Welcome to the InfoMesa Project - Official Launch

submitted by wisemx 29 days, 16 hours ago

sambbiblog.spaces.live.com — InfoMesa is a project to allow scientists to do more science and more discovery in a collaborative and data-rich environment. The metaphor that we have elected to use as the underlying fabric of the InfoMesa is a Whiteboard. InfoMesa allows any kind of data or visualization to be added to the Whiteboard. Far from static, these tools are interactive, allowing data to be absorbed from data sources like Oracle, SQL Server, Excel Spreadsheets, XML or even Cloud-based web services. InfoMesa, when complete will support imagery, video, 2D connected models, 3D models (lit in a photo realistically manner), web searches, results from web service calls, Image Tile Maps, ScatterPlots, Sticky Notes, Ink Notes, Rich Annotations and Associations. read more...

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Microsoft ADO.NET team: The future of LINQ To SQL

submitted by wisemx 2 months, 1 day ago

blogs.msdn.com — I always get the same question about the future of LINQ to SQL. Finally the ADO.NET Team, which is supporting both LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework, made some clear statements. It is now clear that as of .NET 4.0, LINQ to Entities will be the recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios. The original statements can be found here: 1st: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx 2nd: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/31/clarifying-the-message-on-l2s-futures.aspx read more...

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Free IIS7 Web Deployment sandbox accounts: DiscountASP.NET

submitted by wisemx 2 months, 8 days ago

blogs.iis.net — MS Deploy - Fundamentals If you aren’t familiar with this tool yet, you’re going to want to take the time to browse the documents and give it a try. It is one of the fundamental building blocks that IIS will be building on the next several years. In it’s current beta form, it can be used to: •Migrate entire servers or individual sites from one machine to another (IIS6 –> IIS7) •Sync Servers, Sites, and Applications (IIS6 –> IIS6, and IIS7 –> IIS7) •Create offline packages that can be used as backups, version control, and deployment units Visual Studio 10 Integration! The beta also provides support for ‘delegated’ publishing, which enables Administrators to grant control to developers and Web site owners to do the packaging and publishing without being a machine administrator. This is going to be a huge boon for Shared Hosters especially, allowing richer application publishing than ever before. DiscountASP.net, one of our close hosting partners, is offering 2000 free accounts as part of a limited Beta which allows you to try out this new functionality – sign-up today, availability is limited. read more...

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Dev humor: Halloween, Daylight Saving Time, Bill Gates' new company

submitted by wisemx 2 months, 12 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — Halloween, Daylight Saving Time, Bill Gates' new company and other mysterious things I've read this week ... read more...

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Microsoft launches DigiYouthz site for Irish students

submitted by wisemx 2 months, 15 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — Microsoft today launched DigiYouthz, a new programme designed to help Irish students see the incredible opportunities available from a career in the technology industry. The programme aims to address outdated stereotypes and to open students’ minds to the wide array of exciting business and technology career opportunities in the IT industry. The event will provide them with hands-on to experience of the very latest technology from computer gaming to online services and movie production. They’ll have the opportunity to use these technologies and hear from people working in a wide variety of roles at Microsoft. http://www.digiyouthz.com/ read more...

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Load and Play Media Files at Runtime using Silverlight 2

published 2 months, 16 days ago, submitted by wisemx 2 months, 19 days ago

dotnetcurry.com — Sometime back, I had written a similar article Load and Play a Video File at Runtime using Silverlight 2 Beta 2. The article made use of the OpenFileDialog class in Silverlight Beta2 to load files at runtime. There have been quite a few breaking changes from Beta 2 to the final release of Silverlight. One of these changes affects Silverlight 2 application using the OpenFileDialog. In this short article, we will study these changes and explore how to load and play media files at runtime using the OpenFileDialog control using the final release of Silverlight 2. read more...

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Fix for the Hotfix for EnCoder 9

submitted by wisemx 2 months, 21 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — Hotfix 929182 not updating Windows Media Encoder 9 components as expected on Vista I was in training a few weeks ago (WMS 2008 new features) and found that no matter what I did I was not able to get hotfix KB929182 installed on my Vista lab machine. The hotfix would act as if it installed correctly but the affected DLLs were not updated. The title of the KB in question is: “FIX: You may experience issues when you use Windows Media Encoder 9 Series on a computer that is running Windows Vista“. After having a number of CDNs report this issue, we investigated further and another engineer on my team was able to figure out the steps necessary to get this KB to actually install as expected. We think we know why this is occurring but we are still investigating. The steps below should help you to get around the issue until we can get the patch updated (assuming our requested changes are accepted). read more...

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Minrosoft: Silverlight 2 is Live

published 2 months, 25 days ago, submitted by wisemx 2 months, 25 days ago

microsoft.com — Redmond, Wash. — Oct. 13, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Silverlight 2, one of the industry’s most comprehensive and powerful solutions for the creation and delivery of applications and media experiences through a Web browser. Silverlight 2 delivers a wide range of new features and tools that enable designers and developers to better collaborate while creating more accessible, more discoverable and more secure user experiences. read more...

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