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Silverlight Podcasts

Chakravarthy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:14:05 GMT

Sparkling client is a podcast about Silverlight and other RIA technologies. If you're interested in learning how to write great websites that use Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, and others, give us a listen. If you would like professional advice in these areas, see the company we founded at www.silverbaylabs.org

The above is the definition from Sparkling Client website. I personally liked all of the podcasts. Must for every Siliverlight developer.

Did you?

Microsoft - Night School

Chakravarthy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:14:09 GMT

All these days, only the government officials are encouraging every individual to become as literate. If any individual couldn't able to attend the school in their childhood, they are conducting classes during evening hours at different places, so that the elderly people can go there during their evening time and can learn to read.

In fact, this new is not a new thing.. but the point is that .. Microsoft is conducting such kind of events with the local partners of Australia. Isn't strange.. There are 3 tracks as an initiative.

1) SharePoint training for Team Leaders Home Page

2) Windows Server 2008 (Beta 3) – First Look, Getting started with Security and Policy Control

3) Windows Server 2008 – First Look, Getting started with Server Management

Isn't it great .. hope one day this will become a practice at all locations of Microsoft

Douglas Crockford talk about WEB

Chakravarthy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:43:54 GMT

This is a nice talk about how the web evolved and where it should have been as of this day. According to Douglas Crocford, instead of progressing into new technology, we are degrading our technology into where it all started.

Shocking !!! isn't it !!! .. listen to him from his own voice. Am convinced with his idea, and certain facts that he is mentioning about are REAL. According to him, we are doing research on the great thoughts that are published way back in the history by many great scholars.

This is the first time am giving attention to such talks. Probably because of this, I felt that this talk has many points to give attention. Anyhow, overall this is a great talk and every mind that want to contribute to the progress of our technology, should listen to him and put some thought process towards these points.

Did you listen to this ??

Standards @ Microsoft

Chakravarthy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:08:07 GMT

With the new year roll out, Microsoft has initiated a new website with the caption as mentioned at the subject of this post. Yes, they are starting a new initiative with all the Standards that are in place with the industry giants and the best out of Individuals, Corporations, Acadmics, who not ... every one ..

http://www.microsoft.com/standards/ is the link for all such standards. The initial thought for this resulted from the Interop team. They have a separate home for them as http://www.microsoft.com/interop. The history has 2 yrs old story to come out with such standards towards Interoperability. And finally they are with the standards that are in best practice with industry.

I just started going through one by one.. did you ??

Microsoft Products at No Cost - Free

Chakravarthy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:05:50 GMT

Who says that Microsoft manufactures products only to sell ?? Microsoft has many products that are free to download. As am into .NET and specially with Visual Studio, am aware that Visual Studio is free to download from Microsoft's website. Yes, that's true.. Microsoft give Visual studio 2008 Express Editions, MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 as well as the Runtime for the latest .NET framework 3.5.

Here is the link to learn more towards free products as well as priced products. To know more about the product information about Visual Studio 2008, click here.

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

Chakravarthy — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:15:08 GMT

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview provides a glimpse of new, powerful functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET next year. This release delivers features that enable high-productivity data scenarios and creates the best server for rich clients. The release includes an ASP.NET model-view-controller (MVC) framework, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Silverlight controls for ASP.NET, ADO.NET Data Services, an Entity Framework runtime, new features for ASP.NET AJAX and a wide variety of API References as hosted at ASP.NET Official site.

You can download the ASP.NET 3.5 Preview, which contain all the Siliverlight controls, ADO.NET Data Services and many more. There is a forum specially dedicated to ASP.NET 3.5 Preview at ASP.NET Forums.

Microsoft Test Automation User Group - MTAUG.net

Chakravarthy — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:28:28 GMT

A new user group that is taking into shape, specially for the teams that involve software testing. You can get to know more about this user group from http://mtaug.net or get onto http://groups.msn.com/mtaug

This group is going to be functioning in parallel with "Hyderabad .NET User Group", http://muag.net or http://groups.msn.com/dotNETUserGroupHyd

Tomorrow, 20th July 2007, is going to be the launch of the group. Am going to be there as a speaker for C# 3.0 fundamentals.. are you ?