Microsoft New Downloads : June 8th

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Jun 082007
 

This will be the first time I’ll be doing this, and many more to come with subsequent updates. I’ll be sifting out all the new downloads and listing down those that will be of interest to me, and hopefully yourself too.

  • SQL Server 2005 Books Online (May 2007)
    Download an updated version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
  • Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” SDK – June 2007 CTP
    This CTP includes tools, documentation, and samples for developers to write, build, test, and deploy extensions for Visual Studio code name “Orcas.”
  • Microsoft Code Name “Acropolis” CTP 1
    Microsoft code name “Acropolis” is a set of components and tools intended to make it easier for developers to build and manage modular, business focused, client applications for Microsoft Windows on the .NET Framework.
  • DirectX SDK (June 2007)
    Download the complete DirectX SDK, which contains the all the software required to create DirectX compliant applications in C/C++ and C#.
  • Exchange Best Practices Analyzer v2.8
    The Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Exchange servers and topology. The tool scans Exchange servers and identifies items that do not conform to Microsoft best practices.
  • Exchange Load Generator (32 bit)
    Exchange Load Generator is a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI clients on Exchange servers.
  • Exchange Load Generator (64 bit)
    Exchange Load Generator is a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI clients on Exchange servers.

Alright. Now the featured download for this week is…

Microsoft Code Name “Acropolis” CTP 1

I’ll be looking into this new Client Application Framework (CAF) during the next few days to give you the low-down on what exactly it is. From the description, it seems to be a set of components and tools to help developers create windows client applications. Here are some resources with more information on “Acropolis”.

Apparently, they just announced this at TechEd 2007.

From a few discussions I’ve read so far about “Acropolis”, it is meant to replace Microsoft Composite UI Application Block (CAB) and Smart Client Software Factory (SCSF), taking the lessons learnt and good stuff with both of them to combine what we know as “Acropolis”.

Well, more about “Acropolis” CAF in a few days time.

 Posted by triplez at 23:45  Tagged with: , , ,

ObjectSharp is Hiring

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Jun 082007
 

Well, ObjectSharp
Consulting, the company I’m working in, is hiring. Directly from Rob Winsor’s
weblog, this flyer was distributed during DevTeach.


 If you read carefully, a certain someone’s name is in there. The weirdest thing is, I haven’t officially started work at ObjectSharp yet when this poster was distributed. *chuckles* Just a small quirk.

Anyway for those who are interested, send an email to careers@objectsharp.com.

 Posted by triplez at 21:12  Tagged with:

Parallels 3.0 vs. VMWare Fusion

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Jun 082007
 

It seems the battle of the Virtualization space is getting hotter and hotter by the minute. Parallels 3.0 has just been released with 3D GPU emulation built-in. This means that you can play your PC games right on your Mac OS with Parallels.

Not far behind from cool features is VMWare Fusion which is still in beta. VMWare Fusion allows your Windows applications to somewhat “snap out of Windows” and run like a native application in your Mac OS. This feature is called Unity. Here’s what VMWare Fusion has to say about Unity.

New “Unity” feature: Say goodbye to the Windows desktop – VMware Fusion now lets you run Windows XP applications directly on your Mac desktop, providing full integration with Mac keyboard shortcuts and the Exposé feature in Mac OS X. Use the VMware Fusion Launch Palette to easily access all your Windows applications, and save your favorite Windows applications to the Mac OS X Dock.

What can I say? This is just simply too cool to be true. Here is a video of fusion located here.

Now how cool is that? Makes me want to buy a MacBook right now and use Visual Studio “natively” on Mac OS.

 Posted by triplez at 05:22  Tagged with: , ,

First Post – Upcoming excitement

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Jun 082007
 

This is my very first post on my new blog. I’ve moved blogs several times, and now I think I’ll be permanently sticking with Community Server. This blog, like all my other blogs will be everything about technology. From .NET to Java, from C++ to C#, from ASP.NET to Ruby, from gadgets to science… I think you get what I mean. I will try my best to transfer all my old blog posts to this blog. In the mean time, stay tuned for more interesting posts from this blog.

There will be roughly 2 more blogs available in this new site, one for my own personal blogging space to rant about anything outside the technology space, and another will be a new podcast program which I will attempt to do in the near future.

One of the reasons why I’ve created another blog space for non-technology stuff is mainly because all my other non-geeky friends complain about how I never write anything about myself. Well, I’ll try to change that and write more about my work, my poetry (which is lame), anime, fun stuff, pictures, and so on.

Well, be prepared for the ride, as more stuff awaits TripleZone. 

 Posted by triplez at 00:37  Tagged with: ,
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