Friday, April 22, 2005
Asia MVP Regional Summit 2005
Asia MVP Regional Summit 2005 will be held April 24-April 27 in Singapore. The summit serves as the most exciting Microsoft MVP event in Asia where Microsoft celebrates the diverse group of individuals for their deep and sustained technical expertise and passion for the community. Let me Rock there! :)
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
.NET Framework 2.0 & VS 2005 OS requirements
.NET Framework 2.0 will require either of the following:
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Windows 2003 Server Gold
Windows 98 Gold, 98 Second Edition, Millennium
Visual Studio 2005 will require either of the following:
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Windows 2003 Server Gold (Requirement of SP1 is still being evaluated)
The biggest change from .NET Framework 2.0 beta 1 is the requirement for Windows XP Service Pack 2.
Monday, April 18, 2005
DevCon 2005 by Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad (MUGH) - April 10th, 2005
A full day event focusing on various latest technology topics of Microsoft Product line, featuring Dev Guru's and IT Celebrities of India, from Microsoft Developer Evangelism Team, MS IDC and MS GDCI.These sessions covered the upcoming cutting edge technologies Indigo, Visual Studio Team System and Whidbey and SQL Server Mobile 2005. Over 500 members registered online with the event and more than 130 members attended and participated in a very interactive way.
Conducted By:
This technical fiesta was conducted by Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH), in association with Microsoft GDCI, Vasudeva Realtors and Satyam Computers.
Participation from companies : Infosys, Cognizant Technologies, Accenture, Wipro, Keane, Satyam, TCS, Microsoft, Virtusa and InfoTech
Overall feedback:
Some of the objective feedback include: (Collected from feedback forms)
1. Excellent, impressive (more than 30 responses)
2. Want more sessions, at least 3 in year !!!! (there were more than 5 reponses like this)
3. Really Good (more than 23 responses saying this)
4. Wanted to share material/slides (10+ responses)
5. MUGH is doing very good. Wanted to contribute more to MUGH !!! (at least 10 responses)
Comments of some of the participants:
Ramesh Srinivasan, Cognizant Technologies
Thanks to MUGH for making this event happen this way, this is a great experience and I appreciate DevCon event managers to make everything happend on time with out much schedule deviation. When I looked at the schedule, I strongly decided to attend Kumar Gaurav Khanna's session on INDIGO. That's a great session on a great technology coming up.
SQL Server Mobile - IDC Team, Microsoft India
This event has exceed our expectation, It's a very good experience for us to address such a large developer community in Dev Con 2005. We look forward to do more sessions on
SQL Server Mobile 2005 with Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad.
Rajesh, Infosys
Sessions are very good and very helpful for Developers to work with emerging Microsoft technologies, especially Indigo and Visual Studio Team System.
I want to contribute more to MUGH as a core member as well. Thanks to MUGH.
Lakshmi S, Virtusa Ltd.
Felt like I have attended Tech-Ed or some MSDN Event. Extremely cutting edge technology sessions and Great speakers. 10 times worth than a sunday @ home :-)
I request MUGH to conduct these kind of events atleast 3 times a year.
Umesh Thota, Student
As the day started we with our hopes high, all done with our arrangements were waiting for clock to strike 10. At 10 it was a marvel an astonishing number of people, both students and developers showed up. in spite of it being a Sunday. It was a feeling of fruits for our hard work. there was an element of fun, which was never planned. i enjoyed every moment of it and hoped the day would never end.
For snapshots: Check it out here: http://www.mvpblog.com/devcon/
Friday, April 15, 2005
Security Risk Self-Assessment Tool
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services
Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services provides architecture- and design-level guidance for application architects and developers who need to build distributed solutions with the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Check out this guide is for you if you are an architect or need to:
- Determine how an application will be split into components
- Choose what technologies will be used in a transactional line of business application or service
- Design what management and security policies should be applied
- Decide how the application will be deployed.
Component layers found in distributed applications and services built with .NET
How to make .NET and Web Services are up 24* 7?!
Check out here for the answer ;)
Performance Best Practices at a Glance
Best Practices for Scalability
Checklist: Architecture and Design Review for Performance and Scalability
Checklist: Remoting Performance
Checklist: Web Services Performance
Web services are only useful if they're available when you need them. Microsoft offers several ways to make Web services reliable, including some recently released tools.
Check out this article too by Alan Zeichick
Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET`1
Interested in Enterprise Application Architecture using .NET!
Then check this document, which provides a brief overview of Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET, which embraces existing work in the patterns community, contributes new patterns, and shows how to implement these patterns in .NET.
Included in the guide are an introduction to patterns and a catalog of 32 architecture, design, and implementation patterns.
Download the .pdf version of this guide from the Microsoft.com Download Center.
Right now, I am looking on the same!!!! Wht that Means? Guess! ;)
Enterprise Architectural Space
This document presents an organizing table that describes the enterprise architectural space, shows relationships among artifacts in the space, and demonstrates how different roles in your enterprise view enterprise architecture.
Download Describing the Enterprise Architectural Space in PDF format.
Download a more readable version of the Organizing Table (Figure 2 of this guide) in PDF format.
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
ASP.NET 2.0 QuickStart Tutorial
This Beta version of the Quickstart tutorial provides just an overview of some of the exciting new features in the new ASP.NET 2.0 Framework.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 - “Istanbul”
Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (previously code-named “Istanbul”) is the new integrated communications application, and is the best client for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005.
Communicator provides rich presence and unifies real-time communications modes — such as IM, voice, video and access to voiceconferencing and Web conferencing — into a single application. It also enables PC-to-phone integration. Office Communicator 2005 will be available within the next 90 days.
