tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61099024283945912352024-09-09T11:25:32.387+05:30Vikas Goyalnoreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109902428394591235.post-48523230744391452952015-06-28T21:32:00.001+05:302015-06-28T21:32:47.894+05:30

Here is an useful resource to refer when planning for migration including how to select the right target platform between Azure WebSites, Cloud Service ( web & worker role) & VM. Azure App Service, Cloud Services, and Virtual Machines comparison

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Starts with discussing basics of claims based identity and moves to advanced topics. Following industry standards are discussed : Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Security Association Management Protocol (SAMP) and Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) WS-Federation WS-Federation: Passive Requestor Profile WS-Security

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A new whitepaper has been recently published which discusses about various exploit mitigation technologies and how to use them. Release by Microsoft Security Engineering Center. A must for every person on software development team. Covers following: economics of exploitation – attacker’s return on investment Tactics behind exploit mitigation technologies like enforcing variants,

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http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1283413 Top 10 Business Priorities Ranking Top 10 Technology Priorities Ranking Business process improvement 1 Virtualization

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Each year, the SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference brings together experts from around the world to exchange best architecture-centric practices in developing, acquiring, and maintaining software-reliant systems. Architects at all levels meet to share ideas and lessons learned, network, and learn about new and existing technologies. SATURN 2010 Theme: Architecting

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OpenSearch is a specification which can be used to publish and consume search results in a standard way and thus enabling federated searches. This helps in multiple servers indexing & storing the content in their own format but still share results with others in standard way. It helps in search client to server & search server to server collaboration. Some of the basic features of

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What is CMIS – Content Management Interoperability Services Specification ? A Web services interface specification that will enable greater interoperability of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. CMIS uses Web services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable rich information to be shared across Internet protocols in vendor-neutral formats, among document systems, publishers and repositories

Vikas Goyalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109902428394591235.post-72205270769223748212010-04-27T21:21:00.000+05:302010-04-27T21:21:00.403+05:30

Enterprise Library is one free code library which is recommended for every development team who wants to focus on writing business code instead of spending too much time on writing framework code. By using EL you automatically bring lots of best practices and patterns to your application. P&P team has announced the release of version 5.0.  Though no new block has been added, there are

Vikas Goyalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109902428394591235.post-72017812290178430462010-03-13T10:40:00.001+05:302010-03-13T10:40:26.113+05:30

With TechEd, Top Architect Contest is back. ENTRY PERIOD: The Contest begins at 9:00 AM IST on 13th March 2010 and ends at 11:00 pm IST on 28th March 2010 ("Entry Period"). All entries must be received prior to the close of the Contest Entry Period Check all the details here : http://www.microsoftteched.in/toparchitect/default.aspx

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Developers and IT Pros can expect the following benefits from Windows Server AppFabric: Faster Web Apps Made Easy Windows Server AppFabric helps developers improve the speed and availability of web applications through distributed in-memory caching and replication technology that works with current ASP.NET applications. Simplified Composite Apps Developers can simplify the development of

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Here are few important links which will help solving some of the confusing around custom xml and i4i patent judgment for all those who are big fan of OpenXML specification and specially ‘Custom XML’ concept. What’s affected and what’s not ? http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2009/12/23/what-is-custom-xml-and-the-impact-of-the-i4i-judgment-on-word.aspx Microsoft’s Official Statement

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Microsoft recently announced the August 2009 CTP of Open XML SDK 2.0. The improvements have been made in mainly following areas : Add semantic level validation support Add markup compatibility/extensibility support General improvements based on your feedback You can read more about it here. Download it from here. Recently Open XML code snippets have also been released. This package of code

Vikas Goyalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109902428394591235.post-27062401053838628682009-09-18T10:35:00.001+05:302009-09-18T10:35:27.016+05:30

All the communication and collaboration products from Microsoft like Exchange, Office Communications Server and SharePoint MOSS provide excellent clients to harness the server capabilities in most effective manner. Like Exchange comes with Outlook, OCS comes with communicator and SharePoint comes with Outlook & Groove integration & SharePoint workspace from SharePoint 2010. Apart from

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Office Fluent Interface including Ribbon which was available for Word, Excel & PowerPoint     Live Preview : another feature already available to other Office products Auto size, align & adjust Containers Data graphics legends Paste copied shapes with greater control Paste shapes in the same location as the original page

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Check out my latest article published on devx.com. It’s about how to us Open XML sdk to generate Microsoft Office documents without VSTO or automation. Article is accompanied by code. http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/42221

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We have developed Windows Apps & Web Apps, Thick Clients & Thin Clients. How about developing just ‘Apps’ or ‘Clients’ ? Today Microsoft released the first preview of Silverlight 3 which allows to create clients which can run within or outside browser depending on end user’s choice. The new out of browser experience in Silverlight 3 enables users to place their favorite Silverlight

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Some of the most exciting sessions : What's New in Microsoft Silverlight 3 Hear about some of the new experience-oriented Silverlight 3 features, and see how to build applications for Silverlight 3 using Microsoft Expression Blend and Microsoft Visual Studio. Building Microsoft Silverlight Applications with Eclipse Come learn about plug-in support in Silverlight 2, and how to build a

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The public beta of Windows 7 is out and everyone seems to be excited about it. It not only improves upon the Vista but also adds lots of cool UI enhancements. It also introduces lot of new platforms like Direct3D10, Direct2D, Windows Scenic and Sensor & Location Platform. Catch all of it here .. New in Windows 7

Vikas Goyalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109902428394591235.post-77765990944863655642008-12-26T19:59:00.001+05:302008-12-26T19:59:16.710+05:30

RIA (Rich Internet Applications) client runtimes like Silverlight and Flash does not allow any code to access cross domain sites unless the target sites specifically grant access. This is done to avoid issues like Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. If you are involved in developing apps on Silverlight runtime, it helps to understand the runtime behavior for cross domain access both during

Vikas Goyalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109902428394591235.post-9516805571246309752008-11-15T01:45:00.001+05:302008-11-15T01:45:21.987+05:30

Microsoft’s Unified Communications platform integrates traditional communication channels like phone and fax with newer channels like emails, audio and video conferencing. It also brings advanced features like presence information and alerts. This brings lot of productivity in communication and collaboration between teams and also helps in implementing advanced Business Process Communication.

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Microsoft recently at PDC announced the preview of Azure Services Platform which covers the complete stack for cloud applications. 1. Hosting platform. 2. Building block developer services. 3. Development Tools 4. Hosted Microsoft Products. Get the overview of it in this article: Azure Services Platform: An Introduction

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For users, Windows Live ID has provided a single credential to login into all Microsoft sites like MSDN, Connect, Live Mail etc. ‘OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity. OpenID takes advantage of already existing internet technology (URI, HTTP, SSL, Diffie-Hellman) and realizes that people are already creating identities for themselves whether it be

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As part of the executive mails series, Steve Ballmer recently introduced the next technology platform called Windows Azure. Windows Azure in simple terms will be a Cloud Operating System running in the data centers of Microsoft. A comprehensive set of storage, computing, and networking infrastructure services. So in a Software + Services kind of scenario while Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

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CHESS is an automated tool from Microsoft Research for finding errors in multithreaded software by systematic exploration of thread schedules. It not only finds errors but also provides a fully repeatable execution of the program leading to the error, thus helping in debugging process. While it is already used by lot of internal groups, it will be showcased to outer world at this year’s PDC.

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