SQL Server New Article On ASP Alliance

Dear SQL Server Lovers

Follow this link to read and rate my new article on SQL Server new features -  Table-Value Parameter

http://aspalliance.com/1718_SQL_Server_2008_New_Features__TableValue_Parameter

Grouping Sets

Any SQL Server Lover Here

There is another article on SQL Server 2008 Features....Grouping Sets

Follow this link http://aspalliance.com/1716_SQL_Server_2008_New_Features__Grouping_Sets.all

New Article On Asp Alliance

Dear Microsoft Lover,

here comes another article on the New Features of SQL Server 2008 about using grouping sets....

Here you can find the link
http://aspalliance.com/1716_SQL_Server_2008_New_Features__Grouping_Sets.all

Another Article On SQL Server New Features

I have published another article on SQL Server 2008 New features as it applied to date and time variables...
Check this the link for more info
http://aspalliance.com/articleviewer.aspx?aId=1717

New Article- SQL Server 2008 New Features (Row Constructors)

I just published a new article on a new SQL Server 2008 Features (Row Constructors) on ASPAlliance....You can see the new article using this link

http://aspalliance.com/articleviewer.aspx?aId=1709

Want To Learn VB Easy Way

VB.NET is one of the easiest langauges to learn and Microsoft has made available some videos to teach you concepts of of this language....

Download them for free from MSDN here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb466226.aspx

LebDev Community Night

Dear All Lebanese Developers
I would like to welcome you to register for a new community night given by Ralph Varjabedian (Telephone.com Team Leader)
About SQL Injections Hands On

The location , time and date are
Friday, August 29, 2008 - 6:00-8:00 PM
Microsoft office

visit the www.lebdev.net to register for the event. see u there

My Articles RSS Feed

As you know by now, I write articles on Microsoft Technologies....You can always get a list of my articles at the following link http://aspalliance.com/author.aspx?uId=61925

New Service Pack

Microsoft has introduced a new service pack for Mircosoft Visual Studio 2008 as well as .NET framework 3.5....You can access service pack 1 using this link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc533448.aspx

Merge Statement Tutorial

You can check my new article publisghed on www.aspalliance.com on the new merge statement in MSSQL Server 2008 using this link http://aspalliance.com/1712_SQL_Server_2008_New_Features__Merge_Statement

Want the Source code of .NET

Check this link to read more about the .NET source code

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx

ASP.NET MVC

That guy scott continues to amaze me....Have you heard of MVC...Well ASP.NET has it now....

Check this link on Scott blog
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/14/asp-net-mvc-framework.aspx

New Presentation

I will be delivering a new presenation on AJAX control tookit on Saturday 21 september. The presentation will include demos of accordion, collapsible panel and always visible control

If you want a copy of the presentation please email me at naraby@hotmail.com

UpdatePanel

You can read my new article on the update panel of asp.net extensions on asp alliance using this link
http://aspalliance.com/1403_Working_with_ASPNET_AJAX_UpdatePanel_Control

LebDev Meeting

The LebDev usergroup, in collaboration with Microsoft, is holding a Community Night on Tuesday 11th of September 2007. The Community Night's main theme is "Community Thinking".
All Professional Developers, IT Pros and Students are welcome. However, Registration is required as seats are limited. To register, please go to Lebdev website and fill in the required Information.

Silverlight

Microsoft on Tuesday night announced the availability of Silverlight, its online player for videos and interactive Web applications that will compete with Adobe's Flash, the dominant platform for Internet multimedia.
Download the final Release, http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

Microsoft AJAX Rules

Do you want to know more about Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX. Visit www.asp.net and get more information...

Wanna Know Microsoft Codenames

Microsoft codenames are the codenames given by Microsoft to products it has in development, before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions prior to the official release. Microsoft usually does not announce a final name until shortly before the product is publicly available.
There has been some suggestion that Microsoft may move towards defining the real name of their upcoming products earlier in the product development lifecycle so as to avoid needing product codenames.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames

Overiview of Orcas

Wanna know an overview of changes about Orcas....
Here is a short list:
Overview
Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality, rich user experiences. With Visual Studio 2008, organizations will find it easier than ever before to capture and analyze information, which means they can make effective business decisions. Visual Studio 2008 enables organizations of every size to rapidly create more secure, manageable, and reliable applications that take advantage of Windows Vista™ and the 2007 Office system.
Visual Studio 2008 delivers key advances for developers in three primary pillars:
· Improve Developer Productivity
· Manage the Application Life Cycle
· Employ the Latest Technologies
This document will discuss the different customer experiences that deliver on these three pillars through seven different technology areas:
· Develop Smart Client Applications
o Visual Studio 2008 delivers new and easy ways for developers to build smart clients by providing a comprehensive set of tools and classes that simplify integrating smart clients with new or existing web applications, and by handling local caching of data for disconnected scenarios.
· Create Microsoft Office applications
o Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) is now fully integrated into Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. Visual Studio enables developers to customize various Office applications, such as Outlook® and PowerPoint®, to improve user productivity and simplify deployment.
· Build Windows Vista Applications
o Developers will be able to easily leverage new platform technologies, and deliver more compelling applications to their customers, by effortlessly incorporating new Windows Presentation Foundation features into both existing Windows Forms applications and new applications.
· Handle Data More Productively
o The introduction of Language Integrated Query (LINQ), and various other data access improvements, now enable developers to deal with data using a consistent programmatic approach, perform data access with new data design surfaces, and use built-in classes for the occasionally connected design pattern.
· An Improved Developer Experience Overall
o Visual Studio 2008 delivers a better developer experience overall through the combination of significant product quality improvements, changes to the way the most popular design surfaces return errors to the user, and simplifying the user’s ability to adopt the toolset and framework separately.
· Enable New Web Experiences
o Beyond the secure, reliable and extensible infrastructure of IIS, developers can easily create efficient, interactive Web applications. The seamless integration and familiar programming model of ASP.NET AJAX enables more efficient client-side execution to deliver end-users a more responsive Web interface.
· Improves Application Life-cycle Management (ALM)
o ALM provides great support, not only for managing the entire software development life cycle but also for the critical interaction with the final end-users and IT stakeholders of an enterprise application.

Follow this link to download great high level features changes using this llink
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=17319eb4-299c-43b8-a360-a1c2bd6a421b&DisplayLang=en
Written by Tony Goodhew

Orcas Beta 2 is available For download

Netting Guys,,

Now it is time to download the new Beta 2 visual studio 20078 Orcas....

BTW it is as stable as a release product....

Follow this link to download the beta 2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b98a61ba-99b0-40b7-ab6e-5386a2b94217&DisplayLang=en