Anith Gopal

Beginners are mostly afraid of command prompt.  Whenever they see a command prompt, they immediately say “its very difficult”.  But it’s not true.  The Command prompt is as friendly as GUI (Graphical User Interface), provided if you use it with proper procedure. Most people use GUI tools to search for files.  They don’t realize that they can use command line tools to search for them as well! GNU ‘find’ is such like a tool which can not only search files but can even copy, move or delete these files on the fly

“REPL TALK”  The Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services team is currently in the processes of setting up this Replication-focused blog.  For now, please check out content on  http://blogs.msdn.com/chrissk/ . Thanks, Chris Skorlinski

I’m presenting a webcast on BizTalk Performance this Tuesday September 01, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time along with Trace Young who wrote the majority of the BizTalk Documentation.  We’ll be covering a summary of all the performance tests we’ve performed in the lab this year and answering any questions.  Please tune in if you have any performance related questions or if you just want to see what we have been up to.   Registration link is here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416252&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US  

I’m presenting a webcast on BizTalk Performance this Tuesday September 01, 2009 1:00 PM Pacific Time along with Trace Young who wrote the majority of the BizTalk Documentation.  We’ll be covering a summary of all the performance tests we’ve performed in the lab this year and answering any questions.  Please tune in if you have any performance related questions or if you just want to see what we have been up to.   Registration link is here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416252&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US  

In SQL Server 2008, we added a tool to fix some registry keys to address some known issues.  We recently discovered this tool can fail on rare occasions when it does not have permissions to all required registry keys.   If a rule fails with the following message: “The SQL Server registry keys from a prior installation cannot be modified. To continue, see SQL Server Setup documentation about how to fix.” you might be hitting this issue

Here’s a source code release for .NET interop with Win32 features, including the Sensor API: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used to access some new Windows 7 features (and some existing features of older versions of Windows operating system) from managed code. These Windows features are not available to developers today in the .NET Framework.

Don’t forget to register for Jumpstart #3, to learn about Widgets. The Live Meeting starts @ 1pm on Friday, So grab some lunch, your favourite beverage, and get ready to learn

I’ve been in a lot of meetings recently, and I’ve been observing the way people ask questions.

Alana Levy will be a junior at Cornell University and is majoring in government. Heather Prime will be a junior at the University of Virginia and is majoring in psychology. The two are roommates in Paris this summer and have an internship in the Education Department at Microsoft France.

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You’ve most likely heard the news by now.  At the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Microsoft announced that the next version of Office reached its Technical Preview engineering milestone.  You can read the highlights in this press release (and I’ll include some more links below).  I’m guessing the first question on people’s minds is “how do I get a copy?”.  Currently the Technical Preview program is “by invitation only” and is not broadly available to the public.  There is a waitlist you can sign up for, found here . If you can’t get your hands on a copy, all is not lost.  The other exciting bit of news that goes along with the Technical Preview release is the Excel team is now able to start blogging about the exciting work we’ve done in this release, so you’ll be able to learn all about Excel 2010 here.  Consider this post the official transition of this blog into “2010 mode” (though we’ll still be posting Power Tips in the meantime as well).  I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time.  We have a lot of ground to cover.  I hope the next few months are as exciting for you as they will be for me.

I posted an entry over on the FDCC Technet blog on how to best develop desktop applications.  It can be found here .  It covers the most common problems encountered when developing applications on the FDCC.