MSDN Webcast of .NET Framework in July 2008

1. MSDN Webcast: Transactional Windows Communication Foundation Services with Juval Lowy (Level 200)
Date: - 07th July 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:45 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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2. MSDN Webcast: Using Windows Workflow Foundation to build Services with Jon Flanders (Level 300)
Date: - 09th July 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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3. MSDN Webcast: WCF Extensibility Deep Dive with Jesus Rodriquez (Level 400)
Date: - 11th July 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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4. MSDN Webcast: Bringing Enterprise data to life with SharePoint Server and Windows Communication Foundation (Level 300)
Date: - 18th July 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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MSDN Webcast on SharePoint Product and Technologies for .NET Developers

Hi friends I have found five new webcast on SharePoint products and technologies for .NET Developers.

Following are the details for the same.

1. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Web Services (Level 200)
Date: - 10th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
2. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Page Navigation (Level 200)
Date: - 11th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
3. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: User Management (Level 200)
Date: - 17th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
4. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Custom Content Types (Level 200)
Date: - 18th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
5. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Integrating SAP Software with Microsoft Office Programs and SharePoint Server (Level 300)
Date: - 30th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)

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MSDN Webcast on Silverlight 2 and Aspiring Architect Series 2008

Hi friends, I have found some new and amazing MSDN events of Silverlight and Aspiring Architect series 2008.

Silverlight 2 Series

1. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 1 of 6): Overview of Silverlight 2 and the WPF UI Framework (Level 200)
Date: - 16th June 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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2. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 2 of 6): WPF UI Framework Continued (Level 200)
Date: - 18th June 2008
Time: - 11:30 PM to 12:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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3. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 3 of 6): Introducing Deep Zoom (Level 200)
Date: - 20th June 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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4. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 4 of 6): Web Services Support (Level 200)
Date: - 23rd June 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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5. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 5 of 6): Testing Framework (Level 200)
Date: - 25th June 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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6. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Look What You Can Do with Silverlight 2 (Part 6 of 6): Adaptive Streaming (Level 200)
Date: - 27th June 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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Aspiring Architect Series

1. Introduction to the aspiring architect Web Cast series
Date: - 16th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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2. Services Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Service Bus – Beyond the hype
Date: - 17th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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3. TOGAF and Zachman, a real-world perspective
Date: - 18th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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4. Realizing dynamic systems
Date: - 23rd June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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5. Web 2.0, beyond the hype
Date: - 24th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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6. Architecting for the user experience
Date: - 25th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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7. Conclusion and next steps
Date: - 26th June 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM to 10:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
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BlogCampDelhi

Yesterday I had attened a great camp on bloging organize by Indian Blog and New Media Society. It has been a very great experiance to know about how blogs are getting popular in India and how you can making money with them. Some of the great topics has been disscussed in this camp like marketing your blog, technical elements of setting up your blog including various platforms available, avenues to make money from your blog, why businesses need to blog and more.

http://barcamp.org/BlogCampDelhi

BizTalk Business Rule composer tool now on Web

Now BizTalk Business Rule could be created and managed via Web instead of standard Business Rule composer tool. In this you can edit, delete, Publish and deploy your vocabulary and polices.

For more information, please visit the link given below

http://blogs.msdn.com/pkelcey/archive/2008/05/10/web-based-version-of-the-biztalk-rules-composer.aspx

http://www.biztalkgurus.com/blogs/biztalksyn/archive/2008/05/10/a-web-based-version-of-the-biztalk-rules-composer.aspx

BizTalk Server 2006 - Host Instance creation and Adapter configuration Tool

I have find a great utility which help you to setup new environment easily. This utility helps in creating all Hosts, Host Instances and configuring Adapters to this new hosts. It also helps in reset the adapter configuration settings back to default host.

It also helps you to design and build your solutions by making it easy to separate out processes into multiple Host. This also allowed one developer to create the solution host layout and easily distribute to others.

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For more information on the same please visit the link given below

http://www.biztalkgurus.com/blogs/biztalk/archive/2008/04/30/biztalk-host-creation-and-adapter-assignment-tool-available-for-download.aspx

Document BizTalk Applications

I have found a great utility to easily document BizTalk Server 2006 application in CHM or Word 2003 format. This utility can create documentation for

1. Schemas
2. Maps
3. Ports
4. Pipelines
5. Orchestrations
6. Rule Engine. Etc.

The name of the utility is BizTalk 2006 Documenter (Microsoft.Sdc.BizTalkDocumenter.exe). You need to explicitly download and install this utility (Download).

For more information about the same please visit the link given below

http://www.codeplex.com/BizTalkDocumenter

New MSDN Events for the month of April and May 2008

Hi Friends, I have found two new MSDN event in ASP.NET. Following are the details for the same.

1. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Working with Membership Providers (Level 200)
Date: - 30th April 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM - 10:30 PM
2. Live Webcast - Live From Redmond: Binding Data to Silverlight 2 Controls
Date: - 21st May 2008
Time: - 09:30 PM - 10:30 PM

For more details check the above showing Google calendar.

24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Manage Your Unstructured Data with SQL Server 2008

Hi friends, unfortunatly I forget to attened this webcast but some how I manage to download the presentation file for the same. You can download the presentation file by clicking the link given below


24 hrs of SQL 2008 Manage your unstructured data with SQL Server 2008.pdf

24 Hour of SQL Server 2008: Reach Your Data with SQL Server 2008

Hi friends I have attened another session of 24 Hour of SQL Server 2008. In these session presenter discuss about how you can easily maniputlate data in your application with the new features of SQL Server 2008.

Following are the topics discussed in this session

1. Using Service Broker
2. Creating Data Service
3. Consuming Data Service

In this session we learnt about:

a. The tools available to application developers to access data flexibly in SQL Server 2008.
b. How Service Broker solves many of the problems faced when working with distributed data enviornments.
c. ADO.NET Data Services provide a powerful yet simple alternative to SOAP based web access.

You can download the presentation file by clicking link given below

24 hrs of SQL 2008 Reach your data with SQL 2008.pdf

24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Using the Microsoft Data Platform for Easy Data Access with SQL Server 2008

Hi friends, I have attened a MSDN webcast "24 hours of SQL Server 2008: Using the Microsoft Data Platform for Easy Data Access with SQL Server 2008".

In this webcast some great topics are discussed by the presenter, following are the details for the same

1. Data Platform Features
2. LINQ
3. ADO.NET EF

You can download the presentation file for the same by clicking the link given below.

24 hrs of SQL 2008 with MS Data platform for easy data access.pdf

Free .NET Videos and 6 month ASP.NETPro magazine subscription

Hi friends I found a new website offering great videos on .NET. You will also get 6 month free subscription of asp.netpro magazine once you will be registered with this website. For more details visit the link given below

http://www.dotnetvideos.net/Home/tabid/37/Default.aspx

Free .NET ebooks

Hi friends I found a very good link on google from where you can download 41 free ebooks related to .NET.

The following are the free Dot NET and visual studio ebooks and tutorials available

1. 65 Tips for Migrating to Visual Studio .NET
2. A Programmer’s Introduction to Visual Basic.NET By Craig Utley and Jonathan Morrison
3. ActiveX and VBScript
4. ActiveX Programming Unleashed by Weiying Chen
5. An Introduction to ASP .NET using Visual Basic .NET By Peter McMahon
6. An Introduction to ASP.NET
7. ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap
8. ASP.NET Web Developer's Guide By Mesbah Ahmed, Chris Garrett, Jeremy Faircloth, and Chris Payne
9. ASP.Net with C# - The Basis By Vijay Mukhi
10. Beginning VB.NET, 2nd edition
11. Building Secure ASP.NET Applications: Authentication, Authorization, and Secure Communication By J.D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Michael Dunner, and Srinath Vasireddy
12. CodeNotes for .NET Edited by Gregory Brill
13. CodeNotes for J# Edited By Gregory Brill
14. COM and .NET Interoperability By Andrew Troelsen
15. Dan Appleman's Developing ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 5.0
16. Database Developer's Guide with Visual Basic 4, Second Edition By Roger Jennings
17. Database Developer's Guide with Visual C++ 4, Second Edition By Roger Jennings & Peter Hipson
18. Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability By J.D. Meier, Srinath Vasireddy, Ashish Babbar, and Alex Mackman
19. Inside ASP.NET Web Matrix By Alex Homer and Dave Sussman
20. Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers
21. Late Night ActiveX By Eric Tall and Mark Ginsburg
22. Learning Crystal Reports for DotNet By Brian Bischof
23. Mastering™ Visual Basic® .NET By Evangelos Petroutsos
24. MetaData Tables by Vijay Mukhi , Akash Saraf and Sonal Mukhi
25. Moving to ASP.NET: Web Development with VB .NET By Steve Harris and Rob Macdonald
26. Programming the .NET Compact Framework in Visual Basic .NET by Paul Yao & David Durant
27. Programming VB.NET - A Guide For Experienced Programmers By Gary Cornell
28. Proxy in VB
29. Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 Hours By Greg M. Perry
30. Special Edition Using Microsoft Visual InterDev
31. Special Edition Using Microsoft® Visual Studio for Enterprise Development
32. Teach Yourself ActiveX in 21 Days By Sanders Kaufman, Jeff Perkins and Dina Fleet
33. Teach Yourself VBScript in 21 Days by Keith Brophy, Timothy Koets
34. Teach Yourself Visual J++ in 21 Days by Laura Lemay, David Olhasso, Charles Perkins, and Patrick Winters
35. Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
36. VBScript UNLEASHED By Petroutsos, Schongar, et al.
37. Visual Basic .NET For Object-Oriented Programmers
38. Visual Basic 6 Black Book By Steven Holzner
39. WebSphere and .Net Interoperability Using Web Services
40. WebSphere MQ Solutions in a Microsoft .NET Environment
41. XML Web Services and Soap By Vijay Mukhi, Vikram Ramchand and Sonal Mukhi

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New MSDN Webcast from Microsoft on Silverlight, .NET 3.0 etc

Hi friends I found few more webcasts from Microsoft on SilverLight, .NET etc. Following are the details for the same.

1. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Build Tools for Any Platform with the Visual Studio 2008 Shell (Level 300)
Date: - 22nd January 2008
Time: - 11:30 PM - 12:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
2. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: How to Integrate Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2.0 (Level 200)
Date: - 23rd January 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
3. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL (Level 300)
Date: - 29th January 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
4. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: New T-SQL and Engine Features, New Data Types for SQL Server Programmability (Level 200)
Date: - 30th January 2008
Time: - 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM (Indian Standard Time)
5. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: Developing .NET Framework Applications with SAP Enterprise Explorer (Level 100)
Date: - 06th February 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
6. Live Webcast - Live From Redmond: Building a dynamic Silverlight Application using a web service, the downloader and CreateFromXAML
Date: - 06th February 2008
Time: - 11:30 PM - 12:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
7. Live Webcast - Live From Redmond: Developing Silverlight Apps with Cider
Date: - 13th February 2008
Time: - 11:30 PM - 12:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)
8. Live Webcast - MSDN Webcast: The Future of Application Lifecycle Management from Microsoft (Level 100)
Date: - 26th February 2008
Time: - 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)

for more information please check the above showing Google Calendar.

MSDN Event - Rescheduled

MSDN Webcast: Extend Your Development Experience with Visual Studio 2008 (Level 100) has been rescheduled. Following are the details for the same

Date: 21 January 2008

Time: 10:30 PM to 11:30 PM (Indian Standard Time)

For more information please check the above showing google calendar