New releases from Microsoft for all you developers out there: Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 .Net Framework 3.5 Beta 2, and SilverLight 1.0 Release Candidate Happy downloading! Links: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/install.aspx Bashar Lulu / MVP...
I know its been so long since I last blogged, but I've been extremely busy. I promise to come back, with a vengeance. Meanwhile, enjoy this wonderful article Top 10 Hidden Gems in SQL Server 2005 , courtesy of my MVP friends Moustafa Arafa and Alirez Aliabadi (who's now in Canada). Enjoy!! Links...
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Remember the service manager in SQL 2000. Yes, that nice little icon near the clock in the system tray that showed the status of the SQL Server service. Well, it went missing in the 2005 version of SQL. Well, some cool dude has created one for SQL Server 2005 . I have to say, WOW! It looks absolutely...
I just received an email telling me about this. Apparently this is a "free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools." Download it from www.getpaint...