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How do I determine the processor's cache line size?

oldnewthing — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:00:01 GMT

When doing high-performance computing, you need to worry about the CPU cache line size in order to avoid issues like false sharing. But how can you determine the processor's cache size?

The GetLogicalProcessorInformation function will give you characteristics of the logical processors in use by the system. You can walk the SYSTEM_LOGICAL_PROCESSOR_INFORMATION returned by the function looking for entries of type RelationCache. Each such entry contains a ProcessorMask which tells you which processor(s) the entry applies to, and in the CACHE_DESCRIPTOR, it tells you what type of cache is being described and how big the cache line is for that cache.

Windows 7 adds the function GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx which does the RelationCache filtering for you.

Things I've written that have amused other people: Episode 6

oldnewthing — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:00:00 GMT

On an internal discussion group, somebody decided to quote one of my blog entries.

Jim Medding was amused by my response: Bloggers are just idiots with a Web site.

(My blog was dug up in order to refute a claim, even though the blog entry applied to a situation different from the one under discussion.)

How To: Turn off Strong Name Validation

syedab — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:59:50 GMT

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools team.

In one of my application testing I faced issue of “strong name validation failed” for a assembly, had to figure out a way to turn off strong name validation so that I can carryout testing on the given assembly while I get appropriate assembly.

The actual error is

“Unhandled exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly ‘application name, version=4.0.0.0, culture=neutral, publickeytoken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies. Strong name validation failed.<Exception from HRESULT: 0x8013141A>”

Steps to turn off strong name validation:

Launch visual studio command prompt in admin mode and run the following command

sn –Vr *,b03f5f7f11d50a3a

-Vr <assembly> [<userlist>] [<infile>]
Register <assembly> for verification skipping (with an optional, comma separated list of usernames for which this will take effect and an optional test public key in <infile>).
<assembly> can be specified as * to indicate all assemblies or *,<public key token> to indicate that all assemblies with the given public key token. Public key tokens should be specified as a string of hex digits.

Similarly you can remove verification skipping entries,

sn –Vu *,b03f5f7f11d50a3a
-Vu <assembly>
Unregister <assembly> for verification skipping. The same rules for <assembly> naming are followed as for -Vr.

sn -Vx
-Vx
Remove all verification skipping entries.

- Syed

Fast Forward Testing – Part 1 – The magic w(b)and.

pradeepn — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:58:00 GMT

I mentioned in my previous blog that I will be mainly concentrating on the Test Runner which is used for executing manual tests. While there is a lot to discuss around this, I will straight away jump into a feature that will help testers fast forward their testing. Basically, the tester can automate portions of test that can be played back next time the test is executed. The good thing is that the tester does not have to do a lot to make this happen.

In this blog, I will go over a simple test case where I test addition on a calculator app. When you run the test from MTLM, you will get to the Test Runner UI.

You will have to check the “Create action recording” check box before clicking on “Start test”. This ensures that the actions that you perform on your application (calculator in this case) gets recorded. I have also modified the UI layout some bit to explain some things here. This is how it looks just before starting the test.

I perform the actions on the calculator as mentioned in the test case and then mark Step 4('”Click on 3”) as “Passed”.

Two things to notice here:'

A blue color band next to steps on the right.
Actions recorded on the bottom. This view is collapsed by default. I have expanded this for illustration.

What this means is the actions that I have performed until “Step 4” is associated with the steps 1 to 4 as an action recording region. When I mark a step (Step 4 in this case), a region is created. You can also see the list of actions recorded in the lower part of the UI.

Does a tester needs to be aware of all these when the only goal is to manually test the application. Definitely not. The tester has to just go about testing the application while the recording happens in background. In order to get a more resilient action recording, the user may have to look into some of these aspects.

Perform other actions and end the test. Notice that after this, the band color has become orange. That means the tester can play this action recording. Save the test and proceed. More on how to use this recording in my next blog.

Windows Azure Training from PDC 09

airleeg — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:57:55 GMT

Check out these recorded sessions on Windows Azure from pdc09: Lap Around the Windows Azure Platform Windows Azure: Present and Future SQL Azure Database: Present and Future Lessons Learned: Migrating Applications to the Windows Azure Platform Introduction to Building Applications with Windows Azure Building Java Applications with Windows Azure Developing PHP and MySQL Applications with Windows Azure For additional training resources on Windows Azure click here...(read more)

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2009 Update)

bartvagh — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:56:48 GMT

Just in case anyone missed this. A new set of tools for Windows Azure has been made available and can be downloaded at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6967ff37-813e-47c7-b987-889124b43abd&displaylang=en

Overview

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to enable the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure.
New for the November 2009 release:

Service Model UI: A redesigned and significantly more complete interface for manipulating Role configuration information. To access, double-click on a role node in the Solution Explorer.
Additional role templates: Support for ASP.NET MVC 2 (2010 only), F# worker roles (2010 only), and WCF Service Application web roles.
VS2010 Beta2 Support: Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and VWD Express 2010 Beta 2.
Support for dynamically creating tables: The Create Tables functionality is now performed automatically; there is no longer a need to right-click and select Create Tables… on the project after your table definitions have changed.
Full support for and installation of the November Windows Azure SDK release:

The sample storage client has been replaced by a new production quality library.
New Diagnostics library enables logging using .NET APIs and enables the collection of diagnostic information from the service.
Service Runtime library updated to support inter-role communication and notification of configuration changes .
Support for input endpoints on Worker Roles.
Higher fidelity simulation of Development Storage: supports all current cloud storage features, including dynamically creating tables.
Ability to choose the size of the VM for a role instance.
Ability to persist data in local storage even after the role is recycled.
Ability to manage certificates to install to the role VMs.

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio includes:

C# and VB Project creation support for creating a Windows Azure Cloud Service solution with multiple roles.
Tools to add and remove roles from the Cloud Service.
Tools to configure each Role.
Integrated local development via the Development Fabric and Development Storage services.
Running and Debugging a Cloud Service in the Development Fabric.
Building and packaging of Cloud Service Packages.
Browsing to the Windows Azure Developer Portal.

Innovation Academy / Taller para emprededores

Omar Aviles — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:52:55 GMT

En esta ocasión contaremos con la presencia de Malcolm Fraser, consultor internacional, quien nos impartirá un taller de 2 días, dirigido al manejo, operación, búsqueda de mercados y todo lo referente al manejo de tu empresa de software. Registrate

1. Fecha y hora:	14 y 15 de Diciembre de 2009 9 am a 17:15 pm.
2. Lugar del evento:	Centro de Innovación ANIEI: Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Estado de México
3. Dirección	Carr. Lago de Guadalupe km 3.5, Col Margarita Maza de Juárez, 52916 Atizapan Edo mex
4. Audiencia:	Emprendedores con iniciativas de empresas de Software. Sea Software Empaquetado o Software mas Servicios.
5. Asistencia presencial:	Contamos con cupo limitado. Les suplicamos que reserven su lugar registrándose previamente. Para confirmar su asistencia, por favor regístrense AQUÍ.
6. Costo:	El evento no tiene costo.
7. Lenguaje de impartición:	Ingles.
8. Constancia:	Se impartirá constancia de asistencia emitida por Microsoft a aquellos emprendedores que cumplan con los 2 días del taller en forma presencial.

9. Agenda

Workshop Agenda: Primer Día

Timing	Content
9.00am – 9.15am	Introduction, Meet the Group, Workshop Objectives
9.15am – 10.30am	Introduction to the software industry: How it’s the same, why it’s different The Market Environment and its Analysis: Managing change and ambiguity
10.30am -11:00 am	Morning Tea and Group Discussions
11.00am – 12.30am	Building Customer Value and Loyalty: Which Software Business Model?
12.30pm – 1.15pm	Lunch
1.15pm – 3.00pm	Leadership and Culture: An introduction for Software CEOs
3.00pm – 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30pm – 5.00pm	Agile Enterprises: The Software Business Strategic Framework
5.00 – 5:15pm	Close

Workshop Agenda: Segundo Día

Timing	Content
9.00am – 9.15am	Re-Cap on Day One
9.15am – 10.30am	Software Services Marketing and Management
10.30am -11:00 am	Morning Tea and Group Discussions
11.00am – 12.30am	Solutions Selling and Managing the Complex Sale
12.30pm – 1.15pm	Lunch
1.15pm – 3.00pm	Software Operations: Introduction Application Life Cycle Management
3.00pm – 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30pm – 4:15pm	Benchmarking and Performance Management for both product and Services based Software Business.
4:15pm – 5:00pm	Collaboration and Partnering for Success
5.00 – 5:15pm	Close and Evaluation Forms and Survey

No dejes pasar esta oportunidad y reserva tu lugar.

Looking at Virtual Memory Usage

bharry — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:51:27 GMT

One of the big problems that I’ve talked about is virtual memory exhaustion and the resulting VS instability. Today, VS is a 32-bit process – I’m sure that’s going to change (become 64-bit) at some point but it won’t for 2010. A 32-bit process has 2GB of address space on a 32-bit OS. You can throw the 3GB switch and get another GB at the cost of taking a GB away from the OS – it works OK but the OS doesn’t always like it – particularly if you are running server components on your machine (like IIS). If you are on a 64-bit OS, 32-bit processes get a full 4GB of virtual address space without any penalty to the OS – handy eh?

In the end, many customers are still running on 32-bit OSes and asking them to go change boot parameters (the 3GB switch) just isn’t an appropriate thing for us to do, so we’re focusing on making sure VM works well in the 2GB of address space that many customers have available.

This can be complicated by Virtual Address space fragmentation. This is caused by smallish gaps between other virtual address space allocation. You can reach the point where there’s enough virtual address space left but there’s not enough contiguous space to satisfy allocations. So saying everything is OK as long as virtual memory allocation stays below 2GB really isn’t realistic. The app will become unstable well before that.

Further, any test we do has to take into account that users will always do some things we didn’t expect so running VM all the way up to the threshold and saying “good enough” just isn’t acceptable either.

So what do you do?

We’ve started by gathering some “real world apps”. By this I mean some of you, our customers, have actually given us copies of your large apps. We’re incredibly grateful for this because they are great tools to ensure that we are staying in touch with the kinds of apps our customers are building and how VS is working for them. Oh, and we’re using a couple of internal MS apps as well. We’ve chosen 6 of them (apps of various types: web, WPF, Sharepoint, etc) that are all large and we believe characterize a large portion of our customer base.

We then choose a set of operations – load the solution, edit some code, design some forms, debug, checkin some changes, etc, etc that represent a realistic end user interaction with each application.

And lastly, we’ve chosen a threshold or 1.5GB of VM. We will not consider it acceptable until all 6 of the scenarios are able to execute without ever going over 1.5GB of VM. We believe this will allow adequate room for users to do things we didn’t anticipate and still have a buffer before getting near the instability threshold.

Here’s a picture of where we currently stand with the 6 apps (btw, I’ve changed the names of the apps to protect the identity of people we are working with). Most of these apps were RED when we started the VM effort a couple of months ago. As you can see we’ve made some good progress but we aren’t done yet.

Let’s take a look at some detail on one of the “bad ones”. Here you can see the way we are tracking this. You can see the “steps” in the scenario, the virtual memory after each step and the comparison to VS 2008 SP1 (for all steps where there is an equivalence). You’ll see there are more bars here than steps listed, I think that’s an artifact of the slideware (not all steps are listed). We use this to look for any places where VM jumps significantly or varies substantially from VS 2008 to focus investigations.

We also plot the VM growth from different builds against each other. In this case, you can see that in the Nov 11th build (21111) the CB died halfway through the scenario because it ran out of VM and you can see that by Nov 25th (21125) we had improved it so that that not only did it complete but it is generally better than VS 2008 (let us remember that VS 2008 isn’t flawless so we don’t blindly take parity with it as success). As you can see we still have a bit of work left to do to hit out 1.5GB goal.

We also track improvements over time from build to build in more of a trend fashion:

And lastly we use a “ledger” format for tracking fine grained progress. This is the best way I’ve found to track this kind of thing: Identify the goal and current status against it. Identify the fixed currently in progress and the expected improvements (generally an informed guess) and identify the areas that are under investigation (the things that just don’t look right) and best wild ass guess you can make about how much improvement “ought” to be available based on what it is vs what you think it should be. This gives you a way to see things moving through the pipeline, understand progress towards the goal and make priority trade-offs.

Hopefully that gives you some insight into how we are thinking about the VM issue and the progress we are making.

Brian

SQL112AL: How to position SQL Server consolidation to your customers Live Meeting on Dec 10, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

mariyi — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:47:50 GMT

SQL Server consolidation is a key industry trend that enables IT organizations to reduce expenses and carbon footprint. However, not all organizations have adopted consolidation whole heartedly. A clear articulation of the benefits of consolidation and the associated SQL Server features that enable these benefits may help customers to warm up to the idea of SQL Server consolidation. In this session we will attempt to create such a positioning for SQL Server consolidation. Presenter: Sambit Samal - Senior Product Manager

Click here to register for the training

For additional training resources click here

For sales training resources on SQL Server 2008 click here

For implementer training resources on SQL Server 2008 click here

For architect training resources on SQL Server 2008 click here

For developer training resources on SQL Server 2008 click here

Microsoft Dynamics Partner Leadership Workshops

kmachayy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:42:00 GMT

Microsoft is pleased to offer the Partner Leadership Workshop led by Salesworks, Inc. Register Now, and position yourself and your practice for a successful future! Many partner practices provide their owners with a good living, but fall far short of their potential in terms of achieving maximum growth, creating significant ongoing financial returns, and meaningful financial rewards when it comes time for the owners to exit the business. This one-and-a-half day offering is designed to help you build...(read more)

William Stanek: Fun with Windows Media Player 12 and Windows 7

devonm — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:42:00 GMT

William here. Have you tried Windows Media Player 12 yet? If you haven’t, I think you should!

WMP 12 is the version that ships with Windows 7. Besides a cool new look, shown in the figure below, what I love most about this player is that is plays all of my favorite media formats. Finally—and I do mean all of my favorites.

That means not only does it play WMV, WMA, MP3, AVI, and MOV, but it also plays 3GP, AAC, AVCHD, MPEG-4, DivX, and Xvid files. IMHO, support for Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and MPEG-4 (MP4) is a HUGE improvement. Why?

Although MP3 is the audio format most everyone recognizes, AAC actually is nearly as widely used because AAC is/was the default format for the Apple iPod. AAC is one of several audio coding formats defined by the International Standards Organization (ISO) for MPEG. AAC was first specified as MPEG-2 AAC, and then enhanced and extended within MPEG-4. Apple’s popular iTunes music service uses the AAC format.

AAC uses a perceptual coding technique to compress digital audio files. AAC is similar to MP3, but offers a number of advantages designed to improve audio quality, including higher-efficiency compression, better handling of audio frequencies above 16 kHz, and support for higher resolution audio at up to 96 kHz. The improved efficiency of AAC files makes it a better choice than MP3.

Note: Essentially, AAC is MPEG-4, but to be fully and technically accurate I must state that AAC is at the core of MPEG-4 and is the codec of choice for Internet and digital audio encoded to comply with MPEG-4. (AAC is also at the core of 3GPP and 3GPP2.)

In addition to the enhanced media support, I also like the new look for Now Playing, shown in the figure below. This new less-is-more approach allows you to quickly see what’s playing, navigate and control the current album or playlist and return to the library if you want to. You also can keep Now Playing on top of other windows if you want to.

If you’re using Windows Media Player 12, I hope you’ll post a comment or send me an email telling me about your favorite feature.

Thanks for reading! Tune in next time, when I talk about importing music and other media.

William R. Stanek

williamstanek at aol dot com

http://www.twitter.com/WilliamStanek

SQL112AL: How to position SQL Server consolidation to your customers Live Meeting on Dec 10, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

airleeg — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:40:19 GMT

Innovation Showcase Headlines – 12/07/2009

kenjon13 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:33:51 GMT

This weeks Innovation Showcase Headlines features news from the PDC09, the latest ARCast episode, a “Dallas” deep dive from Jim O’Neil, a Silverlight 4 overview from Jeff Barnes and Azure pricing info detailed by Allan Da Costa Pinto.

Azure Data as a Service – Jim O’Neil details Dallas

ARCast.TV - Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, on Cloud Architecture Patterns

Pluralsight launches .NET Podcast Series

Developing Better User Experiences with Internet Explorer 8

Updated MSDN Parallel Computing Developer Center

Office 2010 Workshop Materials

Top 5 reasons for IT Pros to deploy IE8

Tap into the Power of the Windows 7 Taskbar

Silverlight 3/4: Advanced Performance / Profiling Techniques

Silverlight 4 – Feature Montage via Code Samples & Presentation Deck

Windows Azure Platform Patterns, Pricing and Promotions

MultiTouch Capabilities in Windows 7

Windows Azure Present and Future

Leverage Microsoft .Net and WCF for Your Enterprise SOA - WebCast

Visit the Innovation Showcase Site

Subscribe the Innovation Showcase RSS Feed

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aplicação para Surface é premiada :)

rene — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:33:03 GMT

acabo de receber um email do meu colega na Alemanha com a seguinte notícia: Munich based UX agency designaffairs ( www.designaffairs.de ) has been prized for the DATEV surface application with the red dot award 2009: communication ( http://www.red-dot.de/?area=article&article=38 ). The application was developed to enable tax consultants to show their clients interactive tabular reports and analysis in a very convenient and vivid figure on a surface table. vejam o vídeo: muito bacana a aplicação. ...(read more)

Template du Jour: CD & DVD gift labels

OfficeOnline — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:33:00 GMT

This week’s template is a CD & DVD gift label submitted by one of our top contributors, INGTERNET , who offers many creative templates. You can download this template now , or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Find more top templates at the Templates team blog . Have you designed a special template? Share you own creative templates here . You never know when we might feature yours! tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/inside_office_online/archive/2009/12/08/template-du-jour-cd-dvd-gift-labels.aspx';tweetmeme_style...(read more)

Eneta kutsub Visual Studio 2010 seminaridele

asirel — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:01:00 GMT

Eneta saab järgmisest nädalast portaalile lisaks uue mõõtme, nimelt leiab aset esimene üritus Visual Studio 2010 arendusseminaride seeriast. Kokku on tulemas 5 sündmust ja lisan avaürituse kutse:

Gunnar Peipmani (Developers Team, DT) esinemisel toimub juba järgmisel nädal Visual Studio 2010 arendusseminaride seeria avaloeng. Tutvustame uut Visual Studio 2010 kasutajaliidest, mis pakub välja palju uut ja põnevat. Seminari raames teeme ülevaate uuest Visual Studiost ja heidame näidete varal pilgu peale olulisematele uuendustele. Ühtlasi tutvustame järgmiseid Visual Studio 2010 seeriasse kuuluvaid sündmuseid. Seminar on ülevaatlik ning suunatud kõikidele huvilistele, kelle jaoks Visual Studio on oluline töövahend.

16. detsember, kolmapäev
kell 18:00 – 19:30
IT Kolledž, Raja 4c, ruum 314 (kaart)
sihtgrupp: arendajad
tehniline tase: 100-200
slaidid vs. demo: 50/50

Registreeri end osavõtjaks hiljemalt 14.12 aadressil estinfo@microsoft.com

Kogu Visual Studio seminaride seeriat puudutav arutelu toimub Eneta portaali foorumis www.eneta.ee/foorum, kust leiad lisainfot ka järgmiste sündmuste kohta.

Innovation Days – Evento Microsoft em São Paulo

JP Clementi — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:43:32 GMT

Venha conhecer e aprender sobre os novos produtos da Microsoft com palestras gratuitas de profissionais da própria Microsoft e MVPs. O Innovation Days é também uma grande oportunidade para discutir sobre tecnologia e fazer networking com outros membros da comunidade que atuam em empresas de desenvolvimento e também com os integrantes da equipe da Microsoft. Inscrições limitadas através do link : http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032437050&Culture=pt-BR Data : Sexta-feira,...(read more)

Connected Show #21 – PDC 2009 Pizza Party

peterlau — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:28:00 GMT

In this episode guests Sumit Chawla (Microsoft Interop Team) & Tim Wise (Dominos Pizza) join Peter to discuss offloading a Java/Tomcat server infrastructure to Windows Azure to save Dominos money (Interview starts at 40:31). Sumit also covers the latest Azure interoperability announcements from Web 2 Expo in NYC.

Guest hosts Gary Russo and Sara Chipps also join Peter for a wrap up of PDC 2009, including Azure, Silverlight 4, MEF on Mono, and Dallas.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!

Show Notes & Resources:

Gary’s Blog: http://pocketxp.spaces.live.com/
Sara’s Blog: http://girldeveloper.com
Sara’s New URL aggregator: http://bundl.it

Join the WAN Parties!
Sara hosts a WAN party each Wednesday at 7:30 PM Eastern where they discuss and debate current development topics and issues. For more info join us at http://TinyChat.com/wanparty every Wednesday.

Items Discussed during the PDC 09 Wrap-up with Gary & Sara:

Check out the PDC website for recordings of all the keynotes and breakout sessions: http://microsoftpdc.com/

Microsoft Web PI & Application Gallery:

Microsoft Web PI: http://www.microsoft.com/web

Microsoft Web Gallery: http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/

Java deployment on Windows Azure:

Steve Marx: http://blog.smarx.com/

Steve’s Sessions @ PDC: http://blog.smarx.com/posts/windows-azure-at-pdc-2009

Managed Extensibility Framework:

Glenn Block on MEF + Mono @ PDC: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT24

Glenn talks to Tim Heuer about MEF + Silverlight: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/30/glenn-block-on-mef-in-silverlight.aspx

Silverlight 4 Stuff:

Tim Heuer’s monster post on Silverlight 4 Features: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx

Tim Heuer’s list of Silverlight 4 links: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/22/pdc-silverlight-resources-link-dump-learn-silverlight.aspx

VS 2010 Coded UI Test Videos:

http://blogs.msdn.com/dannawi/archive/2009/05/06/visual-studio-2010-function-ui-testing.aspx

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/TheOliver/Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010-Manual-Test-To-Coded-UI-Test/

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/UI-Automation-Testing-with-Visual-Studio-2010/

WCF RIA Services:

Brad Abrams Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/BradA/

Brad Abrams PDC Sesssion on SL4 + RIA Services: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL21

Brad’s Blog ‘monster’ post detailing his PDC talk: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/11/27/pdc09-talk-building-amazing-business-applications-with-silverlight-4-ria-services-and-visual-studio-2010-now-in-visual-basic.aspx

Microsoft + Open Source Birds of A Feather @ PDC: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/BOF109 (no content)

Microsoft Codename “Dallas”:

http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/Dallas

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/developers/dallas/

http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsAzure/dallas/

NYC Big Apps Contest: http://www.nycbigapps.com/
Open Government NYC Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/opengovnyc/
NYC.Gov: http://www.nyc.gov

Items discussed during Sumit & Tim’s Interview:

Interoperability @ Microsoft Team Sites:

http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com

http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability

Interoperability News @ PDC 09 - Recap: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/11/20/interoperability-at-pdc09-azure-php-java-ruby-mysql.aspx

Sumit Chawla & Tim Wise @ Web 2 Expo NYC:

http://www.web2expo.com/webexny2009/public/schedule/detail/10924

http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/11/18/php-developers-get-more-choices-with-windows-azure-bing-and-sql-azure.aspx

Domino’s Demonstrates Tomcat Site on Windows Azure: http://blogs.msdn.com/jonbox/archive/2009/11/17/domino-s-demonstrates-tomcat-site-on-windows-azure.aspx

Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK for PHP: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/11/18/php-developers-get-an-sdk-for-the-windows-azure-platform-appfabric.aspx

Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/11/18/bing-search-helps-php-developers-remedy-404-error-pages.aspx

SQL CRUD Application Wizard for PHP: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/11/18/building-php-simple-database-applications-for-sql-server-windows-azure-storage-and-sql-azure.aspx

Семинар «Microsoft Windows Embedded: будущее устройств уже сегодня!»

Daniel Kornev [MSFT] — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:25:11 GMT

Компания «Кварта Технологии» приглашает принять участие в бесплатном семинаре «Microsoft Windows Embedded: будущее устройств уже сегодня!». Семинар пройдет 15 декабря в Санкт-Петербурге.

Мероприятие организовано для производителей интеллектуальных устройств и сборщиков аппаратных платформ на базе встраиваемых операционных систем и представляет интерес как для бизнес-руководителей: директоров компаний, директоров по развитию бизнеса, менеджеров проектов, продакт менеджеров, так и для технических специалистов: ведущих инженеров и разработчиков, начальников производств, главных технологов, технических директоров.

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Kompletna biblioteka graficzna oparta na WriteableBitmap w SL

danieb — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:23:43 GMT

W poprzednim wpisie wspomniałem o swoich eksperymentach w rysowaniem bezpośrednio na tablicy pixeli w WriteableBitmap.

Tęgi głowy entuzjastów Silverlight na całym świecie nie śpią. Na Codeplex pojawił się nowy projekt:

http://writeablebitmapex.codeplex.com/

Projekt ten zawiera gotową bibliotekę z bogatą funkcjonalnością.
Więcej szczegółów na blogu autora:

http://kodierer.blogspot.com/2009/12/writeablebitmapex-writeablebitmap.html

Issues while doing TFS merge operation after renaming folder

nitishn — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:10:00 GMT

When trying to merge some changesets in TFS 2008 we get the error message

Title When trying to merge some changesets in TFS 2008 we get the following error message:
Language en-US

Symptoms
When trying to merge some changesets we get the following error message:

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Error

No matching items found in $/THOR/Tags/COLA_Beta_20090320_C47800 at the specified version

Cause
This issue happens when we rename the middle folder. For an example, we created a folder A with a file X and then created a branch of Folder A with the name B.

After that, we create a branch of branch B with the name C and we make a change in file X in folder and check the file in. After checking we merge the changes into branch B and once we rename branch B to any other name(say, for an instance BRenamed), the issue get reproduced and we get the above mentioned error message.

Resolution

To resolve above mentioned scenario, we need to use the tf merge command from command line with /recursive keyword, as there is no way to specify the old name of the source branch from the UI, but we can from the TF merge command line.

For an example:

tf merge /version:C54288~C54288 $/THOR/Tags/COLA_Alpha_20090320_C47800 $/THOR/Tags/COLA_Gamma_20091009_C47800 /recursive

Visual Studio-tuoteperheen tuoterakenne uudistuu ja yksinkertaistuu.

Tanja Tilus — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:09:00 GMT

Visual Studio-tuoteperheen tuoterakenne uudistuu ja yksinkertaistuu.

Osallistu Livemeeting-lähetykseen 17.12. klo 10:00 - 10:30 ja kuulet mitä muutoksia on tulossa.

Terveisin, Matti

Virtual Labs for AppFabric and .Net 4

Nicholas Allen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:00:00 GMT

Ten labs for AppFabric and .Net 4 are available on MSDN virtual labs. Virtual labs allow you to borrow a virtual machine for a while, giving you the opportunity to try out the lab online with no setup or installation required. You get the machine and a copy of the lab manual with no other work.

These labs cover .Net 4 Beta 2 and AppFabric Beta 1. If you were at PDC, these labs should look familiar if you were able to spend some time in our hands on lab area.

Simple Console Workflow

Introduction to Workflow Services and AppFabric

Implementing More Complex Control Flow and Logic with WF4

Activity Designers and Designer Re Hosting in WF4

Building a Complex Workflow Service-based Business Process

Managing Your Workflow Service with AppFabric

Introduction to the Windows Server AppFabric Cache

Simplifying WCF Configuration

How to use Service Discovery to Locate Services

How to use Service Routing

【SPC09 JP 補足3】 Visual Studio による Business Connectivity Services (BCS) の外部リスト (External List) 作成

tsmatsuz — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:54:00 GMT

環境 : SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Beta 2) Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 2) セッション補足事項環境について ADO.NET Data Services を使用した SharePoint 2010 へのアクセス Visual Studio による Business Connectivity Services (BCS) の外部リスト (Externel List) 作成こんにちは。少し間があいてしまいましたが (すみません、いろいろとやることが多く . . .)、セッションでコードとデモ (実行結果) だけお見せしたビジネスコネクティビティサービス (BCS) を使用したエンティティの実装方法について説明します。セッションでご説明したとおり、この機能は、SharePoint Designer 2010 を使用して、データベースや WCF サービスなどのバックエンドデータにノンコードで接続できるという点がメリットであり、ここでご紹介する Visual Studio 2010 を使用したエンティティ作成は開発者 (プロ・デベロッパー)...(read more)

250 000 článků z Microsoft Knowledge Base v češtině

kaci — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:51:27 GMT

Mnoho z uživatelů Microsoft produktů se někdy setkalo s technickým problémem, který nebyli schopni sami vyřešit. Často proto navštěvují stránky Microsoft Knowled Base. Od 5.12. 2009 jsou tyto články dostupné v češtině. Přeložit lidskými silami 250 000 článků bylo téměř nemožné a tak byla využita nejnovější technologie automatického překladu Microsoft Translator.

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