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Monday, August 11, 2008 5:46 PM

Visual Studio 2008 SP1, TFS SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

As we already know, apart from bug fixes, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 includes major product enhancements such as ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and enhanced LINQ to SQL (which now supports the new date and FILESTREAM data types in SQL Server...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:55 PM

SQL Server 2008 RTM

SQL Server 2008 was released to manufacturing earlier today and the MSDN and TechNet subscribers can now download the following editions from the subscribers area: Developer (x86, x64, ia64) Enterprise (x86, x64, ia64) Standard (x86, x64) Web (x86, x64...
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Friday, November 16, 2007 11:09 AM

Free SQL Server 2008 E-Learning Offer

Via Shailan : We have a new (and free) e-Learning offer for SQL Server 2008, which is a 3 hour online collection and covers the following areas: What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Enterprise Data Platform What's New in SQL Server 2008 for Business Intelligence...
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Monday, April 30, 2007 8:59 AM

"LINQ to Entities" and "ADO.NET Entity Framework"

If you are interested in the Entity Data Model and want to know more about Microsoft's Data Access strategy in Orcas and .NET Framework, then have a look at this great blog post published by our data access team over the weekend. "LINQ to Entities"...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:05 PM

PDC07 and MIX07 Mirror Events in the UK

If you are not going to the US to attend the PDC and/or MIX events this year, you will have an opportunity to attend the UK mirror events that are planned for 20th and 21st of June (subject to change - stay tuned on Ian Moulster's blog for updates...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007 6:43 PM

Passed 71-540

Jason Langridge's post entitled "Windows Mobile Developer Exam is Live" made me check my MCP profile as I took the beta exam for "TS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 - Application Development" back in September 2006. I had almost forgotten that I took the...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007 9:09 AM

Windows Mobile 6 For Developers

I just came across a very good article on MSDN about the new features of Windows Mobile 6 for Developers. The product naming has changed for the new version: Windows Mobile for Smart Phone => Windows Mobile 6 Standard Windows Mobile for PocketPC =>...
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Monday, May 22, 2006 3:35 PM

MCITP: Database Developer

Yes it is true. I am now an MCITP: Database Developer...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:08 PM

Public CTP - SQL Server 2005 Express Advanced

You can downloaded it from here (didn't work when I tried but they say it will be available soon). Can't wait to see the Reporting Services packaged in a free edition of SQL Server!
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006 1:31 PM

SQL Management Objects

SMO (SQL Management Objects) in SQL Server 2005 replaces SQL-DMO that was present in the earlier versions of SQL Server. SMO provides a better performance using lazy loading and has a better coverage for database objects. You can generate scripts for...
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