If you are like me who is missing Tech Ed in Sydney and sulking about it then sulk not anymore my friend. Keynote and other presentations from Tech Ed NZ are available online for your viewing pleasures. I am sure Australian content is not too far away.

F# September CTP is now available for download here. I have installed the CTP on a Virtual Machine which also has Visual Studio 2008 installed. This CTP also included Visual Studio project templates which can be used to create F# applications.

Hello F#
After installing F# I thought of doing the Hello World ritual to see [...]

Microsoft will launch Live Video Messaging facility on 9th September 2008. I have not yet sent anyone a video message in my life, so I am a bit excited to see something like this. At present you can request an early beta access if you are a member of press. I write a blog, does [...]

Apple guys even though running out of creativity with their Mac vs PC ads are not giving up anytime soon. Here are two latest offerings.
Where is Jerry Seinfeld?

Spreading the word here about IE 8 Beta 2 Release. You can download Beta 2 here. There is tons of information already available for this release. Before you decide to install it you should read this link which provides useful information on upgrading to Beta2. Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit is another great resource [...]

Since MSDN forums started they have captured substantial share of online forums related to Microsoft technologies. I remember having a discussion with one of the softies about newsgroups and how MSDN forums will eventually replace them (in MS world of course). And now you can interact with Microsoft forums using a client application which is [...]

If there is one book I am looking forward to, it is Microsoft Visual Studio Tips by Sara Ford . I am a regular reader of Sara’s blog and I have learned a lot about Visual Studio by reading her blog. Her tips are simple, lightweight but above all very++ useful.
I expect her book to [...]

Two senior engineering managers for Windows 7, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky have started a blog called Engineering Windows 7. I am sure that this will be one of the most watched blogs till other Windows 7 related blogs/sites appear. Reading their first post I get an impression that their blog is an attempt to [...]

No I am not spreading a rumour. This is as per a Microsoft site.

Yippeee! SP1 for .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 has been released. This service pack includes ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. There are WPF designer improvements and WPF performance improvements. You can find more details and download link here.
Finally I can now install SQL Server 2008 without disturbing the apple cart :)

SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor – Version 10.00.1600.22 (Eric Lam)
SQL SERVER – Query to Find Column From All Tables of Database (Pinal Dave)
Windows Live
Hints on a Windows Live SkyDrive update? (LiveSide)
.Net Visual Studio
Using Stored Procedures In Linq (Zeeshan Hirani)
Don’t mix using statements and lambda expressions (Jared Parsons)
C# Debugging Improvement for VS 2008 SP1- [...]

Microsoft Sync Framework has just been released. You can download the framework here. Sync Framework is already being used by ADO.NET Sync Services which provides.

Offline Database Synchronization
Collaboration Between Databases
SQL Server 2008 Integrated Change Tracking
Tracing capabilities for Synchronization process

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