm not there" , But "What they did and still doing for being craved out there" .. I slept in their history profile for hours. I realized that somewhere there was a beginning. They made a change, a real huge change as a group or as individuals. Lookout for an example Omidyar , This guy is brilliant. I like his online services. I like his civil social and his path in unleashing passion for achievement, he made a change and he got results, a huge turnover results.

What about Me? …….. I'm spending tons of hours on technology but in the end of the day am executing my boss tasks, no shares nor appreciation. What about Me? …. It's time to act through reaching that list. It is not for being in luxury life, and it's not a necessity as much as A NATURE OF MINE.

Am expecting "Enshallah" to find in the next three years a valuable friend of mine his name is "Saad Samarah" on that list. This amazing Business guy is going with an innovative e-commerce idea that will explode with huge number of online trading services. I wished if I could be in his technology team, he gave me everything I asked for but unfortunately I couldn't change my track of technology for certain reasons related to my stay at Jordan.

Now I would switch my time in blogging to extensive time for writing business plan and my idea software design... For me, my legend has begun. For the world, a New Era of Technology Investment is coming. Stay Tuned.

The new 7 Wonders Panaorama

Watch out this awesome link -> http://www.panoramas.dk/7-wonders/

Amazing J … After this link don't tell me ever you haven't been there :P

Tamim Barghothy – Another Prince of Poets

من أجمل ما قال ومن أعذب ما كتب ... تميم البرغوثي طيب الله ثرى البطن اللي حملك ....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAA5xjvXDC4&mode=related&search

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGP89OhAaU

http://elshare3-seyasa.blogspot.com/2006/07/blog-post.html

http://semsemafavoritepoems.blogspot.com/2005/08/blog-post_25.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dvzk97tcOY&mode=related&search

Zain (Fastlink) Website is MOSS 2007 Version

Know What ?????

ZAIN.COM (Formely known as Fastlink) IS BASED ON MS SHAREPOINT 2007

Just check out their new Web Features (Blogs, Articels, Document Management, Search, .. ) --> It's MOSS 2007.

MS Dynamics GP Overview

Interesting to know more about new MS Dynamics GP Workflow Feature.

Here you go ..
http://cid-6d367e7630e177ec.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Shared%20Files/Workflow-GP10.zip

File provides a comprehensive overview about MS Workflow Foundation in MS Dynamics GP 10.0

Enjoy !

CRM and Sharepoint

Quoted from SPSFaq

"CRM and SharePoint will be converging more and more, they have a great deal in common in that they track information in real time around people and business processes. CRM is about tracking people more, and SharePoint information, but I think they could eventually become the same think, with CRM built on the SharePoint platform. CRM 4.0, codenamed Titan is being built now, and it will be available in the 1st quarter of 2008. MS will also be making it available via SaaS, in other words software as a service.

This means you will pay per user and MS will host it. This will lead to better profit margins for MS, once the setup costs of the huge server farms is covered. For the companies it will mean faster setup, deployment and cheaper ongoing costs. And they will have all the failover, backup and capacity they could want. It will alsomean no more incomprehensible licencing. If you want CRM it will just be 100 employees = $50 per month. This is the future of software my friends, soon most software will be sold this way. Don't say I didn't warn you :-)

Here are some useful links:

Integration of CRM and SharePoint announced:
http://rehmangul.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/ms-crm-and-sharepoint-2007-integration/

How to configure a CRM Web Part in MOSS 2007:
http://blog.sonomapartners.com/2007/08/microsoft-crm-w.html

Here is a useful blog on the subject full of useful information:
http://sharepointsix.blogspot.com/

Note also that the next version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM will be offered via the web, or SaaS as MS is calling it: Software as a Service.
http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid11_gci1198320,00.html

And here are those TechEd presentations, look at the Dustin Miller one it is good fun!
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/teched07.aspx?tab=overview

Enjoy!"

Extend Sharepoint Features

See This Link:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/08/28/more-useful-and-free-sharepoint-features-available-at-http-www-codeplex-com-features.aspx

 

Regards,

Mohammed Zayed

Building Workflow in Sharepoint

I made a "Building Workflows in Sharepoint" Community night in Jordev.net. It was awesome attended by 52 persons.

 

To find the "Workflow in Sharepoint " presentation Visit this Link:

http://cid-6d367e7630e177ec.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Jordev%20CN%20-%20Building%20Workflows%20in%20MOSS/

 

It's my pleasure to contribute in empowering my community relationship at all the .NET Clubs User Groups in the Area.

Workflow in MSS with Mohammed Zayed

MS Expression "Think Expression"

For MS Expression interests,

Now be part of "Think Expression" Community.

http://thinkexpression.com/

The website includes resources and articles that support Microsoft Expression Suite. It's one of a kind designed by Abdul Rahman Zaza supported with Samer Chidiac , I like expression for its powerful deign, media engine. Expression has empowered WPF through MS Expression Blend and many were asking if Blend will replace Cider the codename for WPF Visual Tools in VS 2008 but the answer were Expression was build to separate the development Environment from Design Environment which means that Layout is fully separated from Event-Handling and Backend code.

With Silverlight Alpha Release, expression web is playing a main rule in building this Rich User experience web applications. I still believe that Expression needs more enhancements and testing yet.

Microsoft launches Tafiti - Search and Silverlight experiment

Tafiti, an experimental demonstration site that combines Live Search with Silverlight has just been launched. It's described as follows:

Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search.

Search results are presented in the central column, with the right hand "shelf" available to save result you are interested in via drag and drop. The carousel on the left hand side allows you to cycle through the search results you wish to view (Web, Images, RSS etc) and these too can be saved if you wish. The results you have favourited can then be shared via Windows Live Spaces.

http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2007/08/21/microsoft-launches-tafiti-search-and-silverlight-experiment.aspx

 

 

SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displaylang=en

AUGUST 22, 2007

Overview

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 SDK is designed for solution providers, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about the new Office SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise application and platform. It features conceptual and "How to" articles, sample code, and programming references.

What's New in this Release for the MOSS SDK

• Installation enhancements: You now have a choice of installation location when you're installing the SDK. Browse to your preferred folder during setup. The default installation path for MOSS is C:\Program Files\2007 Office System Developer Resources\.
  
• Start menu navigation: This release features a new Start menu shortcut for quick access to documentation (compiled HTML Help, or CHM for short) files and the Welcome Guide (ReadMe.htm), which is a landing page with links to all the tools and samples. In Windows Server 2003, click Start, Programs, 2007 Microsoft Office System Developer Resources, Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK to open: MOSS 2007 Technical Articles and Visual How-Tos, Office Forms Server SDK Documentation, Office SharePoint Server SDK Documentation, Welcome Guide, Windows SharePoint Services SDK Documentation. In Windows Vista, click the Windows Vista Start button, All Programs, 2007 Microsoft Office System Developer Resources, Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK to open: MOSS 2007 Technical Articles and Visual How-Tos, Office Forms Server SDK Documentation, Office SharePoint Server SDK Documentation, Welcome Guide, Windows SharePoint Services SDK Documentation.
  
• Offline experience improvements: All of the technical articles, visual how-to articles, and book excerpts are now packaged—plus the Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Job Submission Developer Guide—into one searchable CHM file. Browse offline for content published on MSDN out-of-band with the SDK. (Known issue: Several links in the MOSSSDK_TechArticles.chm and WSSSDK_TechArticles.chm do not work in a strictly offline scenario. Also, WMV file screencasts or downloads associated with articles are not packaged in the CHM, to keep the download size manageable. Workaround: Browse to the content on MSDN online; for ease-of-use, the CHM file TOC is the same as the MSDN Library TOC.
  
• New tools and samples included with the MOSS SDK: Developer tools and samples for the following areas of MOSS development (new items in bold):
  
  • Business Data Catalog Samples and Utilities
    
    • Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor
      
    • Sample Pluggable SSO Provider
      
    • WSHelloWorld Web Service
      
    • WSOrders Web Service
      
    • Excel Services User Defined Function Sample
      
    • WSOrders Custom Proxy Sample
      
    • Amazon Web Service Sample
      
    • AdventureWorks Metadata Samples
      
    • SAP Sample
      
  • Document Management and Content Processing Samples
    
    • Comment Scrub Document Converter
      
    • Term Replacement Document Inspector
      
  • Search Samples
    
    • Sample Protocol Handler
      
    • Custom Content Source
      
  • Records Management and Policy Samples
    
    • De-Duplication Router
      
    • Document Integrity Verifier
      
    • Records Center Web Service Console Application
      
    • Search, Collect, and Hold Tool
      
    • Sample Custom Barcode Generator
      
    • IRM Document Protector
      
  • Workflow Samples
    
    • Custom Workflow Report Query Generator
      
    • Custom Workflow Report XLSX Injector
      
    • Visual Studio Workflow Templates
      
    • Enterprise Content Management Workflow Activities
      
    • List Item Activities
      
    • Hello World Sequential Workflow
      
    • State Based Approval Workflow
      
    • Modification Workflow
      
    • Replication and Contact Selector Workflow
      
    • Intersystem Purchase Order
      
    • Confidential Approval Workflow
      
    • Group Approval Workflow
      
    • Approval Workflow Sample
      
    • Multi-Stage Workflow
      
    • Server-side Collect Signatures Workflow
      

Full details can be found in the Welcome Guide of the SDK, accessible through the Start menu or button.

The download file OfficeServerSDK.exe provided for the SharePoint Server 2007 SDK contains the following:

• Compiled HTML Help files (updated with new content since RTM), OSSSDK2007.chm and WSS3sdk.chm, which contain conceptual topics, Class Library and Web Service References for SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
  Updates to the MOSS SDK conceptual topics include:
  
  • How to: Customize RSS for the Content Query Web Part (new)
    
  • How to: Create a Minimal Master Page (revised)
    
  • Provisioning Portal Sites (revised)
    
  • Portal Site Template File (revised)
    
  • Portal (Portal Site Template) (revised)
    
  • Webs (Portal Site Template) (revised)
    
  • Web (Portal Site Template) (revised)
    

  Updates to the MOSS SDK Class Library and Web Service Reference include:
  

  • Microsoft.Office.Workflow.ISoapServerWorkflow
    
  • Microsoft.Office.Workflow.IWorkflow
    
  • Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Workflow
    
  • Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures.IBarCodeGenerator
    
  • Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.InformationPolicy.IPolicyFeatures
    
  • Workflow Web service
    
• Code samples that relate to topics in the SDK: Business Data Catalog metadata samples, Custom Single Sign-On Provider, SampleWebService, and Custom Filter Web Parts. The sample projects use Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
  Updates to the MOSS SDK code samples include:
  
  • Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor tool
    
  • Protocol Handler Sample
    
• Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit.
  

Also included in the SharePoint Server 2007 SDK, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Starter Kit
Designed for solution providers, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about how to extend the new ECM features and platform in Office SharePoint Server 2007. It contains the following:

White Papers

• 2007 Office System Digital Signatures Developers Guide
  
• 2007 Office System Encryption Developers Guide
  
• Information Rights Management - Pluggable Rights Management, Technical Overview
  
• Importing Custom Actions into SharePoint Designer
  
• Workflow Security Topics
  

Code Samples

• Content Processing
  
  • Term Replacement Document Inspector Module
    
  • Document Converters (server-side custom property remover, docm-to-docx converter)
    
• Records Management and Policy
  
  • De-Duplication Router
    
  • Document Integrity Verifier
    
  • Records Repository Web Service Console Application
    
  • Search, Collect, and Hold Tool
    
  • Default Site Policy
    
• Workflow
  Note: The following workflow samples are meant to demonstrate concepts and provide a starting point for extension. They are not the same workflows that are included with Office SharePoint Server 2007.
  
  • Custom Reports
    
  • ECM Activities
    
  • List Item Activities
    
  • Hello World Sequential Workflow
    
  • State Based Approval Workflow
    
  • Modification Workflow
    
  • Replication and Contact Selector Workflow
    
  • Intersystem Purchase Order
    
  • Confidential Approval
    
  • Group Approval
    
  • Review Workflows
    
  • Collect Feedback Workflow
    
  • Multi-Stage Workflow
    
  • Server-side Collect Signatures Workflow
    

Visual Studio Project Templates for SharePoint Server 2007 workflow

• SharePoint Server Sequential Workflow Library
  
• SharePoint Server State Machine Workflow Library
  

MOSS HAS Achieved US$800 million mark for revenue

Wow! What a fantastic year for SharePoint products and technologies! For those of you who haven't seen the news yet, we just announced that SharePoint Server passed the US$800 million mark for revenue for Microsoft's previous fiscal year (FY07) that ended on June 30th. In fact, SharePoint Server is the fastest growing server products in Microsoft's history.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/07/30/thank-you-for-a-banner-year-for-sharepoint.aspx

MyProgress.com

Sooner or later you have to quit staring at your achievements in the Dashboard and turn off your Xbox 360. Let me offer you a way to extend that visual gratification into your reality.

With MyProgress.com you can keep track of all your "life rankings & analytics"; income, expenses, loans, investments, education, health and wealth. Health is still under construction, but one nice touch is a progress bar showing you how long it will be before they're done with it, which is a great idea. Wealth catalogs your belonging with some simple amortization settings. [Suggestion: they need to add a field for serial numbers, something that should be kept outside of your home anyway.]

The non-financial data can be fed to your own site with a snippet of embed code for display right next to your Xbox achievements.

24/8/2005 the friday that i don't want to remember

in this day 24/8/2005 was the last call between us when you were in lebanon acting that you missed me. Two year from that moment i still remember every word and feel every single emotion i lost in that call.


Two days after 24/8, i was flying to dubai translating all our dreamz to truthness.




Two years ago, i was like a bird comin back to home, flying to you just to emphesize my love immortal. BUT i didn't know at 31/8/2005, once i reach Amman holding unforgotten perfidy that three years of my own SMLife was just a dream ... i was just dreaming of Somebody's Me ....................




I realized that even some people still breathin that's never means they still alive. That's you, that's what you will keep on forever. Screw you and all your damn memories.

MS Regional Office for MENA moved to Tunisia!!!

This what I heard recently but still not confirmed yet.

Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Sudan IT Market is booming and rich with IT Business Opportunities.

 

 

 

I Think Community

What an awesome Special Community Night that i attended yesterday. Samer Cihidiac's CN Special title was "I Think Community" which emphesized the need for having a strong contibution in community work. "Community contribution is always leading for success and strong information sharing", he said. Muhannad and Ayman has made an amazing work out there and i believe these two guys has made Jordev live again.

I catched many friends there ... I really enjoyed this awesome CN :) ..

Jordev is Rocks !!!!

I like being on Stage .. What about ya ?

 

http://on10.net/Blogs/laura/you-want-a-stage-check-out-ourstage/

HD View Beta 2 Released - Now with Firefox support

HD View Beta 2 was released last week in conjunction with Siggraph 2007 in San Diego. The big news in this version is the addition of Firefox support. Firefox users wanting to get their "gigapixel on" will now be prompted to install a plugin when viewing sites with HD view collections. (Plugin available here) Another new feature is Auto Tone Adjust. This works like an auto gain; adjusting brightness and contrast ratios in darker (or hazier) areas of a photo to increase clarity.

Check out the HD View Windows Live Spaces blog or the official HD View web site for more on gigapixel imaging.

Annuncing Family.Show 2.0 Release

 

A few months back I recorded a video with Vertigo Software for their original 1.0 release.  And today, Microsoft is announcing an update to this release. This release adds a data grid (one of the common objections to WPF was the data grid functionality), multiple skins, new data visualizations, and a 35-page whitepaper that guides developers through the best practices in this application (in XPS format, of course). 

There have been thousands of downloads of the application, and great feedback from developers so far – check out some of the quotes on the Vertigo website.

If you've not yet tried out Family.Show, you can use it here.

Waiting the Release

A year ago I was investigating in Depth about Microsoft Communication Server 2007 Products and Technologies since this is was one of my responsibilities to ensure its integration with MS Sharepoint Portal 2007.

I was amazed by Microsoft PBX and other Under Research Products (MS Round Table)

After a year from now … an am still using the beta versions of MS UC but I think time has become to start using the Official RTM. I still don't have the date of release yet in my hand but soon we will all have it.

Microsoft Communication Server is part of my Information Worker Specialization.

For more details about MS Communication Server 2007 visit www.microsoft.com/UC

Microsoft Announced Imagine Cup 2007 Winners

 

Congratulation for all, unfortunately again Arab is not there.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/aug07/08-10ImagineCupWinnersPR.mspx

 

FOR MICROSOFT MEA: WHEN WE WILL HAVE ADVISORS FROM 3^RD PARTY WHO WILL MANAGE AND EMPOWER STUDENTS EFFORTS AT IMAGIN CUP. YOU KNOW WHAT, WHEN I PRESENTS HAYAT AT IMAGINE CUP 2007 AND I WISH IT WAS RECORDED THAT DAY JUST TO BE REMEMBERED, I DO REMEMBER WHEN QUESTIONS WERE DIRECTED OUT OF SCOPE AND NO ONE EVEN DID UNDERSTAND A 10% OF WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. JUST A YEAR AGO THE SEAMLESS IDEA WITH THE SAME TECHNOLOGY (DATAMINING IN HEALTH) HAS BEEN AWARDED BY MICROSOFT FOR SOMEONE ELSE FROM ISVs.

 

I'm Waiting more effective efforts on this track.

" Even Paris Hilton can use PopFly "

Have you heard the name MS Popfly ... If you didn't yet you should do ..

Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts:

• Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups.
  
• Popfly Space is an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.

Popfly is based on Silverlight and currently is in Alpha Version

More about Popfly in http://www.popfly.ms/

What happened with Live SkyDrive ?

Windows Live SkyDrive is on online storage service. It's fantastic because you can gain access to any of your files from anywhere around the world as well as share files. Here's Jim and Douglas to give you the details

http://on10.net/Blogs/Galileu/windows-live-skydrive-o-novo-nome-de-windows-live-folders/

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Key Benefits

• · Develop Smart Client Applications
  o Visual Studio 2008 delivers new and easy ways for developers to build smart clients by providing a comprehensive set of tools and classes that simplify integrating smart clients with new or existing web applications, and by handling local caching of data for disconnected scenarios.
• · Create Microsoft Office applications
  o Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is now fully integrated into Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. Visual Studio enables developers to customize various Office applications, such as Outlook® and PowerPoint®, to improve user productivity and simplify deployment.
  
• Build Windows Vista Applications
  o Developers will be able to easily leverage new platform technologies, and deliver more compelling applications to their customers, by effortlessly incorporating new Windows Presentation Foundation features into both existing Windows Forms applications and new applications.
• · Handle Data More Productively
  o The introduction of Language Integrated Query (LINQ), and various other data access improvements, now enable developers to deal with data using a consistent programmatic approach, perform data access with new data design surfaces, and use built-in classes for the occasionally connected design pattern.
• · An Improved Developer Experience Overall
  o Visual Studio 2008 delivers a better developer experience overall through the combination of significant product quality improvements, changes to the way the most popular design surfaces return errors to the user, and simplifying the user’s ability to adopt the toolset and framework separately.
• · Enable New Web Experiences
  o Beyond the secure, reliable and extensible infrastructure of IIS, developers can easily create efficient, interactive Web applications. The seamless integration and familiar programming model of ASP.NET AJAX enables more efficient client-side execution to deliver end-users a more responsive Web interface.
• · Improves Application Life-cycle Management (ALM)
  o ALM provides great support, not only for managing the entire software development life cycle but also for the critical interaction with the final end-users and IT stakeholders of an enterprise application.

Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Launch Wave! Windows Server 2008

Feb. 27, 2008 promises to be one of the most important dates in Microsoft's 33-year history, as it will release a host of major new products, including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008.

Read More: http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=8800

[Quoted from Samer Chidiac's Blog]

Panaroma – WOW Virtual Reality

Watch out:

http://www.papervision3d.org/demos/panorama/

Channel 8 – What a Creative community site it is.

 

Channel 9 then Channel 10 and now Channel 8, what an amazing evangelism team they are.

http://channel8.msdn.com/

Microsoft is always empowering its Channel community by providing up to date news feeds and live meetings with its team of research and developers. Give a facility of awesome show for their updated events.

Am watching Imagine Cup 2007 updates through Microsoft Channel 8 site.

Gmail Going Huge: 9000MB+

Reports we're getting in the mail say that some Gmail users have seen their storage bumped to over 9GB today - 9030MB, to be exact. If not a glitch (and why would it be?), it means Google is playing catch-up with Yahoo, which now provides unlimited storage.

With no other info, we can only assume the accounts are currently being selected at random. As someone who is just about to exceed his Gmail limit, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Microsoft and SAP Interoperability

Microsoft is doing effective efforts on level on Integration with SAP. This is how Microsoft can provide a facility for its clients worldwide who use SAP Business tools to integrate with Microsoft Products and Services. I was extensively searching in depth about limitations of integrating SAP Netweaver with MOSS, Integrating SAP and SQL Server BI, SAP and Biztalk Server, SAP and Project Server and more. Through Business Data Catalog I was able to retrieve information from SAP repository into Microsoft Sharepoint Portal 2007 even I made some wonderful IVIEW. The powerful Of SAP SOA has empowered this integration.

To know more about integrating Microsoft Products with SAP

http://www.microsoft.com/isv/sap/

Announcing Wine 0.9.43 release

 

http://winehq.org/?announce=0.9.43

Microsoft and Open Source

By Glyn Moody on Mon, 2007-08-06 05:53.

No one would have believed me if I had said five years ago that Microsoft would have a page on its Web site called "Open Source at Microsoft" with the following remarkably sane and reasonable statement on the subject:

" Microsoft is focused on helping customers and partners succeed in a heterogeneous technology world. This starts with participating and contributing to a broad range of choices for developing and deploying software, including open source approaches and applications. From thousands of lines of code and scripts on MSDN and TechNet, to open source applications like IronPython, ASP.NET AJAX, SharePoint Learning Kit, and WiX on CodePlex and SourceForge, Microsoft is continually growing the number of products released with open source access. "

That's right: Microsoft has released not one but several pieces of code as open source. Moreover, it's submitting some of its home-grown licences to the Open Source Initiative for approval. So what is going on here?

In part, I think that Microsoft's own analysis of its motives is true: we do live in a heterogeneous world of technology, and the creation of Microsoft's open source pages and projects reflects a long-overdue reflection of this fact. It is also testimony to the continuing success of free software. Initially Microsoft obviously hoped it would prove a fashion that would eventually fade way, but as its own FAQ states:

"Open source is neither an industry fad, nor a magic bullet."

Another major factor is that Microsoft is clearly keen to try out new development methodologies in the light of the growing failure of its traditional approaches to deliver products anywhere near to their original launch dates (Vista, anyone?). In order to do that, it needs to drop the rather crass Manichean view of "closed source good, open source bad", for something a little more nuanced.

Now, as the opening statement on the Open Source page states, the official line is that there are "a broad range of choices for developing and deploying software, including open source approaches and applications". This obviously allows Microsoft itself to adopt open source methodologies without appearing hypocritical and ridiculous.

But I think there is another aspect to Microsoft's latest moves that is more worrying. The clue is to be found in the company's submission of its licences to the OSI for approval. Again, this might seem a tremendous victory for the free software world, since it sees Microsoft apparently bending its knee before an open source institution. But its action needs to be seen in the wider context of a new-found enthusiasm for open standards.

It looks increasingly likely that Microsoft's OOXML file format will become an ISO standard alongside the OpenDocument Format. As others are tracking in detail, the way in which this is happening is unsatisfactory, to say the least. The end-result will be two directly competing standards in the area of office file formats. This in itself is unhelpful, since the whole idea of standardisation is have one standard, not lots of them. But it's worse than that. Microsoft's OOXML is nominally open, as standards should be, but in practice its 6000+ pages of documentation mean that nobody except Microsoft will be implementing this standard, which is largely a re-definition of a closed standard as open, without any change of substance.

This, I think, goes to the heart of Microsoft's open source strategy. As well as adopting those aspects of an alternative development model that it finds useful, Microsoft is aiming to blunt the undeniable power of openness by hollowing it out. If OOXML is an open standard, and some of its own software licences become OSI-approved, Microsoft will be able to claim that it, too, is an open standard, open source company. For many busy managers, subject to all kinds of demands – including increasing pressure to "go open source" - the difference between Microsoft's open source and real open source won't matter, in the same way that the difference between Microsoft's open file formats and those of the OpenDocument Format won't really matter. In terms of keeping people happy, what matters for many is the label – the appearance of going open – and Microsoft's moves aim to provide just that.

In many ways this new approach is exactly the reverse of that espoused in the famous first Halloween Document. There, the idea was to "de-commoditise" open protocols by adding proprietary elements. Today, the technique is to pseudo-commoditise proprietary standards by getting them defined as open.

Despite this essentially hostile intent, I believe (and have done for a while) that the power of open source will eventually win out over all of Microsoft's remaining fears and concerns, and that the company will embrace real open source fully for all of its products (at least where it is able to do so for legal reasons). It's just a question of time.

Glyn Moody writes about open source at opendotdotdot

 

 

 

Channel 9 new Beta version

http://beta.channel9.msdn.com/

Watch Out Silverlight and Terralever's Zero Gravity

Zero Gravity Project on Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=331171

Best Community Resources for Microsoft SharePoint Portal 2007 Ever…

Sharepoint Products and Technologies Community

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905506.aspx

 

Sharepoint Community Portal

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/forums/default.aspx

 

Sharepoint Community Newsgroup

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver

 

Sharepoint Resources

http://heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/148.aspx#07Intro

 

Sharepoint Portal How-Do I

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550086.aspx

 

Sharepoint Developer Portal

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905503.aspx

 

Sharepoint FAQ Board

http://www.spsfaq.com/

www.mcmsfaq.com

 

Sharepoint University

http://www.sharepointu.com/

 

Sharepoint Code

http://www.sharepointu.com/

 

RSS for IFilter Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/rss.xml

 

Collection 5404: Implementing Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=127456

 

Sharepoint MSD2D – Effective Sharepoint Portal community

http://www.msd2d.com

 

 

 

 

A New Chapter of Challenge has Begun …

A new channel of challenge in my life has begun. I left Generic Corp. After 9 Months of the hard working, wither people has believe it or not, we made Enterprise something in short time of period.

I've been a part of Generic and a founder member for the last 9 months; we were working hard to build a strong reputation for the corporate within Jordan Market. I believe that some unexpected mistakes have created discordant visions about the value of this company and its core staff. At the moment, Generic is growing in the market faster than before utilizing its unique services in building a strong line-of-business and I wish all the luck for the all the friends there. Are you confused about the reason of resigning? It's not personal as much as sometimes withers you like it or not you should take advantage of it.

Where am I? Am slowing down more than ever in chosen my upcoming family, I would love stabilizing with high achievement rather than challenge with high risk management. Nowadays, am building a strong knowledge for my upcoming career, trying to get advantage of MS Solutions Framework and going deep into MS Unified Messaging Services 2007 in addition to MS VS 2008 and MS SQL Server 2008, too.

So am going to Think Big. Start Small and Act Now!

 

I'm Wishing Generic Corporation utmost Achievement and best luck. I'm sure that this should be mentioned by any professional.

I Miss Blogging !!!

"To sink into the way of Achievement"

In Fact, am stuck with thousands of tasks within Generic Corporation and even am spending most of the week hours in the corporate burning to enhance its line-of-business and bring new clients on board.

Life is pretty out there, we became 4 and expecting in this week to expand more to become 6 people.

The Board now includes:

• DR. Nabil Kharman (Chief Executive Officer and Founder)
• Khaireddin Bushnaq (Technology Specialist)
• Elie Awwad (Chief Creative Officer)
• Me (Chief Operating Officer)

We are Hiring !!!

• Senior Software Developer (1)
• Mid-Level Software Developer (1)
• Marketing and Sales Officer (1)
• Office Executive Assistant (1)

Now we are preparing to move to the new office within one Month. Life is pretty here even in the most moments you get boring for the reason we are working at A SCHOOL :S .. yeah it's true we are working in the Al-Saadah College Schools and represent for the pyblic as one of the giant IT Services Providers in the region. No one knows this fact but to avhieve and challenge is the output of every day we pass while working hard to expand our business focus and build a strong Business Development for the Year of 2007. Our core demand is to Emphasize that we can deliver in time and in best quality the e-vision of public begining with Enterprise Products and include the Home User Collaboration and Office Management Tools to end up in what beyond the seen.

To Know more about Generic Please Visit the following website:
www.generic.jo


GENERIC ROCKS !!! (it's my favor winter theme)

Vy Life First Day

what an awesome place full of passion. In fact this is my target to lose tons of weight .. VY\y Life held in Amman, close to Abdoun Mall is a Gym Club with an amazing Facilities that crackle every articulate of your body and let you relax far away from business stuff . well i should thank my manager after God success for this subscription facility and hopefully am going to enjoy with all means my membership there .. Amazing Facilities , you can swim, burn fats, build your body, run around for 200 Meters, Kick boxing classes, Saona, Jakozi and end at squatch game.

Will i guess now i found a place to blow away my damn memories .. i found a place to shrink my weight .. i like it !! >>

Let's wait After Month who is the sweetest Man ever born nowadays "Prad Bitt or ME :D" ?!!

The Launch Event is in Amman on December 20th

Get Ready for a new DAY

Register Now


Experience the next generation of Microsoft software with the launch of Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. On Wednesday, the 20th of December 2006, at 9:00 am at the Zara Expo (IT Pro & Developers) and Grand Hyatt Amman (Business Executives). Come and discover how to...

• Amplify the Impact of your People.
• Simplify how People Work Together.
• Help Protect and Manage Content.
• Improve Business Insight.

Secure and Manage your Core Infrastructure.

Join MS to discuss your most complex challenges. Discover solutions. Bring your toughest questions. Walk away with answers.

Resignation

I'm moving to somewhere else ... yeah another new family ..


Yes i tendered my resignation today and am leaving ASPIRE office at Thursday night. Through my experience I knew the major IT companies in Jordan but I didn't feel and notice myself a company in its Social Services and Flexibility like ASPIRE Services. During the last two weeks i was living in a whole miss thinking deeply about my vision at GENERIC SOLUTIONS and compare it with ASPIRE Services. I liked everyone here; i liked Waref, Kaushal, Osamah, Imad and the others. All were kind to me and the spirit of achieving is now shining all over. The question that always been asked, is it a financial issue ?? .. The Only answer I have "I adore my challenge that leads me by God success to a better Financial state". I believe that Waref has made all the best to keep me on board but i couldn't ethicly even let him knowthat i gave my word a month ago before he even open my vision to all his promised applicable Opportunities at ASPIRE.

ASPIRE has been suffering from my late attendance.. Actually since whole month till now and am not often sleeping more than 5 hours a day. i remember that i didn't appeal any full day leave not in Friday nor Saturday since the moment i met Nabel Kharman.

I prayed and asked the lord his blessing on my upcoming future. Wishing for ASPIRE all the best from the bottom of my heart. Am going to pass frequently to the campus and provide my help.

Aspire has aquired me as Software Engineer. After my first month i presented them at ASPIRE Get Ready Day as a Technology Specialist. I had successfully built the whole internal process and been the MOSS Team Guide. Although during my three months i presented them at Jordan ICT Forum for two days.


Who is Generic Solutions ?? soon they will publish thier Website and a new era of IT Services will start shining all over.

WISHING FOR ALL FRIENDS AT ASPIRE ALL THE BEST.

Microsoft Announced 2007 Microsoft Office Completion

Microsoft Corp. has announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM). The company says this gold code milestone concludes the largest Microsoft Office beta program to date, with more than 3.5 million people downloading the second beta of the office suite. Microsoft comments on the unprecedented quantity of feedback from beta testers and customers helping the Office development team validating product quality and optimizing performance. Also confirmed is 30 November 2006 as the worldwide business availability of the 2007 Office system, Windows Vista operating system and Exchange Server 2007. It is expected on that day Microsoft executives will participate in events around the globe, including an event with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in New York. General availability of the products will follow in early 2007, but can be as early as 7 December for Technet and MSDN subscribers.

The Microsoft Office Online tool has been redesigned to let people learn about what’s new in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. People can easily determine which products are best for their needs and find related productivity resources — whether it is assistance from one of the nearly 50,000 new help articles, a how-to refresher through one of the 35 new demos, online training through any of the 24 new courses, downloading one of the more than 400 new templates, or accessing other product downloads and tools. Starting 1st December 2006 in the U.S. and Canada, and coming soon after to an additional 13 international markets, Microsoft will make available free, downloadable product trials via Office Online.

Included in this release is also the SMS Link for Office Outlook 2007, a new service that allows Outlook 2007 users to connect with friends’, families’ and colleagues’ mobile phones by using SMS text messaging. It allows people to send and receive e-mail, contacts, appointments and tasks as text messages to mobile phones.

Most desktop application products in the 2007 Office system will be comprehensively localized in 38 languages, and customers will be able to purchase individual, single-language add-on packs enabling applications and suites to instantly become bilingual. The packs add a secondary localized user interface, help files, dictionary and thesaurus.

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Microsoft Soapbox at MSN

what an amazing video pod casting tool, but i would prefer to use Google You Tube more :D.

what a kind of comptitors they are .....

Windows Vista RTM !!!

Microsoft has announced the Windows Vista release to manufacturing (RTM) through the Windows Vista Blog. This important milestone signifies the end of development of Windows Vista, a significant effort by the software giant.

The company recognises the participation of an enthusiast community, who have played a key role in supporting the development of the new operating system through beta testing and feedback.With RTM Microsoft indicates to the market that Windows Vista is done and will be handed off to industry partners, including PC makers, ISVs and IHVs.

They in turn will continue to ramp-up in earnest now that the target is locked, for example, by refining hardware drivers, in order to complete the cycle and make Windows Vista available via retail channels on 30 January 2007.

On that date Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system will be available to customers around the world.Windows Vista will be available within 7 days to MSDN and Technet subscribers for download and use for development and review purposes.


Check this Link.

XNA Framework (Beta 2) Download

The XNA Framework redistributable provides the necessary runtime components to execute a game on Windows that was developed using XNA Game Studio Express Beta2. Installation of this runtime is not necessary on systems that already have XNA Game Studio Express Beta2 installed. Developers may include this runtime redistributable when they share their games written using XNA Game Studio Express Beta 2, but may not currently be used for commercial applications.

.NET Framework has been officially released!!!

.NET Framework 3.0 has been released!

The .NET Framework 3.0 has officially been released! You can download the .NET Framework 3.0 components here:

• .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components
• Windows SDK for Vista and the .NET Framework 3.0
• Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation)
• Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP

Note, if you are using Windows Vista the .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components are installed by default.

Microsoft Announces Vista Prices

Microsoft has announced pricing for its Vista operating system, the successor to Windows XP which is set to be rolled out to business customers at the end of this month. The Home Premium Edition will cost $239 with a suggested upgrade price of $159; Home Basic will cost $199 with upgrades likely to cost $100; while Vista Ultimate will retail for $399 with upgrades likely to come in at $259. Businesses looking to make the switch from XP to Vista will need to shell out $199 for an upgrade, or around $299 for a retail version.The only version of Vista not to have its price set is the top-end Enterprise Edition. A statement on the Microsoft website states that "the Windows Vista Enterprise edition is only available to Microsoft Volume License customers; it is not available for retail purchase".Consumers will have to wait until the new year to get their hands on the Home Basic, Home Premium and Ultimate versions of the snazzy-looking new OS, while businesses that are especially keen on a Vista PC should be able to get hold of one some weeks earlier.As a sop to those looking to buy a new PC, Microsoft is running an upgrade voucher scheme so that anyone buying a new XP system will be able to move over to Vista as soon as it launches. The upgrades will be redeemable via the manufacturer in the case of the most established brands while Microsoft is "working to provide guidance to smaller system builders" – meaning that even if you buy from a small PC manufacturer, you won’t miss out on the Vista goodness.

ZUNE WEBSITE is ALREADY THERE!!!

WWW.ZUNE.COM

Zune is a brand from Microsoft that incorporates a line of portable media players, software that will drive the devices, and an online service for acquiring and sharing media. It was previously thought that Zune was one of Microsoft's media players under "Project Argo". However, it now seems that the "Zune" brand will be used for all media players and other services, throughout the new project. The Zune will be released on the U.S. market November 14, 2006, with a price tag of $249.99. The European release date is tentatively set for late 2007 or early 2008.

What Am Working On nowadays !!

• Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server 2007 (MOSS) Beta 2 TR
• Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 2007 Beta 2 TR
• Microsoft .NET Framwork 3.0 Release Candidate.
• Microsoft Workflow Extensions for Visual Studio 2005.
• Biztalk Server 2006. (Orchestration and Messaging) for Automate our Bussiness Processes.
• Using WCF in securing our Intergartion Services.
• Using CMS Features in MOSS 2007 (Custimizing Lists and Content Types)
• Developing Rich Webpart components for MOSS 2007.
• Integrating Project Server 2007 with MOSS 2007 using (PWA: Project Web Access)
• Integrating Exchange Server 2007 with MOSS 2007 using (OWA: Oulook Web Access 2007)
• Using SSO Service to Authnticate users to Access (MOSS, Synergy Server, PWA and OWA)

What's next ?? I wanna ensure my proffisionalisim in using these productive tools whether (Development or Custimizing), It needs time but sure not longer than the end of this year enshallah.

Do i have the courage

Do i have the courage to mention her name in my blog ???
Do i have the courage to type down her dream story ??
Do i have the courage to upload her pictures her damn smiles and her words here ???
Do i have the courage to even remember ............................................................

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007's Search feature can support up to 50 million documents in a single index

As Microsoft approach RTM milestone for SharePoint Server 2007, I am extremely pleased to announce that the out of the box maximum recommended document limit for search in SharePoint Server 2007 is 50 million documents in a single index limited by hardware. SharePoint Server can support multiple indexes, so deployments above 50 million documents are possible on a custom solution basis. If you have a requirement for searching more than 50 million documents, please contact your Microsoft representative.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Enterprise Edition) also has an out of the box maximum recommended document limit of 50 million documents in a single index. There is no technically enforced document limit, but this product is limited to having only one index.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Standard Edition) has a limit of 500,000 documents and is also limited to having only one index.

Answers to some FAQs:

Q: What is a “document” in terms of Search?
A: A document can be anything from a Word or PowerPoint file, to a web page, an individual SharePoint list item, one people entry, or an SAP customer record.

Q: Does a very large document count as more than one item?
A: No. For example, a 10KB Word file and a 10MB Word file are each considered one document.

Q: What is considered to be an “average document size”?
A: This really depends on the content sources and file types that make up a corpus – so “average document size” can be very different for different customer environments. With Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, we now index individual list items (which was not the case with WSS 2.0). As a result, in environments where WSS 3.0 lists are used heavily, the large number of such small “documents” can reduce the average document size to as low as 10KB. Customers making limited use of WSS 3.0 lists will most likely see a larger average document size based on the overall composition of their corpus.

Q: What is the maximum number of indexes supported by SharePoint Server 2007?
A: SharePoint Server 2007 supports a maximum of 20 indexes. SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition) supports only one index.

Q: What are my options if I purchase SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Standard Edition) and my needs grow?
A: If your search needs exceed the 500,000 document limit of SharePoint Server 2007 for Search you can upgrade to SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Enterprise Edition) which has no technically enforced document limit. In addition, you can upgrade from SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard or Enterprise edition to SharePoint Server 2007 if you wish to take advantage of the enhanced search and integrated information management functionalities provided by SharePoint Server 2007.

Survey shows ASP.NET, IIS lead Fortune 1000

A recent survey of the Fortune 1000 websites by Port80 Software shows that Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) usage has doubled over the last year as it is being used by 54.9 percent of companies. In contrast, Apache usage has dropped to 23.3 percent placing it 4 percentage points lower than IIS6 alone. While the results could very well be accurate, it should be noted that Port80 Software has a bias toward Microsoft as it is one of their partners, not to mention the company specializes in developing tools and solutions for IIS.
Port80 also performed a similar survey that analyzes Fortune 1000 use of application servers and scripting platforms. Like the web server survey, Microsoft again comes out on top with its ASP.NET platform being run by 48.4 percent of the companies. Other notables in the survey include Java at 12.7 percent, PHP at 5.4 percent, and ColdFusion at 3.1 percent. In order to find these results, Port80 analyzed HTTP headers from each company's site.

Make your own Office 2007 styled buttons!

http://devpulse.com/?p=4


Awesomeeeee :), i do like the rich UI tools they are captivating me.

IE7 Ready this month ??

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/06/IE7-Is-Coming-This-Month_2E002E002E00_Are-you-Ready_3F00_.aspx

Am ready :p ..

Vista RC2 Out, Last Build Before RTM

As expected, Microsoft on Friday issued the second release candidate of Windows Vista - the last public build before the next-generation operating system is released to manufacturing. As with the interim build before it, RC2 will be available to a limited number of CPP participants, beta testers, as well as TechNet and MSDN subscribers.
"Since the release of Windows Vista RC1, Microsoft has continued to receive excellent feedback that is helping to improve the overall quality and performance of the product," a company spokesperson told BetaNews. "RC2 reflects that feedback and includes important improvements in performance, application compatibility and fit and finish work. Customers should verify any outstanding issues not addressed during their RC1 testing." Download Windows Vista RC2 from FileForum now.

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Mohammed Zayed and Bill Gates

I MADE IT THIS IS ME CLOSE TO BILL GATES

FINALLY THE PICTURE WITH ME

26-Oct-2005

Here Comes Windows Vista RC2

Microsoft will ship the final prerelease version of Windows Vista on Friday and, unexpectedly, will name the new version Release Candidate 2 (RC2). (Microsoft had stated earlier that it wouldn't ship an RC2 milestone release of Vista.) But don't let the name fool you. RC2 is really just a standard interim build of Vista, but unlike RC1, it won't be distributed to millions of users.
The RC2 build is 5743, and Microsoft is currently testing it internally. As with the previous interim build, 5728, RC2 will go to beta testers, Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet subscribers, and a random, limited number of Consumer Preview Program (CPP) members.
Although Microsoft wouldn't confirm the specifics of the release, the company did corroborate that it's planning an upcoming interim Vista build. "As we have previously discussed, Microsoft does plan to deliver more interim builds of Windows Vista before releasing the final product," a Microsoft spokesperson told me. "The exact name of the build and the date of its release have not been announced."
This is the last build Microsoft will be making available to the public prior to release to manufacturing (RTM). The RTM--which had been expected to be "on or before October 25"--has been adjusted slightly. Now, the Vista launch window begins October 18, when Microsoft will begin testing the final planned build for RTM. But Microsoft doesn't expect to finalize the product until sometime between October 25 and November 8.
Internal documentation notes that each daily delay after October 25 comes at a price, however: For each day past October 25, Microsoft will ship one less localized, language-specific version of Vista for the January launch. However, the company is prepared to do that to ensure that Vista's quality is high.
The internal documentation also notes that Vista still has more than 1400 bugs. Microsoft's internal processes require this bug count to drop to 500 or fewer before the product can go into escrow for RTM. By comparison, Vista had more than 2470 bugs on September 22.
In related news, Microsoft will be changing the product keys it uses for Vista after the product hits the RTM escrow phase. Consequently, users won't be able to use prerelease Vista product keys to install the RTM version. My understanding is that this change won't affect the RC2 release.

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Running .NET Applications on Linux using Mono

http://programming.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/12/1921225&tid=69

I said it once. It's a cross language environment but people were laughing on me that time. Now it became implemented and third party developed release for it. While The Platform Kernel support CLR then move your .NET everywhere. It might lose some UI and API functionality but still effective.

Am looking to test my applications performance out there to notice how effective is it.

Here at ASPIRE we use NANT to build our .NET Applications as the client requires. but NANT still need .NET Framework to be installed. Mono is simulating .NET compiler using its MCS. Am keeping asking my self why Microsoft till now wont go that way even it's doable ??!!

Mono is an open source project (sponsored by Novell) that allows you to run .Net
applications on Linux (as well as Unix, Mac OS X, Solaris and even
Windows). Mono comes with its own .Net compiler, mcs. "With Monodevelop," you'll say,
referring to Mono's integrated development environment (IDE). With Monodevelop
your developers can happily work with Glade#, Gnome#, and GTK#, all within a
.Net-type environment. Check the software's download page for your distro's
version and any dependencies. With your .Net programmers happily producing applications for Linux, you can turn your attention to ASP .Net for building Web applications. You're going to need a Web server, which can be either Apache (with mod_mono installed) or Mono's own Web server, XSP. Have a look at the Mono Handbook page for Web sites and Web services to find out how to set up the XSP server. On Debian, for example, its just a matter of installing the software.

Top Ten Geeks Wallets

http://www.productdose.com/article.php?article_id=4534

What a mess ?, i still don't have a wallet yet. Am trying to act as geek but it's my nature to lose my things away. Just before two months ago i re-extract out my ID card. And the month before it i lost my wallet some where but thanks god seems it was empty. y3ni yel3an 3ardha mn sha'3li mnee7 ma b'9aye3 7ali bel2a5eer :S

i liked the crossword one :D

Inside Google Manhaten Office

http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,1206,l=&s=&a=190145,00.asp


Why not to wish you are there participating with guys provide technologies covering the whole planet. Is it worthy ??


Hopefully my TPM isn't reading this one :S

The other Google search site

Google has created a search site without any Google branding to test new features. The site, SearchMash, has a simple blue and white interface with a search bar and an option to click on "popular searches." Once keywords are entered, the results page features links to results running down the left side of the page and the top three image results on the right side.
SearchMash also lets you click on a result and drag and drop it to change the order. Also, when a link is clicked on, the user is offered the option of opening the listings in the current window or a new window, seeing more pages from the Web site or finding similar pages. Additional results are added to the bottom of the original results page by clicking on a "more web pages" link.
With SearchMash, Google "plans to test user interface ideas without Google's brand somehow skewing the tests," Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch.com wrote in a blog posting on Monday. "It's pretty slick."

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IE7 Handles feeds better than Firefox

through my experience in IE7 RC1 and Firefox 2.0 RC1, IE is better related to its UI and catalog reader.

check this out:
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox/ie7-still-handles-feeds-better-than-firefox-20-204051.php

How to write good Howto

Howtos are always useful, no matter the subject they are about. Whether you are trying to contribute to an Open Source project or to attract traffic to your blog howtos can make the things done.
check this article: http://nongeeksight.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-write-good-howto.html

Virtual Canoe: Real-Time Realistic Water Simulation for Haptic Interaction

A real-time water simulator with a pre-computed database of 3D fluid dynamics. The system simulates a real-time wave model with a database for complex and fast-flow areas around objects that creates realistic wakes and force feedback of water resistance.

Awesomeee work and innovation !!!!!

Top 125 Ajax Toutrials

i would rather to use ASP.net AJAX codename (ATLAS) which facilitate the use of ajax components and provide high functionality for your web application.

check ajax.asp.net atlas.asp.net. :)