Enterprise Data Management

In today's connected world, data and the systems that manage that data must always be secure yet available to your users. With SQL Server 2005, users and information technology (IT) professionals across your organization will benefit from reduced application downtime, increased scalability and performance, and tight yet flexible security controls. SQL Server 2005 also includes many new and improved capabilities to help make your IT staff more productive. SQL Server 2005 includes key enhancements to enterprise data management in the following areas:

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)

If you are developing .NET Framework 2.0 applications that use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) credentials provide a simpler and more targeted framework to showcase your technical skills in addition to the skills that are required for specific developer job roles.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Customize and Extend Visual Studio

• Automate repetitive tasks
• Enforce consistency across your development team
• Call out to external utilities and programs
• Integrate and streamline your development process
• Partner with Microsoft to integrate and productize your development tool

Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests

Enterprise Data Management

In today's connected world, data and the systems that manage that data must always be secure yet available to your users. With SQL Server 2005, users and information technology (IT) professionals across your organization will benefit from reduced application downtime, increased scalability and performance, and tight yet flexible security controls. SQL Server 2005 also includes many new and improved capabilities to help make your IT staff more productive. SQL Server 2005 includes key enhancements to enterprise data management in the following areas:

Predicting Search Engine Algorithm Changes

With moderate search engine optimization knowledge, some common sense, and a resourceful and imaginative mind, one can keep his or her web site in good standing with search engines even through the most significant algorithm changes. The recent Google update of October/November 2005, dubbed "Jagger", is what inspired me to write this, as I saw some web sites that previously ranked in the top 20 results for extremely competitive keywords suddenly drop down to the 70th page. Yes, the ebb and flow of search engine rankings is nothing to write home about, but when a web site doesn't regain many ranking spots after such a drop it can tell us that the SEO done on the site may have had some long-term flaws. In this case, the SEO team had not done a good job predicting the direction a search engine would take with its algorithm.

ASP.NET AJAX in Action

Watch these videos to see what you can do with ASP.NET AJAX in your own applications!

ASP.NET AJAX: A demonstration of ASP.NET AJAX See how easy it is to build from scratch a “To Do List” management application using ASP.NET 2.0, and then enhance the user experience using the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. Duration: 20 minutes, 23 seconds Watch the video  |  Download the video  |  Get VB code  or  C# code

Visual Studio 2008 Downloads

Get an early look at Visual Studio 2008

Cool new ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight demo application

Steve Marx apparently never gets tired of writing video centric web sites... he has done it again and it is very cool.  I am impressed with the fact that there is so few lines of code (in fact there is more CSS markup than code).. this is due to the simplicity that Linq, ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight brings to the developers. 

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